Sentences with phrase «agree on campaign finance»

The two factions could not agree on campaign finance reforms, or a portion of a women's equality act that includes abortion rights.

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But political strategists and privacy advocates agreed that Mercer's parallel funding channels, combined with concerns over the surreptitious, commodified Facebook data — reported here for the first time — represented an intensified collision of billionaire financing and digital targeting on the campaign trail.

Cuomo, along with Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan agreed relatively early in the budget negotiations that ethics and campaign - finance reform would not be a threat to the passage of the state budget on time.

(CNN)- Campaign finance reform is the issue that the Tea Party and progressives can agree on — at least in new ads designed to drum up support for the Fair Elections Now Act.

Former Assemblyman Richard Brodsky on the left's worst nightmare: «What if Cuomo says he'll muscle campaign finance reform, but only if Klein, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (yes, the Assembly has a role), and advocacy groups agree to massive upper - income tax cuts?

Cuomo, perhaps attempting to win favor with both, explained he would not sign off on a pay hike unless legislators — mostly Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos — agreed to major campaign finance reforms.

Cuomo failed to get lawmakers to agree on a package of campaign finance reforms, and says he will now appoint a commission under the powers» of the state's Moreland Act, to investigate campaign filings at the State Board of Elections.

Questions during the off topic portion of the press Q&A included the NYPD's proposed expansion of it's use of tasers, a fine levied by the Campaign Finance Board against de Blasio ally and pro-carriage horse ban advocate NYCLASS, de Blasio's recent comments on the City's long drop in crime being attributable to former mayor David Dinkins and former city council speaker Peter Vallone Sr., a city council proposal to allow filing in City Council district offices of NYPD - related complaints with the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the proposed bill which would ban carriage horses and resulting loss of jobs, an attempt by a staff member of the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor to goad the mayor into agreeing to appear on that show, a possible tax on non-resident apartment owners, the mayor's planned meeting tonight with Jewish community leaders in Crown Heights and whether the mayor has concerns about the «secrecy» of the NYPD's disciplinary process.

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.

Last week, on the same day as the Capital interview with Nislick, NYCLASS agreed to pay a large fine for violating city campaign finance law.

In 2014, Cuomo refused to sign off on a pay raise for state legislators unless they agreed to campaign finance reforms.

The three GOP candidates agreed on most issues in the debate, but tried to stand apart on some of the finer details of policy issues such as campaign finance reform.

Michael Malbin, with the Campaign Finance Institute, which conducts research on public campaign financing, agrees that when voters are simply asked if they want their taxes to go to politicians, they are more likely toCampaign Finance Institute, which conducts research on public campaign financing, agrees that when voters are simply asked if they want their taxes to go to politicians, they are more likely tocampaign financing, agrees that when voters are simply asked if they want their taxes to go to politicians, they are more likely to say no.

The governor had promised to form the investigatory commission in accordance with the state's Moreland Act after he and lawmakers failed to agree on a package of ethics and elections law reforms that ranged from increasing punishment for taking bribes to making it easier to register to vote to using taxpayer money to finance political campaigns.