In this analysis,
Public Campaign Action Fund has attempted to quantify how much coal and oil interests spent in the first six months of 2008.
Public Campaign Action Fund withheld lobbying expenses, to the best of our ability, from known non-coal or gas - powered electric utility entities.
Public Campaign Action Fund is a national nonpartisan nonprofit organization that works to advance comprehensive campaign finance reform and hold elected officials accountable.
Other top spenders included the Greater New York Hospital Association ($ 2.3 million), the No More Casinos Coalition ($ 1.7 million) and
the Public Campaign Action Fund, which lobbied on reducing the role of money in politics ($ 1.4 million).
The Public Campaign Action Fund has released a new television advertisement and revised an existing spot to more prominently mention the governor, a Democrat, who has said he supports changes to New York's porous campaign finance laws but has also made use of the current system to raise millions.
The letter was circulated by
the Public Campaign Action Fund, which has also aired TV ads urging Cuomo to focus on campaign finance issue.
Grisanti held a news conference in his district over the weekend angrily denouncing
the Public Campaign Action Fund and re-asserting his opposition to the measure.
Every Voice was created in 2014 when Friends of Democracy merged with
the Public Campaign Action Fund — a group which was founded in 1997.
The traditional good government groups like the League of Women Voters and NYPIRG are joined by a number of unions, and for first time a national group,
the Public Campaign Action Fund.
At the same time,
the Public Campaign Action Fund also released a poll it conducted finding broad support for changing the state's campaign laws.
The Public Campaign Action Fund pushed hard during the legislative session and the budget negotiating process for the public financing of political campaigns.
Between January and February alone,
the Public Campaign Action Fund spent $ 450,000 on a television ad buy.
The Public Campaign Action Fund, a deep - pocketed organization that backs the public financing of political campaigns, has yet to jump in the lobbying fray this legislative session.
At the moment, neither
Public Campaign Action Fund or a related organization, Friends of Democracy, has filed an intent to lobby letter with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics — a documented required when the cost of seeking to influence state government is expected to be more than $ 5,000 for any given entity.
Randolph applauded
the Public Campaign Action Fund's ad campaign pushing public financing, which analogizes the decrepit state of the Statue of Liberty with the corrosive political environment in Albany.
And
the Public Campaign Action Fund, an organization that supports the public financing of political campaigns spent $ 1.36 million.
Not exact matches
The
campaign called the suit a «frivolous,» «partisan» and meritless
action that represents a «last - ditch effort» by a «nearly - bankrupt Democratic Party» still trying to counter the will of the American
public.
Shareholders are also taking notice of issues related to socioeconomic and political equity, access and opportunity — such as
public disclosure of corporate funding for political
action committees (PACs),
campaigns and lobbyists.
In sum, what started last April with a call to
action to join the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to prevent a mega fossil energy project from threatening a primary source of fresh water has grown into a
public interest
campaign with powerful implications for energy development, the environment, and the rule of law.
John Dickie, the director of Child Poverty
Action Group in Scotland, and Sir Harry Burns, the former chief medical officer for Scotland who is now Professor of Global
Public Health at the University of Strathclyde, will also be at the
campaign launch.
The MEPs voting for the Resolution were heeding the expert opinions of medical and
public health bodies from across Europe, US, Asia and Latin America and from UN bodies, including WHO, UNICEF, Save the Children, the UK Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME), the European Midwives Association, Eurochild, Association of European Cancer Leagues, the European Federation of the Association of Dieticians (EFAD), the European Federation of Nurses Associations (EFN), COFACE (the Confederation of Family Organisations in the European Union), EPHA (the European Public Health Association) BEUC (the European Consumers Association), the German Midwives Association, the California Women Infants and Children Association, Sustain's Childrens Food Campaign, the National Childbirth Trust, the Baby Feeding Law Group and the International Baby Food Action N
public health bodies from across Europe, US, Asia and Latin America and from UN bodies, including WHO, UNICEF, Save the Children, the UK Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME), the European Midwives Association, Eurochild, Association of European Cancer Leagues, the European Federation of the Association of Dieticians (EFAD), the European Federation of Nurses Associations (EFN), COFACE (the Confederation of Family Organisations in the European Union), EPHA (the European
Public Health Association) BEUC (the European Consumers Association), the German Midwives Association, the California Women Infants and Children Association, Sustain's Childrens Food Campaign, the National Childbirth Trust, the Baby Feeding Law Group and the International Baby Food Action N
Public Health Association) BEUC (the European Consumers Association), the German Midwives Association, the California Women Infants and Children Association, Sustain's Childrens Food
Campaign, the National Childbirth Trust, the Baby Feeding Law Group and the International Baby Food
Action Network
Baby Milk
Action press release 7 March 2016 (Members of the
public in the UK can click here to support the
campaign in Parliament to enforce formula marketing regulations) Issuing the results of a survey is an old trick for...
Members of the
public sent messages of protest to the shopping centres in support of a Baby Milk
Action «Stop Wyeth»
campaign.
In addition to a new Animal Response Team name and cause awareness
campaign, the aquarium also launched a new «Sheddvocate»
public engagement and advocacy program designed to inspire individuals to take
action and join in the organization's mission to rescue, rehabilitate, release and rehome animals.
