The board on March 31 voted 4-3 on a resolution<\/a>\u00a0that disqualifies Blakeman from the program over a technicality \u2014 that Madison County Sheriff Todd Hood, Blakeman\u2019s running mate, did not submit his own paperwork applying for matching funds, a new requirement added just a few months ago.<\/p>\nThe lawsuit, filed in state Supreme Court in Albany County, states that Hood was never notified that he was required to make a filing with the Public Campaign Finance Board, wasn’t provided with any forms or guidance and has not received any notice that he was disqualified from the program.<\/p>\n
Blakeman, currently the the Nassau County executive, and his allies have alleged the decision by the board is a partisan one, as the Public Campaign Finance Board has a four-to-three Democratic majority.<\/p>\n
The program, first used in New York in the 2024 elections, means political campaigns can match low-dollar donations with public money. Gov. Hochul is not participating in the program in this election, though her campaign has $20 million cash on hand, millions of dollars ahead of Blakeman.<\/p>\n
The decision was anticipated by Blakeman and others,<\/a>\u00a0and condemned by government watchdog groups like Reinvent Albany, which said Blakeman\u2019s campaign should have gotten more help from the board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Republican gubernatorial nominee Bruce Blakeman is suing the state Public Campaign Finance Board after the panel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[109,116,257,38490,4275,270,9,24,55,54,49,12,56,112,108,87,4281,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-189725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-app-local-state-politics","9":"tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","10":"tag-central-ny","11":"tag-decision-2026","12":"tag-local-politics","13":"tag-luke-parsnow","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","17":"tag-new-york-city-news","18":"tag-new-york-state","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-ny-state-of-politics","22":"tag-ny-state-of-politics-blog","23":"tag-politics","24":"tag-state-budget","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189725","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=189725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}