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...
by Communications Team | Feb 1, 2011 | Fair Elections
In a move that did not receive much publicity, House Republicans voted last week to gut the voluntary check-off system to fund presidential elections. Click here for more details. We all know that this is, at best, a completely outdated system. We could even call...
by Jessica Wisneski | Jan 27, 2011 | Fair Elections
The Nation’s editor Katrina Vanden Heuvel hit it on the head in her January 24th blog post, “Cuomo’s Reform Moment.” Everyone knows why we need a system of voter owned publicly financed elections in New York State and the country. The question is really: is...
by Communications Team | Jan 27, 2011 | Fair Elections
As a Citizen Action activist, I have been promoting the concept of voter-owned elections with public financing for several years. During my 2010 campaign for the NY Assembly, I made it a centerpiece of my reform agenda for Albany. During my many interactions with...
by Communications Team | Jan 25, 2011 | Education, Fair Elections
When Governor Cuomo delivered his State of the State address on January 5, 2011, he called on all New Yorkers to help “remake our State into the progressive capital of the nation.” But many of the ideas he outlined in his speech, especially fiscal...
by Communications Team | Jan 24, 2011 | Fair Elections
Today, 13 members of the Assembly join with Citizen Action and a number of other good government, advocacy, labor, and community organizations to call for publicly financed voter-owned elections. Some photos from the event are below. We also release two letters, one...
