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Cuomo’s Clean Elections Choice
The Nation 1/22/13 Katrina vanden Heuvel http://www.thenation.com/blog/172346/cuomos-clean-elections-choice# One of the last results from Election Day 2012 is also one of the sweetest. Running in a district gerrymandered by Republicans, grassroots candidate Cecilia Tkaczyk scored
Read More »Lawmakers scrambling to raise funds ahead of Cuomo’s promised campaign reform
New York Post 1/21/13 Carl Campanile http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/pols_mad_cash_dash_BJWfFmIE9vHnXeUndsyevM?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Local State lawmakers are scrambling to rake in as much cash as possible before Gov. Cuomo’s overhaul of campaign laws is enacted. Cuomo’s proposal would target Albany’s “pay-to-play”
Read More »A New York teaching moment
Times Union Editorial 1/20/13 http://blog.timesunion.com/opinion/a-new-york-teaching-moment/23782/ Our opinion: The 46th Senate District race showed how fragile voters’ hold is on democracy. The politicians who say they’re for campaign and election reform must get it done
Read More »Democrat Ekes Out Senate Win
New York Times 1/19/13 Thomas Kaplan http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/19/nyregion/cecilia-tkaczyk-democrat-ekes-out-win-in-republican-senate-district.html?ref=nyregion&_r=1& Hoping to pad their narrow majority in the State Senate, Republicans used the redistricting process last year to draw a new, Republican-friendly district in the Albany area.
Read More »Left Says Tkaczyk Win = ‘Clean Mandate’ For Publicly Financed Campaigns
Capital Tonight 1/18/13 Liz Benjamin http://capitaltonightny.ynn.com/2013/01/left-says-tkaczyk-win-clean-mandate-for-publicly-financed-campaigns/ In today’s Morning Memo, I wrote that a come-from-behind win by Democrat Cecilia Tkaczyk today would be a boon for campaign finance advocates, who turned her candidacy
Read More »Tkaczyk Senate win React-O-Mat™
Times Union’s Capitol Confidential 1/18/13 Casey Seiler http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/176337/tkaczyk-senate-win-react-o-mat%E2%84%A2/ With Cecilia Tkaczyk the winner over Assemblyman George Amedore in the 46th Senate District, the reactions are coming in. The newest will appear on top, after
Read More »Senator-elect Tkaczyk Discusses Her Victory
Capital Tonight 1/18/13 http://capitaltonightny.ynn.com/2013/01/senator-elect-tkaczyk-discusses-her-victory/ (CLICK LINK FOR VIDEO, TWC SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED) It took an extra two and a half months, but the race for the 46th Senate District appears to finally be over. Cecilia Tkaczyk
Read More »Tkaczyk wins after picking up 54 votes in Ulster Co.
Times Union’s Capitol Confidential 1/18/2013 Jimmy Vielkind http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/176331/tkaczyk-wins-after-picking-up-tk-votes-in-ulster-count/ Democrat Cecilia Tkaczyk will join the state Senate after election officials in Ulster County opened 90 ballots in her close race against George Amedore. Tkaczyk, a
Read More »Tkaczyk wins contested Senate seat over Amedore
The Daily Gazette 1/18/2013 David Lombardo http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2013/jan/18/tkaczyk-wins-contested-senate-seat-over-amedore/ Democrat Cecilia Tkaczyk has overtaken former Republican Assemblyman George Amedore in the race to represent the new 46th Senate District. The counting of contested votes was enough
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