Sentences with phrase «include statewide public financing»

Not exact matches

The governor's proposals — including a system of public campaign finance for all statewide offices as well as the Assembly and Senate — did not advance in the final days of the legislative session.

DiNapoli, as well as advocates for public financing, have criticized the agreement for not including all statewide candidates and coming in the middle of an election cycle.

The governor had also wanted a voluntary public campaign financing system for statewide races, including the governor and all 263 seats in the legislature, but the deal limits the program to the state comptroller's race.

As the legislative session draws to a close, Senate Democrats are making an all - out push for their top priorities, including the full ten point women's equality act, the DREAM Act, and a statewide public campaign finance system.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's anti corruption commission - the Moreland Commission - is due to issue a report this week, and reformers hope it will include public campaign financing for statewide elections.

Cuomo says the bottom line is that there are not currently enough votes in both houses of the legislature to approve a broader public campaign finance that would apply to all statewide races, including the governor's.

Changes to the campaign finance system would include an expansion of «the current pilot project for public funding of the Comptroller's race to all statewide and legislative races.»

The Cuomo budget plan includes calls for a 6 - to - 1 matching public finance system for small donations starting with the 2016 state legislative races followed by all statewide races in 2018.