Sentences with phrase «broader public campaign»

Cuomo says the bottom line is that there are not currently enough votes in both houses of the legislature to approve a broader public campaign finance that would apply to all statewide races, including the governor's.

Senate Republicans are also being pressured by the state's Conservative Party not to agree to a broader public campaign financing plan.

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

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Among that crowd, he's typically considered a brilliant if mercurial oracle, while the broader public has, for the most part, treated Thiel with confusion and fascination, most recently over his years - long covert campaign to bankrupt Gawker Media.

«We have long known that NASA mobilized a broad public relations campaign supporting the Apollo program of the 1960s.

«A broad coalition of investors wants companies to tell stockholders and the public more about so - called «dark money» spent both in campaigns and on lobbying by groups that use corporate money and don't say where it comes from,» Welsh of Si2 said.

These revelations were uncovered by the Moreland Commission on Public Corruption as part of a broad investigation into the spending of campaign funds by state lawmakers that was shut down when Gov. Andrew Cuomo abruptly disbanded the Commission last month.

Common Cause / NY is an active member of the Fair Elections Coalition, working for the passage of a broad package of campaign finance measures, built around a core of small donor matching fund public financing of elections.

«The Federal Election Campaign Act's prohibition on foreign contributions is the broadest prohibition in the entire statute,» said Brett Kappel, a partner in the government affairs and public policy practice of the law firm Ackerman in Washington, D.C.

With his paternal approach, Fraga had broad appeal, as evidenced by a national media broadcast featuring priests in rural areas asking the public to vote for «Catholic Fraga» during his first campaign and women working at a Vigo brothel distributing his leaflets in clubs.

«I have to assume that it is the result of a coordinated disinformation campaign aimed not only at undermining ACORN's work, but also as a part of a far broader effort to corrode public confidence in the electoral process... It is a simple three - step process.

Silver said he still supports implementing a broad public financing law for statewide campaigns.

«significant investment in transit before and during the implementation of congestion pricing; reinvestment of revenues generated directly into public transit; dynamic tolling that changes commuter behavior; and information campaigns that generate broad public support for congestion pricing.»

Governor Cuomo proposed a broad set of laws including stricter limits on campaign contributions and party spending on behalf of candidates, public financing of elections to match small contributions from individuals, and new public corruption crimes in an attempt to reduce the culture of corruption in Albany.

At the same time, the Public Campaign Action Fund also released a poll it conducted finding broad support for changing the state's campaiCampaign Action Fund also released a poll it conducted finding broad support for changing the state's campaigncampaign laws.

Cuomo, who doesn't face re-election until 2014, has pledged to enact broad new campaign finance reform laws, including the public financing of campaigns and stronger disclosure rules that target independent expenditure groups.

In a public speech on 15 August, David Cameron blamed a «broken society» in «moral collapse» [134]-- broad societal change themes common to his party's election campaign theme Broken Britain.

It remains to be seen how UKIP will fare in a general election campaign, which will bring much closer political, press and public attention to their broader policy platform.

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.

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

The campaign finance reform world has turned to the LLC loophole this year after attempts at broader reforms — such public financing of political campaigns — has seemingly dropped off the radar following Republicans gaining full control of the Senate.

Cuomo has supported public financing of political campaigns in the past, but has up until this point not included such a system in the state budget proposal — a process that the governor's office has broad power over.

The interviews came amid a broader jockeying over who will run for the job outright this fall, with Public Advocate Tish James of New York City announcing her campaign on Wednesday.

The governor in late May set a benchmark for his support of the alliance between Republicans and the five - member Independent Democratic Conference, saying he wanted action on the Dream Act (which failed in April), a broader system of public campaign finance (beyond the pilot program passed in the state budget) and his Women's Equality Act, which has been controversial because of a plank changing the state's abortion laws.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo, whose defunct anti-corruption commission was subpoenaed this week by federal prosecutors, vowed in an essay to keep fighting for a broader system of public campaign finance this year.

De Blasio clashed with the press repeatedly after an unrelated event this afternoon, one day after the New York Times reported that in September the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics had issued a broad subpoena seeking communications between his administration, his shuttered Campaign for One New York nonprofit and consulting firms that serviced both.

«The governor continues to unequivocally support public campaign finance, has worked to enact it, and, though it was and remains the primary sticking point standing in the way of broader reform, will continue to push for passage this year,» DeRosa said in a statement.

