Sentences with phrase «over ethics reform»

Blakeman and King Sweeney have been feuding with Santino for months over ethics reform legislation.

The group's position supports that of Councilwoman Erin King Sweeney, a Wantagh Republican who has been in an unusual public fight with Santino for months over ethics reform and other issues.

The Senate and Cuomo have been at odds over ethics reform, including requiring financial disclosure of senators» law clients in their outside jobs as private attorneys.

Governor Cuomo has repeatedly threatened to hold up the state budget over ethics reform and other issues, like education policy.

The Cuomo administration and the state Legislature are doing battle on a variety of fronts, perhaps none more intense than that over ethics reform.

A fight over ethics reform in the state legislature helped get Adam Skelos fired from his $ 10,000 - a-month job with AbTech.

Cuomo's proposal, which he said was designed to mitigate the impacts of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizen United decision, comes as talks over ethics reform have stalled at the state Capitol.

Still, Skelos insisted the budget talks were going well, despite the deepening rift with Cuomo over ethics reform.

Hempstead Town Councilwoman Erin King Sweeney, seen in September, has been at odds with outgoing Supervisor Anthony Santino for months over her ethics reform proposal.

Cuomo is threatening to make the budget late over an ethics reform package that the governor is seeking.

King Sweeney, a Republican who has been at odds with Santino for months over ethics reform, said she would fight any attempts to put Santino «loyalists in positions of power in the new administration.»

Governor Andrew Cuomo has repeatedly threatened to hold up the state budget over ethics reform and other issues, like education policy.

Governor Cuomo has been in a spat over ethics reform.

-- Democrats and Republicans are clashing over ethics reform in the State Senate.

Closed - door negotiations over the ethics reform bill have been dragging on for weeks now, despite the fact that Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has said repeatedly that his house has an agreement with the governor.

Last week, the verbal sparring over ethics reforms spilled into public view.

Not exact matches

In addition, the Gray Lady would like to hear more from the AG on ethics reform and wishes he had found the means to push state legislators harder over the past four years, saying:

It is difficult to find a segment of society that Louise didn't help shape over the course of more than thirty years in Congress, from health care to genetic nondiscrimination to historic ethics reforms.

ALBANY — Good - government advocates are pinning their hopes for passage of substantial ethics and campaign finance reforms on very public examinations of alleged corruption set to take place over the next six months.

First in his original budget, and then in the 30 - day amendments released last Friday, Cuomo placed controversial ethics and education reforms in appropriations bills, over which the Legislature is afforded very little power under the state Constitution.

Some of these proposals have come and gone over the years, and they are a reminder that budgets, school funding, ethics and campaign finance reform aren't the only issues politicians deal with.

Siena pollster Steve Greenberg notes that 71 percent of respondents gave Governor Andrew Cuomo a negative rating for his work to reduce corruption, and that Cuomo and the Legislature «did little to win over the hearts and minds of New Yorkers» when it comes to ethics reform.

Hoping to capitalize on Democratic anger over the election of President Trump, Mayer and other Democrats argue the Westchester contest is critical to their hopes of controlling the Senate and enacting legislation long sought by progressives, including new gun control measures, campaign finance and ethics reforms, and a bill to strengthen New York's abortion laws.

For his part, Gov. Andrew Cuomo plans a roll out of ethics reform bills over the next several days.

Campaign literature distributed by Oyster Bay Town Supervisor Joseph Saladino over the weekend touted a budget without a tax hike, the town's reduction of debt and ethics reform.

The League has advocated for ethics reform for over 30 years and it is time for the leaders to openly negotiate effective reforms.»

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today is blasting the Assembly Majority's so - called «comprehensive» ethics reform plan that's really just a flimsy rehash of warmed - over proposals that will do little to fight corruption in Albany.

Topics include: Education funding and teacher layoff «propaganda», ethics reform, a property tax cap and the battle over naming an official state vegetable.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos last week said he didn't think a legal challenge over Cuomo's linking of spending to ethics reform was «necessary.»

Cuomo also said he's standing firm on ethics reform, and called debate over the inclusion of policy proposals in the budget a «red herring.»

A government reform group is considering filing a complaint with a New York state ethics panel over a story in the New York Times that says the Assembly Speaker is under federal investigation for failing to disclose pay he received from a law firm.

A government reform group is considering filing a complaint with a state ethics panel over a report in the New York Times that the Assembly Speaker is under federal investigation for failing to disclose pay he received from a law firm.

They discuss redistricting, ethics reform, and the fight over a tax cap.

They discuss plans for reforming education, the impasse over the late budget, and ethics reform in the Senate.

The New York State Assembly and Senate have released budget positions that focus on taxes and spending policies, but very little on ethics reform, even though both former leaders of the legislature face prison sentences over corruption convictions.

While many of his proposals had been previewed over the past 10 days, the governor used the speech to announce a slew of ethics reform proposals, which seek to address issues at the heart of the two high - profile corruption convictions that ended the long careers of former Senate leader Dean Skelos and ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

Several of his ethics reform proposals were approved in the most recent state budget, including forcing legislators to reveal all outside sources of income over $ 1,000 and the loss of pension benefits for elected officials convicted of corruption.

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

Ed Koch is not giving up on his push for redistricting, budget and ethics reform now that the elections are over.

«Over the past four years, the Senate has enacted numerous election and ethics reforms and we have communicated to the Governor that we are willing to do many additional reforms,» said Scott Reif, a spokesman for the Senate GOP conference.

«We have over the last five years... we have made very significant changes in the law,» Flanagan said of past ethics reforms.

In her pitch for ethics reform, Phillips said in a Facebook post that «over the past decade in Albany, more than 30 current and former state officeholders have been convicted, sanctioned or accused of wrongdoing — more than any other state.»

Squinting into a bright noon sun, the former LaFayette School Superintendent reiterated the main talking points that have defined her candidacy up to now: more police on the streets to fight crime, mayoral control over a struggling school district, and ethics reform.

Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo faces many hurdles when he takes office in January, so here's one shortcut to ethics reform: He should hand over the power to investigate public corruption in Albany to the new attorney general, Eric Schneiderman.

Nassau County executive candidates Jack Martins and Laura Curran squared off Thursday in a debate hosted by regional business leaders, tangling over red light cameras, ethics reform and fixing the county's finances.

This year, he decided to do it differently, and he is also facing backlash from some lawmakers over a failed pay - raise and ethics reform fracas late last year.

Until we finally get over this indefensible disparity, allowing lawyers greater leeway than businessmen, ethics reform will always be a joke no matter who the legislative leaders are.

Add scrutiny over the Martinez affair to the upper West Side's civic reform tradition, and you have a race in which ethics will be front and center.

Unlike past years, Cuomo has not linked his ethics reforms to the passage of the state budget, a time when governors have the most leverage over the legislature.

Government corruption, electoral dysfunction, more investigations, broad popular anger over the political status quo and how it hurts regular people: As they return to the Capitol this week, you'd think it would be a really good time for lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to move forward with big new reforms on ethics, elections, campaign finance and voting.