Political Regulation will hurt New York

Posted on July 19, 2007

Political regulation will hurt New York

Today, Sean Parnell, the president of the Center for Competitive Politics (CCP), a pro-First Amendment reform organization, issued the following statement in response to the reported deal on campaign finance regulation agreed to by political leaders in Albany: 

"Today is a sad day for First Amendment political freedom in New York.  Politicians decided to trade freedom for political expediency and the big loser in this trade are the citizens of New York. 

Instead of a free New York, Albany will continue to function as it always has only now the politicians will be more entrenched.  Reduced contribution limits directly reduce the ability of citizens to hold New York's politicians accountable.

There was no reason the politicians had to strangle the First Amendment in order to ease congestion in New York City."

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