Albany, NY – In response to news that Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has been indicted on federal corruption charges, Karen Scharff, Executive Director of Citizen Action of New York, said:
“Elected officials have been arrested on corruption charges before, and they’ll keep getting arrested until we change the system in Albany, because it’s the system that’s corrupt.
“Quid pro quo has always been the way in Albany. Even the most honorable public servants are forced to beg for campaign cash every day.
“If the game is raising the most campaign money, it’ll always be voters who lose. We need to change the game. Publicly funded elections is the only reform that will address the fundamental problem and end the culture of corruption in Albany.”
###