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Victims of the "Golisano Majority"
Vacancy decontrol needs to be repealed. New York City's affordable housing is vanishing every minute, and tenants are facing harassment and intimidation to leave their rent controlled apartments
Read More »Assembly Passes Real Reform for New York
At about 5 pm on Tuesday, June 16th, the New York State Assembly passed A8902, a bill to enact public financing of elections
Read More »Amid the Chaos, Assembly Introduces Public Financing Bill
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has just introduced A8902, a bill that would create a voluntary system of public financing in New York
Read More »Sen. Monserrate Says He's "Coming Home"
On Sunday, Democratic Senator Hiram Monserrate, who has been at the center of the controversy in the State Senate for the past week, told the Daily News that he's "Coming Home."
Read More »In the News: State Senate Billionaire Coup
Last Monday, billionaire Tom Golisano tried to buy the State Senate. Citizen Action's grassroots leaders from around New York have stood up to take democracy back. Click "Read More" to see all the news
Read More »What is Public Financing of Elections?
Instead of candidates for office raising a lot of large contributions from wealthy donors, a voluntary system of public financing of elections allows candidates to run for office by collecting many small donations
Read More »Video: Grassroots Leaders Protest Senate Coup D’Etat
Video of today’s protest. Yesterday, the Republicans attempted a coup d’etat in the New York State Senate. This action, engineered in part by Florida resident and billionaire Tom Golisano, who recently left New York
Read More »Times Union Says Pass Public Financing of Elections!
Today's Times Union has an editorial commending New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli for calling on the legislature to pass public financing of elections
Read More »Governor Waits on Extending Bad Ticket Scalping Law
On Friday, Governor Paterson declined to sign legislation that would extend a 2007 law removing regulation of event ticket price markup. The law was one of five laws featured in our recent report, New
Read More »Join Us In Albany on June 9th!
We're attending the Senate Elections Committee Meeting in force on June 9th to show the overwhelming support for passing public financing of elections this year! Join Us!
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