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...
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...
