Sentences with phrase «achieving ethics reform»

He said achieving ethics reform and education policy changes remain the top priorities for him in the budget, and that he won't sign a budget without them.

Leaders of prominent good government groups gathered at the state Capitol to decry not only the inability of Cuomo and legislative leaders to achieve ethics reform in the budget process, but also the lack of transparency in the ongoing three - men - in - a-room negotiations.

For nearly an hour on Thursday, Governor Andrew Cuomo defended the accomplishments of the legislative session and blamed the Legislature for high - profile disagreements over extending mayoral control of New York City and failing to achieve ethics reform

However Cuomo's approval rating is relatively strong, at 57 %, and Greenberg says if the governor actually achieves ethics reform and some of his more popular education changes, the public is likely to back that.

The first legislative scandal to coincide with his tenure is the time for him to use the popularity he has with the public to achieve ethics reform.

A day after squabbling with state lawmakers over the best way to achieve ethics reform and before the anticipated opening of indictments in a sweeping pay - to - play scandal, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday unveiled a long list of anti-corruption measures.

Not exact matches

To achieve these goals, NKD endorses the following campaign finance and ethics reforms.

While good - government advocates have said the amendment is potentially the lowest of the hanging fruit lawmakers can achieve on ethics reform this session, the amendment still remains in limbo.

«My campaign has always been about achieving tax relief for overburdened Long Island families, fair funding for struggling school districts, and real ethics reforms to restore public faith in government.»

He can claim he's achieved the gauzy accomplishment of «ethics reform» without making his own life more difficult in any way.

Government reform groups widely condemned the ethics package as too weak for failing to achieve public financing of campaigns, and said Cuomo should not have given up the commission.

Is this investigation motivated by a much bigger political game in which Governor Cuomo encouraged / spurred / initiated Sugarman's investigation to achieve a number of goals: (a) torpedo the efforts of democrats to regain the state senate by scaring off potential big democratic donors (it is widely reported that the governor prefers working with a GOP controlled senate); (b) distract the press from Albany's complete failure to pass meaningful ethics reforms; (c) hurt his political foe, Mayor de Blasio.

Cuomo, despite his pledge when he began as Governor, has not achieved any big changes in ethics reform.

He has pursued ethics reform numerous times, and achieved only modest results.