Byline: MARC HUMBERT Associated Press
ALBANY -- Political action committees shelled out $19 million last year trying to influence state elections in New York, with just 16 of 452 PACs accounting for 40 percent of the spending, a coalition of groups seeking campaign finance reform reported Wednesday.
The coalition noted the top-spending PACs, dubbed the Sweet 16, distributed 27 percent of their $7.6 million in donations to the Democratic majority in the state Assembly and another 27 percent to the Republican majority in the state Senate.
``This is just another example of a select few controlling the legislative agenda in Albany,'' said Rachel Leon, …
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