Campaign Finance

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut has raised $2 million in the second quarter of 2023 — with the Democratic control of the U.S. Senate at stake in the 2024 election.

Rep. George Santos (R-NY), the Long Island freshman congressman who admitted to lying to voters about his academic, employment and financial history, is in hot water with his hometown Republican party. They want him out as federal investigations mount into campaign finance irregularities.

A watchdog group filed a complaint Monday with the Federal Election Commission to investigate Long Island Congressman George Santos’ campaign fundraising and spending.

New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker files his first re-election campaign finance report this week. It is expected to show that he has raised enough money to qualify for public financing.

Bob Stefanowski, the Republican running for governor in Connecticut, acknowledges that he’s been paid millions of dollars consulting for a green energy project funded by the Saudi Arabian government.

The MTA is running out of emergency federal aid.

Extremely hot conditions are expected for our region over the next several days.

Suffolk is the largest county in the state outside of New York City to have a campaign finance program. It is poised to allow candidates for county executive, comptroller and legislator in 2023 to access public dollars to run for office.

Outside of New York City, Suffolk County was the largest county in the state to establish a public campaign finance program. It didn’t survive a year in operation — without supporting a single campaign — before Republicans took away its funding.

New York State Supreme Court justices have tossed Harry Wilson’s lawsuit against his Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin. Wilson alleged that Zeldin violated campaign finance laws earlier this month.