Sentences with phrase «hard for the public financing»

More broadly, and more crucially, he should push hard for the public financing of all state candidates, to provide a way for newcomers to compete with hardened incumbents and finally give voters real choices.

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But there is no need for political clashes to convince large trade surplus countries in East Asia to keep more of their hard - earned savings home - instead of financing deficits of much richer countries - to improve their infrastructure and public services.

But he adopted a questionable plan from the pension fund, and he has failed to push hard enough to create public campaign financing for the comptroller's office.»

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There's three weeks to go in the legislative session, and advocates are pushing hard for two of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's agenda items — translating the federal abortion rights in the Roe v. Wade decision into New York state law, and enacting public financing of statewide political campaigns.

The much discussed and much ignored public financing of campaigns is in the governor's budget, which makes it very hard for the Senate to turn it down.

Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi, in an email, said of NYPIRG's criticism: «No governor has fought harder to reform New York's campaign finance system than Governor Cuomo, who included public campaign financing in his budget and is using the funds that NYPIRG is railing against for commercials urging the public to support it.»

That was the question a slew of City Council members - including Minority Leader Vincent Ignizio (R - South Shore), who has pushed hard for extra police officers - had for Police Commissioner Bill Bratton as he testified before the Council's Public Safety and Finance committees.

He says if the governor tries as hard to get campaign finance reform passed as he did to achieve legalization of same sex marriage and a new lowered benefit pension tier for public workers, then the bills can become law this year.

The hard - left party has been bashing Mr. Cuomo since state lawmakers finalized a budget last weekend, labeling it «Cuomo's Inequality Budget» because it slashed some taxes, protected charter schools and did not create an expansive public financing system for statewide elections.

One of the most widely watched and hard - fought school - finance suits was resolved this summer when New York State's highest court upheld the state's system of paying for public education.

Campaign - finance laws protect political insiders by making it harder for upstart citizen groups to form and bring new voices to public debate.