Category Archives: Podcasts

Today I sit down with NAACP Syracuse and Onondaga County president Colette Matthews-Carter. We discuss the organizations history and her hopes of what she can do as the incoming president to reach out to minority communities as well as young activists. I hope you enjoy.

We close out 2020 with a return visit from my friend Perry Grossman of the New York Civil Liberties Union. He is the Senior Staff Attorney for the Voting Rights Project and is involved with many different election cases including school districts, reapportionment, and the census. He is also one of the top advocates forContinue reading “Zoom with Czarny: Perry Grossman of NYCLU”

In today’s holiday offering of Zoom with Czarny I sit down with Assemblyman Charles Lavine of Nassau County. Mr. Lavine chairs the Assembly Election Law committee and is a wonderful advocate for voters and Boards of Elections throughout New York State.

In today’s Zoom with Czarny I have a conversation with SU professor David Driesen who is authoring an upcoming book The Specter of Dictatorship: Judicial Enabling of Presidential Power. We talk about the lasting effects of the Post election litigation from President Trump and how we can recover from the possible slow slide into authoritarianism.

I welcome back to our program Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause NY.. In today’s episode we talk about the Independent Citizen led redistricting movement in Syracuse NY, Ranked Choice voting in NYC, and what lessons we need to take from 2020 elections in New York State and progress we need to make inContinue reading “Zoom with Czarny: Susan Lerner Executive Director of Common Cause NY”

In this Zoom with Czarny I sit down with Senator Michael Gianaris who is the New York State Senate majority leader. We talk about the progress made in elections over the last two years. We also look forward to how the new super majority will shape election legislation in the coming session.