Sentences with phrase «public interest group executive»

«It is unfortunate that your organization has decided to deal with a serious issue — climate change — with a cheap stunt that not only misleads, but offers no workable alternatives,» wrote Richard Kauffman, the state's energy and finance chairman, to New York Public Interest Group Executive Director Blair Horner.

Given that each Senate district has roughly the same population, within a 10 percent margin, the analysis of how much was spent on direct mail should be straightforward, said New York Public Interest Group executive director Blair Horner.

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(Albany, NY)-- One day after being appointed Ranking Democratic Member of the New York State Senate Elections Committee, Senator Brian Kavanagh today joined with fellow legislators and advocates — including the Brennan Center for Justice, Citizen Action of New York, Citizens Union, Common Cause / NY, the League of Women Voters of New York State, the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), Planned Parenthood, and Transportation Workers United Local 100 and colleagues in the Senate to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to fully fund early voting in the Fiscal 2018 - 2019 Executive Budget.

«Increasingly, it's a black mark on his tenure, not on the culture of Albany,» said Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

«Our view is that the government should, as the normal course of business, put contracts out to bid,» said Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, a nonprofit government watchdog organization.

Good - government champion Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, says the trial's consequence on Cuomo's political futures depends on what Cuomo does going forward.

«We have long thought that state legislators should not have significant outside income because it creates potential conflicts of interest,» said Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, a good government ainterest,» said Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, a good government aInterest Research Group, a good government advocacy.

Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, joins the show to discuss the three ballot questions facing New Yorkers this Election Day, November 7.

Guest speakers included: Frank Anechiarico, Maynard - Knox Professor of Government and Law, Hamilton College, author of The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity: How Corruption Control Makes Government Ineffective; Blair Horner, Executive Director, New York Public Interest Research Group; Zephyr Teachout - Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University, author of Corruption in America; Jimmy Vielkind, POLITICO, New York's Albany Bureau Chief; Moderator: Thomas Bass, Professor of English and Journalism at SUNY Albany

(Airs 7/20/20) WAMC's Alan Chartock speaks with Blair Horner, Executive Director of the New York Public Interest Research Group or NYPIRG.

Our 2-4-16 Roundtable and Public Forum on Corruption was a huge success, and featured (clockwise from upper left) Frank Anechiarico, Maynard - Knox Professor of Government and Law, Hamilton College; Blair Horner, Executive Director, New York Public Interest Research Group; Zephyr Teachout, Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University, and Jimmy Vielkind, POLITICO, New York's Albany Bureau Chief.

«It's always easier to talk about cleaning up government than it is to do it, partly because the implementation of the sound bite is usually more complicated than the sound bite itself,» said Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

«It's particularly brazen and disturbing that Assemblyman Blake today announced that he will now serve private interests as a political consultant as well as attempting to serve the public interest,» said Susan Lerner, executive director of the good government group Common Cause NY.

Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, has long been a champion for ethics reform in the state legislature.

... This external pressure makes this year different than all others,» said Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Blair Horner, the executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, said Terry's array of government jobs «raises the question of whether or not the personnel decisions were awarded based on the merits, or on political connections.»

(Airs 11/10/16) Host Dr. Alan Chartock is joined by Blair Horner, Executive Director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

«It raises the stink level,» said Blair Horner, executive director of New York Public Interest Research Group.

(Airs 3/30/17) WAMC's Alan Chartock speaks with Blair Horner, The Executive Director of the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG).

The county executive and his administration had been working with legislators and immigration groups to try and craft a bill that didn't run afoul of federal law, local law enforcement objections and the interest of public safety.

Prior to that she was executive director of Environmental Advocates of New York and a senior environmental associate with the New York Public Interest Research Group.

«Anything that can be done to improve New York's appalling voter participation rate is worth doing,» said Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, a nonprofit that advocates for better election laws.

«What he advanced is sort of an innovative, interesting way to attack the scourge of independent expenditures in America,» said Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Blair Horner is executive director of the nonpartisan New York Public Interest Research Group.

«The normal incentive, the theoretical democratic check and balance doesn't exist; is tilted way in favor of the executive,» said a clearly amused Blair Horner, legislative director for the New York Public Interest Research Group.

«Being allowed to moonlight creates potential conflicts,» said Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Group.

New York State Public Interest Research Group Executive Director Blair Horner is in the studio to talk state politics.

It's like subsidizing the horse - and - buggy industry while Henry Ford is rolling cars off the assembly line,» said Blair Horner, Executive Director of the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG).

Nearly 1.8 million residents live in districts without a current Assembly member or state senator, according to a fact sheet from Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

from Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

About 79 % of persons appointed to various positions by our Presidents are people they have no knowledge about their competence, incompetence and general attitude, they are fixed there through manipulations by the various lobbyist groups in our parties, friends, cronies, family members, party executives etc to serve their parochial interests and these are the people who spearhead corruption in our public institutions.

The good - government groups in Albany took note, as New York Public Interest Research Group executive director Blair Horner tells WAMC's Ian Pickus.

«This governor has fancied himself as a sort of fiscal hawk but willing to deal with other issues from a more moderate or liberal perspective,» said Blair Horner, the executive director of New York Public Interest Research Group, citing Mr. Cuomo's conservative - minded moves, like the property tax cap, and his more progressive policies, like same - sex marriage.

Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, said without knowing what Bharara knows, it is impossible to judge what he is really after.

«[Wright] has to be very careful in the ethically charged political environment in Albany,» said Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

In addition, elected officials are often close with those who have local monied interests, said Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

«They're going to illustrate Albany's pay - to - play culture, and it's not going to be pretty for New Yorkers to see,» said Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, said lawmakers should impose a host of reforms before appropriating any more money.

Regardless of appointments being rushed or delayed, Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, said that «political games» should be kept out of confirmations.

«Our hats are off to the U.S. Attorney's office for making this happen — Preet Bharara,» said Blair Horner, the executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Late budgets have both practical and other effects, according to Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

And they have made it worse,» said Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

«Albany stays on trial,» said Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Blair Horner, executive director of the nonprofit New York Public Interest Research Group in Albany, said one of the few successful efforts to tighten the state campaign finance law occurred in 2014.

«We think it's important that the governor present to the public how he intends to spend their money,» Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group and a three - decade veteran of the Capitol, told Newsday this wepublic how he intends to spend their money,» Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group and a three - decade veteran of the Capitol, told Newsday this wePublic Interest Research Group and a three - decade veteran of the Capitol, told Newsday this weekend.

Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, sees the law as a «classic political misdirection ploy.»»

Prior to that, she served as the executive director of Environmental Advocates of New York (EANY) and a senior environmental associate with the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG).

«It's unbelievable,» said Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, after reviewing the proposed regulations.

Blair Horner, the executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, said he hoped the verdict would compel Albany «to deal with its ethics problem.»