Sentences with phrase «pilot public campaign financing program»

The pilot public campaign financing program, limited to just the state Comptroller's race as part of a state budget deal.

The only statewide candidate participating in the pilot public campaign finance program says it's been slow going.

The state's comptroller says he won't be participating in a new pilot public campaign finance program agreed to in the state budget, and government reform groups say they don't blame him.

The budget provision, which first surfaced late Friday, would enact a pilot public campaign finance program limited to the comptroller's office.

The ethics package that produced the pilot public campaign finance program for the state comptroller race also included the shuttering of Governor Cuomo's Moreland Act Commission, which was in the midst of probing possible corruption cases.

The only statewide candidate who is participating in a pilot public campaign finance program says it's been slow going, but Republican candidate for Comptroller Bob Antonacci expects to collect enough individual donors to qualify for the state matching funds.

The New York State Comptroller says he won't be participating in a new pilot public campaign finance program agreed to in the state budget, and government reform groups say, they don't blame him.

Not exact matches

Then there was the most recent stick in the eye: forcing on Dinapoli a pilot public financing program — only for his race — that would make the comptroller give back more than two - thirds of his campaign money or suffer a P.R. hit.

The pilot public financing program in the state comptroller's race, modeled on the New York City campaign finance system, provides a six - to - one match for contributions between $ 10 and $ 175 from New York residents.

The budget included only a pilot program for the public financing of political campaigns and just for the state comptroller's race.

Cuomo and legislative leaders struck a deal to disband the commission in exchange for changes to the state bribery statute, a new enforcement counsel at the Board of Elections and a pilot program for public campaign finance.

In 2014, the governor and legislative leaders — Silver and then - Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who is also on trial for selling his office — agreed to dissolve the commission in exchange for a pilot program of public campaign finance, a new enforcement office at the state's Board of Elections and changes to the bribery statute.

The governor also called the commission a «phenomenal success» for drawing interest to unseemly behavior and prompting legal changes earlier this year, including tougher enforcement at the State Board of Elections and a pilot program for public campaign finance.

The Comptroller's race has the option of a pilot program for public campaign financing, under a budget deal reached earlier this year.

Liberal advocates have suggested in recent weeks that Koppell's challenge could disintegrate if Klein and Gov. Andrew Cuomo are successful in getting the Senate Republicans to agree to a more robust public campaign finance program than the comptroller - only pilot included in the 2014 - 15 budget.

The governor in late May set a benchmark for his support of the alliance between Republicans and the five - member Independent Democratic Conference, saying he wanted action on the Dream Act (which failed in April), a broader system of public campaign finance (beyond the pilot program passed in the state budget) and his Women's Equality Act, which has been controversial because of a plank changing the state's abortion laws.

One of the candidates on the GOP statewide ticket, comptroller candidate Bob Antonacci, is participating in public financing for his campaign under a pilot program approved in the state budget and limited to that race only.

The Watertown Daily Times praised Comptroller DiNapoli for not participating in New York's public financing pilot program for election campaigns.

Antonacci will be taking advantage of a pilot program for public campaign financing approved by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the legislature in the state budget.

DiNapoli, an advocate for public financing of campaigns, has said he won't opt in to the pilot program.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's executive budget contains a public campaign financing proposal with requirements that are essentially unchanged from those used in a «pilot program» last year, even though the governor's office apparently did not seek input from the one candidate who tested the system.

While Antonacci plans to opt into the public campaign financing pilot program, he must reach the $ 200,000 threshold before he can begin getting the 6 - to - 1 matching public funds.

Separately, a good - government advocate unloaded her frustration with Cuomo that a broader system of public campaign finance was rejected in place of a pilot program that applies to the state comptroller.

Of late, Cuomo has said the commission had done its job because it prompted state lawmakers in 2014 to create a pilot program for public campaign finance, create an enforcement counsel at the Board of Elections and change the statutory definition of bribery.

Several of Queens» state legislators lamented that a public campaign finance pilot program approved in the New York state budget was limited to the state comptroller's race in 2014.

The LLC loophole has become a major flashpoint in the battle for campaign finance reform because other efforts at reform failed in this year's budget negotiations and a pilot public financing program for last year's comptroller race never got off the ground.