Two candidates for the Portland City Council this November achieved something unusual—and, at first glance, illogical. Chris Henry and Moses Ross each received more individual campaign contributions ...

Advocates for public campaign financing at the state level are celebrating a milestone of 100 candidates registering with the fledgling program. Although candidates still need to await Gov. Kathy ...

The New York City Campaign Finance Board voted to withhold as much as $4.3 million in matching funds from Mayor Eric Adams, as he faces federal corruption charges focused on his fund-raising practices ...

Suffolk County Campaign Finance Board Executive Director Mercy Smith at a public comment hearing about a bill to repeal the program on June 8, 2022. Suffolk County has effectively ended its public ...

Portland’s campaign financing program doesn’t have enough money to operate at full capacity ahead of a historic election year. For some candidates, this means losing hundreds of thousands of ...

ALBANY — Legislative candidates in New York spent more money last year than in any election in the past 25 years except one, in part due to a new program that poured millions of taxpayer dollars into ...