[EL] Comptroller decision

[Mark Schmitt]

1. DiNapoli denies that it was his idea. Apparently an unnamed Cuomo aide
told the press that it was.
http://blogs.buffalonews.com/politics_now/2014/03/dinapoli-pushes-back-against-cuomo-administration-on-campaign-finance.html

2. No one who supported small-donor public financing thought that the Cuomo
deal merely "isn't everything we wanted." It is not an inferior or more
limited version of public financing. It is not a workable system at all,
for all the reasons the controller cited. Its flaws are not flaws of public
financing, they are the flaws of a clumsy attempt to block public
financing. No one has said that DiNapoli "should try to make it work,"
because it is designed not to work and no one should pretend otherwise.

3. The statement I quoted only cited the one reason it would fail (the
two-month lead time), but others cited all the other reasons DiNapoli gave.
For example, columnist Fred LeBrun in the Times-Union called it: "an
incoherent one-year pilot plan, poorly thought through, dependent on
another governor-appointed overseer at the least credible state agency in
existence -- the state board of elections; a cynical kiss-off designed to
appease, but instead a giant step backward in actual reform, as every good
government group instantly pointed out."

I'm sure you can find many reasons to criticize or doubt small-donor public
financing, or virtually anything anyone will ever come up with to moderate
the political power of concentrated wealth, but at least pick on actual
public financing schemes that are intended to work, not poison pills.


Mark Schmitt
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On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Sean Parnell <
sean at impactpolicymanagement.com> wrote:

> I'd probably dispute the "very effective" part, but overall this seems
> correct - we know what a matching programs looks like and how it operates,
> and of course different people have taken different lessons from those
> programs. The point of this pilot project is beyond me, but it was
> DiNapoli's idea (he just wanted it in 2018, not 2014).
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> *From:* Peter Brusoe [mailto:pwbrusoe at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, April 07, 2014 12:32 PM
> *To:* Sean Parnell
> *Cc:* Mark Schmitt; law-election at uci.edu
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> *Subject:* Re: [EL] Comptroller decision
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> The Times Union, Albany's newspaper of record, had an interesting take on
> the issue.
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> http://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/Casey-Seiler-The-2nd-Law-of-Cuomo-5379233.php
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> New York State does not need a demonstration of the success of the
> program, that already exists within the City of New York and their very
> effective public financing program.
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> -peter
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