Voters will receive the campaign contribution information in the CFB’s Voter Guides. On April 9, 2019, Council Member Ben Kallos introduced Introduction 1504 of 2019, a proposed bill that would reveal where politicians get their campaign contributions from and make this information more accessible to voters. To track the source of contributions, the bill would require campaign contributors to indicate their industry.
Presented by the New York City Campaign Finance Board and the Center for New York City Law at New York Law School
When
Thursday, April 11, 2019 from 2:00 pm to 4:50 pm
Check-in: 1:30 pm
Where
New York Law School, Auditorium
185 West Broadway (between Worth and Leonard Streets)
Credits
3.0 Transitional and Nontransitional CLE Credits: 2.5 in Professional Practice and .5 in Ethics and Professionalism
Cost
$120 Registration Fee
Presented by the New York City Campaign Finance Board and the Center for New York City Law at New York Law School
When
Thursday, April 11, 2019 from 2:00 pm to 4:50 pm
Check-in: 1:30 pm
Where
New York Law School, Auditorium
185 West Broadway (between Worth and Leonard Streets)
Credits
3.0 Transitional and Nontransitional CLE Credits: 2.5 in Professional Practice and .5 in Ethics and Professionalism
Cost
$120 Registration Fee
In February 2017, Mayor Bill de Blasio appointed Frederick Schaffer as the Chair of the City’s Campaign Finance Board. The Board, which will be thirty years old next year, is responsible for enforcing New York City’s campaign finance law, monitoring campaign contributions and disclosures, overseeing the public matching funds program and enforcing the rules. Schaffer takes the reigns as the Board heads into the 2017 mayoral campaign.
Schaffer was born and raised in Brooklyn. One of four boys, his father was a businessman and his mother a school teacher and then homemaker. Schaffer entered Harvard undergraduate in 1964, at the beginning of the era of public interest law. He graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in history before going onto Harvard Law School. After receiving his J.D. in 1973, Schaffer worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York in its civil litigation division for five years. (read more…)
Wayne Hawley. Image credit: NYC Conflicts of Interest Board
Wayne Hawley has served with the Conflicts of Interest Board since 1999. Born in California, Hawley grew up in a military family and moved frequently, completing high school in Virginia before returning to California as an undergrad at Claremont McKenna College. He relocated to the East Coast again for Yale Law School, then in his words, “followed the bouncing ball” back to Los Angeles for two years of private practice. Hawley crossed the country again to work as staff counsel to the Cleveland chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, finally arriving in New York City as executive director of MFY Legal Services in 1985. He held that position until joining the New York City Conflicts of Interest Board in 1999.
Amy Loprest, Campaign Finance Board Executive Director. Image Credit: CFB.
The dramatic suicide of Queens Borough President Donald Manes in 1986 shocked the City. Manes was under investigation in the Parking Violations Bureau ticket collection scandal when he drove a knife through his heart while talking on the phone with his psychiatrist. It was out of this scandal-plagued era that the City’s Campaign Finance Board was born. A joint City-State Commission to combat corruption organized by Mayor Ed Koch and Governor Mario Cuomo recommended public financing of elections as its top priority. The City then created an independent non-partisan Campaign Finance Board and charged it with implementing and enforcing the City’s new system of publicly funded elections.
Amy Loprest, the Campaign Finance Board’s current Executive Director, says that many campaign finance laws across the globe have been the result of scandal. After receiving her undergraduate degree in finance and public policy management from the University of Pennsylvania, Loprest began her career as the Assistant Director of the City’s Deferred Compensation Program. Wanting to be involved in public policy and politics, when Loprest saw an opportunity to work at the Campaign Finance Board in the fall of 1990, she took it. She left the CFB to attend Fordham’s School of Law, but returned to a legal position with the CFB in 1999 to continue working in public service.
