2020-21 BUDGET

budget resource page --
constitutional, statutory, rule provisions & caselaw

OUTREACH TO LEGISLATORS

CJA's March 18, 2020 letter to Governor Cuomo

GOOD NEWS DURING THE CORONAVIRUS EMERGENCY...

 

1.
15 Stipend-Receiving Legislative Leaders

Temporary Senate President Andrea Stewart-Cousins                           $41,500
Senate Deputy Majority Leader Michael Gianaris, Esq.                          $34,000
Finance Committee Chair Liz Krueger                                                  $34,000

Senate Minority Leader John Flanagan, Esq.                                        $34,500
Senate Deputy Minority Leader Joseph Griffo                                        $20,500
Finance Committee Ranking Member James Seward                            $20,500

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie                                                            $41,500
Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes                                 $34,500
Assembly Speaker Pro Tempore Jeffrion Aubry                                     $25,000
Ways and Means Chair Helene Weinstein, Esq.                                      $34,000
Assembly Codes Committee Chair Joseph Lentol, Esq.                           $18,000

Assembly Minority Leader William Barclay, Esq.                                   $34,500
Assembly Minority Leader Pro Tempore Andy Goodell, Esq.                  $20,500
Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Edward Ra, Esq.            $20,500
Assembly Codes Committee Ranking Member Angelo Morinello, Esq.   $11,000

   CJA's March 18, 2020 e-mails -- "GOOD NEWS DURING CORONAVIRUS EMERGENCY"

CJA's March 20, 2020 emails  -- "MORE GOOD NEWS DURING CORONAVIRUS EMERGENCY"

 

2.
Assembly Ways & Means Ranking Member Edward Ra

cc: CJA's March 22, 2020 e-mail --

March 15, 2020
"New York weighs impact of virus outbreak on state budget"
AP  (Marina Villeneuve)

February 29, 2020
"Albany enters the last month of budget talks"
AP (Marina Villeneuve)

3.

Senate Committee on Budget & Revenues Ranking Member George Borrello
Assembly Minority Leader Pro Tempore Andrew Goodell, Esq.

 cc:  CJA's March 24, 2020 e-mail --

March 24, 2020 "Borrello Calls For Policy Removal"  Post Journal

March 23, 2020 Borrello press release
"Senator Borrello Calls on State Leaders
to Keep Budget Fiscally Focused"

CJA's 2019 correspondence with Senate Committee on Budget & Revenues

CJA's 2019 correspondence with Assembly Committee on Gov't Operations

CJA's 2019 correspondence with Assembly Judiciary Committee

Goodell's March 24, 2020 e-mail    enclosure

cc:  CJA's March 30, 2020 e-mail --

 

4.
Assembly Minority Leader William Barclay, Esq.

CJA's March 25, 2020 e-mail --
"Gov Cuomo's inclusion of policy in the budget is UNCONSTITUTIONAL --
'Will The New York State Budget Be Cuomo's Big Buzzkill?'
(Spectrum News/Susan Arbetter March 24, 2020)"

March 24, 2020  "Will the New York State Budget Be Cuomo's Big Buzzkill?"  Spectrum

5.
Senate Deputy Minority Leader Joseph Griffo

CJA's March 25, 2020 e-mail --
"Gov Cuomo's inclusion of policy in the budget is UNCONSTITUTIONAL --
"Griffo calls for 'bar-bones' NY budget' (Utica Observer Dispatch); "Griffo Urges Cuomo To Remove Controversial Items From The State Budget' (WKTV-News Channel2)"

"Griffo: 'Bare-bones' state budget must be done"

March 24, 2020  "Griffo calls for 'bare-bones' NY budget"  Utica Observer Dispatch

March 24, 2020  "Griffo Urges Cuomo To Remove Controversial Items From The State Budget"   News Channel 2

6.
Senator Betty Little, Assemblywoman Carrie Woerner, Assemblyman Dan Stec

CJA's March 25, 2020 e-mail --
"Your quoted comments -- "Legislators say state budget may still be on time,
but may be bare bones" (Post-Star, March 24, 2020, by Michael Goot)

March 24, 2020  "Legislators say state budget may still be on time, but may be bare bones"
Post Star (Michael Goot)

7.
Senator James Tedisco

CJA's March 30, 2020 e-mail --
"Elections 2020: Why does Senator Tedisco's March 28th public/press statement not identify the UNCONSTITUTIONALITY of Gov. Cuomo's policy-packed FY2020-21 state budget?"

March 30, 200  "Tedisco Calls For a Policy-Free Barebone State Budget"  (My Little Falls)

8.
Assemblyman Robert Carroll, Esq.

CJA's March 30, 2020 e-mail --
"Elections 2020: Your opinion piece in today's Gotham Gazette.  As you unaware that inclusion of non-fiscal policy legislation in the NYS budget is UNCONSTITUTIONAL?"

March 30, 2020
"State Budget Negotiations are Focused on the Wrong Priorities;
We Need an Emergency Coronavirus Package"
Gotham Gazette (Robert Carroll)

9.
Assemblyman Mark Walczyk
with cc's to the 15 Legislative Leaders who receive stipends for the "significantly more work" and "additional duties" they are expected to perform -- & all of the above other legislators

CJA's April 1, 2020 e-mail --
"FY2020-21 Budget -- Call for Leadership:
The Unconstitutionality of 6 of Gov. Cuomo's 7 'Article VII Bills"

 

10.
Assemblyman Charles Barron
with cc's to all the above legislators

CJA's April 1, 2020 e-mail --
"Bravo, Assemblyman Barron!  Would you be willing to expose the unconstitutionality, unlawfulness & fraud of Gov. Cuomo's executive budget, particularized by 3 letters to him, to which he has not responded"

11.
Assemblyman Michael LiPetri, Esq.
cc: Assemblyman Anthony Palumbo, Esq.
Senator Kenneth LaValle, Esq.

CJA's April 2, 2020 e-mail --
"Being a leader & 'first responder' in defense of the NYS Constitution,
being violated & subverted by your fellow public officers"

12.
Assemblywoman Yuh Line-Niou

CJA's April 2, 2020 e-mail --
"Thank you, Assemblywoman Niou, for your principled opposition, on the floor of the Assembly,
to the Gov's inclusion of policy in budget bills. 
Did your Assembly "Leaders" tell you such inclusion is UNCONSTITUTIONAL?"