This year’s political advertising is part of a new era in campaigns. In today’s Congressional Corner, New York representative Paul Tonko, a Democrat running for reelection in the new 20th district, tells WAMC’s Alan Chartock that Citizens United has changed the game.
Dr. Alan Chartock is professor emeritus at the University at Albany. He hosts the weekly Capitol Connection series, heard on public radio stations around New York. The program, for almost 12 years, highlighted interviews with Governor Mario Cuomo and now continues with conversations with state political leaders. Dr. Chartock also appears each week on The Media Project and The Roundtable and offers commentary on Morning Edition, weekdays at 7:40 a.m.