From: " FireAgata,Seth (JCOPE)"
Subject: Lobby regulations and your resume
Date: November 17, 2016 7:59 AM
MartinI'd like to schedule a meeting with you and your top staff to help me understand the way you are enforcing the Lobby Act. I've heard from my friends on the 2nd floor that we might have overstepped on those draft regulations and they have additional concerns (I'm sure raised by that fat bastard Grandeau) that we are making up requirements for lobby filings that do not exist in the law. They specifically mentioned 3rd party beneficiaries, I guess they are worried that the big guy should have been listed as a 3rd party beneficiary on anyone who was lobbying for the raise in minimum wage. And they want to know why certain registrations haven't been processed and made available online. Something about that whoa Cuomo campaign at the track.
Also I have your resume and I know you want to leave but get in line. And it's not like you know anybody in this town. I'll be sure to put a good word in for you after I get out of here myself.
Seth
From: "MartinLevine(JJOKE)
To: FireAgata,Seth (JCOPE)"
Subject: Lobby regulations and your resume
Date: November 17, 2016 7:59 AM
Seth
Don't worry about that 3rd party stuff we don't have the authority in statute to require the listing of 3rd parties so no one can make us apply it to the governor's friends who lobby to benefit the governors political positions. As to the whoa Cuomo folks they registered and included a start date in their registration but they didn't put a start date in their authorization so my people following my orders to a tee will not process it until they do as we want and add a start date in the authorization letter. If you guys won't help me find another job I'm just going to make everyone who works for me miserable until I quit and take a job in the mall as Santa's elf.
Martin
From: " FireAgata,Seth (JCOPE)"
Martin
Subject: Lobby regulations and your resume
Date: November 17, 2016 7:59 AM
Of course I know you won't go after the governors friends on 3rd parties but if we don't have the legal authority to require it we might look bad when the media writes about it. I read the statute for the first time today and I don't see anything at all about listing 3rd party beneficiaries nor even a requirement to include start dates in the registrations themselves. I know you think we are JJOKE we can do whatever we want but when you combine how mad the regulated community is getting about our piccyune approach to dotting i's and crossing t's with the fact we don't have the authority in statute to require this stuff, you are creating a pr nightmare for Walt McClueless. I also noticed that our enabling legislation does not give us the power to issue regulations on the Lobby Act. We have to use opinions, you said so yourself in Opinion 16-1. If that's the case you miserable smurf we are exposed to an Article 78 writ of prohibition if we ever try to go thru the SAPA process on your lobby regulations. You are killing me Martin smarten up.
Seth
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