Sewer finance chief pushes Cuomo's agenda

What does financing a sewer project have to do with gay marriage and ethics laws?

Ask Matthew Driscoll, head of the state Environmental Facilities Corp., one of many Cuomo agency chiefs dispatched around New York last week to promote the governor's three-pronged, end-of-session agenda: enacting a property-tax cap, tightening ethics laws and legalizing same-sex marriage.

Whereas it seems like a no-brainer to have economic development commissioner Kenneth Adams travel around to promote a property-tax cap, and Lt. Gov. Robert J. Duffy endorse ethics reform and same-sex marriage, the link to offices such as Driscoll's seemed more tenuous, because his agency helps localities finance sewer and water projects. But Driscoll played his role as good soldier, upstate in Baldwinsville and Norwich. -- Yancey Roy