Public needs to take back campaigns
Via The Buffalo News
It’s not surprising that as state government reels from another scandal just months after the scandal of an incumbent governor raising eight times as much as his GOP challenger – making the election moot – the most promising push for reform comes not from Albany, but from Buffalo.
Not that Mayor Byron Brown – who outspent opponents by a combined 5-to-1 and still had money left – may be any more committed to public funding of campaigns than Andrew Cuomo. The governor talks a good game, but last year accepted a sham proposal limited only to the State Comptroller’s Office and lacking any real enforcement teeth.
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