New York Public Interest Research Group

Andrew Cuomo has just announced that he has hired longtime good government activist Blair Horner as a special advisor in the Policy and Public Integrity Unit.

Horner, a registered lobbyist with NYPIRG, will oversee "New York State's first-ever comprehensive Internet database tracking donors, lobbyists, special interests, state contracts, and elected officials, and the links between them."  read more »

Full statement after the jump.

-- Azi Paybarah

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