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Press Releases
2025
- Fair Elections for NY Responds to FY2026 One-House Budget Resolutions
- Gov Kathy Hochul allocates $114.5 million to Public Campaign Financing in FY 2025 Executive Budget
2024
- Fair Elections for NY Acknowledges Public Financing Milestone
- Fair Elections for NY Praises Full Funding for Public Financing in FY 2025 Budget
- Fair Elections for New York Responds to FY2025 One-House Budget Resolutions
- Fair Elections for New York Supports FY2025 Executive Budget
- More than 300 Candidates Register for New York’s Public Campaign Finance Program for 2024
2023
- Fair Elections to Gov Hochul: Include $59.5 million for Public Campaign Financing in your FY2024-2025 Exec Budget
- Statement Applauding NYS 2024 Budget
- Advocates to NYS Lawmakers: Don’t Delay Public Campaign Financing
- 70+ Organizations Sign Letter to New York Legislature: Fund Public Campaign Finance
- National Democracy Leaders Letter to New York on Small Dollar Matching Program
- New Poll Shows Strong Support For New York’s Small-donor Matching Program
- Governor Hochul’s FY 2024 Executive Budget Includes $39.5 million for New York State Public Campaign Finance Board; Fair Elections for New York Coalition Reacts
2022
Recent Coverage
2024
- Lohud, March 25, 2024: Annoyed about too much big money in politics? New York workers can counter corporate influence in elections in 2024
- Legislative Gazette, March 21, 2024: Fair Elections Coalition Applauds $114.5M Budget Agreement for New Public Campaign Finance Program
- River Reporter, March 20, 2024: Michele Frazier meets threshold for public financing
- Buffalo Rising, March 19, 2024: More WNY legislative candidates sign up for public financing program, first financial reports filed
- Buffalo News, March 15, 2024: Another Voice: Campaign finance reform has come to New York and should be fully funded
- Times Union, March 10, 2024: As state plans to match campaign contributions, elections heat up
- PoliticoPro, March 7, 2024: How’s public financing going in NY? The numbers speak for themselves
- Spectrum News 1, January 24, 2024: First N.Y. elections with public campaign financing coming in 2024
2023
- NY Daily News, September 24, 2023: Small donor public financing cleans up politics
- Buffalo News, April 21, 2023: Election Financing Overhaul At State in Budget Talks
- Bronx Times, April 12, 2023: In the Bronx, We Can Have Both Good Housing and a Strong Democracy
- City & State, April 8, 2023: Don’t Give Up on Public Campaign Financing
- Gothamist, March 23, 2023: Lawmakers Keep Program to Combat Big Money in NY Politics in Budget Plans, For Now
- City and State, March 22, 2023: Fund, Don’t Delay, Public Campaign Financing
- Buffalo News, March 21, 2023: Public Campaign Finance Reform Shouldn’t Be Impeded
- Syracuse.com, Mar 14, 2023: Time is now for NY to fund small-donor public financing of elections
- Public News Service, Mar 13, 2023: Campaign Finance Program Facing Delays From NY Legislators
- Crain’s NY, Mar 13, 2023: On Politics: Democrats in the legislature pump the brakes on public campaign financing.
- Gotham Gazette, Mar 9, 2023: The New Public Campaign Finance Program Gives More Influence to Everyday New Yorkers and Less to Wealthy People Like Me – That’s Great, Let’s Make It Happen
- Albany Times Union, Mar 8, 2023: Editorial: Slowing Progress
- Albany Times Union, Mar 7, 2023: Churchill: In Albany, the fear of too much democracy
- Spectrum News, Mar 6, 2023: Advocates in NY see ‘legacy’ in public campaign financing program
- Spectrum News, Mar 6, 2023: National coalition urges New York to implement public campaign financing
- Gothamist, Mar 2, 2023: NY lawmakers balking at plan to boost small-dollar campaign donations. Supporters are pushing back
- Gothamist, Feb. 15, 2023: A new program offers to boost small-dollar donors in NY races. Here’s how.
- Gothamist, Feb. 15, 2023: A new program offers to boost small-dollar donors in NY races. Here’s how.
- Auburn Citizen, Feb. 12, 2023: Why Hochul’s proposed NY budget includes $25M, not $100M, for matching funds program
- NY Daily News, Feb. 10, 2023: Op-Ed: Putting the public back into campaign finance
2022
- Spectrum News, Dec. 12, 2022: Advocates want full funding of New York’s public campaign financing system
