Dick Dadey of the Citizens Union good-government group is concerned that the commission wasn't allowed to further investigate the role of Silver and his top aides in handling the Lopez case.
"The mud from ethically challenged staff can stain an elected official, and the comptroller needs to decide how to handle this, " said Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union of New York, a civics group.
One out of 11 state lawmakers who left office between 1999 and 2010 did so because of ethical misconduct or criminal charges, according to a survey of state legislators by Citizens Union, a government watchdog.
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"It's a black mark and a sad day and calls into question, if the comptroller can't police his own campaign operation, how effective is his oversight of taxpayer dollars, " said Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, a civic group.
"It's not typical of discretionary-funding projects to have a more advocacy angle....What's different is that this is for advocacy more than for direct services, " said Rachael Fauss of Citizens Union, a nonprofit group that closely observes city and state budgets.
"For 20 years we've had a fair campaign finance program that could be upended by these phantom entities weighing in on this race without New Yorkers knowing who they are, " said Dick Dadey, the executive director of the Citizens Union, which advocates for more transparency in politics.
Activists like the Osaka-based Citizens' Union have come up with lists of candidates they deem unfit for office, borrowing an idea that proved effective in South Korea's parliamentary polls last April.
It ceased to be a tax-free haven for citizens of European Union countries in July, when a withholding tax (imposed at source on interest) was levied on their money.
And they did not provide the mechanisms by which the citizens of the union could feel they were both in part to blame for the problem, as some are, and in a place to help find a solution.
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More broadly, citizens in the European Union know all about outrageous perks, because they all elect members of the European Parliament (MEPs).
Lino Oviedo was running for the National Union of Ethical Citizens party (Unace) in the presidential elections due on 21 April.
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The assets of citizens or groups inside the Union have not been immediately frozen because there is no EU-wide legislation yet for this.
EU, approved by the Swiss in a referendum in May, will at a later date allow the Union's citizens to circulate freely in and out of Switzerland without visas.
This whole exercise, it should be noted, was supposedly intended to bring the Union closer to its citizens.
Gov. Walker survived the recall with 54 percent of the vote, implying that Wisconsin citizens did not welcome the aggressive union stance.
Claiming that the EU is too often seen as an "abstract end in itself" and detached from economic reality, he outlined his vision for a more "outward looking", "flexible" and "diverse" union which puts advancing its citizens living standards above all else.
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First, Citizens United removed long-standing restrictions on union speech as well as on corporate speech.
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Even the European Commission's president, Jacques Santer, concedes that a dangerous gulf has opened up between the Union and the concerns of its citizens.
We persuaded our partners that the charter of fundamental rights should list the rights of Europe's citizens but not extend the powers of the Union.
Italy's Prime Minister Mario Monti expects UK citizens to vote to remain in the European Union (EU) if they are ever asked to decide in a referendum.
America, the European Union, China and India are advising citizens against all but essential travel to Mexico, where the virus seems to have originated.
It is wonderful to be back in Cooper Union, where generations of leaders and citizens have come to defend their ideas and contest their differences.
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Kosovo still does not have an international telephone dialling code - and, unlike other Balkan countries, its citizens cannot travel visa-free to the European Union.
The European Union's problem are not its citizens, but its leaders.
Bavaria's ruling party, the Christian Social Union, credits direct democracy with giving citizens a way to disagree with the government on single issues without voting for the opposition.
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The Czech Republic, as a member of the European Union, cannot unilaterally introduce visas for Canadian citizens as that would violate the EU's common visa policy.
Yet Germans are edgy about May 1st, when their labour market opens to citizens of eight east European countries that joined the European Union in 2004.
Sparsely peopled by bedraggled settlers in the mid-18th century, it is today the fourth most populous state in the union, with more than 19 million polyglot citizens and 29 electoral votes, more than 10% of those needed to elect a president, as Al Gore can never forget.
Our unity, our union, is the serious work of leaders and citizens in every generation.
We care about our American union and we care about equal rights for all citizens under the law.
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