It’s important to know the context in order to fully appreciate the cynicism and impact of these amendments. As has been well reported, party finances are in terrible shape. When Seddio took over in 2013, the party had a cash reserve of $500,000. These have since dwindled to $40,000; as of the Jan. 15 filing, and the party is reportedly in $226,000 in debt. Over this period the party paid $348,277 to George Arzt Communications from its Housekeeping account. If someone has a single press release the communications firm produced for the party, we’d love to see it. (Because all we’ve seen is this tweet linking to this press release.)