As the state Public Financing Commission prepared to vote on proposals concerning a campaign-financing system using public monies and changes that could have a severe effect on the state’s smaller political parties, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams accused the panel of acting as a tool in Governor Cuomo’s bid to kill the Working Families Party while offering a pretense of campaign-spending reform.
Accompanied by about 60 members of activist groups demanding meaningful changes, Mr. Williams during a press conference outside Mr. Cuomo's midtown Manhattan offices Nov. 21 accused the Governor of “a Trumpian way of governing. He fears anything that deals with accountability, with transparency.”
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