•Ethics Reform
“Which is more important: Restarting the state’s withered economy or infusing a sense of ethics into state government? Trick question. Albany can’t do the former unless it also does the latter.”

•Legislative Rules Reform
“For years, the majorities have used arcane rules to bully individual legislators, stifle debate, limit the public’s right to know and punish dissent. It’s awful. But when you run a legislature with gulag-style rules, you lose the creative power that dissenting opinion brings to a debate, and you end up with shallow, short-sighted decisions and ultimately, total dysfunction. That’s why we’re in the mess we’re in now.”

• Campaign Finance Reform
“Special interests own Albany. They funnel huge amounts of cash to politicians, who use it to stay in office and do their bidding. But they’re supposed to work for us, and do what’s right for the taxpayers. Until we clean up this corrupt system, we’ll never get the State Government we deserve. We need a soup-to-nuts overall of our campaign finance structure to bring some sanity back into the system.”

• Redistricting Reform
“New York has the worst redistricting in the nation. Redistricting rules written in 1894 were found unconstitutional in 1964, but we still haven’t fixed the problem. Our system takes power from the voters, gives it to lobbyists and special interests and has created a crisis in government. It’s absurd, and we’ve had enough. Unless we do something, after this election it’s a guarantee that the politicians are going to screw it up again.”