Alyssa Cass on Rep. Pat Ryan’s bellwether special election

 Slingshot partner Alyssa Cass spoke to The Huffington Post as a lead communications consultant on the Pat Ryan campaign about the issues at hand in Ryan’s August 2022 special election.

In 2019, New York Democrats passed a law severely restricting when judges can set cash bail on the grounds that it discriminates against low-income defendants awaiting trial. The legislature has twice returned to roll back some of the original law’s provisions amid complaints that it deprived judges of the discretion needed to keep dangerous people off of the streets.

Ryan backed the 2019 reform but also supports the changes to the original bail law, making it easier to set cash bail, according to campaign spokesperson Alyssa Cass.

“Pat has been a leader in keeping his community safe,” she said. “He’s led on the issue, partnering with local law enforcement to increase their funding, ramped up efforts to take guns off our streets, and has supported reforms to cash bail to support and protect our communities.”

Read the full Huffington Post story here.