"The impact it is going to have on state campaigns we'll only know after this election takes place."
Although the issue could only be resolved at the federal level, it dominated the state campaign as well, and Mount openly supported the measure.
The Khodorkovsky case is only the latest round of the state campaign against the oligarchs.
It has pledged $250,000 for other state campaigns still to be named.
He also managed the state campaign of presidential candidate Richard Nixon in 1960.
Norway has a history of state campaigns to block foreign companies from taking over major Norwegian firms.
Many New Yorkers have a sense that money plays an all too important role in state political campaigns.
The groups called on the Legislature to approve public financing of state political campaigns.
Together they are now running a major state campaign, not a major nation.
The goal was to raise at least $3 million to funnel into the state campaigns.