Nixon Releases Ethics and Campaign Finance Reform Proposals

Cynthia Nixon, who is challenging Gov. Cuomo in the Democratic primary, released her ethics and campaign finance reform proposal in yesterday. Nixon took a page from then-Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s playbook and made her announcement in front of Tweed Courthouse.

 

Her plan calls for enacting a voluntary system of public funding of state (statewide and state legislative) political campaigns; banning donations from companies doing business with the state or seeking state contracts; lower campaign contribution limits for all state-level races; closing the “LLC loophole”; and banning contributions from political appointees.

 

In addition, she is proposing dissolving the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) and creating a new, independent Moreland Commission on public corruption; giving the state Attorney General the authority to investigate public corruption on an ongoing basis; restoring the Comptroller’s oversight of SUNY, CUNY and OGS contracts; and creating a statewide “database of deals” listing all state projects awarded to companies

Read her press release here, and the full plan, Government by the People, here.

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