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NY corruption: IDC drums up support for campaign finance reform
Newsday Sarah Armaghan 5/11/13 http://newyork.newsday.com/news/new-york/ny-corruption-idc-drums-up-support-for-campaign-finance-reform-1.5243655 Eager to pass campaign finance reform by the end of the legislative session in June, members of the Independent Democratic Conference are making their rounds throughout the state, holding
Read More »WAMC: IDC Takes Proposed Campaign Finance Bill On The Road
WAMC Allison Dunne May 9, 2013 link to audio: http://cpa.ds.npr.org/wamc/audio/2013/05/adunne_5-9_idchearing_0.mp3 A group of New York state Senators held a public hearing Wednesday on a proposed campaign finance reform bill. They say with the most recent lawmaker names
Read More »Supporters of public campaign financing say they were shut out of Senate hearing in Albany
Post Standard Teri Weaver 5/7/13 http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/05/supporters_of_public_campaign.html Seven government watchdog groups filed a complaint today with New York’s Committee on Open Government charging the public was barred from a Senate hearing on campaign financing. New
Read More »Fighting for fair elections
WBNG Brandi Bailey 5/7/13 http://www.wbng.com/news/local/Fighting-for-fair-elections-206488701.html Binghamton, NY (WBNG Binghamton) Members of Citizen Action are fighting for fair elections and public financing. The group rallied outside of the State Office Building asking State Senator Tom
Read More »Controversy Over Access Overshadows Senate Hearing
WCNY Karen DeWitt 5/7/13 http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2013/may/07/controversy-over-access-overshadows-senate-hearing/ A hearing by Senate Republicans on New York City’s public campaign financing system was overshadowed by protests, as government reform groups and other members of the public were denied
Read More »Public shut out of Senate hearing; groups complain
Politics on the Hudson Jessica Bakeman 5/7/2013 http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2013/05/07/public-shut-out-of-senate-hearing-groups-complain/ Seven good-government groups submitted a complaint Tuesday to the state Committee on Open Government after the public and some members of the news media were barred
Read More »Letter: N.Y. smart to invest in early education program
Times Union Letter to Editor 5/6/13 http://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/Letter-N-Y-smart-to-invest-in-early-education-4492358.php The Times Union‘s front page story on the National Institute for Early Education Research‘s annual report shows how so many states have fallen behind in their commitment to early
Read More »Public-financing group targets Senator Bonacic
Politics on the Hudson 5/6/13 Joseph Spector http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2013/05/06/public-financing-group-targets-senator-bonacic/ Citizen Action of New York and the Working Families Party is out with mailers knocking some state Republican senators for not supporting public-campaign financing. There’s at
Read More »Inside Politics: Working Families finds new favorite
Times Union Jordan Carleo-Evangelist 5/5/13 http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Inside-Politics-Working-Families-finds-new-4490287.php In 2009, the Working Families Party helped mint then-Councilman Corey Ellis as the leading Democratic opposition to Albany Mayor Jerry Jennings — a race that ended with Ellis winning 44 percent of the vote
Read More »A political twist on First Friday
WBNG Michelle Costanza 5/4/2013 http://www.wbng.com/news/local/A-political-twist-on-First-Friday-206054601.html Binghamton, NY (WBNG Binghamton) Students, community leaders and activists reached out to passersby to educate the public on a fair elections campaign. In the wake of recent political corruption
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