New York has laughably
high limits on donations and an almost non-existent enforcement mechanism for campaign abuse.
Not exact matches
There are two tough position for the TEAPubs to have hung around their neck going into a round of elections where interest / turnout will be
high — Champion for child molestors and blockers of a vote
on limiting legislator income and the size of
donations (bribes)!
The
donation limits to county committees are far
higher than to candidate committees and there are no
limits on donations from the former to the latter.
The U.S. Attorney and Manhattan DA are investigating whether the office of New York City Mayor Bill deBlasio knowingly violated campaign contribution laws by funneling
donations for some upstate Senate races through county committees, which can accept
donations 10 times
higher than the
limits on an individual Senate candidate.
The state's notoriously
high limits on campaign
donations should be drastically reduced, he said, and rules about people with business before the state donating to campaigns should be tightened.