Since the GOP Senate won’t even take up the measure, there’s a quicker and surer path to transparency, and to rooting out potential conflicts of interest that might now be hidden: pass legislation in Albany making public the last five years of New York income tax returns of all statewide elected officials. Namely, our governor, lieutenant governor, controller, attorney general and two U.S. senators, as well as President and vice president if they are New Yorkers.