Problem: Albany Corruption and the Corruption Tax forced on you.

Solution: Make elections more competitive with term Limits, independent redistricting, and full disclosure of ALL income of ALL elected to NYS and NYC government. NO EXCEPTIONS.

Albany out does itself with corruption each and every year as witnessed with the 2009 summer games while the rest of us watched our jobs dwindle and our debt grow. Now the State Assembly refuses to agree on a budget so they can politically protect their seats, fiscal responsibility be damned.  This corruption and self-interest in Albany robs our households and our neighborhoods of education, health care, transit to jobs with no tax relief on the horizon. It kills when they let a hospital or senior center close.  The brazen cast of characters in Albany have proven that they cannot be trusted with $134 billion dollar budgets and do not deserve to be re-elected. Yet, the one thing they do best is to shield the corrupt system that ensures they get re-elected for life.

Doug will stand up and actively fight for our neighborhoods by introducing real ethics reform legislation to create more competitive elections and by exposing obstacles in the way. Governor Paterson was right to veto the last ethics reform bill because it had more loopholes than a block of Swiss. First, it never addressed term limits, the most critical component. Second, there was an income disclosure exemption for legislators who were lawyers.  With many law makers being lawyers, including sitting leadership, it blatantly demonstrates how they have conflicts of public interest to hide. Third, there was nothing about redistricting.  We need to create an independent redistricting commission so that the incumbent legislators cannot continue to redistrict-out reform minded competition.

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