Public campaign finance reform: clean money or throwing good money after bad?
May 21 | Posted by admin | Economy, Green Party, New York, political corruption, Public Campaign Finance Reform, State Politicsby Howie Hawkins syracuse.com May 14, 2013 Sheldon Silver New York needs a Clean Money system of full public campaign funding. That’s how we end the privatized “public” elections funded by the 1% that make Albany a feeding trough for wealthy special interests. The so-called Fair Elections Act (A4980C-2013), which passed the Assembly and was delivered to the Senate on May 7, merely supplements the existing system of unlimited private campaign financing with partial public funding. This bill throws good public... Read more
