Public funding of election campaigns can also be used as a tool to promote gender equality, whether as an incentive or a penalty in relation to presenting women candidates for election. (democraticaudit.com)
A tacit agrement was starting to take shape whereby Republicans would vote for public funding of elections, and Speyer and his fellow developers could stop spending all this money to keep people like Skelos and other Senate Republicans in office (So, you know, everybody wins). (nystateofpolitics.com)
``... And not just to flip it to Democrat control, but to flip it to Working Families - style Democrats so we can actually get this quite important agenda on minimum wage, on public funding of elections, on marijuana decriminalization, on the Women's Equality Act.» (nystateofpolitics.com)