Written by NYRA
Mar 18, 2002
NYRA officials have learned the of the anti-youth nature of the Shays-Meehan Campaign Finance Legislation. Section 319 of the legislation makes it illegal for people under 18 to donate any money to candidate or political parties. “Politicians talk about getting young people involved in politics and turn their back on us with legislation such as this.” says NYRA President Koroknay-Palicz. NYRA intends to fight this, to find out how to help click here.
[…] to once again look into the issue of campaign contributions from young people. This is an issue NYRA has followed since 2002 when the Shays-Meehan Campaign Finance bill was introduced that ultimately became the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act which banned all campaign contributions […]