ALBANY—Blair Horner, the longtime good-government advocate just stopped me in the halls to share this tidbit about the rules just enacted by the Republican “coalition” government.
“They require 48-hours notice on any resolution,” he said, smiling. “So their own coup wouldn’t be possible under the new rules.”
ALBANY—Blair Horner, the longtime good-government advocate just stopped me in the halls to share this tidbit about the rules just enacted by the Republican "coalition" government.
"They require 48-hours notice on any resolution," he said, smiling. "So their own coup wouldn't be possible under the new rules."
ALBANY—The Commission on Public Integrity released its 2008 Annual Report, which shows, unsurprisingly that the amount of money spent on lobbying–and the number of lobbyists–has gone up again.
“There’s no surprise here,” said Blair Horner, a longtime good-government advocate with NYPIRG. “The number of legislators stays the same but the number of lobbyists continues Read More
ALBANY—The Commission on Public Integrity released its 2008 Annual Report, which shows, unsurprisingly that the amount of money spent on lobbying–and the number of lobbyists–has gone up again.
"There's no surprise here," said Blair Horner, a longtime good-government advocate with NYPIRG. "The number of legislators stays the same but the number of lobbyists continues Read More
ALBANY—A longtime advocate for good government said there was "no excuse" for Senator-elect Pedro Espada Jr. not to have correctly filed campaign papers.
Espada was just awarded a new prominent title: senate majority leader.
"It's amazing, by all new standards, that someone pole-vaults over members with a lot of seniority to get toward Read More
Blair Horner of the good-government group NYPIRG was just on Fred Dicker’s Talk 1300 radio show, saying that Tom Golisano may "undermine his own efforts" if "he gets caught up in the courts."
Golisano, who pledged yesterday to put $5 million towards State Senate races, mainly in western New York, says he’s Read More
Blair Horner is leaving Andrew Cuomo’s staff and returning to his work with N.Y.P.I.R.G.
Here’s the statement:
*WELCOME BACK! BLAIR HORNER TO RETURN TO NYPIRG*The New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) is elated to announce that former longtime Legislative Director Blair Horner will return to work at the organization’s Read More
Andrew Cuomo will unveil his long-anticipated Project Sunlight tomorrow.
The Internet database will track New York State "donors, lobbyists, special interests, state contracts, and elected officials–and the links between them.”
Spearheading this project for Cuomo is N.Y.P.I.R.G.’s former Albany activist Blair Horner, who Cuomo hired shortly after taking office. Read More
Andrew Cuomo has just announced that he has hired longtime good government activist Blair Horner as a special advisor in the Policy and Public Integrity Unit.
Horner, a registered lobbyist with NYPIRG, will oversee “New York State’s first-ever comprehensive Internet database tracking donors, lobbyists, special interests, state contracts, and elected officials, and the links Read More
Immediately after climbing the 77 steps of the Albany Capitol for a photo op with his predecessor, a slightly winded Eliot Spitzer told departing Governor George Pataki that he felt like Sylvester Stallone in Rocky.
A few hours later, during his inauguration, Mr. Spitzer displayed his fighting spirit by declaring, in front of the state’s Read More
