{"id":181102,"date":"2026-03-31T18:05:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/181102\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T18:05:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:05:44","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-blakemans-gubernatorial-campaign-ineligible-for-matching-public-funds-campaign-finance-board-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/181102\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Blakeman\u2019s gubernatorial campaign ineligible for matching public funds, campaign finance board rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York State Public Campaign Finance Board has ruled that Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman\u2019s gubernatorial campaign<\/a> is not eligible for publicly matched funds because the lieutenant governor candidate did not file the paperwork required by the set deadline. <\/p>\n

The PCFB voted 4-3 on Tuesday and the new certification requirements that require both offices to file together went into law this year after being approved by the board this past December. The ruling also applies to several other tickets on the governor and lieutenant governor ballot.<\/p>\n

The election law now requires both offices jointly submit their applications for eligibility to receive matching public funds. The board noted that in the case of Blakeman’s campaign<\/a>, no lieutenant governor candidate certification was received by the Feb. 23 deadline.
\nBlakeman announced his running mate<\/a> at a convention at the Garden City Hotel on Feb. 9, choosing Madison County Sheriff Todd Hood as his choice for lieutenant governor.<\/p>\n

Blakeman\u2019s campaign spokesperson Madison Spanodemos issued a statement on the ruling: \u201cWith the race tightening and her poll numbers sagging, it\u2019s no surprise Kathy Hochul\u2019s handpicked appointee would vote to take away funds from Bruce Blakeman\u2019s campaign. While it reeks of corruption, no money in the world can hide Kathy Hochul\u2019s record of driving up taxes, rent, utility bills, and insurance premiums.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Siena Research Institute released a poll on Tuesday showing that current Gov. Kathy Hochul is leading over Blakeman by a 13-point margin, which is 7 points less than the gap was in February.<\/p>\n

The poll tabulated that 64% of registered voters say they have never heard of Blakeman or don\u2019t know enough about him to have an opinion.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile Hochul maintains very narrow leads upstate and in the downstate suburbs, her lead in New York City fell from 46 points, 63-17%, last month to 29 points, 54-25%, today,\u201d Siena pollster Steven Greenberg said. \u201cIs that movement or merely noise? Let\u2019s see what happens next month after the budget and as the campaign unfolds.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tNews 12 has reached out to Hochul’s campaign for a statement and are waiting to hear back. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York State Public Campaign Finance Board has ruled that Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman\u2019s gubernatorial campaign…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,1626,895,73070,34168,9,24,4865,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-181102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-bruce-blakeman","12":"tag-governor-kathy-hochul","13":"tag-governor-race","14":"tag-nassau-county-executive-bruce-blakeman","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-new-york-governor","18":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}