Sentences with phrase «public financing of campaigns appears»

Not exact matches

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.»

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.

It is one of the issues that appears to still be «live» down at the Capitol, as opposed to public campaign financing and the Women's Equality Act, which Cuomo himself has admitted are unlikely to pass before lawmakers leave Albany for their summer vacations.

The chances of passage for several key issues promoted by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, including a Women's Equality Act and public campaign finance appear dim, due to opposition from Senate Republicans.

Several other ideas, like a state hotline for sexual harassment complaints, a statewide database of medical records and $ 4 million for a new office to police campaign finance laws and eventually set up a system of public matching funds, have appeared in newspapers in the days ahead of Cuomo's speech.

The chances of passage for several key issues promoted by Governor Andrew Cuomo, including a Women's Equality Act and public campaign finance appear dim, due to opposition from Senate Republicans.

But momentum appears to be on the side of reformers this year, said Craig Holman, a campaign finance reform expert with Public Citizen, a government watchdog group in Washington, D.C.