Sentences with phrase «backs public financing of campaigns»

Cuomo has said in the past that he backs public financing of campaigns, but has not pushed as actively for it as he has for other issues, like raising the minimum wage.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Then there was the most recent stick in the eye: forcing on Dinapoli a pilot public financing program — only for his race — that would make the comptroller give back more than two - thirds of his campaign money or suffer a P.R. hit.

Sources Friday evening said Cuomo and the leadership of the party had reached a tentative deal for the incumbent Democrat to take the labor - backed line in exchange for pushing on key progressive issues such as the Dream Act, the public financing of political campaigns and the women's agenda.

The resolution, approved earlier this month after some back - and - forth haggling over pre-Kindergarten spending levels, the public financing of political campaigns and the Dream Act, doesn't go into detail as to what the sales tax exemptions and adjustments would cost in revenue to the state budget.

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Cuomo on Saturday was endorsed by the labor - backed WFP and at the same time announced his support for a Democratic takeover of the Senate, as well as a package of liberal measures including the public financing of political campaigns.

The Speaker, who has sponsored a version of public campaign finance legislation since 1986, even broke protocol and debated the bills on the floor a few years back.

Cuomo had listed the public financing of campaigns as one of his goals for the 2012 session, but the governor has been steadily backing away from the issue, as well as other campaign finance reform measures.

Full disclosure: Among the people backing Fordham law professor and former Howard Dean internet director Zephyr Teachout's effort to challenge sitting NY Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary, according to the filings by her and her running mate Tim Wu with the state board of elections: Union Square Ventures» Brad Burnham ($ 20,000), Tumblr founder David Karp ($ 20,000) WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg ($ 5,000), Netflix VP Chris Libertelli ($ 5,000), Kickstarter's Fred Benenson ($ 5,000), campaign finance reform activist Arnold Hiatt ($ 2,500), Lawrence Lessig ($ 2,500), Reddit's Alexis Ohanian ($ 2,500), our own Andrew Rasiej ($ 1,500), Digg's Andrew McLaughlin ($ 1,000), Open Technology Institute's Sascha Meinrath ($ 1,000), Harvard Law School's Jonathan Zittrain ($ 1,000), Duke law prof Jedediah Purdy ($ 1,000), Ben & Jerry's Ben Cohen ($ 1,000), EchoDitto founder and former Dean webmaster Nicco Mele ($ 600), net neutrality campaigner Marvin Ammori ($ 500), Blue State Digital's Joe Rospars ($ 500), Progressive Strategies» Mike Lux ($ 450), former Dean data - wiz Kenn Herman ($ 300), former Dean developer Josh Koenig ($ 250), Fight for the Future's Tiffiniy Cheng ($ 250), MIT's Ethan Zuckerman ($ 250), Brooklyn law prof Jonathan asking ($ 250), Public Campaign's David Donnelly $ 250), former Dean developer Zack Rosen ($ 250), the ACLU «s Christopher Soghoian ($ 100), Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller ($ 100), former Dean blogger Mathew Gross ($ 100), and yours truly campaign finance reform activist Arnold Hiatt ($ 2,500), Lawrence Lessig ($ 2,500), Reddit's Alexis Ohanian ($ 2,500), our own Andrew Rasiej ($ 1,500), Digg's Andrew McLaughlin ($ 1,000), Open Technology Institute's Sascha Meinrath ($ 1,000), Harvard Law School's Jonathan Zittrain ($ 1,000), Duke law prof Jedediah Purdy ($ 1,000), Ben & Jerry's Ben Cohen ($ 1,000), EchoDitto founder and former Dean webmaster Nicco Mele ($ 600), net neutrality campaigner Marvin Ammori ($ 500), Blue State Digital's Joe Rospars ($ 500), Progressive Strategies» Mike Lux ($ 450), former Dean data - wiz Kenn Herman ($ 300), former Dean developer Josh Koenig ($ 250), Fight for the Future's Tiffiniy Cheng ($ 250), MIT's Ethan Zuckerman ($ 250), Brooklyn law prof Jonathan asking ($ 250), Public Campaign's David Donnelly $ 250), former Dean developer Zack Rosen ($ 250), the ACLU «s Christopher Soghoian ($ 100), Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller ($ 100), former Dean blogger Mathew Gross ($ 100), and yours truly Campaign's David Donnelly $ 250), former Dean developer Zack Rosen ($ 250), the ACLU «s Christopher Soghoian ($ 100), Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller ($ 100), former Dean blogger Mathew Gross ($ 100), and yours truly ($ 100).

If the past debate on public campaign financing is any guide, the Republicans will likely punch back at Democrats» calls for reform by saying the party wants to create a class of professional politicians.

ALBANY — A group advocating public campaign finance is taking the rare step of endorsing Zephyr Teachout's bid for Congress, a nod that aligns her with a cadre of donors who have previously spent half a million dollars backing Democrats in the district.

The IDC backs public financing of political campaigns, but has released its own package of reform measures separate from the Fair Elections push.

The Assembly has long backed public matching, the most recent example being last year when Silver introduced a plan that's now touted by the coalition of groups pushing for a broad campaign finance overhaul.

Tkaczyk's victory two years ago was attributed in part to a concerted effort by organizations backing the public financing of political campaigns, which launched a paid advertising effort as well as field operation on her behalf.

The four - member Independent Democratic Conference backs a broad package of reform measures that includes the public financing of political campaigns.

Tkaczyk is benefiting from a $ 230,000 advertising campaign from Friends of Democracy, a group funded by Jonathan Soros, the son of billionaire George Soros, which supports the public financing of political campaigns and backed her narrow victory two years ago.

Tkaczyk benefited in the race from an infusion of ads and mailers from groups that backed the public financing of political campaigns.

When gaining the endorsement of the labor - backed Working Families Party, he pledged to enact the public financing of political campaigns statewide, the DREAM Act for undocumented immigrants, allow local governments to raise the state's minimum wage and accelerate the timetable for increasing the wage itself.

Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, a Republican, backed the creation of a public campaign financing system for county elections.

Cuomo has since walked back his rhetoric, though it basically scuttled hopes that Cuomo's major end - of - session priorities, like a system of public campaign finance.

Cuomo won the backing of the party after promising to work for liberal priorities, including a higher minimum wage and broad public campaign financing.

Cuomo's spokeswoman attempted to walk back the governor's comments that seemed to be throwing cold water on the possibility of getting public campaign financing enacted in 2014, and the governor later clarified that he's still 100 percent for public campaign financing.

His opponent, Sen. John McCain, was one of the most ardent advocates of campaign finance reform who was left to chastise Obama for turning his back on a general election public financing structure designed to level the playing field.

Friends of Democracy, a PAC backed by Jonathan Soros to push for a system of public campaign finance, filed discrete reports with both JCOPE and the State Board of Elections.

Mr. Massey, who has lent himself more than $ 2.7 million so far and has already paid some of it back, is not participating in the city's public campaign finance program, which offers a six - to - one match for the first $ 175 from each donor.

Cuomo proposes to extend a system of public campaign finance to all statewide offices and legislative races, ban the use of campaign funds for personal expenses, require the disclosure of outside income and the clients who supported it and change the state Constitution to allow prosecutors to claw back the pensions of officials convicted of public corruption.

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.»

Cuomo's spokeswoman attempted to walk back the governor's comments that seemed to be throwing cold water on the possibility of getting public campaign financing enacted in 2014, and the governor later clarified that he's still «100 %» for public campaign financing.