March 31, 2015 - New York needs a much stronger response than the ethics bill finally presented mid-afternoon today by the governor and the legislature to solve Albany’s crime wave of political corruption.
March 19, 2015 - Proposed $2.6 Billion in spending needs greater accountability and transparency.
March 18, 2015 - Good government groups see agreement that still leaves much unfinished reform on the table.
March 12, 2015 - Good government group wants to cap and disclose all outside income, boost legislative salaries, increase JCOPE role and budget, expand disclosure of executive and legislative lump sum funds, and end use of budget for policy changes.
February 5, 2015 - Citizens Union’s corruption tracker shows Albany’s crime wave continues to rise.
February 5, 2015 - Good government group pleased to hear his public interest in ethics and compensation reform.
February 2, 2015 - Urge lawmakers to seize opportunity to restore public's faith in state government.
February 2, 2015 - Citizens Union finds promise in Governor Cuomo’s call today for comprehensive ethics reform to end the culture of secrecy in Albany that has fed the crime wave of corruption.
January 29, 2015 - Groups urge a transparent process in selection of new assembly speaker.
January 26, 2015 - Good government group believes speaker Sheldon Silver no longer has the trust of the public to govern effectively.
January 22, 2015 - Calls for improvements in ethics enforcement and in addressing outside income.
January 21, 2015 - Supports legislative and executive pay commission and urges deliberative review of police accountability reforms.
December 27, 2014 - Statement regarding Gov. Cuomo’s veto of Port Authority reform.
December 27, 2014 - The execution of NYPD officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos is a horrible tragedy. Coming as it did after two weeks of heated words, unfortunate demagoguery, and continuing protests makes the police officers’ deaths more painful and unsettling.
December 12, 2014 - Voting rights coalition applauds Mayor and City Council.
December 10, 2014 - Changes needed to public oversight of police misconduct and criminal justice system.
December 9, 2014 - State Assemblymembers Jim Brennan and Amy Paulin along with New Jersey State Senator Robert Gordon and New Jersey State Assemblymember Valerie Vainieri Huttle, joined fellow legislators and advocates today to urge Governors Cuomo and Christie to sign two bi-state reform bills aiming to overhaul the Port Authority.
December 2, 2014 - Citizens Union today sent a letter to the Conflicts of Interest Board (the “Board”) requesting an investigation into whether a meeting on July 14, 2014, attended by Mayor Bill de Blasio and sponsored by Local 1182 of the Communications Workers of America (“CWA”) at P.S. 66 in Brooklyn may have violated the conflicts of interest provisions of the New York City Charter.
November 25, 2014 - Voting rights coalition applauds City Council, Mayor, and Agency Leadership in expansion of City’s pro-voter law
November 14, 2014 - The Port Authority owns and manages some of the most significant infrastructure assets in our region—bridges, bus facilities, tunnels, the PATH, ports, airports, and the World Trade Center site.
November 5, 2014 - We are pleased that voters seized this once in a fifty-year opportunity to fix our state’s rigged redistricting process and end the practice of drawing districts to favor incumbents, protect majority party control, and discourage competition.
October 29, 2014 - New analysis shows lack of competition in 2014 election cycle: many legislators already elected without a single vote being cast.
October 23, 2014 - Citizens Union is pleased to hear that Attorney General Eric Schneiderman believes that Prop 1 – the proposed constitutional amendment that bans legislative maps drawn for political advantage – does not change the state’s law banning prison-based gerrymandering.
August 22, 2014 - Supports Challengers Leroy Comrie, Jr. and Dell Smitherman to Two Indicted State Senators.
August 7, 2014 - Transparency measures will improve public access to government.