The Rockefeller Institute in Albany, with the Jaeckle Center at SUNY Buffalo Law School, and the State University of New York's Public Policy Research arm, as part of its multiyear educational campaign designed to promote awareness and understanding of the 2017 New York State Constitutional Convention referendum, today launched a Constitutional Convention web portal on its site.
According to Institute officials, the new web portal offers citizens objective information on the background and history behind the Constitutional Convention; the timeline of the referendum and convention, if called by the voters; potential issues that might come up in a convention; available publications that describe past conventions; videos of related events; and links to electronic and print coverage on the subject.
The material on the site represents the collective nonpartisan educational efforts of the state's foremost authorities on the New York State Constitution and the Convention process. They are: Professors Peter Galie, formerly of Canisius College, and Gerald Benjamin of SUNY New Paltz; attorneys Henry M. Greenberg and Christopher Bopst; former NYS Assemblyman Richard Brodsky; and former State official Henrik Dullea.
The educational campaign, officially announced in September of 2015, brings the Rockefeller Institute together also with these partners: the Government Law Center of Albany Law School; the Benjamin Center for Public Policy Initiatives at SUNY New Paltz; the League of Women Voters of New York State (LWVNYS); and the Siena College Research Institute (SRI).
"From the beginning of our work with our partners, we at the Rockefeller Institute have been committed to developing a web resource that captured the information voters would need to make informed decisions on the constitutional convention question. We would like to thank our colleague organizations and our extraordinary team of experts for their work, which helps ensure that an objective, nonpartisan source of information exists on this very important question," stated Robert Bullock, Deputy Director of the Rockefeller Institute and Coordinator of the Institute's work on the Constitutional Convention.
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