By Drew Grant 11/07/12 11:00am

ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE

Susan Lerner of Common Cause

How New York’s Poll Peacekeeper Spent Her Day From Hell

It’s election days like yesterday that Susan Lerner both lives for and dreads. The executive director of Common Cause left the house at 3:30 a.m. She spent the wee hours of the election morning printing out thousands of fliers alerting people to the voter hotline that the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) were manning along with Lerner and her associates in Common Cause to field  calls about voting problems. It has been a joint election protection effort of NYPIRG and Common Cause for more than 20 years, and a solo NYPIRG effort before that time.

By 9 a.m. she had 60 volunteers manning phones that never stopped ringing, not even for a second.  Read More

6/18/10 8:33pm

Maloney and Gillibrand Come Together to Cheer Senate Hearing on 9/11 Bill

It’s officially Senator Gillibrand’s cause now, too.

At a Friday morning press conference that felt like a torch-passing, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney very publicly cheered the legislative efforts of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who announced that the Senate would be holding its first-ever hearing on the James Zadroga 9/11 Health Legislation bill at the end of the Read More

By Reid Pillifant 3/05/10 4:32pm

Common Cause Reluctantly Calls for Resignation

The good-government group Common Cause is now calling for Governor David Paterson to resign.

“Given the fiscal and governmental crisis enveloping our state, we at Common Cause/New York have come to the reluctant conclusion that it would be in the best interest of the people of the State of New York for Governor Paterson to Read More

By Azi Paybarah 10/22/08 8:23pm

Blooomberg as a GOTV Advocate?

A handful of votes this Election Day could determine the presidency, control of the State Senate and a few toss-up congressional races here, making  the Get Out the Vote operations  more meaningful than in years past.

And with that unprecedented call for voters to go to the polls, a critic of Michael Bloomberg says the Read More

By Staff 1/02/07 1:00pm

Albany's Hopeful Ethicists

Good government groups are taking advantage of the lull in news on Day 2 to outline the proposals they’d like Eliot Spitzer to include in his state of the state address tomorrow.

The ten proposals, presented at a press conference by Blair Horner of NYPIRG and Rachel Leon of Common Cause, include creating an independent Read More

By Staff 9/14/06 3:45pm

Member Item: Piano

Common Cause sifted through the massive 2,000 page report on the Assembly’s pork projects, bringing to light some note-worthy numbers. CC’s report is here.

Funding for the 2,675 projects ranged from $500 to $4,912,000, with the average being $19,501.

The Southern Teir Senior Center explained why they got funding from the Read More