Sentences with phrase «government ethics reform package»

In January, the governor made closing the LLC loophole a key plank of his government ethics reform package.

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Fred LeBrun writes Cuomo is «dead wrong» if he thinks passing an ethics reform package in the wake of the scandals will help state government's image with the public.

In January, the governor unveiled a «comprehensive package» of ethics and good government reforms, which included appointing a chief procurement officer, expanding the Freedom of Information Law to the state legislature, and closing the «LLC loophole,» which essentially allows corporations to exceed campaign donation limits.

With one good - government leader calling this session Albany's «Watergate moment,» a lawmaker from the Hudson Valley has introduced an ethics reform package trying to create distance between those who seek to influence the law and those who make the laws.

Cuomo's briefing book described his latest proposals as «the most ambitious ethics and good government reform package ever to restore New Yorkers confidence in their representatives.»

Later in the week, the governor announced another package of ethics reforms that he promised would end the unrelenting scandals that have plagued state government.

But that did not happen before Cuomo was able to use the commission's report to get state lawmakers to agree to a package of ethics reforms, which created new crimes for violating the public trust and corrupting government.

In the wake of the corruption scandal that brought down former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver at the beginning of this year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a package of ethics reform measures and vowed to force the Legislature's hand in accepting it as part of this year's budget deal — even if that meant shutting down the government.

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.

With the corruption scandals that have roiled the state; the last - minute flurry of legislation this past June and watered - down ethics reform packages, there's not a lot to love about the way our state government is functioning right now.

ALBANY — Calling his government reform proposal «the whole loaf,» «the ultimate remedy,» «the most aggressive ethics reform we've ever seen» and «the most dramatic and aggressive [package] in the country,» Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday reiterated his suggestion he could shut down the government if legislators don't approve a state budget that includes the plan.

Democratic Senator Terry Gipson says the ethics package is designed to reform state government and combat ongoing corruption issues.

Trying to make his reality less gloomy than all that — and, to be fair, surely with the genuine intent of reducing misbehavior in all branches of government — Gov. Andrew Cuomo has included a package of ethics reform proposals in the agenda he laid out in a series of State of the State speeches around the state this week.

Cuomo, despite saying that the so - called Moreland Commission was independent, dismantled it after legislators agreed to a package of ethics reforms that good government groups say did not go far enough to end the historical corruption in Albany.