Albany - Tuesday 12/3 -- >At noon, the Assembly’s Standing Committee on Racing and Wagering will hold a hearing in Albany on the “impact of the equine industry on the economy of New York.” >A shade after 6 p.m. Monday, Gov. Cuomo’s anti-corruption Moreland Commission released its much-anticipated interim report, in which it blasts Albany’s culture of misconduct and general shadiness and calls for a matching public campaign finance system. (TU) The panel said the state’s current campaign finance laws are so lax they amount to “legalized bribery.” (NYT) Seven members dissented on the public financing recommendation. (GNS) Surprise! Many of the ethics forms suggested in the report mirror those that Cuomo has tried, without success, to get passed before. (NYSPR) One anonymous legislative source dismissed the recommendations as “nothing new.” (DN) Meanwhile, lawyers for legislative leaders are seeking to join the legal fight against Moreland Commission subpoenas issued to lawmakers’ private employers. (CapNY) >The Metro-North train that jumped the track as it passed between the Bronx and the Hudson on Sunday morning was traveling at 82 mph as it hit a curve with a 30 mph speed limit. (AP) Cuomo was all over the place on television yesterday in the aftermath of the deadly wreck. (NY1) Which leads us to…Was it inappropriate for CNN’s Chris Cuomo to interview his brother in one of the governor’s many TV appearances Monday morning? Yes! No! And does A. Cuomo’s face really look like “a topographical map of the Adirondacks”? (HuffPo, Fox News, Daily Beast) >NYRA says its profits will rise in 2014 — but it will be thanks to raising the cost of admission, box seats and parking. (TU) >The U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal by online sellers looking to dodge New York state sales tax, meaning you may have to pay sales tax on your drone-delivered iPhone 8s from Amazon five years from now. (AP) >So you wanna spend $3.8 million to advocate for an expansion of casino gaming? Here’s how you do it. (TU) Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s law firm made a big donation to the advocacy group formed to raise the retirement age for the state’s top judges — a favored cause of Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, a longtime friend of the Speaker. (CapNY) >An energy company that went belly up waiting for New York to lift its moratorium on hydrofracking says it will sue if Cuomo doesn’t make up his mind soon. (NYP) >The Assembly will hold a hearing on legalizing medical marijuana in Buffalo Thursday. (BN) >Donald Trump is expected to file an ethics complaint today alleging that Attorney General Eric Schneiderman solicited campaign donations from the Trump family at the same time he was investigating Trump University. (DN) >Last week saw another 20 percent jump in people who have enrolled for health insurance through the state’s new Affordable Care Act exchange. (TU) >New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Monday that Westchester County Exec Rob Astorino never even asked him for support in a possible gubernatorial run against Cuomo during their much-discussed confab in Arizona last month. (ABC) >There’s been no announcement of a special election, but two Republicans are vying for support to replace outgoing Washington County Assemblyman Tony Jordan, who was elected DA last month. (PS) >Bill Hammond: Since the (Moreland) report offers little in the way of explosive new revelations, it’s hard to see how or why it will change minds in the public — or in the Assembly and Senate. Cuomo’s cart-before-the-horse schedule is one of many head-scratching decisions that have compromised the commission’s credibility and effectiveness. The first was how it was born — in a fit of political pique. In national news… Bob Dylan has been charged with “incitement to hatred” in France for a year-old interview he gave Rolling Stone. (USAT) >Some 1.3 million Americans will lose emergency unemployment benefits after Christmas if Congress doesn’t act soon. (LAT) >Today’s overwrought Twitter faux pas: According to the GOP, racism is over. Hooray! (CNN) ***
Posted on: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 15:02:20 +0000
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