The unions and Cuomo are prepared to publicly agitate for Democratsto take control of the State Senate if there's no deal reached on a broader system of public campaign finance, which many in the institutional left see as necessary to combat court decisions that have open floodgates of spending by the rich.

Separately, a good - government advocate unloaded her frustration with Cuomo that a broader system of public campaign finance was rejected in place of a pilot program that applies to the state comptroller.

Advocates for broader campaign finance reform were gobsmacked at the speed that will be required to set up the public matching oversight system.

He is now organizing a group of experts, including evolutionary scientists and theologians who believe in evolution, to counter the SRT's campaign by working to improve the teaching of evolution in the classroom, and in broader public life.

She also supports the National Preconception Health and Healthcare Initiative, a new public - private campaign to promote preconception health, which she believes has the potential to drive broad system changes that will help increase awareness of and receptiveness to health information, including the USPSTF recommendation on folic acid supplements.

The new portal named betterDate is launched with the slogan «Einfach bessere Dates» («Simply better dates») and is supposed to reach the broad public through a TV campaign.

Key recommendations for government in the report that won API support were: for play to be embedded within a Whole Child Strategy under the aegis of a Cabinet Minister for Children responsible for cross ‑ departmental roll out and co-ordination; for government to require local authorities to prepare children and young people's plans including strategies to address overweight and obesity with its physical, mental and emotional consequences; for funding for play to be ring - fenced within local authority budgets; to address barriers to outdoor play for children of all ages and abilities; to extend the Sport England Primary Spaces and Sport Premium programmes to all schools with a broader scope to incorporate a wide variety of physical literacy activities including play; to communicate through public information campaigns to parents and families the value of active outdoor play, including risk or benefit assessment; and to improve public sector procurement practice for public play provision.

«The American dream is slipping away, and unless our leaders dramaticallyimprove our public schools, our standard of living, our economy, and our very democracy will be threatened,» says Eli Broad, founder of the Broad Foundation and a key backer of the campaign.

With city officials, they would create a public service campaign to raise awareness of the issue within the broader community.

Recognizing that truancy was a barrier to ensuring students were graduating prepared and on time, the Mission: Graduate network partnered with New Mexico PBS, targeting families and students with public service announcements on the importance of attending schoolwhile also launching a broader campaign to ensure schools in the region have the necessary tools to address issues related to chronic absenteeism.27 The latest convening connected 41 schools across seven districts.28

Advocates are planning a broader campaign over the course of the year focused on leveling the playing field for public charter school students.

This campaign, it says, is really «a proxy for a broader assault on public education itself» and is coming at a time when public schools have been weakened by funding cuts, «vitriolic political attacks on teachers and their unions, and state programs to privatize schools through vouchers, charter schools and other «school choice» measures.»

To continue this momentum, the Public Education Committee is seeking Supporters who will help implement a statewide, broad - based public education camPublic Education Committee is seeking Supporters who will help implement a statewide, broad - based public education campublic education campaign.

A Better Connecticut's «independent» expenditure is part of a broader $ 2 million plus public relations campaign designed to support Governor Malloy and his education reforms.

In addition to using his foundation to effect change to American public education, Eli Broad has made personal campaign contributions to candidates who are favorably disposed to his preferred policies, even down to the local school board level.

The TAG awards provide funding for a broad range of activities, including improving or developing local pipeline emergency response capabilities, safe digging or damage prevention programs, pipeline safety information resources, community and pipeline awareness campaigns, and public participation in official proceedings that pertain to pipelines.

Before a campaign is taken public (and shared with a broader base of donors, volunteers and clients), an organization wants to make sure that it will hit its goal.

Industry misinformation is then pushed to the public through astroturf front groups (like the Koch - funded and - founded Americans for Prosperity), through advertising campaigns (like those run by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity), and by hiring «scientists» or «experts» with that special lack of integrity and credibility that allows a person to earn money at the expense of a far, far broader population.

The Edelman documents reveal a broader industry campaign to undermine the public interest and attack the oil industry's critics across the board.

EEI is also spending significant funds on a broader public relations campaign, including ads on «both broadcast and cable television, radio and online» according to an EEI spokesman.

Now, if only the «climate disinformation campaign» could be presented to the broad public in as clear and concise a manner.

As I read the motion, the legal theory under which the RIAA's lawyers implicate Beckerman's blogging is that a lawyer should be subject to sanctions for filing frivolous pleadings designed to bolster a broader, bad - faith public relations campaign.

The scandal has attracted broad public interest because Cambridge did millions of dollars in political consulting work for Donald Trump's presidential campaign.