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 heavy, unwanted special-interest campaign intrusions that elected officials must [...]

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 recent Buffalo News (http://www.buffalonews.com/business/article252227.ece) article that [...]

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 financing of elections to fix the way Albany works. Here’s their post, with a link to the [...]

The Campaign Finance Institute at the George Washington University presented their report the Rockefeller Institute of Government at the University at Albany (State University of New York). The report’s title is: Small Donors, Big Democracy: New York City’s Matching Funds as a Model for the Nation and States. The press release notes: New York City [...]

The calls to limit corruption and to expose the influences of money in New York State politics have never been stronger. While the currently unmanageable and the unmanaged state deficit, already projected by the Comptroller at $1 billion1, is the main source of agitation for wholesale reform, other important issues continue to be in disarray [...]