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.

Common Cause/New York Executive Director, Susan Lerner, issues the following statement following the verdict finding Sheldon Silver guilty on all seven counts.

Education privatizer groups’ political spending eclipses education union spending for the first time in 2014, pays off in tax credit proposals.

Newly-minted Senate Leader Can Do “People’s Business” by Allowing Up or Down Vote on Bills with More than 32 Sponsors