The Committee urges voters to favor these candidates who have demonstrated their commitment to real ethics and campaign finance reform by agreeing to co-sponsor the Anti-Corruption Amendment to the State Constitution and to oppose those who will not commit.
STATEWIDE SCORECARD FOR THE ANTI-CORRUPTION AMENDMENT A1282A, S594A
LONG ISLAND
SENATE
District 1
Laura Ahearn – Will co-sponsor – SUPPORT
Anthony Palumbo -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 2
Michael Siderakis -- Will co-sponsor - SUPPORT
Mario Mattera -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 3
Monica Martinez – Current co-sponsor – SUPPORT
Alexis Weik – Will co-sponsor – SUPPORT
District 4
Christine Pellegrino -- -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
Philip Boyle -- Current co-sponsor – SUPPORT
District 5
James Gaughran – Current co-sponsor – SUPPORT
Edmund Smyth -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 6
Kevin Thomas – Current co-sponsor – SUPPORT
Dennis Dunne (unable to contact)
District 7
Anna Kaplan – Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
David Franklin (unable to contact)
District 8
John Brooks (uncontested ) -– Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 9
Todd Kaminsky – Current co-sponsor – SUPPORT
Victoria Johnson -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
ASSEMBLY
District 1
Fred Thiele -- Current co-sponsor – SUPPORT
Heather Collins (unable to contact)
District 2
Laura Jens-Smith – Will co-sponsor – SUPPORT
Jodi Giglio -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 3
Steven Polgar -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Joseph DeStefano -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 4
Steven Englebright
Michael Ross
District 5
Doug Smith (uncontested)
District 6
Philip Ramos
Ryan Skelly
District 7
Francis T. Genco
Jarett Gandolfo
District 8
Dylan Rice -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Michael Fitzpatrick -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 9
Ann Brancato -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Michael Durso -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 10
Steve Stern -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Jamie Silvestri -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 11
Kimberly Jean-Pierre -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Eugene Murray -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
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Michael Marcantonio -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Keith Brown -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 13
Charles Lavine
Andrew Monteleone
District 14
Kevin Gorman
David McDonough
District 15
Joseph Sackman III -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Michael Montesano -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 16
Gina Sillitti -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Ragini Srivastava -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE(**EDD DELETED)
District 17
Mark Engelman
John Mikulin
District 18
Taylor Darling
Cherice Vanderhall
District 19
Gary Port -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Edward Ra -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 20
Gregory Marks
Melissa L. Miller
District 21
Judy Griffin -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 22
Michaelle Solages -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
Nicholas Zacchea -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
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BROOKLYN
SENATE
District 17
Simcha Felder (uncontested)
District 18
Julia Salazar (uncontested) -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 19
Roxanne Persaud (uncontested)
District 20
Zellnor Myrie (uncontested) -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 21
Kevin Parker (uncontested) -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 22
Andrew Gounardes -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Vito Bruno -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 23
Diane Savino (uncontested) -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 25
Jabari Brisport (uncontested) -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 26
Brian Kavanagh -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Lester Chang (unable to contact)
ASSEMBLY
District 41
Helene Weinstein
Ramona Johnson (unable to contact)
District 42
Rodneyse Bichotte (uncontested)
District 43
Diana Richardson -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Menachem Raitport (unable to contact
District 44
Robert Carroll -- Prime sponsor -- SUPPORT
Salvatore Barrera (unable to contact)
District 45
Steven Cymbrowitz (uncontested)
District 46
Mathylde Frontus -- Current co-sponsor – SUPPORT
Mark Szuszkiewicz -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 47
William Colton
Barbara Marino (unable to contact)
District 48
Simcha Eichenstein (uncontested)
District 49
Peter Abbate Jr. (uncontested)
District 50
Emily Gallagher (uncontested) -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 51
Marcela Mitaynes (uncontested)
District 52
Jo Anne Simon (uncontested)
District 53
Maritza Davila (uncontested)
District 54
Erik Dilan
Khorshed Chowdhury (unable to contact)
District 55
Latrice Walker
Berneda Jackson (unable to contact)
District 56
Stefani Zinerman (uncontested)
District 57
Phara Souffrant Forrest (uncontested by a major party candidate)
District 58
- Nick Perry (uncontested)
District 59
Jaime Williams (uncontested)
District 60
Charles Barron (uncontested) -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
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QUEENS
SENATE
