Co-Lead Organizer of Empire State Indivisible Ricky Silver urges New York state legislators to act on their past promises for fair elections legislation. He writes, “Organizations like Citizen Action and…
As New York state legislators determine the details of the final budget legislation for the 2020 fiscal year, major players on the national stage are weighing in on the significance…
U.S. Representative Velázquez, who represents parts of Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens in Congress, wrote in favor of a public campaign financing system for statewide elections in New York. Velázquez supports…
Alan Newton, who was wrongfully incarcerated for 22 years, writes, “We often associate campaign finance reform and voting rights with terms like ‘good governance’ and ‘civic duty.’ Rarely do we…
National organizations are applying pressure to leaders in Albany to take action on small donor public financing this session. The letter, signed by Demos, Indivisible Project, the NAACP, NRDC, and…
Civil rights activist, Rev. Jesse Jackson, urged the Governor and legislative leaders to pass real campaign finance reform. He wrote, “If we want to have an honest, transparent and democratic…
With the April 1 deadline looming and advocates demanding that public financing be included in the New York State budget, the Senate Elections Committee held a hearing on the reform…
As budget negotiations on campaign finance reform continue in Albany, Senator Zellnor Myrie, chair of the Senate Elections Committee, tackled the question of funding the program: “This is not a…
Monifa Bandele and Richard Wallace, members of the Leadership Team of the Movement for Black Lives Policy Table, penned an op-ed encouraging Albany lawmakers to pass small donor public financing.…
Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli authored an op-ed in the Daily News endorsing small donor public financing in New York state. In support of this commonsense reform DiNapoli writes, “We need to…