NYT:

ALBANY – There wasn’t much to see in the State Senate on Wednesday: the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance, the honoring of a basketball player and a bunch of empty seats where elected representatives are paid to sit.

But there was something to grab the eye. Shortly after the beginning of proceedings, about 15 protesters who had posed as guests sitting in the upstairs gallery suddenly tossed hundreds of fake $100 bills onto the chamber’s floor below, a prank meant to call attention to the issue of campaign finance reform.