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Yang, 46, the entrepreneur and former U.S. presidential candidate, reported 15,600 donors and is eligible for 8-to-1 matching funds on more than $570,000 small-dollar contributions from city residents, the memo said. Candidates who participate in the city’s public campaign-finance program are eligible to receive as much as $2,000 in public funds per contributor.
The numbers “quantify how New Yorkers are drawn to the hope that Andrew promises following a year of isolation and loss,” the memo from Yang’s campaign said. “It’s not just his name ID. It’s about him. People like Andrew and they are rooting for him like he’s rooting for New York.”
The state Board of Elections campaign finance database only goes back to 1999. Before then, the names and amounts of contributors giving money to candidates and the details on vendors getting money from politicians was confined to paper, generally sitting undisturbed in file boxes in Albany. The full disclosure was there, as required under law, if you could find it.
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NEW YORK CITY (WABC) WABC-TV will be hosting two New York City mayoral debates ahead of the June 22 primary, as well as the final debate before the general election on November 2.
Channel 7 will air a debate with the Democratic candidates on Wednesday, June 2, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., and a debate with the Republican candidates on Sunday, June 6, time TBA.
Then, on Tuesday, October 26, at 7 p.m., WABC will host the final debate between the leading candidates before New Yorkers head to the polls to officially choose the next mayor.
The WABC debates will be co-hosted by the League of Women Voters of NYC, Univision 41 Nueva York / WADO-AM, Hispanic Federation, and NAACP NYS Conference.