Sentences with phrase «support ethics bills»

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The time has come for the Republican Majority to finally join with the Senate Democrats and pass the ethics bills we have introduced and supported for years,» she said in a statement.

Cuomo, whose staff has been holding secret talks with aides to legislative leaders on the proposal, will turn up the heat by introducing his own ethics bill in the Legislature, which would force lawmakers to say if they support it or not.

«The defeat of the Constitutional Convention is a triumph for all of the enemies of reform in Albany: Andrew Cuomo, the political bosses in the State Legislature, and the lobbyists and special interests who thrive in New York's pay for play culture of corruption,» said Bill Samuels, the Democratic activist who had supported the referendum, with the hope of ushering in campaign finance and ethics reforms.

Techincally speaking, Assemblyman Bill Magnarelli, a Syracuse Democrat, is one of Ed Koch's «enemies» of reform, called out by the former NYC mayor during his upstate tour last week for failing to sign the NY Uprising pledges to support budget, ethics and redistricting changes.

«Ironically, some lawmakers have chosen to have taxpayers foot the bill for political campaign - style mailings lauding their support for ethics reform,» Singas wrote.

The governor and members of his administration are traveling the state to drum up support for the cap, along with an ethics bill and same - sex marriage legalization.

In roughly 10 minute address, Duffy reminded the crowd that Cuomo is beginning a statewide tour drumming up support for gay marriage, along with a legislative ethics bill and a property tax cap.

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.?

Mr. McGrath has said that he supports some ethics reforms, like term limits for legislators and stripping pensions from lawmakers convicted of a felony; Mr. Kaminsky's spokesman, Evan Thies, defended his attendance record as «excellent,» noting that he had sponsored 16 bills that eventually passed, a freshman record.

Although their ethics reports appear to be filled out incorrectly, in violation of Connecticut's ethics laws, it appears that ConnAD, the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Advocacy, Inc., spent nearly $ 825,000 in their effort to pressure legislators to support Malloy's bill.

A file of complete and thorough notes are gold when you have to detail your work for an ethics or malpractice claim, to work through a billing dispute, to transfer a file to another lawyer, to prepare a declaration in support of a motion for legal fees, etc..