State legislators say they are willing to enact a number of new ethics reforms, but they argue Gov. Cuomo should subject himself to more public disclosure as well.<\/span>
<\/span>Republican and Democratic legislative sources say that while Cuomo has attacked lawmakers on the issue of outside income, the governor is making as much as $900,000 from HarperCollins for his recent memoir, which only sold a few thousand copies.<\/span>
<\/span>They also say that perhaps there should be a ban on governors giving paid outside speeches. While Cuomo during his first four years has not given such speeches, former Govs. Mario Cuomo and George Pataki did.<\/span>
<\/span>New Jersey bars governors from receiving \u201cdirectly or indirectly\u201d any compensation, salary, honorarium, fee or any other form of income on top of their regular taxpayer-funded salary.<\/span>
<\/span>An official in the New York Legislature argued there should be more public disclosure on what guests, if any, are staying at the governor\u2019s Albany mansion.<\/span>
<\/span>And, in perhaps the most contentious suggestion, a number of legislative sources say Cuomo\u2019s longtime live-in celebrity chef girlfriend, Sandra Lee, should be required to publicly disclose her income, investments and other financial information that the spouses of public officials are already mandated to reveal.<\/span>
<\/span>\u201cA final negotiated package shouldn\u2019t be just all about the Legislature,\u201d said one high-ranking legislative official. \u201cIf you want to do something comprehensive on ethics, it should include the governor as well.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nOf course it should include the governor as well.<\/p>\n
It’s only a problem if you are Andrew Cuomo.<\/p>\n
Here is hoping that US Attorney Preet Bharara is going to indict him.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It appears that the indictment of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has provided some impetus to make changes to the ethics laws in New York state. Andrew Cuomo has a proposal, and to no-one’s surprise, the proposal specifically excludes the Governor’s office: State legislators say they are willing to enact a number of new ethics reforms, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1051,978,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-hypocrisy","category-politics","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}