Sentences with phrase «in city elections»

He also called for the exploration of «deep public financing in city elections» and for increased transparency surrounding meetings between public officials and lobbyists.

She's ready to face the same big - money opposition in the city election.

Cuomo's ability to finesse the angles is up for an immediate, serious test: whether to accept the ballot line of the Working Families Party, the alliance of public - employee unions that has quickly become a force in city elections and is looking to retain its statewide reach.

So is it enough to galvanize a Pro-Life voting bloc, the same bloc vote once thought to be too unpredictable to be considered an effective movement in city elections?

In 2012 - 2013, individuals were responsible for 93 percent of all contributions in city elections, compared to only 31 percent of all contributions in state legislative elections — the remainder of the contributions were made by special interest groups.

Brennan Center counsel Ian Vandewalker's detailed investigation of the report reveals that several cases have no relationship to public financing, including one involving a state legislator who never participated in city elections.

A Republican with WFP and UFT backing, Ulrich is the only candidate in any city election this year to have received a campaign contribution from Mayor Bloomberg.

The papers Sliwa tried serving on de Blasio stem from an apparent violation in city election rules governing how political parties can give their ballot lines to candidates who are not enrolled in the party.

De Blasio is popular among fellow Democrats and Democratic elected officials, and has widespread support from labor unions, which typically help drive turnout in city elections.

It's a lot more complicated than that — let's face it, turnout has been lousy in city elections for decades — but you can't say Democrats are wild about Brown when only one in eight can be bothered traipsing to the polls to vote for him.

De Blasio is participating in the CFB's matching funds program, which provides taxpayer dollars to qualifying candidates in an effort to empower regular New Yorkers in city elections.

A bill heard by the City Council's Committee on Governmental Operations on Thursday aims to further limit the influence of big - dollar donations and special interests in city elections.

While so much of the focus in city elections falls on the Democratic ranks, which make up a whopping 73 percent of all registered voters in the city and whose members hold every elected office in city government, some of the most colorful and contentious story lines play out in the battles for the minor - party slots.

So far 175,683 ballots have been counted in the city election, but another roughly 40,000 need to be processed, an official at the city clerk's office said.

Voting is about civic engagement and civic responsibility, an ideal showcased in city elections happening now across the state.

While the level of outside expenditures in 2013 was also high, the CFB says that its disclosure requirements — which were recently tightened further — reduced the influence of dark money in the city elections.

By 1970, Powell was sick with cancer and brooding on a Caribbean island, and was knocked off by Charlie Rangel, who has become the consummate Washington insider, steering tens of millions of dollars to the district and making Harlem a force in city elections.

In city elections, candidates just need to live in the district by Election Day, however.