Common Cause/NY + Constituents Pressure Flanagan to Commit to Ethics Reform

2,000 New Yorkers email Majority Leader to sign the Clean Conscience Pledge

NEW YORK, NY (04/20/2016)(readMedia)-- Four days before former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos receives his sentence for public corruption, Common Cause/NY Executive Director, Susan Lerner will join with constituents of Senate District 2 to urge his replacement, Senator John Flanagan, to commit to ethics reform.

In February, Common Cause/NY asked New Yorkers to contact Flanagan and call on him to sign the Clean Conscience Pledge. Over 2,000 people have written to him yet he has rejected the three-point pledge, which includes:

1. Closing the LLC loophole

2. Restricting outside income for lawmakers

3. Greater transparency in the budget process

Lerner will offer Senator Flanagan an opportunity to sign the pledge at his district office, providing media with a selection of some of the emails he has ignored.

WHO:

Common Cause of New York and constituents of SD 2

WHAT:

Common Cause/NY presents Flanagan w/Clean Conscience Pledge and selection of emails calling on him to sign it.

WHEN: Thursday April 21, 2016 at 11:30AM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
WHERE: 260 E Main St #203
Smithtown, New York 11787
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