campaign finance reform

New York’s new donation limits are still very high, and also come with huge loopholes.

The all-day hearing was the first of several being staged across the state before the commission, known as the New York Campaign Financing Commission, makes its full recommendations in December.

The mayor was also just fined nearly $48,000 for campaign finance violations.

Cuomo has been using the state's Democratic "housekeeping account" to pump unlimited amounts of corporate money towards his reelection effort.

Seventeen of Cuomo's benefactors have given more money than all 3,767 donors to Republican challenger Rob Astorino.

Thanks to a coalition of Republicans and a handful of Democrats that together control the Senate, these issues are likely dead.