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HOW MANY MEMBERS OF WESTCHESTER's ALBANY DELEGATION
DOES IT TAKE TO DO THE DUTY OF ONE?

93rd Assembly District
DAVID BUCHWALD, ESQ.
Member: Assembly Committee on Governmental Operations;
Assembly Judiciary Committee;
Assembly Committee on Local Governments
Assembly Committee on Corporations, Authorities & Commissions

 

ILLUSTRATIVE CORRESPONDENCE 

 

(1)
CJA's February 15, 2013 handwritten note to Assemblyman Buchwald

(2)
CJA's March 8, 2013 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald --
"Immediate Attention Required --
Judiciary Budget & its Judicial Salary Increase Request"

(3)
CJA's March 11, 2013 e-mail -- transmitted letter
"Superseding Letter to Senate Budget Subcommittee on 'Public Protection'...
Verifying the Dispositive Nature of the Opposition to the Judiciary Budget
& its Judicial Salary Increase Request"

(4)
CJA's March 12, 2013 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald --
"Judiciary Budget -- A Slush Fund as the Dollar Figures Would Show"

(5)
CJA's March 13, 2013 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald --
"What is the cumulative dollar amount of the appropriations bill for the Judiciary -- A3001? 
And of the Judiciary's budget request?"

(6)
CJA's March 22, 2013 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald --
"Your Power & Duty to Reject the Budget: S2601/A3001 ---Judiciary Appropriations Bill"
& referred-to March 19, 2013 letter to Governor Cuomo-- "Assisting the Legislature in Discharging
its Constitutional Duty: the People's Right to Know the Dollar Cost of the Judiciary Budget &
of the Appropriations Bill for the Judiciary & to be Protected from 'Grand Larceny of the Public Fisc'
by Unidentified, Unitemized Judicial Pay Raises, whose Fraudulence, Statutory-Violations, and
Unconstitutionality are
Proven by Documentary Evidence in Your Possession & the Legislature's"

(7)
CJA's March 23, 2013 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald (6:38 am) --
"Info to Assist You in Your Presentations Today on the Assembly...Floor"

CJA's March 23, 2013 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald (8:59 am) --
"Part 2: Info to Assist You in Your History-Making Presentations on the...Assembly Floor. 
But Will They be Today or Tomorrow?"

CJA's March 23, 2013 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald (10:19 am) --
"Part 3: Info to Assist You in Your History Making Presentations on the...Assembly Floor.
But Will They Be Today or Tomorrow?"

CJA's March 23, 2013 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald, responding to his
--"Thank you..."

CJA's March 23, 2013 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald (6:22 pm) --
"Part 4: Info to Assist You on Your History-Making Presentations on the...Assembly Floor"

(8)
cc to Buchwald: CJA's March 26, 2013 e-mail --
"Request that CJA's Opposition Report & verified complaint be brought to the Senate floor for inspection by the Senators"

(9)

CJA's March 28, 2013 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald --
 "In further support of SUCCESSFUL procedural, due-process objections on the Assembly floor --
Opposition to A.3001, etc."

(8)
CJA's April 26, 2013 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald --
"Analysis & Hearing Request: A.246-establishing special commission on managerial & confidential state employees"
--link to video of February 6, 2013 testimony

(9)
CJA's May 7, 2013 & May 22, 2013 letters to ALL Senators & Assembly Members --
"Doing Your Part to End Public Corruption" -- Parts I & II
furnishing:
CJA’s April 15, 2013 corruption complaint to U.S. Attorney Bharara
       [
click here for: CJA's webpage for April 15, 2013 corruption complaint]

(10)
cc to Buchwald:
   CJA's May 29, 2013 letter to Assemblyman Michael Kearns --
"RE:
Making Good on Your Pledge to Your Constituents “To Do The Right Thing” and “Stand Up To Albany Politicians”:  


(11)
CJA's July 22, 2013 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald --
"Securing Government Integrity -- Starting with the 'Public Trust Act'"
         with link to:  CJA's July 19, 2013 corruption complaint to Albany D.A.

