Billionaire Funded Ads Against Voting Access

Albany Times-Union: “When voters went to the polls Nov. 2, it was unclear who’d funded $3 million in advertisements seeking the defeat of three proposed constitutional amendments in New York. All three amendments – put forward by Democrats in the state Legislature and seeking to reshape the redistricting process and expand voting rights – ended up failing following the barrage of radio and television ads.”

“The funding question was answered this week, when the state Conservative Party belatedly disclosed that the money for its ads came largely from a single source: billionaire cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder, who donated $4.15 million to the party in recent months.”