Category: New York

The Times rates a New York ethics reform plan in this editorial today.

Gov. Paterson’s reaction to an alternative to his ethics plan is the topic of this article today. Gov. David A. Paterson, who last week offered a far more ambitious ethics proposal, denounced the plan, through a spokesman, as nothing more than “election-year window dressing,” and he signaled that he would veto the proposal its current […]

This Times editorial endorses some of Gov. Paterson’s ethics and campaign finance reform proposals.  Among his “best ideas”: To clean up one of the nation’s most notoriously corrupt campaign finance systems, he proposes encouraging much-needed competition by phasing in public financing of campaigns. That would mean limiting contributions to $1,000 instead of $55,900 for state […]