(12)  
CJA's August 13, 2013 letter to Assemblyman Buchwald --
"RE:  Constituent Request
that You Introduce the Public Trust Act (Governor’s Program Bill #3),
Consistent with the Senate and Assembly Informational Guides:

“How a Bill Becomes a Law” and “The Legislative Process and YOU”


-- & related August 21, 2013 letter to Gov. Cuomo,
to which Assemblyman Buchwald was an indicated recipient
 --
"Achieving BOTH a Properly Functioning Legislature & Your Public Trust Act
(Program Bill #3) -- the Sine Qua Non for 'Government Working' & 'Working for the People"

(13)
CJA's August 16, 2013 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald
"Championing Good Government by the Public Trust Act (Governor's Program Bill #3)..." 

(14)
CJA's August 20, 2013 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald --
"latest draft of letter to Governor -- plus new webpage!"

(15)
cc to Buchwald:
 CJA's December 11, 2013 letter to Gov. Cuomo & Legislature --
"SAFEGUARDING THE PUBLIC PURSE FROM JUDICIAL FRAUD & LARENCY:
Your Constitutional & Statutory Duty to Reject the Entirety of the Judiciary's Proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2014-2015,
Over & Beyond its Concealed, Unitemized Third Phase of the Judicial Salary Increase
that Will Otherwise Take Efffect, Automatically, on April 1, 2014" 

(16)
CJA's February 5, 2014 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald --

"Subject: Drafted Questions for Chief Administrative Judge Prudenti at Today's Feb 5, 2014 Budget Hearing on 'Public Protection'"

(17)
CJA's February 6, 2014 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald --
"Subject: Request for Meeting with... Assemblyman Buchwald NEXT WEEK & for Info on the Legislative 'Reappropriations' in Budget Bill #S.6351/A.8551"
-- referred-to, linked webpage for January 29, 2014 letter so Senate Finance Committee..
 

(18)
CJA's March 5, 2014 letter to...Assemblyman Buchwald
"RE:  Your Constitutional Duty:
(1) to address the fraud and unconstitutionality in the proposed Judiciary and Legislative budgets...
transmitting
CJA's March 4, 2014 letter

(19) 
 cc to Buchwald: CJA's March 25, 2016 e-mail --
"Subject: Restoring constitutionality and lawfulness to NY's budgeting process --
& overriding the 'force of law' judicial pay raises"

(20)
CJA's March 31, 2016 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald 
"Subject: FOR ASSSEMBLYMAN BUCHWALD:
Have you read what the NYS Constitution has to say about the NYS budget?"

NYS Constitution, Article VII, §§1-7

referred-to, linked webpage for:
CJA's March 23, 2016 Verified 2nd Supplemental Complaint


(21)  
CJA's May 26, 2016 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald --
"Subject: Elections 2016: What is Assemblyman Buchwald's expert opinion
of CJA's March 23, 2016 second supplemental complaint
challenging the NYS budget & the Commission on Legislative, Judicial & Executive Compensation, etc?"

(22)
 
cc to Buchwald: CJA's January 26, 2017 e-mail
"Subject: Oversight by Assembly Committee on Local Governments, beginning with the striking
of the $4,212,000 D.A. salary grants in Aid to Localities Budget Bill A.3003 (at p. 61)"
 

(23)
CJA's February 2, 2017 e-mail to lawyer-Assemblyman Buchwald & his chief of staff --
"Subject: Request for Assemblyman Buchwald's IMMEDIATE action germane to his membership
on the Assembly Committee on Gov't Operations, Assembly Judiciary Committee,
& Assembly Committee on Local Gov'ts"


(24)

cc to Buchwald: 
    CJA's February 6, 2017 letter...Legislative Leadership
--
   "RE: (1)  Where are your appointments to the Commission on Government Administration
and to the Commission on State-Local relations, required by Legislative Law Article 5-A?
           (2) When will you be responding to my requests for a meeting for purposes of preventing a repeat of the constitutional, statutory and legislative rule violations chronicled by the September 2, 2016 verified complaint in CJA's citizen-taxpayer action?  
transmitting e-mail


