Thread: Both the @NYTimesOpinion and now @NYDailyNews have now editorialized in favor of ending outside pay for #NYS legislators. At bottom, this is an #anticorruption tool.
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Several #NYS #corruption cases over the last few years have involved outside payments alleged to have been corrupt. E.g. Convicted former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. /2
If legislators are allowed NO outside pay, there there can be no ambiguity about payments that might or might not be corrupt. /3
Conflicts of interest would also be avoided, such as legislators working on matters that affect industries that pay them. E.g. Silver's blocking of reform that affected personal injury lawyers. /4 google.com/amp/s/www.nyda…
Re: outside income for #NYS Legislature, my colleague at @ExigerLLC, Mike Cherkasky, while chairing former Public Integrity Comm'n in 2010, made a strong case to eliminate it. /5 google.com/amp/s/www.nyda…
If they become full-time, though, current proposal of $122,100 is a bit too low. They should be paid similarly to a senior public servant, like a Supreme Court justice or a senior executive staff agency official. /6
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