Sentences with phrase «created for campaign contributions»

Cuomo's campaign also paid $ 24,980 to the law firm Petrillo Klein & Boxer LLP, which is overseeing an escrow account that the governor created for campaign contributions he'd received from entities linked to the Buffalo Billion corruption controversy.

Not exact matches

The ad calls Carl Paladino «a landlord and developer» who traded $ 452,000 worth of campaign contributions for sweetheart inside deals in the form of a $ 1.4 million Empire Zone tax break for which he created only one job.

The IWD platform calls for a «pledge of parity campaign that challenges conscious and unconscious biases; gender - balanced leadership; value women and men's contributions equally; and create inclusive flexible cultures» starting from awareness raising to concrete actions.

Cuomo called for lowering contribution limits; requiring that all contributions of more than — including to independent expenditure entities — be disclosed within 48 hours, or 24 hours close to Election Day; and creating a publicly funded campaign finance system.

• Transforming the ethical environment in Government: Governor Cuomo's «Clean Up Albany» agenda would institute campaign finance reforms including a system of public financing for elections, limits on contribution levels, creating an independent redistricting commission, creating independent monitoring and enforcement of ethics laws, and requiring full disclosure of outside income and clients.

The candidates selected will need to take a position on hard issues, like the five outlined at reform.to, which provide concrete plans to create a small donor system for campaign financing: matching citizen contributions and providing voters with vouchers.

Among the many provisions in the bill: end outside employment for lawmakers, ban per diem limits and dramatically tighten campaign contribution limits, restrict contributions by lobbyists, create a public financing system, and provide for a substantial salary increase for legislators while extending their terms from two years to four years.

Though labor unions criticize the LLC loophole as a method for circumventing individual campaign contributions and call for its closure, they use affiliates to pump millions of dollars into the political system, creating a double standard — according to critics.

In the words of the CFB Chair, the City Council created «a gaping loophole for union contributions, undermining the contribution limits established by the Campaign Finance Act.»

There has been no shortage of broad ideas for disrupting the system: Banning outside incomes for lawmakers, enacting term limits, creating a truly independent ethics watchdog, closing a loophole that allows companies to skirt campaign - contribution limits, requiring more signoffs for expenditures of more than $ 1 million, to name a few.

The preliminary report includes strong recommendations for lowering sky - high campaign contribution limits, closing loopholes, restricting the personal use of campaign funds, disclosing independent expenditures, and creating an independent enforcement agency.

The proposals include would lower overall campaign donation limits, cap soft - money contributions at $ 25,000, create a public financing system for state campaigns and create new criminal penalties for public officials who steer government contracts to themselves, relatives or business partners.

Bill Mahoney, research coordinator for the New York Public Interest Research Group, said that if New York's corporate contribution overall limit is lifted, «All corporations will now be treated as LLCs already are, creating a massive new loophole in the state's already porous campaign finance system.»

Johnson created a new committee dedicated specifically to for - hire vehicles like Uber and Lyft — and gave its chairmanship to Ruben Diaz Sr., who got at least $ 11,800 in campaign contribution from employees and owners of taxi, limousine and dispatch companies for his election last year.

Other surveys, such as this one by the Committee on Economic Development demonstrate support for reform is also strong in the business community; 72 percent are in favor of creating a public financing system that would match low - dollar contributions and give average citizens more incentives to contribute to campaigns.

The Nassau County Legislature, after months of reports by Newsday on contracts that went to politically connected companies, in December unanimously passed the measure that created a new political campaign contribution disclosure form to accompany all agreements up for lawmaker approval.

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).

She has made a remarkable contribution to Pallant House Gallery over the past 15 years, creating a legacy campaign from scratch which will help to ensure that her charity is sustainably funded for generations to come.»

This is usually how it goes: politician wannabe gets campaign contributions from private sector guy, gets into office, legislates in favor of private sector guy, private sector guy contributes more, politician guy takes vacation in Italy (or goes for a hike on the Appalachian trail)... gets re-elected, the word gets out that he «plays,» more private sector guys contribute to his campaign, voters are pleased to see the name of their representative in print, like the new wardrobe, the new hairstyle, believe all change is good and re-elect the politician again... politician feels the power, creates agency to watch over private sector guy, agency takes fact - finding trip to France... raises taxes on private sector guy, writes legislation that taxes private sector guy if his plant emits CO2 while producing widgets... voters are in awe and re-elect the politician... private sector guy whines, politician makes him ambassador to Taiwan, limits how much the new private guy taking his place can earn, and taxes all widgets so new private guy will make more environmentally friendly ones... voters swoon, pay more for widgets, lose job in widget factory, hate private guy, re-elect their pol... politician buries $ 5 billion aid to Taiwan in next appropriation bill...... kind of makes a case for term limits, doesn't it.

The project aims to make judicial elections more transparent for journalists and researchers by creating online profiles of judges that show campaign contributions, judicial opinions and biographies.

Initiated EMC's first research initiative in China consumer storage market and created market analysis reports for executives; collaborated with sales team to procure first investment in China consumer marketing campaign and received Group - wide award for contribution to China market development.

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