Experts have mixed feelings on corruption report
By DAN O'REGAN
Last week, the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption released its much anticipated report leaving political experts divided on the value of the recommendations and which of those will actually become law.
Daniel Feldman, former New York state assemblyman and associate professor of public management at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said the Moreland Commission's report seems like the change New York needs.
"It seems to me to be a valuable report," Feldman said. "Given the revelations of the past few years with various indictments and so forth, it's not a total surprise … I don't know what else we need to learn before the public puts pressure on the Legislature to clean up its act."
Dr. Gerald Benjamin, director of the Center for Research, Regional Education and Outreach at SUNY New Paltz, and a distinguished professor in political science, said the most important recommendation is for New York to adopt a public matching funds system for statewide elections, but he predicts the measure may have some trouble.
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