Besides serving as the
campaign's
public front, a candidate site's primary goal is usually to help build a supporter database, meaning that no visitor to the site should leave without an opportunity to join up and turn their online enthusiasm into the potential for real - world
action.
Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the
public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive
action k) offered a wholly negative electoral
campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.
Teachout, who has pushed for a Democratic majority with
campaign donations and in her
public appearances, is raising funds for the political
action committee, the Anti-Corruption League.
The Warm Homes
Campaign is NEA and Energy Action Scotland's annual campaign targeted at the public and the country's decision makers to raise awareness of fuel poverty and the benefits of improved energy eff
Campaign is NEA and Energy
Action Scotland's annual
campaign targeted at the public and the country's decision makers to raise awareness of fuel poverty and the benefits of improved energy eff
campaign targeted at the
public and the country's decision makers to raise awareness of fuel poverty and the benefits of improved energy efficiency.
In the lead up to this weekend's New York State Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus» conference in Albany, the Center for Working Families and Citizen
Action of New York has released a study that found
public financing of political
campaigns helps candidates in poor and majority - minority districts.
Social media like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram provide a
public stage, where your supporters»
actions on your behalf can inspire their friends and family to join your
campaign (or at least give you a once - over).
On April 25, Cuomo, who made
public campaign finance part of his 2010
campaign reform agenda and highlighted it in his 2012 State of the State address, had this to say on whether
action might be taken this year:
Bill Samuels, a longtime Democratic
campaign donor and good - government advocate, has created a political
action committee with $ 500,000 to push for a constitutional convention in which the
public could radically change how Albany operates.
Scharff, with Citizen
Action, says an agreement on «comprehensive reform» that incudes matching donor
public funding for candidates and strong enforcement of the
campaign finance laws would be great.
Good Government Groups to Cuomo and Legislative Leaders: Pass Reform Before Budget Deadline Several good - government groups, including the New York
Public Interest Research Group, Common Cause, Citizen
Action, the League of Women Voters, and the Brennan Center, gathered in Albany on Tuesday to encourage state leaders to enact comprehensive
campaign finance reform.
Horner: Time for Cuomo and Legislature to Take Real
Action on Reform Blair Horner, legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, in a commentary piece for the WAMC Northeast Public Radio, demanded that Governor Cuomo and the legislature take real action on campaign finance r
Action on Reform Blair Horner, legislative director of the New York
Public Interest Research Group, in a commentary piece for the WAMC Northeast
Public Radio, demanded that Governor Cuomo and the legislature take real
action on campaign finance r
action on
campaign finance reform.
A leading Senate Democrat says if a planned unification between rival factions in the State Senate occurs, do not expect any immediate
action on key items like women's reproductive rights,
public financing of
campaigns and transgender rights.
Scharff, with Citizen
Action, says an agreement on comprehensive reform that includes matching donor
public funding for candidates and strong enforcement of the
campaign finance laws would be great.
Indeed, legal scholars — and even Bharara, during
public events — have suggested it is difficult to make cases if the only evidence surrounding an official
action is a
campaign contribution.
Despite mea culpas and the
public backing of his boss, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Kevin Jennings, a so - called schools czar in the Obama administration, continues to be the target of a conservative
campaign against his long - ago
actions as a schoolteachers.
The New York Democrat acknowledged his wrongdoing, but he
campaigned in the days before the House vote for his colleagues to support a reprimand — a lesser punishment that would still require a House vote but not mandate a
public dressing - down — on the basis that the ethics committee had not deemed his
actions corrupt.
And to further fortify their
actions and garner
public sympathy, IPOB has set up an elaborate media
campaign team to blackmail the Federal Government and its security agencies in discharging its onerous lawful responsibilities to the people of Nigeria by protecting lives and property.
A political
action committee associated with Jonathan Soros is prepared to spend millions of dollars against Republican state senators on Long Island if state lawmakers don't approve a system of
public campaign finance.
«The people of New York are demanding change and it's time we took
action to restore the
public trust by closing the LLC loophole and bringing fairness to our
campaign finance system,» Cuomo said in the May 24 statement announcing his bill menu aimed at closing the loophole that has allowed tens of millions of dollars into
campaign accounts.
Citizen
Action and other groups are pushing for
public financing of
campaigns as part of the reforms.
Advocates for
public financing of
campaigns and advocates of abortion rights are entering the final push for passage of the measures, and are using a variety of tactics to spur
action in the state Senate.
In the last week, he flexed some muscle, pushing for
action on the DREAM Act,
public campaign finance and funding for a pre-kindergarten expansion that New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has pushed for.
To support
public financing of election
campaigns in the state of New York, modeled after New York City's system, and to join coalitions, including Citizens
Action of New York, to support this reform.
Karen Scharff, with Citizen
Action, is part of a coalition pressing for
public campaign financing.
Karen Scharff, with Citizen
Action, which is part of a coalition advocating for a statewide
public campaign finance system, says DA Fitzpatrick's support is good news.
The advocates, including Citizen
Action's Karen Scharff, want the state to adopt a
public campaign financing system similar to the one in New York City where every one dollar donated by a private individual to a political
campaign releases $ 6 of
public money.