Sentences with phrase «public campaign financing did»

Public campaign financing did make it into this year's budget, just not like many had hoped.

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Shifting swiftly to the general election, Trump says he's narrowed his list of potential running mates to «five or six» people and doesn't want to accept public money to finance a fall campaign against Clinton.

The comptroller has been pushing for some time to have his office used as a pilot for a statewide public campaign finance system, but while his former colleagues in the Assembly passed a bill to do just that this past session, the Senate did not follow suit.

On changes to the state's campaign finance laws, Skelos indicated he would be open to reforms that did not include a public financing system that is modeled after the New York City system.

«The 6th District and America need to stop big corporate money from privatizing our democracy, which means public funding for public elections as we have in NYC and a DISCLOSE act so anonymous money from billionaires doesn't buy our government,» said Green, who is the author of Who Runs Congressand Losing Our Democracy, as well as the author of the multiple matching funds for small donors part of the City's campaign finance law.

Another insider said the breakaway Dems won't help control the agenda like they did the past two years, but they do expect to be able to get some bills to the floor — though not contentious ones like the public financing of campaigns that are being pushed by the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.

He said he doesn't support public campaign financing because the public's dollars should not be used to support candidates whose positions they don't necessarily support.

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.

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.

We should be here because we care about what happens to New York and what happens to New Yorkers, and we should be prepared to work together as public servants to do that, despite the outsized influence of money, which, because our Republicans continue to stop any notion of campaign finance reform, we continue to deal with.»

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.

She then briefed on Cuomo - related issues, including him failing to close campaign finance loopholes, failing to veto any incumbent protection gerrymandering, not doing enough for election reform, for looting public schools to give tax cuts to banks and not taking a stance against fracking.

Media producer and NY LEAD coalition member Marc Weiss, writing for Newsday, called for New York senators and assembly members to support Gov. Cuomo and Speaker Silver in passing public campaign finance legislation, asking, «Do they want to continue business as usual, or do they want to be part of the solution?&raquDo they want to continue business as usual, or do they want to be part of the solution?&raqudo they want to be part of the solution?»

Public financing of campaigns also would help, since most women don't have access to the good ol' boy networks that primarily fund political campaigns.

The governor did, though, later reaffirm his commitment to public campaign financing.

Cuomo says he did not want to compromise on a reform package that includes public campaign financing, and new prosecutorial powers for the state's district attorneys to root out public corruption.

The governor's proposals — including a system of public campaign finance for all statewide offices as well as the Assembly and Senate — did not advance in the final days of the legislative session.

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 resolution, approved earlier this month after some back - and - forth haggling over pre-Kindergarten spending levels, the public financing of political campaigns and the Dream Act, doesn't go into detail as to what the sales tax exemptions and adjustments would cost in revenue to the state budget.

There are other differences as well, including Cuomo's support for the public financing of political campaigns, which the Assembly supports and the Senate does not.

With public financing of campaigns WE would allot a finite amount of money which could only come from the taxpayers instead of corporate donors thus they would automatically be working for the voters only which would beholden them to the public automatically forcing them to do our will versus others.

Cuomo's proposal for campaign finance reform, which did not pass this year, would have created a system of public financing.

The Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno, the state's top Republican, said that the public did not care about campaign finance reform, and that the governor's plan favored the incumbent governor's party — in this case, the Democrats.

What's more, they are enforced by an energetic and independent Campaign Finance Board, which oversees a carefully constructed system that combines generous public matching funds with limits on contributions to political candidates, limits that are especially strict for lobbyists and others doing business with the city.

Filmmaker Steve Cowan posted full transcripts of his interviews with Cuomo and Maffei on the film's website, which include Maffei's observation he supports public campaign finance «because it means the only people we'll have to worry about in our day are the taxpayers and constituents in our district, and that's what we're supposed to do.»

We will do everything we can to support and promote a vigorous debate,» said Katrina Shakarian, public relations officer at the Campaign Finance Board, in a statement to Gotham Gazette.

Cuomo, who doesn't face re-election until 2014, has pledged to enact broad new campaign finance reform laws, including the public financing of campaigns and stronger disclosure rules that target independent expenditure groups.

In response to the groups» call, a spokesman for Cuomo, did not address the question of an open leaders meeting, saying instead ethics and campaign finance reform «will be discussed» but did not say whether that will in public or in private.

In perhaps a signal to the Working Families Party, the governor now says he may very well campaign against the Senate leadership in the fall elections if they don't agree to expand public campaign financing by the end of the legislative session.

A leading Senate Democrat said if a planned unification between rival factions in the State Senate occurs, don't expect any immediate action on key items like women's reproductive rights, public financing of campaigns and transgender rights.

It could be a way for Cuomo, without actually delivering on the Dream Act or public campaign finance, to claim that he has handed proponents of those bills the means of doing so.

The compromise on campaign finance appeared particularly uncertain on Saturday, after State Senator Jeff Klein, the co-leader of the Senate's governing coalition, said in a statement that negotiations over public financing were «not yet done.»

A leading Senate Democrat says if a planned unification between rival factions in the State Senate occurs, don't expect any immediate action on key items like women's reproductive rights, public financing of campaigns, and transgender rights.

And the governor says a more expansive public campaign finance system did not happen because the votes weren't there in the Senate, and he could not change some senators minds.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has said he's supportive of a campaign finance overhaul and a public system of campaigns, has said he does not expect the ideological rift in the Legislature would make the measure possible this year.

Silver notably did not choose to highlight public campaign finance reform, which has generated a lot of support on the left (Citizen Action, Working Families Party, Strong Economy for All etc), or a reduction of contribution limits for regular candidate committees or PACs.

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.

«In the current political campaign environment, the presidential campaign finance system doesn't work at all and can not work,» said Craig Holman, who lobbies Capitol Hill on ethics and campaign finance issues for the nonprofit consumer advocacy group Public Citizen.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a news conference this morning did not mention the women's agenda as potential measures he'd like to push in the spring, but did note the Dream Act, public financing of political campaigns and changes to the teacher evaluation law were items he wished were in the budget.

Senate Co-President Jeff Klein issued an appreciated statement on Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's proposal to introduce a system of public financing for political campaigns, but added the measure introduced today doesn't go far enough.

A measure to public finance political campaigns passed the Democratic - led Assembly earlier this year, but that did not include a curb on soft money.

«The only thing a public finance system will do is give politicians access to hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to fund their campaigns, and pay for negative TV commercials, mailers and the robocalls people hate,» he said.

But he says he doesn't foresee any scenario in which the public campaign financing part of the legislation would come to the Senate floor for a vote.

Assembly members did not require state public officials convicted of public corruption to forfeit their pensions and it also ignored Cuomo's pitch for public financing of campaigns.

«We crossed the ideological Rubicon and the world did not stop spinning - now it's time to finish what we started and pass a full - fledged program of public financing for state campaigns.

The governor did not rule out splitting the public campaign finance portion of the legislation off from the other bills, in the face of GOP opposition.

Cuomo included a system of public campaign finance in his executive budget — an unprecedented move that was lauded by good - government groups — as did Democrats who dominate the Assembly.

In response to the groups» call, a spokesman for Governor Cuomo did not address the question of an open leaders» meeting, saying instead ethics and campaign finance reform «will be discussed» but did not say whether that will in public or in private.

Assembly Democrats back public campaign financing and have introduced a bill, Senate Republicans do not support the measure.

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