Bill Mahoney reports for Politico that State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said Dec. 12 that the ban on outside income for legislators from a pay-raise committee, “may have put this entire pay raise … in jeopardy.” Heastie, a Democrat, echoed Republican criticisms of the other regulations tacked on to the pay raise for top state officials. “The legislative intent, which was agreed upon between myself, the governor and the majority leader, Sen. [John] Flanagan, was that they were only supposed to look at the salaries,” Heastie said. “It’s not even a debate on the issues. I get where people are on the concerns on outside income and things like that, but it was never the Legislature’s intention for them to do that. They pretty much decided among themselves to deal with the operations of the house.” Heastie wouldn't say whether legislators would change the decision before Dec. 31, or pass new legislation in the next session. Read the full story at Politico.