What's here . . Report on Campaign Finance Patterns in the Briarcliff Manor, Ossining, Croton, and Cortlandt area. Prepared by the League of Women Voters, BOCC in October, 1998. Background Scope of the Committee's Work Interviews with Candidates for Town Supervisor Forum on Campaign Finance Legal Limitiation on Campaign Contributions BOCC Campaign Finance Study Team Background Business, labor, and other special interests have exploited the deep loopholes in the state's election laws, and taken advantage of the failure by Boards of Election to enforce these laws.
Unsavory fund raising for federal office is a national disgrace.
State legislators from Westchester, Putnam and Rockland counties raised 75 percent of their campaign funds from businesses and special interest groups last year. Both women, we are happy to note, are former presidents of local Leagues. Our committee looked at the costs and fund raising of town races. The purpose of the one-year study, Campaign Finance Reform, was to discover the extent and patterns of campaign finance activity in the Briarcliff, Ossining, Croton, and Cortlandt area, what reforms had been proposed at the county level and by the national LWV, and what measures could be taken to further reform. Interviews were conducted with the Republican and Democratic candidates for Town Supervisor in the fall 1997 races in Ossining and Cortlandt.