Campaign Finance Reform Update

For your reading pleasure, below are some links to recent stories regarding campaign finance reform in New York State:

• Campaign finance reform continues to be a hot topic at the Capitol. (YNN)
• Campaign finance reform would curb Albany corruption. (Brennan Center)
• Advocates for campaign finance reform make their case in Albany. (State of Politics)
• Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos says that a public campaign-finance system won’t stop the “crooks and idiots” who break the law. (Politics on the Hudson)
• Senate Republicans say a public campaign finance system will cost taxpayers $221.5 million in an election cycle for statewide and legislative races. (Politics Now)
• Everything you ever wanted to know about the potential cost of public financing (but were afraid to ask) (Capitol Confidential)