Sentences with phrase «accepting public financing for»

And, because Baldacci is the lone candidate not accepting public financing for the general election campaign, if he spends more than $ 400,000, the state provides dollar for dollar matching funds for Woodcock, as well as the Green and Independent party candidates.

Collect Cash: Even though McCain is apparently accepting public financing for the general election, that doesn't remove the onus of collecting cash.

Just when momentum seemed to be building for Edwards, he announced late yesterday that he would accept public financing for both the primary and the general election — a potentially self - defeating move.

Not exact matches

Progressive leaders and Democratic state lawmakers on Tuesday said they wanted a measure overhauling campaign finance that included a public system of funding for campaigns, saying they wouldn't accept any «watered down» compromises.

Candidates who accept public financing get rewarded for raising money from small donors, which helps make those candidates less beholden to special interests.

«We do not accept the need for cuts and we will continue to make the case for the alternative of investment in our public services and proper resources to tackle the tax dodgers who deprive our public finances of tens of billions of pounds every year.»

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.

Cuomo has said he intends to launch a new effort for campaign finance reform, and Samuels says he could hold public hearings and create an open process to develop legislation, as well as setting a good example on his own, by saying he won't accept any more corporate donations.

Last month, AG Schneiderman and Comptroller DiNapoli announced the arrest of former Bronx city council candidate Albert Alvarez for allegedly accepting straw donations and stealing at least $ 4,500 in New York City Campaign Finance Board public matching funds during his unsuccessful 2013 run for Council.

MyDD's Jonathan Singer and Hotline's Jennifer Skala both pick up on a statement from Barack Obama hinting that, contrary to previous statements, he won't accept public financing because «We have created a parallel public financing system where the American people decide if they want to support a campaign they can get on the Internet and finance it...» Skala argues that since Obama isn't taking money from PACs or Washington lobbyists (state lobbyists is another issue), «What would he have to prove by signing up for public financing?»

Meanwhile, the system of public financing for presidential candidates that came into being after the Watergate scandal and that once was universally accepted and respected by those seeking the presidency has been systematically shredded over the course of the last four presidential campaigns.

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.

I have valued public and private businesses ranging from a BC ship ¬ yard and Canadian and European manufacturers to a direct - mail marketer for purposes of financing, public security offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and litigation, and I have been accepted as an expert on the subject by the Supreme Court of British Columbia, the British Columbia Securities Commission, and the then Vancouver Stock Exchange.

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) questions the logic employed by the Minister of Finance that the two voluntary credit card proposals he accepted yesterday, «should ultimately result in lower prices for consumers.»