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A new ethical firestorm is engulfing Mayor de Blasio as questions are being raised about where he’s getting all the money to fund his cross-country presidential campaign trips. It’s deja vu all over again for “On The Road Bill,” the mail-it-in mayor of New York City who has been galloping all over the country to test the presidential waters with a suspicious campaign cash box that’s raising lots of eyebrows. “To me, that’s a real no-no,” Betsy Gotbaum of the Citizens Union said. Gotbaum is questioning how de Blasio is raising money for his “Fairness PAC” – the political action...

ALBANY, Sept. 27 - One group is making the radical proposal - for Albany - that lawmakers should not be allowed to vote on bills when they are not here. Another group wants to do away with the partisan way legislative districts are drawn, a process that helps more than 98 percent of incumbents win re-election. Still another would rewrite the State Constitution to overhaul the budget process and eliminate one house of the Legislature. These are not proposals of starry-eyed civic groups or woolly-headed academics, but calls from Democratic lawmakers, who this year are calling with uncommon candor for...