{"id":89785,"date":"2018-04-07T05:25:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T09:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=89785"},"modified":"2018-04-06T12:08:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T16:08:51","slug":"statement-from-a-g-schneiderman-on-efforts-to-weaken-state-board-of-elections-independent-enforcement-counsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=89785","title":{"rendered":"Statement from A.G. Schneiderman on efforts to\u00a0weaken\u00a0state Board of Elections Independent Enforcement Counsel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-70131 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Attorny_General_Eric_T_Schneiderman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Attorny_General_Eric_T_Schneiderman.jpg 260w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Attorny_General_Eric_T_Schneiderman-150x128.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>Attorney General Eric Schneiderman issues\u00a0 statement on efforts to\u00a0weaken\u00a0state Board of Elections Independent Enforcement Counsel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cRisa Sugarman has been a critical partner in my office\u2019s fight to root out fraud and abuse in our state\u2019s campaign finance system. By working with a strong, independent Enforcement Counsel at the Board of Elections, we\u2019ve held public officials accountable time and again for breaking the law and cheating New Yorkers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt is deeply disturbing that the Board of Elections would consider gutting one of the few tools that exist to root out public corruption in New York\u2014or sideline a dedicated professional like Risa Sugarman, who is committed to upholding the rule of law.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAny weakening of the Enforcement Counsel\u2019s authority or independence would only encourage more corruption across New York state.\u00a0The Board of Elections should reject any proposal that does so, without delay.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Eric Schneiderman issues\u00a0 statement on efforts to\u00a0weaken\u00a0state Board of Elections Independent Enforcement Counsel \u201cRisa Sugarman has been a critical partner in my office\u2019s fight to root out fraud and abuse in our state\u2019s campaign finance system. By working with a strong, independent Enforcement Counsel at the Board of Elections, we\u2019ve held public officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23810,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellbeing","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}