zephyr teachout will begin. r first question comes from casey seiler of the times. >> thanks alan. ms. teachout come you cite overturning citizens united and a public campaign finance as priorities in terms of reform should like to bring to campaign finance. yet your opponent has criticized you for taking campaign donations from the billionaire soros family and your from disclosure so those that you raised more than 1.6 million through the end of june. is your fundraising in conflict with your policy position to remove or reduce big money from politics? >> moderator: not at all. teachout: . not at all. thank you to john and thank you to all of you who are here in person or listening or watching. look, i've spent my life fighting against big money in politics. we really have a crisis of corruption in a country right now. we have a crisis in albany but also in washington. there's two different parts of the. one is just basically campaigns are funded. i mean, congress is a working right now. one of the reasons why i

zephyr teachout will begin. our first question comes from casey from the times union. >> thanks, alan and thank you to the candidates. ms. teachout, you site overturning citizen union and public finance is a priority yet your opponent has criticized you for taking donations from the soro family and it shows you raised 1.6 million through the end of june. is your fundraising in conflict to removing or reducing money in politics? >> not at all. first of all, thank you for hosting the debate and thank you for those joining here. i spent my life fighting against big money in politics. we have a crisis of corruption in our country. there are two basic parts. one is the way congress is funded. congress isn't working and one way is because they spend 40% of their time raising money from rich people and supporting independent businesses and education policy and how week d weekend -- we can do this. another part ahow -- allowed for big corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money. these are super pacs. two new york c