Crain's New York Business, March 14th, 2005
In the early 1990s, Mario Cuomo campaigned across the state calling for to bypass the Legislature and the special interests to fix the mess in Albany. He was strongly supported by business groups and most of the media, and resolutely opposed by the Albany insiders-unions, trial lawyers, lobbyists, etc.-with the most to lose. Now, state Sen. Nicholas Spano and Assemblyman Richard Brodsky have revived Cuomo's idea with a bill to call such a convention. Groups like the Business Council are already lining up behind it. All business groups, and anyone else who wants to reform the ways of Albany, n...
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