NLC-NYC Gotham Talks: Michael Pernick

Michael Pernick, 2016 NLC Fellow, and voting rights attorney from Long Island, tells us how to fix campaign finance in New York State. Our system for financing campaigns is broken, and New Yorkers deserve a system of public financing that works for us. Over 13 states, and countless localities, have enacted systems to publicly finance political campaigns, but not New York State.

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