Ten years ago today a campaign finance reform failed for the fourth straight year. Here’s The Times’s 1999 report. The campaign finance measure, sponsored by Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, and Senator Russell D. Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, would ban so-called soft money, the unlimited and unregulated donations to political parties, as opposed to […]
Day: October 19, 2009
“Adult supervision” urged for government watchdog
This Times editorial advocates for ethics and redistricting reform in Albany. In coming weeks, we will outline some of the ways this inbred system allows so many lawmakers to abuse the public trust, and how new faces in Albany could change it. Our goals are to make a once-respected state run better and more openly, […]