Today’s New York Times includes an editorial calling on Gov. Cuomo to push the Legislature to enact campaign finance reform in New York. Citing the Governor’s accomplishment in New York’s […]
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JCOPE Revises Source of Lobbying Funding Regulations
The Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) has moved forward with its “source of lobbying funding regulations,” which will require lobbying groups to report names of donors who give them […]
NYC CFB Announces Next Meeting
The New York City Campaign Finance Board will hold its next public meeting on Thursday, November 29 at New York Law School, 185 West Broadway, Manhattan The meeting agenda is […]
Chevron Files Ethics Complaint Filed Against State Comptroller
Last Tuesday, Chevron filed a complaint against Comptroller Tom DiNapoli with the Joint Committee on Public Ethics (JCOPE), requesting an investigation of Comptroller Tom DiNapoli for violations of the Public […]
Should Your Organization Register as a Lobbyist?
This article from the Wall Street Journal looks at whether “grassroots lobbying” can be regulated by states. The author is lead attorney to the plaintiffs/appellants in Many Culture, One Message […]
More on Super PACs, in New York and Elsewhere
Just in case you share my interest in how outside groups are impacting elections here in New York State (as I discussed in a blog post yesterday), below are links […]
Center for Working Families Reports on Corporation Campaign Donations
The Center for Working Families (CWF), a labor-backed policy group, ranks state legislators by the amount of corporate dollars received, and the percentage of corporate dollars received of their overall […]
Good Government Groups Ask Governor to Address Voting Issues (Updated)
On Saturday, a group called the Election Protection Coalition wrote to Governor Cuomo asking him to issue “an executive order allowing displaced New Yorkers who are unable to access their […]
Board of Elections Extends Deadlines for Absentee Ballots
As New Yorkers continue to recover Hurricane Sandy, the New York State Board of Elections said this morning that it has extended the deadline for voters to apply for absentee […]
Complaint Filed Against Super PACs
In an earlier post, I wrote about the Protect Our Democracy Political Action Committee, a Super PAC that announced its intention to spend up to a $500,000 in support of […]