Sentences with phrase «called on public financing»

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Amid calls for passing the progressive agenda that ranges from protections for health care, abortion rights and the public financing of campaigns, Klein and company reiterated on Monday votes should be indeed be held.

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.

In doing so, they are heeding Boris Johnson's calls for a «citizen's wealth fund»: last October, London's mayor proposed pooling some of the UK's 39,000 public pension funds into a single investment fund large enough to reduce the country's dependence on foreign investment and close its infrastructure financing deficit.

State of the State: Gov. Cuomo Once Again Calls for Public Financing In his 2013 State of the State Address on Wednesday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo reemphasized his support for comprehensive reform of the state's campaign finance laws including effective disclosure, lower contribution limits, and public finaPublic Financing In his 2013 State of the State Address on Wednesday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo reemphasized his support for comprehensive reform of the state's campaign finance laws including effective disclosure, lower contribution limits, and public fFinancing In his 2013 State of the State Address on Wednesday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo reemphasized his support for comprehensive reform of the state's campaign finance laws including effective disclosure, lower contribution limits, and public finapublic financingfinancing.

In preparation for the launch of the Fair Elections for New York campaign, a series of events in Albany and across the state are being held to call attention to state legislators» reliance on out - of - district campaign contributions — further evidence of the need for a state public campaign finance system that relies on small donors and local money.

This week saw the publication of several editorials calling on Gov. Cuomo to maintain his commitment to creating a public campaign finance program in New York state, beginning with a Sunday New York Times editorial that cut to the heart of the matter: «There is no mystery -LSB-...]

The first secretary attacked shadow chancellor George Osborne's own assessment of the public finances, calling his Mais lecture «longer on assertion than specific proposals».

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.

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.

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer called on former Gov. Eliot Spitzer to cap his spending in the race for city comptroller at $ 4,018,000 as required by the city's public financing system.

Comptroller Tom DiNapoli will appear on a town - hall telephone call Tuesday evening held by advocates backing public financing for political campaigns.

DiNapoli's plan calls on the state to bring more transparency and accountability to state finances by eliminating discretionary lump sum appropriations, restricting «backdoor spending» by public authorities, requiring more disclosure of public authorities» spending and financing, and making the state budget more understandable and accessible.

With public financing in the budget this year, the reform groups called on the elected officials to make sure it remains in the final budget agreement between the governor and legislature.

Speaking at the Democratic Rural Conference this month, Cuomo called on lawmakers to approve the package, along with the Dream Act and public financing of political campaigns.

The Green Party's Howie Hawkins spent the night reaching out to New York's liberals, calling for full employment programs, higher wages, public campaign financing, proportional representation in the State Legislature and a ban on fracking ban.

Rep. Whit Betts, R - 78th District and the delegation's senior member, said he'd call for eliminating the state income tax on Social Security, and contended that doing away with public campaign financing would offset most or all of the lost revenue.

The panel issued a preliminary report in December calling for, among other things, tighter restrictions on campaign spending and public financing of campaigns.

Public campaign finance advocates called on New York's three most powerful Democrats to stop the state's most powerful Republican from derailing what they said is the best chance for significant reform since Watergate.

The constitutional amendment that would create the new redistricting scheme is on the ballot this fall, and some on the left are already muttering darkly about turning against the proposal, in the same way they're calling on Comptroller Tom DiNapoli not to «opt in» to the pilot public financing system.

And now, one of those Republicans calling for him to step down, Attorney General Josh Hawley, is tossing a new log on the fire that's consuming Greitens's governorship, as St. Louis Public Radio reports — accusing him of breaking campaign - finance laws:

The case for action rests on the realization that for the first time since the beginning of the Enlightenment era in the mid-17th century, the very idea of science as a way to establish a common book of knowledge about the world is being broadly called into question by heavily financed public relations campaigns.

Pennsylvania Auditor General Jack Wagner called last week for a moratorium on new charter and cyber charter schools, pending an overhaul of a funding system that he said has resulted in serious inequities in how taxpayers finance those alternatives to regular public schools.

The report, issued by a coalition of 17 civic organizations called the Chicago Panel on Public School Finances, tracked 100,000 students in the entering classes of 1978, 1979, and 1980.

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But taste and texture were largely beside the point: The event, arranged by a public relations firm and broadcast live on the Web, was meant to make a case that so - called in - vitro, or cultured, meat deserves additional financing and research.....

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The highly public nature of this opposition has caused numerous investor groups and shareholder activists to call on 17 different banks, including Wells Fargo and TD Securities, to divest from financing the pipeline.

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Moody's downgraded the credit rating of the United Kingdom from Aa1 to Aa2 on September 22, citing weakening public finances and calling into question the Government's fiscal consolidation plans.

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