The Public and NYC Campaign Finance Board Should Know How Campaign Contributions Are Spent   Reinvent Albany is deeply concerned by yesterday’s story on WNBC Channel 4 showing that Eric Adams’ 2025 campaign for mayor paid anonymous, out-of-state shell companies roughly $600,000. These companies have no websites or internet presence, are not registered to do […]

As part of our advocacy for open, accountable NY government, Reinvent Albany issued memos of support for the following bills: We also issued memos of opposition to the following bills:

Reinvent Albany Statement on Governor Hochul’s 2026 State of the State Speech   Good, Bad and Absent from Governor’s Election-Year Speech (and our very short list of proposals)   Good  Bad Absent Comments on Select Items Funding to Increase Number of MTA Co-Response Teams Reinvent Albany thanks Governor Hochul for further expanding the MTA’s highly […]

January 9, 2026 The Honorable Kathy HochulGovernor of New York State RE: Upholding the Relevance and Importance of COELIG Dear Governor Hochul, We write today as organizations that have consistently advocated for a robust, independent, and fully functioning statewide ethics commission. In that vein, we are writing to urge you to promptly fill commissioner vacancies […]