Sentences with phrase «clean elections program»
«But for candidates who are participating in the clean elections program this is a large amount of money, and it would have been helpful to know that this request was going to come months ago rather than just hearing about it over the weekend.»
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And now we are paying the piper and going through an audit that only the Greens and the Libertarians are subject to (because neither Obama nor Romney chose to participate in the clean elections program).
But state officials have ruled Ganim can't participate in the clean elections program because of his prior public corruption conviction.
Rep. Doug Dubitsky, R - Chaplin, said the «glaring loophole» revealed by those transactions means «the whole Clean Elections program is gone.»
We are sure that Governor Malloy does not want to be known as the Governor that allowed the clean elections program to be destroyed.»
The State Elections Enforcement Commission, which runs the program, issued a statement that «this proposed suspension would deliver a mortal wound to the clean election program.»
Not exact matches
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When Malloy received a state grant of $ 6.5 million in taxpayer - funded public financing in 2014 under the clean - election program, he signed a legal agreement with the SEEC promising to abide by Connecticut's ban on state contractors» contributions.
Prominent Democrats were on the defensive in both public episodes — one a legislative controversy, the other a trial in Hartford Superior Court — relating to the clean - election program established a decade ago by the Democrat - controlled General Assembly after a corruption scandal sent Republican Gov. John G. Rowland to federal prison.
But critics say that promise was broken when Democrats tapped the contractor - fed federal account to help Malloy — so why should taxpayers shell out for a clean - elections program that lets in tainted money?
«We are confident that we will be able to find the necessary funds to close the deficit gap without affecting our landmark campaign finance program that has brought clean elections to the citizens of Connecticut.»
One way to further that goal is to help the wounded clean - elections program get back on its feet.
Asked about the recent criticism, Leigh Appleby, the state Democrats» director of communications, said: «On the Citizens Election Program, the Connecticut Democratic Party has always and continues to champion clean elections.
On Monday, leaders of the Democratic legislative majority at the Capitol outraged good - government advocates with a proposal to suspend the clean - elections program for the 2016 campaign in which the 187 state House and Senate seats are up for grabs.
But the three Democratic House members who appeared alongside Quickmire to defend the clean - election program at Thursday's press conference — Reps. Matt Lesser, Greg Haddad and Sean Scanlon — weren't willing to agree with Common Cause that what the Democrats did last year to pay for the mailers was wrong.
For the sake of keeping state races clean and competitive, legislators ought to mend the Citizens» Election Program so that there's little excuse to end it.
The clean - elections program that helped erase the state's image as Corrupticut might soon disappear.
In Maine, where voters approved a Clean Elections Law in 1996, 70 percent of Maine legislators participate in the public financing program, skipping the big fundraisers and mega-donations for small donations.
The new program checks some key political boxes for the mayor: it effectively allows de Blasio to highlight and expand the cleanest political win of his administration repeatedly over the election cycle, while still being able to claim that he's rolled out new education plans since the November 2015 announcement of his equity and excellence agenda.
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) was supposed to be nearing completion of a 2016 Program Review [1] but the election of Donald Trump and the fate of the national Clean Power Plan has delayed that process.