NYS Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno publicly stated yesterday that New Yorkers "don't give two hoots" about campaign finance reform.  But a group of good government advocates are setting out on a roadtrip today that will prove him wrong.  I am getting ready to pile into a minivan today along with representatives from NYPIRG and the League of Women Voters of NYS to travel to a series of local forums that will bring state-level legislators together with the public to discuss campaign finance reform.

We will travel to Syracuse today (May 23rd) and Rochester tomorrow (May 24) and convene again in Schenectady next Saturday (June 2).  On June 6th, I will participate in another campaign finance reform forum sponosred by the Women's City Club in Manhattan.   We have had a great response to these events, with numerous New Yorkers telling us that they want to attend and to learn more about how they can get involved in the fight to get big special interest money out of state politics.

In 2002 a Minor League Baseball team, the Tri-City Valley Cats, got a new stadium on the campus of the Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, NY. The stadium was named "The Joseph L. Bruno Stadium" (better known as "The Joe") after the State Senate Majority Leader of the same name who secured the $14 million in state funds to build the stadium in his hometown of Troy, NY.