Sentences with phrase «passed ethics law»

Then King Sweeney's office pointed out that the public notice for Santino's recently passed ethics law also lacked the explanatory statement.

«The governor is prepared to help them with that, but he wants to see them rehabilitate themselves by reining in spending and taxes, by passing an ethics law, by seriously addressing our economic problems.»

The governor has maintained that the commission served its purpose — «to educate the public [and] to spur the Legislature to pass ethics laws, which they did,» he said in 2015 — and that it was entirely within his purview to shut it down.

that the commission served its purpose — «to educate the public [and] to spur the Legislature to pass ethics laws, which they did,»

That commission was to spur, to educate the public, to spur the Legislature to pass ethics laws — which they did.

Quigley is currently trying to pass an ethics law that would apply to town GOP chairman Jim Maloney, the town assessor.

Anna Scholl, executive director of the liberal Progress Virginia, said the ruling should spur legislators to pass ethics laws that close loopholes and ensure accountability.

These charlatans promised to reign in the lobbyists and special interests, to institute independent redistricting and pass ethics laws to curb the corruption in Albany.

Not exact matches

Professor E. F. Scott, however, passes a not unfair judgment on James: «Conceiving of the new message as a «law,» and not as a power which creates a new life, he misses what is deepest, both in the Christian religion and the Christian ethic.»

Cuomo ultimately did make some final Hail Mary passes on ethics: A «menu» of options for closing the LLC loophole in campaign finance law and a plan to curb coordination between campaigns and independent expenditure committees.

«To clean up the government and restore trust we need to pass a new ethics law that mandates transparency and full disclosure,» Cuomo says.

«I am running to build a real Democratic State Senate majority that finally fully funds our public schools, protects tenants from being thrown out of their homes and strengthens our loophole ridden rent laws, passes badly needed ethics reforms, election reforms and real criminal justice reforms and makes Andrea Stewart - Cousins the first woman Senate Majority Leader, breaking up the so - called «three men in a room.»

Democrats have also been resistant to substantive ethics reform efforts in recent years, passing a weak law last year that barely limits who politicians can take money from.

Under a newly passed ethics reform law — which Ambrosino, King Sweeney and Blakeman voted against — Ambrosino would be barred from working for the town or running for re-election if he is convicted of the felony charges.

Onondaga County lawmakers passed an ethics reform law during its meeting Tuesday.

After lawmakers failed to pass the ethics reforms he proposed last year — including closing the LLC loophole — Cuomo formed a Moreland Commission to investigate corruption and recommend new campaign finance laws.

Cuomo insisted Monday that the commission had served its purpose after the assembly passed a set of ethics laws, and that's why it was discontinued.

«We urge the Elections Committee to pass Senator Squadron's legislation, and the full Senate and Assembly to pass this critical reform that would improve our campaign finance and ethics laws by reducing the influence of big contributions on the decisions made by our elected officials.»

Asked again whether he regretted his controversial decision to shut down the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, Cuomo cited ethics laws passed by the Legislature in exchange for the shutdown.

Cuomo has said, repeatedly and vociferously, that he discontinued the commission purely because it had satisfied its mission, which was to pressure the legislature into passing tougher ethics laws.

«We must prove once again that state government can be trusted, and that means passing tough new ethics laws and creating a system that deters, detects and punishes individuals who seek to abuse and corrupt,» he said last week in a

Mayor Steve Noble said this week he will sign a new ethics law that passed a divided Common Council earlier

While a federal lawsuit unfolds, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has agreed not to enforce certain provisions of a new state ethics law passed requiring charitable organizations giving money to lobbying campaigns to disclose far more of their donors, according to the plaintiffs in the suit.

Despite the string of arrests doing little to help Albany's reputation for corruption, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the new state legislative leaders acknowledge there is little they can do to stem the arrests by passing new ethics and anti-corruption laws.

The foundations of the American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union have jointly filed a lawsuit saying an ethics law passed by the Legislature earlier this year violated the First and Fourth amendments.

«To clean up the government and restore trust we need to pass a new ethics law that mandates transparency and full disclosure.

Just a week after Gov. Cuomo praised the Legislature for passing «historic» ethics - reform legislation, state senators opposed to enacting a «historic» same - sex marriage law are being courted with promises of political cover, endorsements and (psst!)

No ethics laws have been passed by the Legislature this year, and the session is scheduled to end June 16.

However, the criminal acts of one person should not be reflective of all legislators, particularly as we continue to work toward and pass stronger ethics laws.

However, in June 2011 Cuomo reached a deal with the Legislature that started a new ethics body - the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE)- and passed a law to require stricter disclosure on legislators» outside income.

The governor has argued that his office was only trying to help the commission — not to keep it out of politically sensitive territory but to keep Moreland's investigators from blundering in ways that would be counterproductive to the goal of getting the Legislature to pass better ethics laws.

New Jersey provides some hope that states with troubled histories can reduce corruption, even if they can't eliminate it, by passing aggressive ethics laws with strong oversight.

Despite the convictions of the state Legislature's top two leaders, the Legislature has not passed any ethics reform laws since then.

The legislature passed nearly all of those recommendations, which included the creation of a more powerful ethics commission, mandatory ethics training, anti-nepotism laws and greater transparency in state contracts.

«There is widespread speculation that this may be his last term as speaker, especially with the likelihood that Cuomo is going to try and pass the toughest ethics - reform law ever,» the source said.

«There have been many ethics reform measures that have been passed into law and there are continuing discussions on ethics,» Young said.

To clean up the government and restore trust with New Yorkers, we need to pass a new ethics law that mandates transparency and full disclosure as well as a law that calls for a real independent monitor.

State lawmakers have meanwhile over the last six years passed a raft of new ethics and anti-corruption laws aimed at boosting transparency and accountability.

So if there's an ethics law to be passed, it has to ban all the union money, but we wont get that if the Democrats get the Senate majority.

During the first legislative session after her election as governor, her administration passed a state ethics law overhaul.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature's leaders have not announced any deals to pass ethics or campaign finance reform laws.

The law, passed in 2011 as part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's first ethics reform bill, requires lobbyists or their clients who pay a state employee more than $ 1,000 in a year to submit a form detailing the exact amount every six months.

In the area of state ethics, we passed a law that said if you're an elected official, and if you break the law, you lose your pension.

Mayor Steve Noble said this week he will sign a new ethics law that passed a divided Common Council earlier this month.

There's been little public talk by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie or Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan during the legislative session, about passing tough new ethics laws, and no reforms have been approved by the Legislature.

FPI's Executive Director, Ron Deutsch joins Barbara Bartoletti, Legislative Director for the League of Women Voters of New York State and Blair Horner, Executive Director of NYPIRG on WCNY News to discuss the failure of lawmakers to pass contract procurement and ethic reforms and voting laws.

The committee is not bound by law to release the individual donors, but the ethics overhaul passed last year may require the coalition to release the individual donors.

This afternoon State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced that he was passing off the responsibility of investigating David Paterson's reported attempt to influence court proceedings against one of his own aides and his reported violation of state ethics laws regarding a few Yankees tickets.

«Passing tougher ethics laws is the conferences's first priority for the 2010 session,» said Austin Shafran, a spokesman.

The governor shut down the commission in March of this year after the state Assembly passed a set of ethics laws.