Sentences with phrase «public campaign financing allows»

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As for the end result of all of that enthusiasm, we already know the story: online fundraising allowed Barack Obama to opt out of the public campaign financing system and outspend John McCain by hundreds of millions of dollars in the general election.

Other issues that will receive the same treatment include legislation that would allow NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio to raise income taxes on the rich to fund pre-K, the public campaign finance bill and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Women's Equality Act (assuming that it includes the abortion - rights plank, which is the piece the right finds most offensive).

Koppell had been pushing for a more progressive agenda including a higher minimum wage and public financing of campaigns, passage of the Dream Act, which would allow students in the country illegally access to state financial aid, along with all 10 points of the Women's Equality Agenda, which includes a contentious abortion plank.

The governor is already running smack into a wall of opposition in the Senate, where Republicans (and at least one Democrat) don't want to hold a vote on a measure to strengthen abortion laws or allow for the public financing of political campaigns.

«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.

There's a continuing push for public financing of campaigns, arguing it removes the influence of big money and allows challengers who would have trouble raising money to run.

They recommend enacting New York City style public campaign financing for statewide elections, and closing loopholes that allow limited liability corporations and party housekeeping accounts to blatantly shirk existing limits for campaign contributions.

«We must end the ability of so - called not - for - profit advocacy organizations to elude regulation and to mock New York City's public finance system, by allowing campaigns access to virtually unlimited money from special interests,» he said.

Good government groups have for years complained that New York's campaign finance laws make it difficult for the public to determine the actual source of campaign dollars, whether due to the so - called «LLC loophole» — which allows business interests that control a network of subsidiaries to vastly multiply their political giving — or corporate formation laws that allow companies to obscure the individuals and other businesses behind them.

But while Cuomo was able to get several Republican Senators to vote to enact same sex marriage in 2011, he could not get them to budge on several issues that the Democratic left was pushing for, including, further increasing the minimum wage, allowing children of undocumented immigrants college aid known as the Dream Act, and public financing of political campaigns.

Klein, a former head of the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, said the public's mood over publicly financed campaigns needes to be gauged first, noting that some voters may be uneasy with allowing taxpayer dollars to fund political campaigns (the Senate GOP, which has equal governing weight in the coalition, has cited this reason for its opposition to public financing).

Cuomo's prescriptions in his 2016 State of the State speech included closing a legal loophole that lets campaign donors funnel unlimited sums to candidates through limited - liability companies; requiring office holders to report campaign contributions every 60 days instead of twice a year; allowing lawmakers to earn no more than 15 percent of their legislative salaries in private - sector work; and adopting a system of voluntary public campaign financing similar to what New York City has.

Despite appearing jointly together, both Skelos and Silver are far apart on whether to allow public financing of campaigns to move forward, a coming flashpoint in the effort to overhaul campaign finance and ethics laws in the wake of two corruption scandals.

A variety of compromise measures for public financing were floated on Thursday at the Capitol, including proposals that would allow the program for the comptroller's and attorney general's campaigns.

Klein said the IDC had served as a «strong, stabilizing force» during its partnership with the Senate Republicans, but the time has come to reassess that relationship in light of the fact that top progressive priorities like the DREAM Act, a statewide public campaign finance system and the Women's Equality Act aren't being allowed to the floor of the Senate for a vote due to the opposition of GOP Leader Dean Skelos.

When gaining the endorsement of the labor - backed Working Families Party, he pledged to enact the public financing of political campaigns statewide, the DREAM Act for undocumented immigrants, allow local governments to raise the state's minimum wage and accelerate the timetable for increasing the wage itself.

They include closing a loophole that allows donors to skirt campaign funding limits by forming multiple limited liability companies, as well as the public financing of campaigns.

The report recommended public financing of campaigns to limit big donors» influence, closing loopholes that allow companies to ignore current state contribution limits and toughening bribery penalties.

Gianaris questioned the position of Republican senators who oppose a public campaign financing system, but support allowing politicians to seek state reimbursement for criminal defense fees.

The bills would, among other things, establish a public campaign financing system and close a loophole that allows campaign contributors to skirt donation limits by setting up multiple LLCs or limited liability companies.

They include closing a loophole that allows donors to skirt campaign funding limits by forming multiple Limited Liability Companies, as well as the public financing of campaigns.

He believes in public campaign financing, term limits, banning outside income, and closing the LLC loophole that allows interest groups to avoid contribution limits.

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«Allowing the Democratic party bosses to weigh in on the governor's behalf shows the fundamental unfairness of New York's campaign finance system,» said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Cuomo proposes to extend a system of public campaign finance to all statewide offices and legislative races, ban the use of campaign funds for personal expenses, require the disclosure of outside income and the clients who supported it and change the state Constitution to allow prosecutors to claw back the pensions of officials convicted of public corruption.

He identified a number of reforms that the Assembly would advance, including closing the LLC campaign finance loophole, limiting the influence of big money in politics, and allowing for the pension forfeiture of corrupt public officials.

They recommend enacting New York City - style public campaign financing for statewide elections, and closing loopholes that allow limited liability corporations and party housekeeping accounts to blatantly shirk existing limits for campaign contributions.

«We must replace the public embarrassment of existing campaign financing laws, which allow enormous contributions and unlimited expenditures, with a system of reasonable limits that levels the playing field and ensures that meritorious candidates are not discouraged by the costs of running for public office.»

«A system of public financing allows individuals who are not beholden to any groups to actually run significant campaigns for public office,» said Horner.

«One, is the gerrymandering that occurs allowing lawmakers to draw their own district lines... [two is] a disgraceful campaign finance system that allows them to hit up special interests for ridiculous amounts of money,» said Blair Horner, executive director at the New York Public Interest Research Group, referring to a lack of «pay - to - play» restrictions on campaign donors with government business.

Good government groups see the pension forfeiture measure as a token reform and have pressed for the closing of the «LLC loophole» that allows businesses to create multiple limited liability companies to donate virtually unlimited amounts of campaign cash; public financing of candidate campaigns; the end of lump sum appropriations in the budget; limits on political contributions by companies with business before the state; limits on legislators» outside income; and a renovation of Albany's ethics watchdog, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (Jpublic financing of candidate campaigns; the end of lump sum appropriations in the budget; limits on political contributions by companies with business before the state; limits on legislators» outside income; and a renovation of Albany's ethics watchdog, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JPublic Ethics (JCOPE).

Schneiderman has been touting his «End New York Corruption Now Act» that would create a system of public campaign financing, eliminate outside employment for legislators, extend legislative terms, and allow the AG to prosecute public corruption, among other things.

As the 2013 session of the Connecticut General Assembly came to a close, Malloy and the Democrats passed legislation that allowed candidates to keep the public campaign finance funds while opening the flood gates to tainted campaign contributions.

It allowed more campaign cash into North Carolina's judicial elections by eliminating the popular, nationally - renowned public financing program for judicial candidates.