Laura MacCleery is an Attorney at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law.

Andrew Stengel is Director of National Election Advocacy for the Brennan Center for Justice and co-author of Still Broken: New York State Legislative Reform 2008 Update. He works across the Center's issue areas with an emphasis on New York reform and voting rights and elections. Previously, Mr. Stengel was Northeast Director for People For the American Way, an aide to Governor Mario Cuomo, advisor to labor unions and candidates in New York State and Political and Communications Director for Miramax co-founder Harvey Weinstein. He is a frequent writer of op-eds and contributor to the Brennan Center's blog, Reform New York. Mr. Stengel is a graduate of Brandeis University.

Blog Entries by Laura MacCleery and Andrew Stengel

Presidential Public Funding, Extreme Makeover Edition

Posted May 7, 2008 | 05:30 PM (EST)


While the primary elections are winding down, the money primary will continue until the party conventions in August and the official start of the general election. The decisions by the remaining presidential candidates to defect from the presidential public funding system for the primaries make it clear that the system...

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