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Former Mario Cuomo Counsel Evan Davis on "Broken" JCOPE


Former Mario Cuomo Counsel Evan Davis on Broken JCOPE
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Susan Arbetter
New York State
PUBLISHED 5:47 PM ET Mar. 09, 2021
PUBLISHED 5:47 PM EST Mar. 09, 2021
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In the annals of government fecklessness, there have been only a handful of moments when the right person at the right time has had the courage to hold up a Bose speaker to our collective lethargy and scream, Wake Up, People!
One of those times was during the McCarthy hearings in 1954. It happened in New York State in 2018 with the Sexual Harassment Working Group. And it’s happening again in Albany, with good government groups on the issue of JCOPE. ....

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Voting-Reform Group Exec calls Orthodox Jewish Community 'Extremist Bloc'


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By Reuvain Borchardt
Updated Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 12:19 pm
NEW YORK -
Updated Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 12:19 pm
Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein
An executive at a voter- and government-reform organization is coming under criticism for referring to the Orthodox Jewish community in New York City as “an extremist bloc.”
Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, made the comments to Gothamist for an article posted Friday about mayoral candidate Andrew Yang’s surge in support among the Orthodox Jewish community for his opposition to government interference in yeshiva education.
The Gothamist article noted that “the introduction of ranked-choice voting this year may play a complicating factor in the mechanics of the ultra-Orthodox bloc vote,” and paraphrased Lerner that ranked-choice voting “is likely to reward candidates who can build strong coalitions and may ultimately reduce the influence of th ....

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