Cuomo Meets Quietly with Legislative Leaders Amid Talk of Special Session

 

By Jimmy Vielkind

ALBANY — With a special session — and a legislative pay hike — still up in the air, Gov. Andrew Cuomo huddled quietly on Sunday with leaders of the Assembly and Senate, two sources told POLITICO New York.

Spokespeople for Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Jeff Klein, head of the Senate's Independent Democratic Conference, declined to discuss the meeting or even say where it took place. One source said the meeting was short, and may have focused on scheduling a date for Cuomo’s annual State of the State presentation, which will come in late January.

But in the days and weeks before Thanksgiving, Cuomo called for state lawmakers to return to the Capitol to revive the expired 421-a housing subsidy and enact a “serious” ethics reform package at the same time gubernatorial appointees effectively torpedoed a pay raise for legislators. 

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Source: Politico (via The Empire Report)