Senate Hearing On NYC Campaign Finance System Goes Out The Window
Protestors were literally coming in through the windows at today’s state Senate hearing on the New York City campaign finance system. Shut out of the cramped hearing room by the Senate’s sergeants at...
View ArticleCampaign Finance Board Socks Team Bill de Blasio With $20K In Fines For 2009 Run
The city Campaign Finance Board is sticking Bill de Blasio with $20,500 in fines for breaking rules during his 2009 run for public advocate. Team De Blasio got socked with a $10,000 penalty for...
View Article#FilingDay: Bill Thompson Raises, Bill de Blasio Maxes And John Catsimatidis...
UPDATED: Democrat Bill Thompson raised more than $600,000 over the last two months, blowing past his rivals' hauls at a key juncture in the mayor's race. Our Jonathan Lemire and I report: Thompson...
View ArticleLatest Anthony Weiner CFB Filing Details More Old Expenses Than New
Potential comeback candidate Anthony Weiner spent about $75,000 in campaign funds according to his most recent disclosure -- but most of the spending wasn't new at all. "Through a bank reconciliation...
View ArticleWho Gave Vito Lopez Money?
You ask; we (and the CFB) provide: Here's the list of everyone who donated to state Assemblyman Vito Lopez's campaign for City Council in District 34 in the latest period, which represents his first...
View ArticleRace For NY Mayor: Campaign Finance Quick Hits
Here are some quick hits on today's CFB filings from the top mayoral hopefuls. Our Jennifer Fermino, Jonathan Lemire and I report: * Former Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion Jr. reported taking in...
View ArticleGOP's George McDonald Dings "Deviants" Anthony Weiner, Vito Lopez In CFB Fight
Republican mayoral hopeful George McDonald is reviving his legal fight against the city campaign finance system, saying "social deviants" like Vito Lopez and Anthony Weiner are using public money to...
View ArticleVito Lopez Donors On Why They Gave: He's Not "The Devil" And He "Didn't Rape...
Now that the clock shows we're on Assembly Free Lopez time, here's a piece we worked up for you about the people who are putting down the cash to help the scandal-peppered pol run for City Council:...
View ArticleBrooklyn DA Hopeful Ken Thompson Gives Vito Lopez Foe A Donation -- And Jabs...
UPDATED: Brooklyn district attorney hopeful Ken Thompson is making a $175 contribution to a man who hopes to keep Vito Lopez off the City Council -- and his gift comes with a poke in the eye for...
View ArticleBill de Blasio: Chris Quinn Memoir Promos Should Count As Spending In NY...
Democratic mayoral hopeful Bill de Blasio says primary frontrunner Chris Quinn's new memoir is timed to boost her City Hall hopes -- so the cost of promoting it should count against the campaign...
View ArticleDocument Drop: Goo-Goos Press NY Senate IDC
As the state Legislative session draws to a close, a coalition of good-government groups have a message for the Senate Independent Democratic Conference: Step on it. In the letter below, five groups --...
View ArticleDocument Drop: The NY Public Trust Act
Circling back quickly from Gov. Cuomo's noon presser, here are the full docs for his proposed Public Trust Act, which would both raise the penalties in political corruption cases and instate broad...
View ArticleOn Guns, NY Donors Won't Shut Their Wallets At Mayor Bloomberg's Command
Some of New York’s biggest Democratic donors rejected Mayor Bloomberg’s appeal on Wednesday that they not give campaign contributions to four Democratic senators who voted against new gun controls....
View ArticleHalf NY Voters Want Sheldon Silver Out As Assembly Boss After Vito Lopez...
A new poll shows just over half of New York voters say Sheldon Silver should step down as state Assembly speaker for his botched oversight of the Vito Lopez groping cases. A third say Silver erred, but...
View ArticleNYCCFB: Democratic Mayoral Primary Hopefuls Can Ask Maxed Donors For Runoff...
Donors who've already given the max to Democrats running for mayor: Get ready to be asked to pull out your checkbooks again. The city Campaign Finance Board has ruled that hopefuls who make it into a...
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