District 10
James Sanders, Jr. (uncontested
District 11
John Liu -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Elisa Nahoum -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 12
Michael Gianaris (uncontested)
District 13
Jessica Ramos -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Jesus Gonzalez -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 14
Leroy Comrie (uncontested)
District 15
Joseph Addabbo -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Thomas Sullivan -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 16
Toby Ann Stavisky (uncontested -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
ASSEMBLY
District 23
Stacey G. Pheffer Amato -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Peter Hatzipetros -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 24
David Weprin (uncontested)
District 25
Nilly Rosic (uncontested)
District 26
Edward Braunstein
John-Alexander Sakelos
District 37
Daniel Rosenthal (uncontested)
District 28
Andrew Hevesi (uncontested)
District 29
Alicia Hyndman (uncontested)
District 30
Bryan T. Barnwell (uncontested)
District 31
Khaleel Anderson -- Will Co-Sponser -- SUPPORT
Joseph Cullina (unable to contact)
District 32
Vivian Cook (uncontested) -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 33
Clyde Varnel (uncontested)
District 34
Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
William Marquez (unable to contact)
District 35
Jeffrion Aubry
Han Khon To (unable to contact)
District 36
Zohran Kwame Mamdani (uncontested)
District 37
Catherine Nolan (uncontested) -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 38
Jenifer Rajkumar
Giovanni Perna
District 39
Catalina Cruz (uncontested) -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 40
Ron Kim (uncontested)
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STATEN ISLAND
SENATE
District 23
Diane Savino (uncontested) -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 24
Andrew Lanza (uncontested)
ASSEMBLY
District 61
District 62
Michael Reilly (uncontested)
District 63
Michael Cusick -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Anthony DeGuerre -- Will not commit -- OPPPOSE
District 64
Brandon Patterson -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Michael Tannousis -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
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MANHATTAN
SENATE
District 26
Brian Kavanagh -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Lester Chang (unable to contact)
District 27
Brad Hoylman (uncontested) --- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 28
Liz Krueger -- Prime sponsor -- SUPPORT
Mike Zumbluskas -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 29
Jose M. Serrano -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Jose A. Colon -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 30
Brian Benjamin -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Oz Sultan -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 31
Robert Jackson -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Melinda Crump -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
ASSEMBLY
District 65
Yuh-Line Niou (uncontested) -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 66
Deborah Glick
Tamara Lashchyk
District 67
Linda Rosenthal (uncontested) -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 68
Robert Rodriguez
Daby Carreras
District 69
Daniel O'Donnell (uncontested)
District 70
Inez Dickens (uncontested by major party candidate)
District 71
Alfred Taylor (uncontested)
District 72
Carmen N. De La Rosa (uncontested)
District 73
Dan Quart -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Judith Graham -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 74
Harvey Epstein (uncontested) -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 75
Richard Gottfried (uncontested)
District 76
Louis Puliafito Will not commit -- OPPOSE
Rebecca Seawright -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Patrick Bobilin -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
THE BRONX
SENATE
District 32
Louis Sepulveda (uncontested by major party candidate)
District 33
Gustavo Rivera -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Dustin Martinez(unable to contact)
District 34
Alessandra Biaggi -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
James Gisondi (unable to contact)
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THE HUDSON VALLEY
SENATE
District 35
Andrea Stewart-Cousins (uncontested)
District 36
Jamaal Bailey (uncontested) – Current co-sponsor – SUPPORT
District 37
Shelley Mayer --- Current co-sponsor – SUPPORT
Liviu Saimovici (unable to contact)
District 38
Elijah Reichlin-Melnick -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
William Weber, Jr. -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 39
James Skoufis -- Current co-sponsor – SUPPORT
Steve Brescia -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 40
Peter Harckham – Committed to co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Rob Astorino -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 41
Karen Smythe – Committed to co-sponsor - SUPPORT
Susan Serino -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 42
Jen Metzger – Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Mike Martucci -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 43
Patrick Nelson -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Daphne Jordan – Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 46
Michelle Hinchey
Richard Amedure
ASSEMBLY
District 88
Amy Paulin (uncontested)– Current co-sponsor --SUPPORT
District 89
- Gary Pretlow (uncontested)
District 90
