For the second year in a row, in his January State of the State, Governor Andrew Cuomo laid out an ambitious ethics reform agenda
that touched on a variety of issues and aimed at restoring public trust
in New York State’s scandal-plagued government. But, also for a second
year in a row, Cuomo has not followed up with any discernable public
push to rally support for that agenda or put pressure on members of the
state Legislature to pass it.
Acknowledging that corruption and greed had tainted all branches of
government, including his executive branch, Cuomo said on January 11 in
Albany, “Imagine what we could do if we had the complete confidence of
the people. If we had that confidence, there is nothing we couldn’t do –
and I am not going to stop until I get there.”
Cuomo outlined his ten-point ethics and good government agenda
in his Albany State of the State speech, his 2017 policy book, and his
executive budget proposal -- which is significant in that the governor
is again proposing to push through government ethics policy in the
state’s spending plan. The budget process is where Cuomo has the most
leverage over the Legislature, but that has not paved the way for
pushing through reform measures.
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Source: Gotham Gazette (via The Empire Report)
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