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2022 MENU -- LEGISLATIVE SESSION


FOIL

BUDGET DOCUMENTS & PROCEEDINGS



1.
CJA's request to testify & testimony
at Legislature's January 25, 2022 "Public Protection"
Budget Hearing


2.
CJA's March 25, 2022 e-mail to the 25 Legislators
present for CJA's January 25, 2022 testimony -- & 16 more
"NYS BUDGET: What findings of fact & conclusions of law did you make
regarding my testimony at the Jan 25, 2022 'public protection' budget hearing?"


3.
cc'ing more legislators for their findings of fact
& conclusions of law

cc: to Assemblywoman Walsh & Assemblyman McDonald
CJA's March 31, 2022 e-mail to Albany News Channel 13 --
"Follow-up to your today's reporting on the NYS BUDGET:
'live from the Capitol with coverage you can trust' --
by ANSWERS from Assembly Members Walsh & McDonald"

cc: to Assemblywoman Walker & Cruz
CJA's April 1, 2022 e-mail to Amsterdam News
"Follow-up to your yesterday's article
'Walker, legislators hold the line as state budget is finalized'
(3/31/22, Amsterdam News) -- by ANSWERS from Assemblywomen Walker & Cruz --
& NYS Working Families Party Director Nnaemeka"

cc: to Assemblyman Tague & Senator Mayer
CJA's April 6, 2022 e-mail to News 10-ABC --
"Follow-up to your just-posted article 'Still no finalized NYS budget' --
by ANSWERS from Assemblyman Tague and Senator Mayer"



4.
CJA's April 13, 2022 complaint to JCOPE
--
vs Governor Hochul, Temporary Senate President Stewart-Cousins, Assembly Speaker Heastie, the 211 other state legislators – and their culpable staff, including Division of the Budget Director Mujica – for their Public Officers Law §74 violations pertaining to the FY2022-23 state budget, and, in particular, pertaining to their repeal and elimination of JCOPE by Part UU of Education, Labor, Housing, and Family Assistance Budget Bill S.8006-C/A.9006-C and their larceny of taxpayer monies by Legislative/Judiciary Budget Bill S.8001-A/A.9001-A



5.
June 6, 2022 -- D-DAY plus 78 years
 CJA's Article 78 proceeding/
declaratory judgment action/citizen-taxpayer action

vs NYS' ethics entities -- JCOPE, LEC, & NYS-IG

& the statewide & state legislative electeds
they have "protected" --

HOCHUL, STEWART-COUSINS, SENATE,
HEASTIE, ASSEMBLY, JAMES, DiNAPOLI



Setting the Record Straight on the Demise of JCOPE
& the Enactment of CELG

A.
The Rigged 2021 Hearings
of "New York's System of Ethics Oversight & Enforcement"


B.
The Campaign of "Good Gov't Groups"



6.
End of the Year Pay Raises --
Their "Finest Hour" -- Posturing in Full Force 

S.9617/A.10730





THE LEGISLATURE's FISCAL COMMITTEES

Senate Finance Committee

Assembly Ways & Means Committee

Senate Committee on Budget & Revenue


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UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Ethics & the Budget

Judiciary

Legislature

State Operations Budget Bill

Aid to Localities Budget Bill



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S.4836 --
requiring monthly budget updates from DOB to Legislature




* * *
January 12, 2002
"How Does New York State Come Up With a Budget?
We asked the Experts
"
City Limits (March 15, 2022
"Lawmakers look to exert more sway
over Hochul's first budget
"
Jon Campbell (WNYC- Gothamist)
jcampbell@wnyc.org

March 23, 2022
"State budget process demands more transparency"
The Citizen (editorial)


March 23, 2022
"Max Politics Podcast: What to Know as State Budget Negotiations
Enter the Home Stretch"
Ben Max interview Susan Arbetter, Luis Ferre-Sadurni

March 30, 2022
"The state budget debate wraps up this week"
WAMC Public Radio (Blair Horner)

March 30, 2022
"Live blog: Sate budget updates from New York NOW"
NPR (Dan Clark)

January 5, 2022
"Governor Hochul Announces Plan to Replace JCOPE
with a New Independent Ethics Agency
"


 

 

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