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New Eurogroup President Portuguese Finance Minister Mario Centeno gestures during a press conference on his election as new Eurogroup chief at the European Council in Brussels, Belgium on December 4, 2017.

He explained that the current Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who's also the Dutch finance minister, gathers significant support among the other finance ministers but failed to get enough backing to continue with his European role after having lost the general election, putting an end, at least for now, to the idea of a permanent president.

«The hackers accessed software designed to be used by poll workers on Election Day, and in at least one state accessed a campaign finance database.»

New comments by President Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani about a payment to Stormy Daniels place the president at the center of questions about possible campaign - finance violations, two former Federal Election Commission leaders said.

The NDP are prepared to raise corporate taxes to finance their election platform, while at the same time maintaining a balanced budget.

At a meeting of federal and provincial ministers of finance on Monday, the federal government punted CPP reform well into the future, certainly beyond the 2015 election.

The convertible notes payable were convertible at the election of the note holder into either the securities issuable in a subsequent round of financing at the per share price of such financing, or into Series D convertible preferred stock at a per share price of $ 2.44.

This settlement should have been considered a campaign expense «because the funds were paid for the purpose of influencing the 2016 presidential general election,» Paul S. Ryan, a campaign finance expert at the group, said in a letter addressed to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein.

Matthew Sanderson, who served as a campaign finance lawyer for the 2008 McCain - Palin campaign, said the timing of the payment «strongly suggests it was related to the election, and therefore is either a contribution, or at least a reportable expenditure by the campaign».

During the election, many mainstream economists such as David Dodge, Don Drummond and former deputy minister of Finance Scott Clark argued the strong case for deficit financing of productive public investments at a time of economic stagnation and very low interest rates.

If the payment were wholly personal, said Richard L. Hasen, an expert in election law at the University of California, Irvine, there would be no campaign finance violations.

A grass - roots movement to abolish secret government, to bring the CIA and other illegal spying operations and private armies out of the closet of imperial power and into the light, to break the hold of the military - industrial complex, and to establish genuine public financing of elections may be at least theoretically conceivable.

Hungarian elites have rarely been truly self - reliant in terms of election finances or intellectual ammunition, but competent at employing external means to their own ends.

The legislative leaders quietly introduced a campaign finance bill last night that is designed to strengthen enforcement at the state Board of Elections and also address the US Supreme Court's January decision that overturned a 20 - year - old ruling barring corporations from spending freely to support or oppose candidates.

Instead, she laid the blame at the feet of the Democratic Party — speficially the Rev. Al Sharpton, who publicly declared his support for keeping the partisan primary system in place last weekend, saying nonpartisan elections would enable self - financed candidates like the billionaire mayor to take over the political system and disenfranchise minority voters.

«By treating LLCs as individuals rather than artificial business entities like corporations or partnerships, the Board of Elections created a gaping hole at the heart of our state's legislatively enacted campaign finance system,» said Lawrence Norden, deputy director of the Brennan Center's Democracy Program.

Some political liberals, appalled at the liberation of monied interests to spend immense amounts on elections, support a convention for the purpose of overruling the Court's 2010 decision in Citizens United that declared unconstitutional most imitations on campaign finance.

Good - government group Citizens Union released a report this morning that found more competitive elections take place on the New York City council level than at the state level, which they attribute to in part a public - financing of campaigns.

His abled Finance Minister, Mr. Seth Terkpe was not bad at his efforts of returning these glory except that his efforts do not win elections.

Fair Elections for New York, one of the groups pushing for establishment of a public campaign finance system, is hosting a free screening tonight of «Pricele $ $,» a documentary that looks at the pervasive nature of political cash and its power in shaping policy at the national level.

At 2 p.m. the NYC Campaign Finance Board announces the sponsors and schedule for the city's official debate program for the 2017 elections, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Campaign finance committee reports were due at the New York State Board of Elections.

The Cost of Public Financing is about $ 2 per New Yorker per Year Recently, the New York State Senate Republican Conference, which is opposed to publicly funded elections, finally explained how it arrived at its inflated estimate of the cost of public fFinancing is about $ 2 per New Yorker per Year Recently, the New York State Senate Republican Conference, which is opposed to publicly funded elections, finally explained how it arrived at its inflated estimate of the cost of public financingfinancing.

Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for Illinois» 13th.

Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for Texas» 23rd.

Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd, 2012 focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for New York's 18th.

George Osborne, the former finance minister who stepped down at the election, told ITV that the results were «catastrophic» for his party.

Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for Minnesota's 8th.

Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for Florida's 18th.

K. Daniel Glover over at National Journal has a great look at political campaigns» use of paid bloggers in this election cycle, using campaign finance records to name names and amounts.

The City Council has consistently advocated for voting and election reform in its annual state legislative agenda, including early voting, instant runoff voting for citywide primaries, and public campaign financing at the state level.

Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for California's 36th.

The commission, charged with probing corruption in campaign financing, is already looking through records of campaign donations held at the state Board of Elections.

As the Report of the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy, and Security highlights, the integrity of elections depends at least in part on the regulation of «undisclosed and opaque political financElections, Democracy, and Security highlights, the integrity of elections depends at least in part on the regulation of «undisclosed and opaque political financelections depends at least in part on the regulation of «undisclosed and opaque political finance.»

Part of the group's mission is to probe campaign finance records at the New York State Board of Elections, which has failed to even appoint a staff investigator for the past couple of years.

(CNN)- Campaign finance reform is the issue that the Tea Party and progressives can agree on — at least in new ads designed to drum up support for the Fair Elections Now Act.

Democratic congressional candidate Mike Derrick has the second lowest fundraising results, at this point, of local congressional challengers in six local congressional races, according to campaign finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.

They include a pilot public financing program for the state comptroller's race, new disclosure rules for independent expenditure groups, and the creation of an independent office at the State Board of Elections charged with enforcing the state's oft - flouted election laws.

But public financing of elections, a system designed to take the big money out of politics, would be «key» to any ethical reforms of state government, he said Wednesday at a daylong symposium on ethics and government at Albany Law School.

The state Business Council, too, had made the argument the Legislature should be tasked with any campaign finance changes and not the appointed commissioners at the Board of Elections.

At the time of this election, the Los Angeles Registrar - Recorder / County Clerk did not publish school board candidate campaign finance reports online.

I propose new anti-bribery and corruption laws, public financing of elections, independent enforcements at the board of elections, and disclosure of outside clients with business before the state.

Fiscally conservative groups including Unshackle Upstate argue against public financing for elections as nothing more than «labor's latest effort to enhance their political influence at the expense of taxpayers.»

Cuomo and legislative leaders struck a deal to disband the commission in exchange for changes to the state bribery statute, a new enforcement counsel at the Board of Elections and a pilot program for public campaign finance.

Cuomo failed to get lawmakers to agree on a package of campaign finance reforms, and says he will now appoint a commission under the powers» of the state's Moreland Act, to investigate campaign filings at the State Board of Elections.

The Moreland Commission report, which recommends adopting public financing of campaigns and an enforcement overhaul at the state Board of Elections, was released with little fanfare on a Monday evening, after the 6 p.m. newscasts had begun.

At our state conference last month, we overwhelmingly passed resolutions supporting guaranteed healthcare as a human right, free public education from pre-K through college or trade school, a living wage and fair compensation for all, investments in environmental protection and renewable energy, restoration of voting rights to former felons, public financing of elections to eradicate the corrupting influence of big money in politics, and other policies that serve the people.

National Commissioner in charge of Election and Party Monitoring (EPM) Prof. Anthonia Okoosi - Simbine made the disclosure at a two - day zonal training workshop on Campaign Finance Tracking / Reporting held in Ilorin, Kwara State recently.

Among the associates, prosecutors sought phone records connected to Thomas Giordano, the former finance director of Cuomo's election - campaign committees (as well as phones connected to the committee) and John Regan, who worked under Howe and Glaser at different times.

Richard Briffault, Joseph P. Chamberlain Professor of Legislation at Columbia Law School and author of numerous publications on campaign finance reform and election law; and