In the lead up to this weekend's New York State Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus» conference in Albany, the Center for Working Families and Citizen Action of New York has released a study that
found public financing of political campaigns helps candidates in poor and majority - minority districts.
That gave the Senate GOP, which has blocked
public financing of political campaigns on the grounds that it costs too much money, an opening to attack, citing the recent Q - poll that
found New York voters oppose the system 51 percent to 39 percent.