NY governor seek term limits, ban on officials’ extra income
Associated PressNEW YORK — Gov. Kathy Hochul wants New York to impose term limits on her office and other statewide elected officials and ban them from earning an outside income, changes that implicitly rebuke her predecessor Andrew Cuomo. Hochul said she will propose a state constitutional amendment to impose a limit of two four-year terms on the governor’s office, as well as the other statewide elected offices: lieutenant governor, attorney general and comptroller. Hochul said she also plans to introduce legislation barring those statewide elected officials from earning money outside their government salaries unless it’s for an academic position that’s approved by a state ethics board. New York’s Joint Commission on Public Ethics is seeking to have Cuomo turn over to the state all money he was paid for “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Cuomo’s lawyer Jim McGuire has called the commission’s attempt to seize the book profits illegal.
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