ALBANY  — NYGOP Chair Ed Cox today released the following statement after the Campaign Finance Board ruled that Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman may not participate in the state’s matching funds program:

“Kathy Hochul and Democrats are drunk on power and rigging our elections. The self-styled ‘defenders of democracy’ tried to rig our elections with their illegal gerrymander in 2022, they tried to rig our elections by corrupting our courts with partisan judges, and they are trying to rig our elections now by using the flimsiest pretense to deny the Republican candidate for Governor public campaign funding. 

“Republicans have been warning about the corruptibility of public campaign finance for years, and now New Yorkers are seeing exactly how Democrats will weaponize the system to protect their own power and silence their opposition.”

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