Sentences with phrase «election program»

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the legislature this year dismembered the State Elections Enforcement Commission, cutting experienced staff and placing the administration and policing of the Citizens Election Program in separate agencies, weakening the program.

But state officials have ruled Ganim can't participate in the clean elections program because of his prior public corruption conviction.

The SEEC found nothing wrong and awarded those candidates grants under the state's clean - elections program of public campaign financing, Fasano said.

While we have had and will have disagreements with Governor Malloys approach to party fundraising, he has always supported the Citizen Election Program testifying in support of clean elections before he was elected Governor and was the first person ever elected Governor under this program.

«I can't believe I have to write this email, but Connecticut's legislative leaders have proposed suspending the Citizen's Election Program in order to protect corporate tax loopholes,» Swan wrote to colleagues.

The Maggie L. Walker Governor's School for Government and International Studies served as the 2000 State Elections Headquarters for the Virginia Student / Parent Mock Elections program.

Given how many legislators take state grants to run for office — more than 80 percent of sitting legislators have gotten Citizens» Election Program funding, says Michael J. Brandi, executive director of the State Elections Enforcement Commission — it's a wonder that CEP has been targeted for elimination by both major parties in recent years.

«Friends of Democracy is deeply disappointed with the failure of Governor Cuomo and legislative leaders to address the systemic corruption in Albany through a comprehensive publicly funded Fair Elections program.

Others have spoken out against the Citizens Election Program as it requires using over $ 33 million in taxpayer money to fuel negative attack ads.

Both houses of the Legislature passed Cuomo's special elections program bill last week within 24 hours.

Democratic state lawmakers vowed Tuesday to oppose Republican efforts to strike the Citizens» Election Program from the state budget, warning that dismantling a program that offers public money to campaigns would move the state backward in ethics in politics.

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.

Former Republican Gov. Jodi Rell, who signed the clean - elections program into law in 2005, said she was «profoundly disappointed that legislative Democrats would turn aside, through budget cuts, the public campaign financing program many of us worked so hard to put in place to prevent political corruption scandals.»

One way to further that goal is to help the wounded clean - elections program get back on its feet.

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.

Both the National Republican Congressional Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee took notice of this district, adding both Benishek and Democratic challenger Jerry Cannon, a former sheriff, to their respective election programs.

The Citizens» Election Program provides public financing to qualified candidates for statewide offices and the General Assembly.

They did so by giving public funds to voluntary participants in the so - called Citizens Election Program.

Rep. Doug Dubitsky, R - Chaplin, said the «glaring loophole» revealed by those transactions means «the whole Clean Elections program is gone.»

Seeking Public Financing: Plans to qualify for public financing and then decide whether to opt into Connecticut's Citizen Election Program.

Additionally, hundreds of high schools participate in a mock election program, overseen by the Secretary of State's office.

Changes to the constitution, or bills passed that go against the elections program / promises of the ruling party should have to be passed by referendum too, because nobody voted you (the politician) to do that.

The state should establish a system of public financing which enhances the impact of small contributions, such as a matching funds or clean elections program, alleviating candidates from having to raise exorbitant amounts of money.

Harris is roughly $ 50,000 shy of the $ 250,000 qualifying threshold for gubernatorial candidates under the Citizens» Election Program, sources told The Courant.

Both Osborne and Witkos have qualified for funding through the Citizens Election Program.

The top executives of companies that have contracts with the state are banned from contributing to candidates for statewide office who participate in the clean - elections program.

He received funds from the state's Citizens Election Program.

Both candidates have accepted public financing, and are limited in what they can spend on their own campaigns to the $ 6.2 million taxpayer - funded grant each received through the Citizens Election Program.

Candidates of both political parties use the Citizens Election Program to fund their campaigns.

Under the Citizens Election Program, the state's...

On two lines for listing monetary receipts, Coleman's campaign lists $ 0, which Wooden alleged is a violation because the campaign received a $ 83,550 publicly funded grant from the state Elections Enforcement Commission through the Citizen's Election Program.

Under the Citizens Election Program, the state's voluntary public financing system, gubernatorial candidates who raise $ 250,000 by collecting donations of $ 100 or less are eligible for a $ 6.5 million grant to spend in the general election.

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 Citizens» Election Program was introduced in 2005 after former Gov. John G. Rowland was sent to prison stemming from charges he took gifts from businessmen who received millions of dollars in state contracts.

The most recent proposed budget included the «complete elimination» of the Citizens» Election Program, Flexer said Tuesday at the Legislative Office Building.

Candidates participating in the Citizens Election Program, the state's landmark campaign financing system, receive public grants to use toward their campaigns.

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.

That qualified him for about $ 25,000 in public money under the Citizens Election Program, which turned out to be enough for a 1,000 - vote win.

He accepted public financing and is limited in campaign spending to the taxpayer - funded grant he received through the Citizens Election Program.

• Administration of the Citizens» Election Program should be kept with the State Elections Enforcement Commission and not transferred to the partisan secretary of the state's office, as was proposed last year.

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.»

Kennedy, as did his opponent in 2014, signed a contract promising to limit campaign spending to a grant of about $ 95,000 in taxpayer money he received under the Citizen Election Program (CEP), the landmark Connecticut campaign finance reform that its supporters claim is a model for keeping special interest money out of elections.

They proposed to cut from the deficit - plagued state budget nearly $ 12 million that would have been handed out in grants to pay candidates» campaign expenses under what's formally called the Citizens» Election Program.

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?

While the controversy was building over the Democrats» legislative proposal, a trial continued Tuesday in Hartford Superior Court — for the second day — over what Common Cause and others say was state Democrats» circumvention during the 2014 gubernatorial campaign of the clean - elections program's ban on campaign contributions from state contractors.

«We are pleased to see the Senate Democrats» change of heart concerning the suspension of the Citizens» Election Program,» said House Speaker Brendan Sharkey and Majority Leader Joe Aresimowicz.

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.

That's an example of a «bus - sized loophole» in the Citizens» Election Program, said state Sen. Michael McLachlan, top ranking Republican senator on the legislature's Government Administration and Elections Committee.