Sentences with phrase «campaign during the legislative session»

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Add campaign finance reform to the list of topics that will be up for discussion — at least in some corners — during the post-budget portion of the legislative session after lawmakers return from their two - week Easter / Passover break.

The Public Campaign Action Fund pushed hard during the legislative session and the budget negotiating process for the public financing of political campaigns.

Governor Cuomo listed public campaign financing as a goal in his State of the State message, says he hopes to pursue the issue with legislative leaders during the final two months of the legislative session.

During the legislative session that's slated to end Wednesday, groups backed by some of the same unions have ramped up attacks against state Senate Republicans for refusing to close another quirk in campaign finance law, the so - called «LLC loophole,» that allows real estate interests to use limited liability companies to vastly multiply the power of their giving.

Damon's first story described how three Assembly Democrats — Debbie Smith, David Bobzien, and Lucy Flores — failed to report the expenditure of campaign funds used to pay for rent and living expenses during legislative sessions.

DROUGHT: THE FUNDRAISING BAN CANDIDATE MAKES IT RAIN: Dan «Do as I say, not as I do» Schnur, who is campaigning on a legislative fundraising ban during session, doesn't see the irony / hypocrisy / double standard in his continued fundraising efforts during the legislative session.

Additionally, during the 2016 and 2017 legislative session, Francesca successfully coordinated the statewide campaign «We Are Florida's Families,» which led to the defeat of 9 anti-immigrant and anti-refugee bills which sought to criminalize immigrants and remove from office local elected officials who support and vote on policies to protect immigrants regardless of their status.

Major issues during the 2015 legislative session included lifting the cap on charter schools, increasing the minimum wage, criminal justice reform, campaign financing, and ethics reform.

Hoylman said campaign donations are important, but he hopes that TransPAC and Equality NY will also create a visible presence in Albany during the legislative session.

«Cuomo seems to prefer using these issues as campaign fodder for the election campaign instead of championing them during the legislative session when they could have begun helping women now, not next year maybe,» Hawkins said.

Shilling served as minority leader during the last legislative session and spearheaded Senate Democrats» campaign strategies this past summer.

Zeldin also won despite the fact that he had to spend three days a week in Albany since January during the legislative session, while Demos, 37, a former Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer, was campaigning full - time.

Klein, who is 54, has not responded to Gay City News» requests for comment — either during the legislative session or now as the primary campaign is winding up — but in a recent debate on NY1 defended his progressive credentials by pointing to his key role in enacting the governor's new gun control law early last year and in funding pre-K education this year.

But the bill was a component of Cuomo's larger Democracy Agenda, measures including voting and campaign finance reform that otherwise fell by the wayside during budget negotiations and seem unlikely to pass in the remaining months of the legislative session in Albany.

The bills ranged from sweeping changes — from measures banning most larger campaign donors from securing state contracts to legislation blocking political consultants from doing double duty as lobbyists — to the more symbolic, such as one that would bring an end to political fundraisers in Albany County during the legislative session.

During the legislative session, the group launched a campaign in favor of a bill to audit the school funding system because the «opaque system leaves many of our most disadvantaged students with inadequate resources for their education.»

and climate advocates are planning a campaign to support the bill during the 2017 - 2018 legislative session in Massachusetts.

Senator Michael Barrett, who sponsored S. 1747, has since reintroduced his carbon tax proposal as S. 1021, and climate advocates are planning a campaign to support the bill during the 2017 - 2018 legislative session in Massachusetts.