Sentences with phrase «public financing of campaigns also»

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.

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His reported close ties to US presidential candidate Hilary Clinton are not popular in certain corners of the French press, while there are also allegations he used public funds to finance his own presidential campaign.

Today's Q poll also finds New Yorkers oppose (51 - 40) the idea of public campaign financing, which Cuomo supports, and back — albeit narrowly, 48 - 42 — the full disclosure of outside income by state lawmakers.

Word spread Friday evening of a potential deal that could have also included ethics - related measures such as more oversight of procurement procedures — a discussion sparked by the latest public corruption scandal that reached into the governor's inner circle — and a public financing system for judicial campaigns.

He also backs a public financing system for campaigns, but wrote in his accompanying policy book for the State of the State that the money would come from a non-taxpayer source.

Cuomo has also talked of making schools and school administrators more accountable, and he has yet to fulfill a key component of his reform agenda, the public financing of campaigns.

The groups, also strong supporters of comprehensive campaign finance reform built around a core of public financing of elections, today focused on the urgent need for ethics reform as another essential way to address the problems created by a money culture in Albany.

IDC Leader Jeff Klein said he's «excited» by the prospect and said he also wants the rest of the Democrats to adopt his group's policy agenda, including transgender rights and public financing for campaigns, items supported by many mainstream Democrats.

The groups pushing today for the closure of the loophole have also been full - throated in their support for the public financing of political campaigns.

Cuomo has also insisted the public financing of political campaigns being limited to the state comptroller's race is a breath through considering the opposition to a statewide program in the Senate.

Governor Cuomo also, for the first time, is requesting a budget line for public financing of campaigns, though he has not yet filled in the details of a dollar amount or funding source.

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.

They also took advantage of a loophole in campaign finance laws and bundled $ 125,000 in contributions, using limited liability companies to hide the true amount of their donations from the public.

The Republican Senate Leader also threw cold water on a proposal to enact public financing of campaigns, an issue that both Speaker Silver and Governor Cuomo support.

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.

State Sen. Daniel Squadron also said «fundamental reform of the system» is needed «including laws to create a better campaign finance system and more open and competitive elections, and to disentangle public service from for - profit business.»

It could also enact public financing of campaigns.

Of course, Gov. Andrew Cuomo also supports campaign - finance reform and has said public financing is a critical component for the measure, even if he wouldn't say in an interview with New York Public Radio's Karen DeWitt such a provision has to be included in legislpublic financing is a critical component for the measure, even if he wouldn't say in an interview with New York Public Radio's Karen DeWitt such a provision has to be included in legislPublic Radio's Karen DeWitt such a provision has to be included in legislation.

The letter, sent also to Sens. Dean Skelos, Jeff Klein and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, includes the signatures of Jonathan Soros, who has contributed to a well - funded public financing campaign, as well as the founder of Craigslist, Craig Newmark.

Rice also played down the dissent over public campaign financing, saying: «We had more than a majority of people saying (that) was the way to go.»

It also comes as Cuomo comes under increasing pressure from liberal and progressive advocacy groups that are part of a well - funded campaign to push for public financing.

Advocates are also closely to watching to make sure the public financing of political campaigns is included.

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The GOP has also steadfastly been against public financing of campaigns.

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.

They have also shown a different approach to the use of taxpayer funds for their respective campaigns, though Malliotakis — who plans to accept public matching funds — used to criticize the city's campaign finance system as a waste of taxpayer dollars.

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 mCampaign 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 mcampaign finance laws but has also made use of the current system to raise millions.

«The truth is, also, the Senate has been a problem on many of these issues,» Cuomo said, after promising to push for a higher minimum wage, public campaign finance and changes to state abortion laws.

They also took advantage of a loophole in campaign finance laws and bundled $ 125,000 in contributions, using limited liability companies, or LLCs, to hide the true amount of their donations from the public.

There was also discussion of a proposal to use public funds to finance political campaigns, which Cuomo has proposed but is in limbo as lawmakers move to finish state budget negotiations.

He also ruled out for the first time the option of taking public financing for his campaign, money that would have saved him the time - consuming task of raising vast sums but would have dramatically limited the amount he would have been able to raise.

He also pushed public financing of campaigns.

He's also touted his desire to reform Albany as a reason to pair with Senate Republicans, and yet Senate Republicans have stood opposed to banning outside income for legislators, reforming campaign finance laws and enacting public financing of campaigns — things Klein has said he wants to do.

Flanagan also dismissed public campaign financing; asked about closure of the LLC loophole only, he said, «We will have discussions on that — they've taken place in the past.»

Other surveys, such as this one by the Committee on Economic Development demonstrate support for reform is also strong in the business community; 72 percent are in favor of creating a public financing system that would match low - dollar contributions and give average citizens more incentives to contribute to campaigns.

The governor also called for overhauling state rules to block politicians from using campaign money to cover personal finances, to force greater disclosure of the sources of campaign money and also to institute a system of public financing of elections.

Wills is also accused of scamming the city Campaign Finance Board by accepting public matching funds to pay Micro Targeting for helping with Wills» failed 2009 City Council bid.

They'll also talk about reforming Rockefeller Drug Laws, public financing of campaigns and the challenges of balancing the state budget.

The governor also proposed a public campaign financing system, based on New York City's model, and he wants greater disclosure of donors to new Super PACS that currently use not for profit loopholes to hide contributors» identities.

As he so often does when asked about fundraising, de Blasio stressed the need for campaign finance reform, advocating for full public financing of elections that would not only pull big moneyed interests out of politics but would also focus, «all that time that goes into fundraising now back into public service.»

New Yorkers also gave a thumbs up to other items on the governor's agenda, including the raising the minimum wage, at 83 % to 15 %, and public financing of political campaigns at 59 % to 36 %.

There were also deals, or near deals, to bar campaign donations from those seeking state contracts, create a public campaign financing system for state Supreme Court judicial candidates, and require state lawmakers to seek a formal opinion on whether their outside income represents conflicts of interest.