(25)
CJA's February 8, 2017 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald
--
"Subject: Letter to Leadership: (1) Legislative Law Article 5-A Commissions on Gov't Administration
& State-Local Relations; (2) requested meetings to prevent repeat of constitutional, statutory,
& Legislative rule violations:  re: fiscal year 2017-18 budget"

(26)
cc to Buchwald:  Sassower's April 5, 2017 e-mail --
Subject: Your DUTY to expose the '3-men-in-a-room'-'amended' budget bills
as treason to the NYS Constitution -- violating Article VII, §§4, 5, 6 & Article III, §10" 

cc to Buchwald: Sassower's April 5, 2017 e-mail --
AG Schneiderman's duty to advise the Legislature that the behind-closed-doors,
'3-men-in-a-room'-'amended' budget bills of Heastie, Flangagan & Cuomo violate Article VII, §§4, 5, 6 &
Article III, §10 of the NYS Constitution -- & are treason thereof"

(27)
CJA's October 16, 2017 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald --
"Subject: Tomorrow's Closed-Door Democratic Assembly Conference Meeting --
& Assemblyman Buchwald's duty to furnish a long-overdue legal opinion on CJA's citizen-taxpayer action"

cc to Buchwald: October 18, 2017 e-mail --
"Subject: Yesterday's UNCONSTITUTIONAL Closed-Door Democratic Assembly Conference Meeting --
PAID FOR BY THE TAXPAYERS, NO LESS!"

(28)
CJA's December 4, 2017 letter
"RE:  Your Duty to Assist the Westchester County Board of Legislators in Discharging its Duty to Safeguard the Westchester County Budget from Statutorily-Violative and Fraudulent District Attorney Salary Increases" 

(29)
CJA's December 8, 2017 e-mail
"Statement for the Record of the Assembly Judiciary Committee's
Rigged December 1, 2017 Hearing on the Judiciary Budget
cc: Chair Dinowitz & Assemblyman Buchwald

(30)
CJA's December 13, 2017 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald --
"Assemblyman Buchwald's membership on pertinent Assembly committees --
reinforcing the duty he owes his Westchester constituents and the People of the State of New York"

(31)
CJA's January 29, 2018 e-mail to Judiciary Committee Member Buchwald

transmitted January 29, 2018 written statement in support of testimony

(32)
February 2, 2018 forum on the state budget
by Westchester's Assembly Delegation -- including Assemblyman Buchwald

 

 

 

"Assemblyman David Buchwald is leading efforts to root out public corruption"

"Assemblyman David Buchwald has a Long Record of Fighting for Ethics in Government"

"We Did It!  Assemblyman Buchwald produces results in fight for new laws against corruption"

 


LETTERS & E-MAILS SENT
TO ALL SENATORS & ASSEMBLY MEMBERS:

CJA's January 3, 2013 OPEN LETTER to all senators --
RE: Transforming the Senate on Day 1 of its 236th Legislative Session by Appropriate Rules & Leadership" 

-- referred to:
December 26, 2012 letter to Senate Republican Conference Leader Skelos & Senate Democratic Conference Leader Stewart-Cousins --
"RE: ENSURING AN INFORMED SENATE VOTE ON SENATE LEADERSHIP & SENATE RULES: Your Response to CJA’s December 7, 2012 Letter to the Independent Democratic Conference on “ACHIEVING A ‘FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE, FULLY FUNCTIONAL SENATE’”    transmitting e-mail

December 7, 2012 letter to Senate Independent Democratic Conference Senators Klein, Carlucci, etc --
"RE:  ACHIEVING A FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE, FULLY FUNCTIONAL SENATE..."  
 transmitting e-mail

 December 21, 2012 letter to Senate Independent Conference Senators --
"RE: What is Your Response to CJA's December 7, 2012 Letter?"
e-mail & fax receipts

CJA's January 4, 2013 e-mail to all senators 

CJA's January 3, 2013 letter to All 150 New York State Assembly Members --
"RE:  TRANSFORMING THE ASSEMBLY ON DAY 1 OF ITS 236th LEGISLATIVE SESSION
BY APPROPRIATE RULES & LEADERSHIP"

