When the Legislature returned to Albany last week for a new session, leaders in both houses declared that ethics reform was high on their agenda, and the governor has also made it a priority. In the wake of a numbing string of convictions by federal prosecutors against numerous legislators, it is no wonder.
There is no shortage of serious (and sometimes mutually exclusive) ethics proposals. They include: closing the so-called “LLC loophole” that allows corporations to spend exorbitant amounts on political causes; public financing of political campaigns; moving to a full-time Legislature with generous salaries, on the theory that inadequately-paid part-time legislators are more likely to trade on their elected office to gain outside income; keeping the Legislature part-time, allowing outside employment but expanding financial disclosure obligations; and creating new or strengthening existing ethics-enforcement entities.
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