by Communications Team | Mar 28, 2011 | Fair Elections
Oral arguments were presented today in the US Supreme Court on whether some aspects of the Arizona campaign finance law are constitutional. See this link for the Question Presented to The Court. The gist of the argument is about matching funds, which are a grant...
by Communications Team | Mar 14, 2011 | Fair Elections
On March 10th, federal prosecutors unveiled charges against Senator Carl Kruger, accusing him of corruption schemes involving over $1 million. New York desperately needs voter owned elections. Click here to tell the Senate now!
by Communications Team | Mar 10, 2011 | Fair Elections
Today’s story that State Senator Carl Kruger will surrender to prosecutors ought to be enough for New Yorkers to say: “We have had enough!” Here is one more case of a state politician who is allegedly being corrupted because politicians need private...
by Communications Team | Mar 1, 2011 | Capital District, Education, Fair Elections
“They get the gold, we get the shaft” is what hundreds of workers chanted at Albany’s Capitol today. They were joined by the Growing Together NY coalition and rallied to urge elected officials to protect their families’ jobs, their schools, their seniors, their...
by Communications Team | Mar 1, 2011 | Fair Elections
Ed Koch, Bill Bradley, Bob Kerrey and a number of other prominent New York businessmen and past politicians have called on Governor Cuomo to push for voter owned elections. Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal has an article about the letter sent by 23 big names in...
by Communications Team | Feb 23, 2011 | Capital District, Education, Fair Elections, Health Care, Hudson Valley, New York City, Rochester, Southern Tier, Western New York
This year’s Citizen Action leadership conference is the event that the progressive movement in New York has been waiting for. It’s the event our movement needs to grow stronger and move forward. It’s the event that you, as a progressive, need to...
by Communications Team | Feb 22, 2011 | Education, Fair Elections
by Bjarni Thoroddsson and Jia-Jia Zhu This past weekend was the Black and Puerto Rican Caucus, and several hundred attendees made their centerpoint a march with AQE, Citizen Action, and New York Communities for Change to the Governor’s Mansion in protest of the second...
by Communications Team | Feb 15, 2011 | Fair Elections
The push for enacting publicly financed voter owned elections in New York is growing every day. On Saturday, the New York Times made their opinion very clear: A strong ethics package would be a start, but not nearly enough. New York also needs a fair campaign...
by Communications Team | Feb 11, 2011 | Fair Elections
Earlier this week, The Buffalo News joined the majority of New Yorkers in calling for voter-owned publicly financed elections. The last line of their editorial, I found to be, especially helpful in understanding why voter-owned publicly financed elections are crucial...
