Recent political research has provided evidence that state level corruption increases the further the capital is from the state’s dominant city. Living in New York and having seen the corrupt mess that is Albany this comes as no surprise. As past readers of Continuations know, I am a supporter of Represent.us and the American Anti-corruption Act. Also, here is a longer post that explains why the influence of money in politics has been growing ever more problematic.

If you are a registered Democrat in NY State today you can do something about corruption: go and vote for Zephyr Teachout for Governor and Tim Wu for Lieutenant Governor in the primary elections (these are *separate* votes!). Governor Cuomo failed utterly at what he set out as job #1 which was to “clean up Albany.” Worse than failing at it he interfered with the supposedly independent Moreland commission once they started to look into firms that worked with his campaign.

If you have not done so yet, you can learn more about the Teachout/Wu campaign. Then head to the polls today. As per usual in primaries there are very few voters and absolutely no lines. The polls in NY remain open until 9pm so there is plenty of time.