Sentences with phrase «independent ethics commission with»
Eliminate the stratified oversight bodies and establish a single, independent ethics commission with robust enforcement powers to investigate and prosecute violations that members of either the executive and legislative branches commit.»
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Well, the news cycle, legislators and Gov. Andrew Cuomo seemed to all drop the issue of redrawing legislative lines by an independent commission at once with a loud thud as Albany's fruit - fly attention span turned to an ethics overhaul, a property tax cap and same - sex marriage legalization.
In addition, he said he will begin focusing on the legislation he hopes to craft or support when he goes up to Albany, including term limits and campaign finance bills, as well as ethics reform and creating an independent redistricting commission that would be tasked with redrawing legislative districts.?
The state's independent ethics commission took the first official ethics - related action in Albany since the convictions of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on Tuesday when it appointed a man with ties to both Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders as its new executive director.
The governor's failure to «establish an independent State ethics commission with robust enforcement powers» will leave him open to the attacks from County Executive Astorino, and other possible candidates, that he hasn't adequately dealt with Albany's ethical woes.