Sentences with phrase «budget on campaign finance reform»

Mindful of the fact that the conservative grassroots is still smarting from the same - sex marriage vote two years ago, and steaming over the SAFE Act passage, the Senate Republicans drew a line in the sand over the abortion plank of the governor's Women's Equality Agenda and also refused to budget on campaign finance reform.

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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.

Good Government Groups Ask Gov. Cuomo for Reform Thirty good - government, trade and faith - based organizations penned a letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday, urging him to include public financing of state campaigns in his annual executive budget proposal.

Good Government Groups to Cuomo and Legislative Leaders: Pass Reform Before Budget Deadline Several good - government groups, including the New York Public Interest Research Group, Common Cause, Citizen Action, the League of Women Voters, and the Brennan Center, gathered in Albany on Tuesday to encourage state leaders to enact comprehensive campaign finance rReform Before Budget Deadline Several good - government groups, including the New York Public Interest Research Group, Common Cause, Citizen Action, the League of Women Voters, and the Brennan Center, gathered in Albany on Tuesday to encourage state leaders to enact comprehensive campaign finance reformreform.

But putting his reform initiatives in the executive budget, the governor will achieve one thing that has eluded his predecessors — a real debate on campaign finance reforms, including the big reform: establishing a system of public financing.

But in recent weeks, Cuomo had said he would sacrifice the passage of an on - time budget if it meant the inclusion of ethics legislation (new disclosure requirements, per diem and campaign finance reforms were included).

Governor Cuomo, at an end of the year cabinet meeting, said he still considers campaign finance reform and the other recommendations of the Moreland Act Commission a «top tier» priority, but says he will first focus on the state budget and a tax cutting plan.

Meanwhile, 30 government reform groups wrote a letter to Cuomo asking him to make good on his call for public campaign financing, and for an independent agency to enforce regulations by putting money for those plans in the budget.

At a meeting Monday with a group of influential labor leaders representing some of the state's powerful unions, including 1199 SEIU, 32BJ, the Hotel Trades Council and the Communications Workers of America, Cuomo said he couldn't pass a budget with campaign finance reform because of Senate opposition, and pressed the leaders to rein in the restive members of the Working Families Party, who vote on the party's endorsement.

There was additionally a very thorough discussion of Campaign Finance Reform with Kristina Andreotta, of Citizen Action NY particularly focused on New York State legislation that may be influenced over the next month by positions Gov. Cuomo will announce in launching the budget and legislative priorities for 2014.

In each of his State of the State speeches Cuomo has used the capitol building as a metaphor for something that was once glorious and can be restored; he has said he wants to re-establish New York «the progressive capital of the nation»; he has touted the number of on - time budgets he and the legislature have delivered (this year he'll say four in a row and counting); he has demanded more teacher accountability but explained new changes he's seeking; and, he has stressed a need for ethics rules overhaul and campaign finance reform while mentioning unsavory headlines.

Russell supports a 70 percent cut in the military budget; legalization of marijuana; a «single payer,» government - run health care system; campaign finance reform; and tough curbs on greenhouse gas emissions.

The Democratic - led Assembly on Tuesday released its one - house budget resolution that includes income disclosure proposals as well as campaign - finance reform measures, but does not embrace the plan released by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in his budget amendments.

De Blasio's commission is expected to focus on campaign finance reforms, while the council is looking to examine «a wide swath of issues — including a more transparent budgeting process, more robust community engagement in land use, and a more independent Law Department,» according to Council Speaker Corey Johnson.

Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed tighter campaign finance limits, term limits and restrictions on how much lawmakers can make from outside jobs, but none of those government reform ideas made it into the budget.

On Wednesday, the Democrat - led Assembly aligned itself with Cuomo, a second - term Democrat, on measures like voting and campaign finance reform, while separating on other items related to transparency and budget controOn Wednesday, the Democrat - led Assembly aligned itself with Cuomo, a second - term Democrat, on measures like voting and campaign finance reform, while separating on other items related to transparency and budget controon measures like voting and campaign finance reform, while separating on other items related to transparency and budget controon other items related to transparency and budget control.

Government ethics, voting, and campaign finance reform do not appear to be particularly high on the list of priorities for Cuomo, the Assembly majority, the Senate majority, or the Senate's Independent Democratic Conference (a group of eight breakaway Democrats that has a coalition agreement with Senate Republicans but nevertheless put forward its own conference budget resolution on Wednesday).

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 (JCOPE).