Hello, Everyone.<\/p>\n
The overwhelming victories of Democrats running for Governor, U. S. Senator, Attorney General and State Comptroller, coupled with the turnover of State Senate control to a Democratic majority, strongly suggests that Democrats would have won a constitutional convention at-large slate and a majority of senatorial district delegates had they been on the ballot.\u00a0 A Democratic majority in the convention would not automatically have guaranteed a reform agenda, but it would have been a good start.<\/p>\n
Now we have to see if Democratic majorities in both the Assembly and Senate can do the job: prohibiting all forms of gerrymandering; adopting Bill of Rights protections for all<\/u> New Yorkers; modernizing our commitment to environmental protection; reforming campaign finance rules; creating a strong public ethics commission; restructuring the archaic judicial system; and many more.<\/p>\n
Please keep these and other constitutional issues in mind as you interact with our newly elected state officials.\u00a0 It\u2019s only eighteen years until the next mandatory referendum.<\/p>\n
All best,<\/p>\n
Hank Dullea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hello, Everyone. The overwhelming victories of Democrats running for Governor, U. S. Senator, Attorney General and State Comptroller, coupled with the turnover of State Senate control to a Democratic majority, strongly suggests that Democrats would have won a constitutional convention at-large slate and a majority of senatorial district delegates had they been on the ballot.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-22"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newyork.concon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newyork.concon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newyork.concon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newyork.concon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newyork.concon.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newyork.concon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3397,"href":"http:\/\/newyork.concon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions\/3397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newyork.concon.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newyork.concon.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newyork.concon.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}