The Brennan Center for Justice has declared [1] New York's campaign finance laws among the worst in the country, riddled with loopholes, choked with unregulated "soft money" and geared towards sky-high incumbency protection.
The Assembly has introduced a full public financing bill but it hasn't gone further than that - to get involved in the public financing fight in the state, use our "What's Your State Doing" map tool [1] to find contact information.