by Jessica Wisneski | Dec 13, 2010 | Fair Elections
Our colleague in reform, Blair Horner of NYPIRG, might have said it best when he said, “The way you try to influence lawmakers in Albany is to be nice to them, and the way you’re nice to them is to give their campaigns money.” Blair said this in a...
by Communications Team | Dec 10, 2010 | Fair Elections
The Brennan Center for Justice – the organization that declared the New York State Legislature as “the most dysfunctional state legislature in the country,” recently sent a letter to Governor-Elect Cuomo to say that ethics reform needs public...
by Communications Team | Nov 4, 2010 | Fair Elections
The 2010 elections have been dominated by headlines about anonymous donors, special interest influence, and record-breaking campaign spending and fundraising. So it’s clear that the real winner in all of this was big money — and the undue influence that major...
by Bob Cohen | Oct 29, 2010 | Fair Elections
Hopefully, you’ve caught Joan Mandle’s recent post on this blog about the attempts to buy our elections through attack ads funded by right-wing corporate-allied PACs. Well, a new Citizen Action of New York report on the First Congressional District race on the east...
by Communications Team | Oct 17, 2010 | Fair Elections
The Chamber of Commerce and other conservative groups are spending millions to try to influence the November elections in New York and other states. With the Supreme Court for the first time allowing unlimited spending by corporations, the airwaves are flooded with...
by Communications Team | Aug 31, 2010 | Fair Elections
The Bad News! Did you know that fundraising for the November Congressional elections has already reached $1.2 BILLION? That’s far ahead of the last mid-term election. And who have members of Congress been taking campaign money from? The same old corporate...
by Communications Team | Aug 3, 2010 | Fair Elections
We need a government of, by, and for the people, not the corporations. So the fight goes on to replace corporate-funded elections with Fair Elections! The bad news is that the latest attempt by Congress to block reform of the corporate domination of our political...
by Communications Team | Jul 13, 2010 | Fair Elections
There is no doubt that BP, Wall Street, the health care industry, and other big corporations continue to do untold harm to all of us. Because members of Congress are dependent on these big money political donors, their votes in Congress too often reflect the interests...
by Communications Team | Apr 29, 2010 | Fair Elections
You may have caught some of the recent circus on TV where executives from Goldman Sachs, the huge Wall Street corporation, were grilled by members of Congress. Goldman Sachs was a major player in the corporate greed that has brought us the economic recession. But...
