Project Sunlight is Great as long as it doesn’t shine on us.
That is the take away message I get when I read Liz Benjamin’s piece about funding, Project Sunshine, Assemblyman Hevesi’s opposition, and ties with Bruno.
Here are the choice tidbits:
When talk turned to the $1 million for AG Andrew Cuomo’s Project Sunlight - the on-line clearing house of public information on all things state government, including lawmakers, lobbyists, campaign finance, member items and legislation - one member stood and vehemently opposed it:
Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi.
According to several of his Assembly colleagues, Hevesi argued that Cuomo will use Project Sunlight to “attack members” and demonstrate that he is living up to his pledge to be the Sheriff of State Street.
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But this isn’t the first time someone has opposed Project Sunlight. Last year, Bruno, who is under investigation by the FBI for his outside business interests, omitted $700,000 from the Senate majority’s budget for Cuomo’s pet project before it even got off the ground.
Bruno restored the money after having a tete-a-tete with Cuomo, saying: “We wanted to understand more clearly what that related to, how it would function and how it would work. And if it takes more funds, it ought to be requested.”
Oh, Assemblyman Hevesi? Son of Comptroller Hevesi, of driving Miss Hevesi fame,
Just let the sunshine in…
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Good catch. The only thing it’s missing is a reference to the place where the sun don’t shine.
Um. . . yeah. It’d be a shame if the Attorney General lived up to that. . .