Minor parties say budget provision unfairly weakens them
New York’s budget for the new fiscal year includes the public financing plan developed last year by the New York Public Campaign Financing Commission. These measures will go into effect…
Previously Struck Down in Court, New State Campaign Finance System and Political Party Ballot Thresholds Passed in Budget
Governor Cuomo and legislative leaders included the Public Campaign Finance Commission’s public financing plan in this year’s budget, following a state Supreme Court decision in March that struck down the…
Judge strikes down state’s new public financing law
Public financing advocates, including Citizen Action of New York and the Brennan Center for Justice, call on the Legislature to pass small donor public financing this session after a State…
Judge Strikes Down New State Campaign Finance Law
On Thursday, a Niagara County State Supreme Court judge struck down New York’s new public financing program on the grounds that the delegation of lawmaking authority to the commission created…
Court: Panel that created public campaign financing is unconstitutional
Following a decision by a New York State Supreme Court judge to strike down the public financing program created by the New York State Public Campaign Financing Commission last year,…
Court strikes down Public Finance Commission recommendations
After a New York State Supreme Court judge struck down the state’s new public financing program, the Brennan Center’s Lawrence Norden urged the governor and legislative leaders to enact a…
A State Budget Necessity: Start-Up Funds for New Campaign Finance Program (Op-Ed)
Monifa Bandele writes on the urgency of funding the New York State’s new public financing system in this year’s budget. She explains, “Public financing of elections is a matter of…
Funding for Public Financing is Essential to Fight for Equality in NYS (Op-Ed)
Ricky Silver of Empire State Indivisible and Tara Herman of NYCD16-Indivisible contend that the public financing program passed in 2019 is the New York state’s “single best hope for reversing…
Here’s how $2.5M can help protect Baltimore residents against public corruption
The Baltimore Sun editorial board supports legislation introduced in the City Council that will provide $2.5 million in funding for a local public financing program from the city’s tax on…
Bloomberg failed, but billionaires still rule U.S. politics (Op-Ed)
Mike Bloomberg and Tom Steyer’s decisions to end their respective self-financed presidential campaigns “is hardly proof that money doesn’t matter,” write the Brennan Center’s Chisun Lee and Dan Weiner. In…