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Cuomo talks campaign finance reform

A woman walks past the campaign signs of

Photo credit: Charles Eckert | A woman walks past the campaign signs of New York State gubernatorial candidate Andrew M. Cuomo on East Fordham Avenue in the Bronx. (Oct. 31, 2010)

Gov.Andrew M. Cuomo came off as simpatico with advocates of campaign-finance reform at a Manhattan conclave Friday -- yet cited what he called a "substantive issue" that gives elected officials pause at enacting new funding restrictions.

The landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Citizens United case approved purportedly "independent expenditures" that attack or promote political candidates....

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