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 We all know that this is, at best, a completely outdated system.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...
by Communications Team | Jan 24, 2011 | Fair Elections
Today, over 50 good government, civil rights, environmental, labor, community, health care, social justice, and grassroots advocacy organizations sent letters to Speaker Silver and the Assembly, and Majority Skelos and the State Senate, asking them to advocate for and...
by Communications Team | Jan 19, 2011 | Fair Elections
Recent polling shows huge majority of New Yorkers support public financing of elections to lessen influence of big money This Friday, January 21, 2011, marks the one-year anniversary of the Citizens United v. FEC Supreme Court decision. The Citizens United decision...
by Communications Team | Jan 4, 2011 | Fair Elections
As Governor Cuomo ends his fourth day in office, New Yorkers are anticipating what his plans are for reforming New York’s government. Here at Citizen Action, we’re wondering if he’ll fulfill his campaign promise of public financing of elections....
by Communications Team | Dec 20, 2010 | Fair Elections
In a Daily News Op-Ed, former New York Knick and New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley calls on Governor-Elect Cuomo to get real about reform and to push hard on implementing a system of public financing of elections. Senator Bradley does a great job of explaining the...
