Sentences with phrase «donor system»

The only avenue left for an alternative to campaigns funded by wealthy donors, she says, is a voluntary publicly funded matching donor system.

And she believes it saves money when you take into account what she says is the indirect costs to taxpayers from the present big money donor system.

Advocates spent a million dollars on television ads and countless hours lobbying and holding demonstrations in favor of adopting a publicly funded, matching small donor system for statewide races, including the governor and the legislature.

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.

Cox says the state's pilot program is different than the New York City public matching donor system that Republicans have opposed.

While the Democratic incumbent for State Comptroller, Tom DiNapoli, has rejected the pilot public finance program as flawed and unworkable, the newly announced Republican Candidate for Comptroller, says he's going to take advantage of the public matching small donor system.

The majority of the 25 Moreland Act commissioners say a public campaign finance system modeled on New York City's matching donor system is the only way to curb the undue influence of big money donors in state government.

The Business Council's Ken Pokalsky says a public matching donor system would skew the balance of power toward unions, something supporters deny.

You will be part of a team that is building the infrastructure of our donor systems and outreach as we make way for the future of 18th Street Arts Center and a capital campaign.

He wrote, «Yet in a system that was exclusively a small - donor system, candidates could not afford to fund their campaigns from the extremes only.