Sentences with phrase «highest campaign contributions limits»

The preliminary report includes strong recommendations for lowering sky - high campaign contribution limits, closing loopholes, restricting the personal use of campaign funds, disclosing independent expenditures, and creating an independent enforcement agency.

Furthermore, the bill, which was passed in a state budget agreement in early April, fails to lower sky - high campaign contribution limits, close campaign funding loopholes, or mandate greater disclosure of independent expenditures by special interest groups.

«You see that in New York and you don't see it at the state level because you have the highest campaign contribution limits of any state that has limits in the country, coupled with a rigged system of redistricting and the normal powers of incumbency.»

Not exact matches

The candidates also raise money for their parties, enabling them to ask for contributions far higher than the $ 2,700 - per - donor limit to the campaigns.

You don't have to be explicit, and the campaign contribution limits are sky high for the party committees.»

«For most offices, New York State's contribution «limits» are substantially higher than those of any other state that imposes limits, and they are so high as to ensure that large donors dominate major political campaigns and candidates spend as much time as possible raising money from donors rather than talking with voters about issues,» Cuomo said in the written version of the SoS.

Adams, a possible candidate for Brooklyn borough president, said he was surprised by the differences in the city campaign finance system — which includes a public financing component — and the state's system, which is widely derided by good - government groups for its loopholes and sky - high contribution limits.

«When the limits for contributions to the parties are much higher than for candidates, contributions to the parties in effect become a pass - through to the candidates,» said Michael Malbin, a University at Albany political science professor and director of the Campaign Finance Institute, a nonpartisan Washington, D.C., think tank.

The joint committees can use higher contribution limits; contributions are distributed among the campaign and national and state Democratic committees.

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That second account has $ 1.76 million in it, but because there are higher contributions limits in that statewide account most of it could not be used for a Senate campaign.

New York's relatively high limits on direct contributions to candidates ensure that most money flows to authorized campaign and party committees rather than independent groups, said Bill Mahoney, NYPIRG's research coordinator.

New York has the highest campaign contributions of any state with limits.

In a radio interview this week, Gov. Cuomo renewed the call for statewide campaign finance reform, decrying the corrosive effect that super PACs and high contribution limits continue to have on electoral politics in Albany.

Question topics included whether there are similarities between past defenses of states banning interracial marriage and current defenses of states banning same - sex marriages, his reaction to NYPD Chief of Department Philip Banks's resignation, whether campaign contribution limits are too high and what Cuomo intends to seek as campaign finance reforms if reelected, whether he's going to the Somo el Futuro conference in Puerto Rico next week, whether he's worried that «minorities» will not turn out on election day and how his recent references to recent New York Republicans as being «moderates» reconciles with his past statements about «ultraconservatives» in the state senate.

Omitted from the new laws are reductions in any «sky - high contribution limit» or existing loopholes in campaign donation restrictions, according to the center.

That's consistent with the Cuomo campaign statement that they have focused on large dollar contributors, but still surprising and a powerful demonstration of the effect of New York's high contribution limits.

«Every year, hundreds of donors give more money than is allowed by state law that has highest limits of any state capping donation size; scores of candidates fail to disclose large contributions received in the run - up to Election Day; thousands of filings obfuscate the identity of donors or the purpose of expenditures through the inclusion of incomplete or incorrect information; and dozens of incumbent lawmakers spend campaign funds for what reasonable people would unanimously agree are non-campaign reasons,» the report found.

Our state has a history of corruption, stretching back to Tammany Hall, our campaign laws are too lax, contribution limits are too high, lawmakers» pay is too low, opportunities for graft are more abundant, state politics is personality - driven, and on and on and on.

Cuomo «threw up his hands and claimed there was nothing he could do» when he failed to win Legislative limits on New York's notoriously high campaign contribution amounts, the paper said, adding, «Where was the energy and determination he showed on marriage rights and guns?

Limits on the so - called loophole for limited liability companies, which allow limited liability companies to have much higher campaign contributions than other businesses.

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.

More specifically, Schneiderman is calling for higher contribution limits, the closing of a limited liability corporation loophole which he says «allows wealthy interests to funnel limitless amounts to campaigns,» as well as for the elimination of the housekeeping committees used by the state's political parties.