Voters reject constitutional convention, approve proposal to seize pensions of corrupt politicians

[TexasTowelie]

ALBANY — Voters on Tuesday rejected the idea of holding a convention to overhaul New York's constitution but approved an amendment allowing corrupt politicians to be stripped of their pensions.

With opposition driven by some of the state's most powerful labor unions and interest groups, the proposal to hold a constitutional convention — known as Proposition One — was crushed by more than 50 percentage points, according to early returns.

“Voters ultimately agreed that the con con was just a con — a costly process full of risks and unknowns,” the group, New Yorkers Against Corruption, which opposed the convention, said in a statement.

Opponents of the convention spent more than $1 million on a campaign to defeat the convention proposal, arguing, among other things, that it would give business interests and other well-financed groups an avenue to weaken existing worker protections and other regulations.

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