Sentences with phrase «full public financing»

The outcome is surprising considering that most legislators, as well as the governor, claimed to support full public financing for all races.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has in the past expressed support for full public financing of elections.

Nor does the solutions section of his website feature the specific demand for full public financing of elections, another of Nader's key issues, (although Anderson has mentioned the idea in passing in a blog interview).

Enact Public Campaign Financing: In order to free state government from control by wealthy special interests and pay - to - play corruption, election and ethics reform must include full public financing of state elections on the model used by Arizona and Maine.

We need full public financing of elections, and a ban on ridiculous, non-campaign campaign expending.

But what might bring Republicans on board with campaign finance reform as envisioned by Spitzer, is that it would ultimately involve full public financing.

replace big money control of election campaigns with full public financing and free and equal access to the airwaves;

He favors full public financing of state campaigns, adding, «The legislators should be banned from taking outside income,» a harsh remedy for the legal corruption that dominates Albany politics, but one that has become increasingly plausible as more has been revealed about the influence - peddling legislative leaders are able to do, to their personal enrichment.

Funiciello has called for full public financing of elections at all levels of government, and for enacting strict transparency laws that force campaign committees and PACs to disclose all of their donors.

As he so often does when asked about fundraising, de Blasio stressed the need for campaign finance reform, advocating for full public financing of elections that would not only pull big moneyed interests out of politics but would also focus, «all that time that goes into fundraising now back into public service.»

The Trudeau government won't rule out full public financing for the Trans Mountain pipeline.

This is why we need not just any «public financing» system, but a full public financing system of campaigns — and a U.S. Supreme Court that isn't so enamored of corporate «people» that it lets such a system stand.

But absent the full public financing of campaigns statewide, Benjamin said «my experience, over time is that money, like water, finds a path.»

As expected, most of the Citizens Union - sponsored event focused on the candidates» reform agendas, with strong support from all for legalizing gay marriage, bipartisan redistricting and full public financing of campaigns.

«As a city councilman, Tony Avella fought against the special interest stranglehold on government and introduced legislation such as «Clean Money, Clean Elections,» that would allow candidates for office to qualify for full public financing of their campaigns,» said Matthew Edge, the group's director.

But may step more lively when Pennywise utters the magic words «full public financing».

Terming the Citizens United decision as «one of the worst decisions in the history of the Supreme Court», de Blasio urged «full public financing of elections» while criticizing the current system.

Nevertheless, Klein has come under criticism from liberals and other advocacy organizations for the Senate's failure to pass measures aimed at strengthening abortion rights, the DREAM Act and the full public financing of political campaigns.

At a March 16 appearance on WNYC's Brian Lehrer show, he said, «I believe we should go to full public financing of elections on the city level, on the state level, on the federal level... I think the system is fundamentally broken.