Senate Democrats Push for Ethics Reforms

February 15th, 2018

Last week, Senate Democrats announced their support for a series of measures intended to address unethical behavior by public officials and to help restore New Yorkers’ faith in the political system.

The measures being pushed by the Senate Democratic Conference includes closing the LLC loophole; requiring the disclosure of political bundlers; requiring shareholder approval for corporate political contributions; lowering campaign contribution limits; and establishing a system of publicly-funded political campaigns.

These are perennial “reform” proposals, some of which the Governor is also behind. Unshackle Upstate has been outspoken in our opposition to taxpayer-funded political campaigns – read why here.