The widow of former state Sen. Ron Stafford last month bought a home from the elder son of Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno at an apparent premium, at a time when she is seeking legislation that would benefit her company.
Kay Stafford bought 303 Bulson Road, Brunswick, for $475,000 from Joseph M. Bruno. Town records show the three-bedroom residence on 17 acres, which is next to the senator's, is assessed at $74,100, with a total market value of $304,938. The deed transfer was recorded May 13. Stafford did not return calls.
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Kay Stafford leads CMA Consulting in Latham, a company that state comptroller records show has received 199 state contracts since 1998 worth $94.6 million. Most of that work -- in computer programming services and technical database services -- came in recent years.
CMA would benefit from a law proposed by Assembly Transportation Committee Chairman David Gantt, D-Rochester, that would allow counties to install cameras at traffic lights. The bill would require technology offered by CMA Consulting.
Gantt has come under criticism for the measure because he long opposed traffic light cameras. He changed his position after CMA hired his friend and former staffer Robert Scott Gaddy as its lobbyist.
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John McArdle, the Senate communications director, said Kay Stafford had been a friend of the Bruno family for 25 years, and she saw the home in Brunswick as an opportunity to live closer to her grandchildren, who live in Williamstown, Mass. At about the same time he sold his home, Bruno's son quit his $104,000 post as director of job order contracting at the State University Construction Fund on May 15, state records show. His state career began in 1995, shortly after his father rose to lead the Senate's Republican majority and Gov. George Pataki took office.
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