Ethics Referendum Short on Signatures, Fulop Promises More

Downtown Councilman Steven Fulop's efforts to get an ethics referendum on the ballot fell short of the required signatures, but he intends to produce petitions with more signatures today, notes Hudson Now. The ethics reform package is similar to one Fulop introduced directly to the council. Other council members tabled the ordinance fearing the reform would cut of their source of campaign cash and patronage jobs.