NY-26: Alice Kryzan Challenges Jack Davis and Jon Powers To Sign “Voters First Pledge”
by Matt at Aug 1st, 2008
Alice Kryzan, one of the three Democrats running for Congress in the 26th District, is calling on Jack Davis and Jon Powers to join her in signing the so-called “Voters First Pledge” which “commits a candidate to supporting legislation to create a system of public financing for qualified candidates who agree to strict spending limits and to take only small donations.”
Somehow, I don’t think Jack Davis or Jon Powers will go for it, and I don’t Kryzan believes they will either, considering the criticisms of her opponents written in the release:
Reiterating her commitment to eliminate the stranglehold of special interest money on Congress, Kryzan said:
“We’re not going to have a Congress that works for working families when its members need to raise millions of dollars every year, and the election cycle essentially never ends. It is time for candidates who are serious about changing Washington to begin by changing the way they get to Washington. It’s time to not just talk the talk, but to begin to walk the walk. And that’s why I ask my opponents to join me in signing the Pledge.”
Kryzan is running in the September 9th primary against millionaire Jack Davis, a three-time congressional candidate who’s pledged to spend $3 million of his own money on the race, and Jon Powers, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from special interest PACs and lobbyists. Kryzan issued an additional challenge to her opponents, calling on them to join her in limiting the overall spending of their primary campaigns to three quarters of a million dollars.
As the party-endorsed candidate, special interests and out-of-state left-wing activists have been funding Powers campaign, which has also been spending significant amounts of that money. Jack Davis already thinks he’s superior for not accepting any contributions and using only his personal fortune to fund his campaign.
I think Alice is on her own with this one.
