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2017 Legislative Session--


OUTREACH TO THE PRESS 

 

CJA's March 12, 2017 e-mail to White Plains Daily Voice --
"Subject: Observing 'Sunshine Week': Getting answers from local senate & assembly members about the NYS budget -- starting with answers about the Legislature's own budget"

CJA's March 14, 2017 e-mail to Casey Seiler/Capitol Bureau Chief/Albany Times Union -- "Subject: The inadvertent phone call to me from 51[8]-454-5619 -- & my request for your coverage of my January 30th testimony on the budget" -- cc's to reporters from Albany Times Union & Politico

 

CJA's March 14, 2017 e-mail to Matt Hamilton/Albany Times-Union --
"Subject: Matt Hamilton's Capitol Confidential 'Snow day read: the Assembly's one-house budget' (10:01 a.m./March 14, 2017)" -- cc's to reporters from Albany Times Union & Politico

 

CJA's March 29, 2017 e-mail to ALL Legislative Correspondents' Association reporters -- "Subject: BUDGET ALERT: court proceedings: 3 pm today - Albany Supreme Court: OSC with TRO to throw out Senate & Assembly 'amended' Budget Bills as Fraudulent & Unconstitutional"

 

CJA's April 2, 2017 e-mail to ALL Legislative Correspondents' Association reporters
-- "Subject: BUDGET ALERT: Reconciling your budget reporting with the NYS Constitution -- Citizen-Taxpayer Action: CJA v. Cuomo, et al  #5122-16"

 

"Four Men Enter, One Budget Leaves:
How Cuomo's Black-Box Negotiating
Leaves NYers in the Dark
",
March 28, 2017
Village Voice (Max Rivlin-Nadler)

CJA's April 2, 2017 e-mail to Max Rivlin-Nadler --
"Subject: 4 Men Enter, One Budget Leaves..."

 CJA's April 4, 2017 e-mail to Max Rivlin-Nadler --
"Subject: Again: 4 Men Enter, One Budget Leaves..."

"Albany Is All 'Dysfunction and Chaos'
Just How Gov. Cuomo Likes It
"
April 6, 2017
Village Voice (Max Rivlin-Nadler)


CJA's April 5, 2017 e-mail to Jesse McKinley/NY Times--
"Subject: How do you reconcile your reporting on the NYS budget
with the NYS Constitution, Article VII, §§4, 5, 6 & Article III, §10?"

CJA's April 5, 2017 e-mail to Jesse McKinley/NY Times --
"Subject: What's AG Schneiderman's response? How does he reconcile the behind-closed-doors,
'three-men-in-a-room' amending of budget bills with Article II,
VII, §§4, 5, 6 & Article III, §10?"

 

CJA's April 7, 2017 e-mail to Jesse McKinley/NY Times--
"Subject: WHAT IS YOUR ANSWER? How do you reconcile your reporting on the NYS budget
with the NYS Constitution, Article VII, §§4, 5, 6 & Article III, §10?"

 

CJA's April 7, 2017 e-mail to Casey Seiler, Rick Karlin, Matt Hamilton,
Chris Bragg/ Albany Times-Union
--
"Subject: Oversight by Albany Times-Union Reader Representative Tina Tyler -- Reconciling the Times-Union's reporting on the NYS budget with the NYS Constitution..."

 

CJA's April 7, 2017 e-mail to Albany Times-Union Reader Representative Tina Tyler -- "Subject: The Albany Times-Union's knowingly false and misleading journalism with respet to the NYS budget, concealing the violations of the NYS Constitution & the groundbreaking citizen-taxpayer action..."

