State Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs told me yesterday that the threshold for getting a resolution onto the agenda is pretty low, requiring about a dozen state committee member signat
State Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs told me yesterday that the threshold for getting a resolution onto the agenda is pretty low,
requiring about a
dozen state committee member signat
state committee member signatures.
Prompted by the widespread Russian influence campaign that targeted nearly two
dozen states during the 2016 presidential election and the proliferation of secretive political advertising on social media platforms like Facebook, Cuomo proposed and the
state Legislature successfully passed the «Democracy Protection Act,» which prohibits foreign entities from creating independent expenditure committees or buying political ads,
requires anyone who purchases an online political ad to register as an independent expenditure committee, and also
requires online ads to include information
about who paid for them, as is currently
required of traditional media platforms.
For example, no fault or PIP protection is standard in
about a
dozen states, and many geographical areas also
require drivers to carry uninsured motorist protection as a compulsory element in their auto policy.