Nader Sayegh (uncontested)
District 91
Steven Otis (uncontested) -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 92
Thomas Abinanti (uncontested)
District 93
Chris Burdick -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
John Nuculovic (unable to reach)
District 94
Stephanie Keegan -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Kevin M. Byrne -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 95
Sandra Galef -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Lawrence Chiulli (unable to reach)
District 96
Kenneth Zebrowski (uncontested)
District 97
Ellen Jaffee – Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Michael Lawler -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 98
Karl Brabenec (uncontested) -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 99
Sarita Bhandarkar -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Colin Schmitt -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 101
Chad McEvoy
Brian Miller
District 102
Mary Kraat -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Christopher Tague -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 103
Kevin Cahill
Rex Bridges
District 104
Jonathan Jacobson -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Andrew Gauzza -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 105
Laurette Giardino -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Kieran Michael Lalor -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 106
Didi Barrett -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Dean Michael -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 107
Brittany Vogel -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Jacob Ashby -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 108
John McDonald III -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Petros Papanicolaou -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 109
Patricia Fahy -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Robert Porter -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
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SYRACUSE
SENATE
District 50
John Mannion -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Angi Renna -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 53
Rachel May -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Sam Rodgers -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
ASSEMBLY
District 120
Gail Tosh -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
William Barclay -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 126
Dia Carabajal -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
John Lemondes Jr. -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 127
Al Stirpe -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Mark Venesky -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 128
Pamela Hunter -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Stephanie Jackson -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 129
William Magnarelli -- Will not co-sponsor -- OPPOSE
Edward Weber -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
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ROCHESTER
SENATE
District 5
Samra Brouk -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Christopher Missick -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 56
Jeremy Cooney -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Michael Barry Jr. -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 61
Jacqualine Berger -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Edward Rath III -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
ASSEMBLY
District 133
ChaRon Sattler-Leblancb -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Marjorie Byrnes -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 134
District 135
Jennifer Lunsford -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Mark Johns -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 136
Sarah Clark (uncontested) -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 137
Demond Meeks (uncontested)
District 138
Harry Bronson -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Peter Vazquez -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
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BUFFALO
SENATE
District 60
Sean Ryan
Joshua Mertzlufft
District 63
Timothy M. Kennedy (uncontested) – Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
ASSEMBLY
District 140
William Conrad
Robert Pecoraro
District 141
Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Sean Miles
District 142
Patrick Burke
Matthew Szalkowski
District 143
Monica P. Wallace -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Frank Smierciak -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 146
Karen McMahon – Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Robin Wolfgang -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPOR
District 149
Jonathan Rivera
Joseph Totaro
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SOUTHERN TIER
SENATE
District 52
Fred Akshar (uncontested) -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 54
Shauna O'Toole
District 57
Frank Puglisi (unable to contact)
George Borrello
District 58
Leslie Danks Burke -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Thomas O'Mara -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
ASSEMBLY
District 122
Richard Shaw -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Joe Angelino -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 123
Donna Lupardo (uncontested) -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 124
Randy Reid (unable to contact)
Christopher Friend -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 125
