The New York State Commission that is charged with writing a proposed law for public funding of campaigns is holding public hearings. On October 30 it met in Buffalo. Here is an interesting newspaper story about the hearing. The headline is misleading. If one reads the article, one finds that the public witnesses were almost entirely against banning fusion.

The quote by Jeremy Zellner, a Democratic Party official who wants to ban fusion, is completely out-of-state. He says half of all election litigation in the United States is in New York. That was true back in the 1980’s, but since then New York state has eased most of the hyper-technical petition rules that caused that litigation. Thanks to Steve Kamp for the link.