Sentences with phrase «weak ethics package»

As part of what is increasingly the M.O. of Albany, a weak ethics package was trotted out to provide the necessary «optics» of reform so that the governor and state lawmakers could run for re-election touting their successes in cleaning up Albany.

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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.