Zephyr Teachout was in western New York over the weekend and ripped the series of scandals in Albany, blaming the state Legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo for a lax campaign-finance system and poor ethics oversight, according to the Westchester Journal News.
Teachout, the Fordham Law School professor who lost in a Democratic primary against Cuomo last fall, said Cuomo should not exclude the executive branch from any reforms he’s proposing to the state’s ethics system, accusing him of trying to deflect from his own missteps.
Andrew Cuomo is trying to use this Sheldon Silver moment to point the finger at the Legislature and himself avoid blame. That’s what these new proposed rules suggest,” Teachout said on WBEN-AM (930) in Buffalo on Sunday.
“And I think we all know that in New York state, we have a rolling scandal in the executive branch, and any serious ethics reform and campaign-finance reform has to engage the executive branch as well. You can’t just say: Look at that dirty Legislature. Look at yourself, as well,” she said.
Read the entire article in the Westchester Journal News here.