NY’s campaign ‘reform’ commission is stonewalling a watchdog

In yet another sign that the commission rewriting New York’s campaign finance laws is operating with unseemly secrecy, the Government Justice Center is having to sue for documents “introduced at the Commission’s first official meeting and related communications.”

The Public Campaign Finance Commission rejected the watchdog group’s request for those records under the state Freedom of Information Law, which could drag out compliance until after Dec. 1, when the commission is supposed to issue its rewrite.

At least the PCFC finally got its website up in time for its second “public” meeting on Tuesday, with decent video posted the next day of both sessions. But the video of the first meeting is pretty obviously from a cellphone, with poor video and blurry graphics.