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A Chilling Effect

N.Y. comptroller trying to force disclosure of political spending by corporations to cut off funding for conservatives

BY: Lachlan Markay — January 29, 2013 2:00 pm

New York state is quickly becoming ground zero in the fight over free speech and corporate political spending as a top state official with ties to left-wing campaign finance reform groups attempts to pressure private companies into making their political contributions public.

N.Y. Dem Profits from Unions He Defends

BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff — February 22, 2012 9:28 am

The New York State Comptroller has been profiting from the very unions he defends on a near-daily basis, according to a report by the New York Daily News. Eight of Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s ten biggest campaign donors are unions, a sector that DiNapoli has vocally defended from reform, the report states.