This, when the mayor insists he wants the commission to focus on ways to «to get
money out of the political process as much as possible,» as he told NY1 back in February.
As Edward Abbey pointed
out two decades ago, «It should be clear to everyone by now that crude numerical growth does not solve our chronic problems
of unemployment, welfare, crime, traffic, filth, noise, squalor, the pollution
of our air, the corruption
of our politics, the debasement
of the school system (hardly worthy
of the name «education»), and the general loss
of popular control over the
political process — where
money, not people, is now the determining factor.»
I acknowledge that the bill maintains the powerful influence
of the REALTORS ®
Political Action Committee's money on our political process, but the article failed to point out another aspect of
Political Action Committee's
money on our
political process, but the article failed to point out another aspect of
political process, but the article failed to point
out another aspect
of the law.