Anna Kelles -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Matthew McIntyre -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 132
Philip Palmesano (uncontested) -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 148
- Ross Scot (unable to contact)
Joseph Giglio -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 150
Christina Cardinale -- Will co-sponsorggggggg -- SUPPORT
Andrew Goodell -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
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RURAL AND SMALL CITY
SENATE
District 45
Kimberly Davis -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
Dan Stec -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 47
Joseph Griffo (uncontested)
District 48
Patricia Ritchie (uncontested)
District 49
District 51
Peter Oberacker
District 59
Jason Klimek
Patrick Gallivan
District 62
Robert Ortt (uncontested)
ASSEMBLY
District 100
Aileen Gunther (uncontested)
District 111
Angelo Santabarbara -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Paul DeLorenzo -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District `114
Claudia Braymer -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Matthew Simpson -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 115
- Billy Jones (uncontested)
District 116
Mark Walczyk
Alex Hammond
District 117
Kenneth Blankenbush (uncontested)
District 118
Robert Smullen (uncontested)
District 119
Marianne Buttenschon -- Current co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
John Zielinski -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 121
Dan Buttermann -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
John Salka -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
District 130
Scott Comegys -- Will co-sponsor -- SUPPORT
Brian Manktelow -- Will not commit -- OPPOSE
District 131
District 139
Stephen Hawley (uncontested)
District 144
Michael J. Norris (uncontested)
District 147b
David DiPietro (uncontested)
BACKGROUND ON THE ANTI-CORRUPTION AMENDMENT
The Anti-Corruption Amendment would create the State Government Integrity Commission, modeled on the Commission on Judicial already provided for in the State Constitution, which has worked well. The Commission would be independent of the Executive and Legislative Branches with a majority of its members appointed by the Judiciary. It would replace both the Joint Commission on Public Ethics ("JCOPE") and the Legislative Ethics Commission ("LEC"). It would transfer campaign finance jurisdiction for the New York State Board of Elections to the new Integrity Commission.
New York is currently the only state where the ethics commission does not operate by majority vote. Incredibly, two (2) of the Governor’s appointees to the 14-member ethics commission, JCOPE, can veto an investigation or a finding of violation, as can three (3) of the appointees of the legislative leaders. The Integrity Commission created by the Anti-Corruption Amendment would operate by majority vote.
New York is also marked by its division of ethics enforcement responsibility. JCOPE can find a violation by executive branch officials or employees and impose a fine but only the LEC can find a violation by or fine a legislative branch official or employee. The LEC may reject JCOPE’s interpretation of the law. In all cases, discipline (admonishment, censure, demotion, suspension or removal) is left to the discretion of entity in which the official or employee works. The Integrity Commission would have full discipline authority over both branches except that the Legislature could overrule censure or removal of an elected official. A constitutional amendment is needed to create a single enforcement body with full sanctioning power.
Nearly half the states give the responsibility for enforcing the campaign finance laws to their ethics commission. New York needs to do the same because the State Board of Elections is controlled by the political parties and therefore is not sufficiently independent to enforce campaign finance laws designed to limit the pay-to-play culture.
Ethics and other rules barring official misconduct are only as good as the mechanism available to enforce them. Without an adequate enforcement mechanism these rules exist only on paper without real world force or effect. “Paper” rules do nothing to combat what far too many see as a culture of corruption and pay-to-play in Albany.
Other key features of the Anti-Corruption Amendment include the following:
- A majority of the members of the Commission would be appointed by a branch of government not regulated by the Commission.
- Unlike JCOPE, where the person appointing a member can remove that member for what the appointing authority deems to be substantial neglect of duty, members of the Commission could be removed for cause only through a process by which a majority of the Commission votes to make an application for removal to the Court of Appeals.
- Ex parte communications between Commission members and their appointing authorities and related staff would be barred, and no member could have held office, employment in state government or any political party or been engaged as a lobbyist in the three years prior to his or her appointment or during his or her term.
- Transparency laws would apply equally to the executive and legislative branches.
- All state officers and employees would have an ethical duty to report known misconduct to the Commission and would be protected against retaliation.
- Sexual harassment would be barred as ethical misconduct.
- The Integrity Commission would have full authority to sanction officers or employee of public authorities.
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