Silver rallies for public campaign finance in the budget

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Will Brunelle

ALBANY—Proponents of public campaign finance said at a Tuesday rally that their best chance for its adoption is through the state budget.

They praised Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat from lower Manhattan, who committed to putting a system that matches small donations into a budget resolution his house is set to adopt this week.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has put a similar system in his budget proposal, and Republican-allied Democrats in the State Senate are pushing to insert it into that house's one-house proposal, over G.O.P. Resistance.

“The Assembly majority is leading the way, it has been leading the way, and it will do it again this week,” Silver said.

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