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Post Your Idea On the State Senate Website
The State Senate has launched a new website designed to get public comments on how to reform New York's campaign finance system. They'll be using these comments to decide how to move forward on
Read More »New Report: New Yorkers Pay When Big Money Plays: The Case for Public Financing of Elections
Citizen Action of New York released a new report today finding that campaign contributions from corporate interests are used to block legislation that would help consumers, tenants, and the environment
Read More »Lea Webb Discusses the Need for Public Financing of Elections
Lea Webb, City Council Member in Binghamton, NY, and Citizen Action of New York organizer, encourages supporters to spread the word about public financing of elections to 5 friends!
Read More »VIDEO: Lea Webb Discusses Running for City Council in Binghamton
Lea Webb, member of the City Council in Binghamton and Citizen Action organizer, discusses how public financing of elections will allow more people to run for office
Read More »VIDEO: Maurice Mitchell visits the Ft. Orange Club in Albany
Citizen Action’s Organizing Director, Maurice Mitchell, paid a visit to the Ft. Orange club in Albany. The club represents a huge problem with New York’s current campaign finance system. Almost every night when the
Read More »Observer-Dispatch calls on leaders to "quit talking about it and do it"
The Utica Observer-Dispatch printed their second editorial in as many months about campaign finance reform today. In their first editorial, the OD wrote about the merits of a public financing of elections system
Read More »How Much Will Public Financing of Elections Cost?
A 2006 memo from the Public Policy and Education Fund of New York concluded that the cost of public financing of elections in New York would amount to, “less than 2 hundredths of a
Read More »Public Financing of Elections: It Works In Connecticut
As New Yorkers we need only to look next door, to our neighbors in Connecticut, to see the benefits of public financing of elections in action
Read More »New Yorkers Overwhelmingly Support Public Financing of Elections
Did you know that 3 out of 4 New York residents support public financing of elections for statewide offices
Read More »Newsday Calls Out State Leaders on Campaign Finance Reform
On March 22nd, Long Island’s Newsday published an editorial entitled “It’s Time to End Pay to Play,” calling for the legislature to pass public financing of elections for New York State races. In the
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