Sentences with phrase «ethics reform proposals from»

When Cuomo announced the Democracy Project, Gotham Gazette inquired whether New Yorkers should expect campaign finance and government ethics reform proposals from the governor.

There also is no shortage of good ethics reform proposals from the governor and some of the legislative conferences.

Last year, with ten days remaining in legislative session and confronted with a major ethics reform proposal from Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters, «Let me make this as a blanket statement: It is late in the day for anything.»

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A new ethics reform proposal from Gov. Andrew Cuomo might require more detailed reporting of outside income for local elected officials.

Not exact matches

He's proposed other ethics reforms — banning state lawmakers from taking outside income, for example — but these proposals tend to die once they hit the state legislature.

«I don't want to come back on your show a year form now after we do some half - baked ethics reform proposal and it's not enough, and we're back to where we started from.»

In a major departure from his predecessor, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie publicly laid out his conference's proposals for government ethics reform during a wide - ranging speech and interview Friday morning.

Voting, government ethics, and campaign finance reforms are among many of Cuomo's 2017 policy proposals that did not materialize last year, either due to resistance from the Legislature, a lack of more aggressive lobbying by the governor, or other challenges.

Some reform proposals that have come forward are to strip pensions of officials convicted of corruption, establishing an ethics commission and preventing limited liability corporations from donating anonymously to campaigns.

Legislators from both chambers pitched ethics reforms — and a host of other policy proposals, from paid family leave to a more robust system for organ donation — that will lead to clashes, namely the limiting of outside income for lawmakers and pension forfeiture for those convicted of a crime related to their public office.

King Sweeney has been calling for ethics reform and Santino's proposal, which passed by a 4 - 3 vote, includes a $ 125,000 outside income cap that King Sweeney has said is a «political hit job» to keep her, an aviation attorney, from running for re-election.