Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos would rather spend money earmarked for the public financing of state political campaigns go to education, reiterating his opposition to a measure introduced by Speaker Sheldon Silver in the Assembly on Tuesday. (nystateofpolitics.com)
In his budget proposal, the governor again included ethics and campaign fund - raising changes, including putting in place a system of public financing for state political campaigns modeled after the one used in New York City, where small donations are matched with public funds. (nytimes.com)
This bizarre legal loophole allows essentially unlimited contributions to state political campaigns by allowing people to make contributions via an unlimited number of -LSB-...] (reinventalbany.org)