 

CJA's April 13, 2017 e-mail to Reclaim New York --
(cc to McKinley)
"Subject: Jesse McKinley's knowingly false/election-rigging journalism"

"Dozens of bills aim to benefit public employees, at taxpayers' expense",
May 14, 2017 New York Post (Carl Campanile)

"Breakaway State Senate Dems costs taxpayers $2.2M a year",
5/15/17 New York Post (Kristan Conley)


CJA's May 17, 2017 e-mail to Kristan Conley --
"Subject: Follow-up: your article: "Breakaway State Senate Dems cost taxpayers 2.2M a year' (5/15/17)"

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CJA's May 17, 2017 e-mail to Fred Dicker --
"Subject: Follow-up to Kristan Conley's article: "Breakaway State Senate Dems cost taxpayers 2.2M a year' (5/15/17)"

CJA's May 17, 2017 e-mail to Carl Campanile --
"Subject: GIVING YOU THE LEAD: The Legislature's UNCERTIFIED/SLUSH-FUND BUDGET -- Following -up to Kristan Conley's article: 'Breakaway State Senate Dems cost taxpayers 2.2M a year' (5/15/17)"

CJA's May 23, 2017 e-mail to Carl Campanile --
"Subject: please advise: GIVING YOU THE LEAD: The Legislature's UNCERTIFIED/SLUSH-FUND BUDGET -- Following -up to Kristan Conley's article: 'Breakaway State Senate Dems cost taxpayers 2.2M a year' (5/15/17)"

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CJA's August 6, 2017 e-mail to Legislative Correspondents Reporters --
"PUTTING AN END TO 'FAKE NEWS' -- & ANSWERING CASEY SEILER's QUESTION:
'Has anybody seen the website of the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption?'
(Albany Times Union, 8/5/17 webposting)"

 


click here for:  
"FAKE NEWS" -- & THE 2017 ELECTION
OF STATE SENATOR GEORGE LATIMER
AS WESTCHESTER COUNTY EXECUTIVE --

achieved by NOT investigating his record, in office, as state senator
AND suppressing ANY report of CJA's August 10, 2017 OPEN LETTER about his record
& his multi-party endorsements

 

 

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March 13, 2017
"With One-House Budgets Due, Key Points of Contention in Albany"
Gotham Gazette (Rachel Silberstein)

April 11, 2017:
"Budget Deal Gives More Power to New York's Governor", Governing (Mike Gormley)

April 12, 2017
"State Judges Getting Heftier Paychecks Beginning This Month"
New York Law Journal (Joel Stashenko)

"April 26, 2017
"Andrew Cuomo Is A Control Freak. But Does It Work?"
Public (Ashley Hupfel, Justin Sondel)

May 6, 2017
"The Importance of New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli"
Legislative Gazette (Alan Chartock)

May 24, 2017
"Push on for comptroller contract review"
Plattsburgh Republican (Joe Mahoney)

June 15, 2017
"Reviews Are In: What Watchdogs Say About The New State Budget"
Gotham Gazette (Ben Brachfeld, Jayne Schubert)

June 28, 2017
"NY lawmakers secretly hand out your money for their own pet projects --again"
New York Post (editorial)

 

click here for: 
CJA's Citizen-Taxpayer Actions to End NYS' Corrupt Budget "Process"
& Unconstitutional "Three Men in a Room" Governance
 

 

click here for:  2017 Legislative Session    

"Heastie: On Time Budget is Nice, But A Good Budget Is Better"
State of Politics, December 8, 2017 (Nick Reisman)

"Lawsuit claims paid union leave time is unconstitutional"
Albany Times Union, May 10, 2017 (Matthew Hamilton)

"A watchman for Andrew Cuomo"
New York Post, April 30, 2017 (editorial)

"DiNapoli audit slaps the state development agency over lack of reporting"
Capitol Confidential, May 17, 2017 (Matt Hamilton)

 

NYPIRG:  -- "Albany Makes Things Worse",
June 26, 2017

"Gaming Albany's System of Legislative Pay"
May 15, 2017

"The State Senate Teams Up With the Comptroller to Advance Ethics"
May 1, 2017

"New York State's Budget Finally Gets Done, But in Secret"
April 10, 2017

"The Budget Slides Off the Tracks"
April 3, 2017

"The State Budget Deadline Looms"
March 27, 2017

"Trump Fires Bharara"
March 3, 2017

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Muck rake

Metropolitan College

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NEW YORK's "FAKE NEWS"/
CORRUPTION-ABETTING, ELECTION-RIGGING PRESS

  

 

 

 

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