Sentences with phrase «amount of public financing»

Set up an unrealistic scenario requiring a large amount of public financing assistance that will be rejected by the same fan base frustrated with the product and ownership's attitude towards the fans.

Not exact matches

Although Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) were lower, and the number of new listings fell to 31 from 43 in the first quarter of 2011, the amount raised through secondary financings was up by 89 %, and the amount raised through supplemental financings was up by 19 %.

Instead of social networking, the online technology that's really shaken up 2008 is fundraising: the candidates» ability to raise almost unlimited amounts of money online has been a true game - changer, allowing Barack Obama to opt out of public financing and to begin to build a significant Democratic financial advantage for the first time in political memory.

He told Syracuse.com he opposes Cuomo's calls for the Legislature to approve public financing of political campaigns, is undecided on closing the LLC loophole that lets wealthy donors contribute almost unlimited amounts to politicians, and is against the governor's call to limit the outside income of lawmakers to 15 percent of their $ 79,500 base salary as legislators.

The Labour government was also accused of concealing large amounts of public borrowing through schemes such as the Private Finance Initiative.

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.

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.

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 idea behind Connecticut's public campaign financing system was that replacing major amounts of special interest money in the election process with taxpayer dollars would cut down on influence peddling and state corruption.

Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story said that Johnson had a financial advantage over Kurland in the upcoming Democratic primary, but because both candidates are participating in the city's public financing system, they have the same amount to spend.

The amount of tax lost to our public finances every year is more than three times the government's estimate, the Public and Commercial Services unionpublic finances every year is more than three times the government's estimate, the Public and Commercial Services unionPublic and Commercial Services union says.

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.

Democrats, though, may be reluctant to surrender the significant money - raising advantage they have developed over Republicans, saying that Mr. Obama, by cultivating millions of small donors over the Internet, has built what amounts to a parallel public financing system that is arguably more democratic.

The quest for private donations without public financing can not match the overwhelming power of the small amounts needed to qualify for huge grants of taxpayer money.

Public Financing could be a BOOM to the Republican, Conservative, WFP, Greens and anyone else who wants to run who can raise small amounts of money and have it matched.

Public financing allows candidates who show some threshold amount of public support to receive sufficient funding for their campPublic financing allows candidates who show some threshold amount of public support to receive sufficient funding for their camppublic support to receive sufficient funding for their campaigns.

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.

«Our law is very clear that you may not solicit contributions of any amount from other sources and if you do then you're in violation of the public financing statute and you have to refund all of the unexpended state monies in your account as of the date of the violation.»

The partial public finance system touted by Cuomo and other Democrats provides a limited amount of public funding alongside unlimited private financing.

None of the candidates said they favor public financing of campaigns, or overturning the Citizens United decision that unleashed unlimited amounts of cash into political campaigns.

«The public financing system was designed to ensure equal and fair access for all candidates who seek elected office in New York City by limiting the amount of money candidates can raise and spend during an election cycle.

The partial funding system promoted by the Governor provides a limited amount of public matching funds while permitting unlimited private financing.

The Campaign Finance Board limits the mayor's official 2017 campaign fund to spending $ 328,000 in public funds between January 1,2014 and December 31, 2016, with any spending in excess of those amounts to be «charged against the first limit applicable.»

«One, is the gerrymandering that occurs allowing lawmakers to draw their own district lines... [two is] a disgraceful campaign finance system that allows them to hit up special interests for ridiculous amounts of money,» said Blair Horner, executive director at the New York Public Interest Research Group, referring to a lack of «pay - to - play» restrictions on campaign donors with government business.

Higher interest rates are a greater danger to the recovery: «Because of the mess in the public finances created by the last Government, the amount of debt interest that we have to pay out is growing and beginning to exceed some core Government budgets.

This will release some pressure on the strained public finances, as it means a lower amount of unemployment benefit will need to be paid out.

Good government groups see the pension forfeiture measure as a token reform and have pressed for the closing of the «LLC loophole» that allows businesses to create multiple limited liability companies to donate virtually unlimited amounts of campaign cash; public financing of candidate campaigns; the end of lump sum appropriations in the budget; limits on political contributions by companies with business before the state; limits on legislators» outside income; and a renovation of Albany's ethics watchdog, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (Jpublic financing of candidate campaigns; the end of lump sum appropriations in the budget; limits on political contributions by companies with business before the state; limits on legislators» outside income; and a renovation of Albany's ethics watchdog, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JPublic Ethics (JCOPE).

Addressing these concerns is particularly important given that academy trusts are educating increasing numbers of children and handling large amounts of public money, according to a report on academy trust finances published by the committee today.

In 1969, the U.S. DOJ intervened for the plaintiffs who sued the state of Mississippi in Coffey v. State Educational Finance Commission.45 In the five years before the case made it to the Supreme Court, the state offered vouchers for students to exercise «individual freedom in choosing public or private school,» which provided them with the opportunity to choose to attend racially segregated schools.46 Originally only offering $ 180 per student in 1964, the state Legislature increased the amount of each voucher to be $ 240 per student in 1968.47

The bill doubled the amount of money private donors could give to political parties, removed the cap on how much political parties could spend to support candidates participating in the public finance system and created a massive loophole by allowing candidates, in this case Malloy, to better coordinate their activities with political parties and other political action committees.

In addition to fundamental discussions about the amount of public funding going toward public education, the mechanisms by which funds are allocated to schools within districts and to non-district charter schools, as well as the compatibility of funding models with innovations in instructional models, arise as current topics of finance - related debate.

Total amount granted: USD 140,000: i) USD 30,000 from the Rapid Response Facility for the monitoring of unauthorized activities in the Bladen Nature Reserves which were impacting the property; ii) USD 30,000 for emergency conservation actions in favour of the critically endangered wide sawfish (2010); iii) USD 80,000 in support of public use planning and site financing strategy development for the Blue Hole Natural Monument (2008 - 2009).

Since the required amounts of investment are much more than the funds currently available from public sources, it is necessary to attract funding from other sources by creating innovative financing approaches that make it possible for a limited amount of public funds to attract significant amounts of funding from private sources.

Stunt highlights that massive amounts of public money go to subsidies for fossil fuels, rather than climate finance and renewables.

Who: Civil society will be staging a photo stunt to highlight the massive amounts of public money going to fossil fuel subsidies while climate finance receives tiny amounts by comparison.

Earlier this week, Samsung took out a full - page ad in three national newspapers to issue a public apology for the Note 7 debacle, which has done a huge amount of harm to the company's reputation and finances.

Several other public REITs also were able to raise large amounts of both secured and unsecured debt financing.

Removing the amount financed from the Loan Estimate may improve the informed use of credit by avoiding information overload and improving consumer understanding of loan terms, consistent with the purposes of TILA and will be in the interest of consumers and the public, consistent with section 1405 (b) of the Dodd - Frank Act.