Eric Alterman's latest for the The Nation is all about Gov. Andrew Cuomo. It ends: "Campaign finance advocates insist—and Cuomo agrees—that a victory for publicly financed elections in New York State has the potential to be a watershed for the issue nationally. This proved true for marriage equality, and given the state’s center as the nation’s financial capital, the reverberations this time around may prove no less volcanic.

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Are you in Connecticut? Then join Public Campaign's Nick Nyhart, Reps. John Larson (D-Conn.) and Elizabeth Esty (D-Conn.), and Common Cause's Karen Hobert Flynn on Tuesday in Farmington for a community forum on money in politics and policies to raise the voices of everyday people in our political process. Details.

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Worth noting: The Hawaii Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing today at 4:05 pm eastern time on HB1481, a bill to create a public financing system for the state legislature. As we reported last week, the bill has already passed the House.

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Good news in New Mexico! Thanks to the hard work of Common Cause New Mexico, the state legislature has passed legislation to update the public financing system for Public Regulation Commission and judicial elections. The legislation is a response to the Supreme Court's Arizona Free Enterprise System and adds a matching fund system similar to the Fair Elections Now Act proposed in Congress.

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