Given that his public corruption unit prosecuted many of the cases involving state lawmakers, which prompted Cuomo to set it up, this is hardly surprising.
The proposal needed the support of at least two-thirds of state lawmakers, which would allow the new university to access the Permanent University Fund, a major source of revenue that only certain institutions can tap.
By the day's end, Mr. Karzai had backed down, agreeing to inaugurate the newly elected lawmakers, which finally took place Wednesday after months of heated wrangling over the fairness of last fall's elections.
He pointed to the rapid growth of the state's caucus of minority lawmakers, which was founded in the 1960s and now has more than 40 members, two-thirds of them black.
Given the deepening fiscal problems, luxury items like a pay raise for lawmakers, which seemed possible a couple months ago, have become unlikely, people involved in the negotiations said.
"There is a very serious problem," said Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee, which represents Conservative lawmakers, "which is that the British electorate are almost entirely disenchanted with our main political parties and also with our democratic institutions and increasingly don't vote at all".
The lawmakers, which were part of the British parliamentary commission on banking standards created last year in response to a series of scandals, outlined plans for greater responsibility over how British banks were managed in a report published on Wednesday in London.
In 2015, attackers stole gigabytes of data on lawmakers, which Germany's domestic spy agency later accused Russia of being behind the breach.
That decision is yet another that seems likely to be an expensive one for Uber — both financially and, perhaps more importantly, in the eyes of the regulators and lawmakers which it increasingly needs to have on side.
