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Thursday's filings lay bare those donations and other jaw - dropping financial details of the first modern presidential campaign in which donors could give unlimited contributions for political ads and in which both major party candidates declined to participate in a Watergate - era public financing system designed to limit fundraising.

Good government groups have for years complained that New York's campaign finance laws make it difficult for the public to determine the actual source of campaign dollars, whether due to the so - called «LLC loophole» — which allows business interests that control a network of subsidiaries to vastly multiply their political giving — or corporate formation laws that allow companies to obscure the individuals and other businesses behind them.

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.

Jonathan Soros, meanwhile, gave $ 600,000 to help Senate Democrats through the Friends of Democracy, a super PAC that supports the public financing of political campaigns.

New Yorkers also gave a thumbs up to other items on the governor's agenda, including the raising the minimum wage, at 83 % to 15 %, and public financing of political campaigns at 59 % to 36 %.