The amendment became one of Wilkinson's top priorities in the 1988 legislative session, and he threatened to work against legislators who opposed it.
"It was not an Albany scandal," he said of last week's cases against legislators, one of which involved an assemblyman accused of accepting money for a legislative proposal.
At the time, some Vermonters threatened to vote against legislators who backed the law.
The accounts called for violence against legislators, civic activists and journalists who spoke up against Duterte's tactics.
The head of the commission, Javed Leghari, said the next move was to bring the cases against legislators to the district courts.
When they go to the polls in November, all New Yorkers should make that clear: by voting against legislators who have not served the public's interest in many years.
The next month, Romney successfully fought back against legislators seeking to pass a retroactive capital-gains tax, by inviting about a dozen nonwealthy citizens to a news conference to describe how the new tax bill would upend their lives.
In June 2013, Boniface rallied Kenyans online – on Twitter, Facebook – to take to the streets in a protest against legislators who were determined to give themselves a hefty pay rise.
The governor repeatedly broke off negotiations to appear at rallies, where he derided lawmakers as children in need of a timeout and threatened to campaign against legislators who defied him on the budget.
That is the crux of a dispute swirling through Suffolk County government, pitting the county executive, Steve Levy, who is bent on controlling spending, against legislators bent on maintaining services and public-service unions bent on maintaining staffing levels.
The Times reported in 2009 and 2011 on complaints filed against legislators.
