Reforming Albany: Can Competitive Elections
Make for a Better Legislature?

When: Thursday, June 9, 2005; at 6 p.m.
Where: House of the Association, 42 West 44th Street

Whether it’s gridlock over Rockefeller drug law reform, stalled movement on ethics reform or the fact that New York is one of the only states that hasn’t qualified for federal money to update our election technology, Albany is rightfully known as the most dysfunctional legislature in the country. What can be done to change this? Are more competitive elections the answer? And if so, how do we get there? Please join Citizens Union Foundation and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York for a panel discussion on creating competitive elections. Topics to be discussed include: Legislative redistricting, campaign finance reform, and what those on the outside can do to influence legislators to create competitive elections.

The event is free and open to the public.

Moderator:
DICK DADEY, Citizens Union Foundation

Speakers:
MICHAEL GIANARIS, Member, New York State Assembly
ANGELO FALCÓN, Institute of Puerto Rican Studies
NICOLE GORDON, New York City Campaign Finance Board

About the Association
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (www.nycbar.org) was founded in 1870, and since then has been dedicated to maintaining the high ethical standards of the profession, promoting reform of the law, and providing service to the profession and the public.