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In response to news reports that Syracuse Mayor, Stephanie Miner, will no longer accept campaign contributions through the LLC loophole

Skelos and Silver convictions spur increased pressure to limit outside income

The good-government group Common Cause vehemently disagreed with Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s assertion on Monday in a radio interview that the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United case made it impossible for major campaign-finance law changes.

Government watchdogs renewed their calls for Governor Cuomo to act on limiting lawmakers' outside income, closing the "LLC loophole," beefing up state enforcement, and boosting transparency of discretionary budget items in the wake of the conviction today of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, following close on the heels of the conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver last week.

Common Cause New York Executive Director Susan Lerner issued the following statement regarding the Skelos guilty verdict:

Today's City Council vote in favor of selling a Brooklyn public library to a private developer to build a luxury condominium tower shows how New York City relies on privatization rather than innovation and so fails in preserving and enhancing our public infrastructure.