CJA's January 4, 2013 e-mail to Assembly Members --
"Press Inquiries: Your Most Important Votes of the Upcoming 236th Legislative Session"

click here for: legislative rules reform

**********************

CJA's March 15, 2013 e-mail ALERT to ALL Senate & Assembly Members --
"Subject: Is the Judiciary Budget a 'Slush Fund'?"  --
referred to:
cc: March 11, 2013 letter to the Senate Budget Subcommittee for "Public Protection" --
RE:
Rectifying Your Absence at the February 6, 2013 Budget Hearing on ‘Public Protection’ by Verifying the Dispositive Nature of the Opposition Testimony to the Judiciary Budget & its Judicial Salary Increase Request”

CJA's March 18, 2013 letter to ALL Senate and Assembly Members --
"RE: The People's Right to Know the Dollar Cost of the Judiciary Budget & of the Appropriations Bill for the Judiciary"   transmitting e-mail/fax receipts

         E-Mail to ALL legislators  -- CJA's March 19, 2013 letter to Governor Cuomo
"Assisting the Legislature in Discharging its Constitutional Duty: The People's Right to Know the Dollar Cost of the Judiciary Budget & the Appropriations Bill for the Judiciary & to be Protected from 'Grand Larceny of the Public Fisc' by Unidentified, Unitemized Judicial Pay Raises, whose Fraudulence, Statutory-Violations, and Unconstitutionality are Proven by Documental Evidence in Your Possession & the Legislature's"

additional e-mails to:  all members-assembly judiciary; all members-senate judiciary; all-members-assembly ways & means; all members-senate finance committee; Assembly Public-Protection Subcommittee Chair; Senate Public-Protection Subcommittee Chair
 E-MAIL: to ALL Senators;  to ALL Assembly Members  -- CJA's March 22, 2013 letter   
"...The Scandal of Judiciary Appropriations Bill S.2601/A.3001, the Unidentified, Unitemized Judicial Salary Increases Therein, District Attorney Salary Reimbursement Based Thereon -- & the Price Tag of Each"

additional e-mails to: General Conference Committee & Subcommittee;
Subcommittee Chairs Nozzolio & Lentol; to Senator Latimer & Assemblymen Buchwald & Katz
 

CJA's March 24, 2013 letter to ALL Senators  --
"Why You Must Reject S.2601-The Appropriations Bill for the Judiciary" 
E-MAIL: to all Senators -- here & here & here --
and then again on March 26, 2013
 

-------------------------------

CJA's May 7, 2013 & May 22, 2013 letters to ALL Senators & Assembly Members --
"Doing Your Part to End Public Corruption" -- Parts I & II
furnishing:
CJA’s April 15, 2013 corruption complaint to U.S. Attorney Bharara
       [click here for: CJA's webpage for April 15, 2013 corruption complaint]

------------------------------

CJA's June 19, 2013 e-mail to ALL Senators --
"Why You Must Vote AGAINST S.2953, establishing a special commission on compensation
of managerial & confidential state employees"

CJA's June 20, 2013 e-mail to ALL Assembly Members --
"Why You Must Vote AGAINST S.246 Establishing a Special Commission
on Compensation of Managerial & Confidential State Employees"


CJA's July 9, 2013 letter to All Senators & Assembly Members --
"RE:  (1) Status of A.246 (establishing a special commission on compensation of managerial
and confidential state employees);
   
(2) Securing legislative oversight of the statute upon which A.246 was modeled:
Chapter 567 of the Laws of 2010 (establishing a special commission on judicial compensation)
  transmitting e-mail

 



 

 

BACKGROUND WEBPAGES --

click here for:
CJA's AUGUST 10, 2017 OPEN LETTER
"The NYS Reform Party of Curtis Sliwa MUST Rescind its Endorsement of – & Party Line to –
Senator George Latimer for Westchester County Executive
& the Other Parties Must Follow Suit –
Unless they Deem Corruption in Office a Qualification
"

The Larcenous D.A. Salary Increases, The Westchester County Budget --
& the Westchester County Board of Legislators


*   *   *

click here for:
OUTING CORRUPT & COLLUSIVE INCUMBENTS
& Ending their Road to Re-Election & Higher Office -- WITH EVIDENCE!
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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