Tom Golisano, the three-time New York gubernatorial candidate and billionaire Rochester-area native, is becoming the spokesman for the National Popular Vote campaign, bankrolling an effort to get states to move to a popular-vote system for electing a president. Golisano, the founder of Paychex Inc. in Penfield, will announce his role at a news conference in [...]
The state Board of Elections has referred three complaints against B. Thomas Golisano’s political committee to the Albany County district attorney for criminal prosecution of possible election law violations. In another development, a financial disclosure report filed earlier this week with the state Board of Elections shows that Responsible New York all but emptied its [...]
After the Rochester billionaire Tom Golisano brokered the coup last week that threw the State Senate into chaos, he strolled the halls of the Capitol proclaiming himself a reformer on a mission to shake up Albany’s old ways of questionable ethics and self-dealing. But what Mr. Golisano did not advertise is that his own political [...]
