Sentences with phrase «limit on donations of»

The U-turn may involve having a separate limit on donations of 50 % of a person's income or allow donors to roll over unused reliefs into future years.

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Although these statutes typically contain no express limit on the size of permissible gifts, courts interpreting the statutes require corporate charitable donations to be reasonable both as to the amount and the purpose for which they are given.

On January 4, Trump's official inauguration committee received a $ 100,000 donation from a limited liability company named Wings of Time.

Aside from oil pipelines, the NDP - Green agreement commits to holding a referendum on proportional representation in fall 2018 (though it is not clear what form of proportional representation will be proposed) and reforming BC's wild - west election finance laws (banning corporate and union donations, placing limits on individual donations, and limiting party loans to banks and financial institutions).

BC is one of few provinces with no limit on corporate donations (as is Saskatchewan, whose leading political party appears to have benefitted handsomely from vast sums of money from Alberta - based fossil fuel corporations over the last decade).

With limited tax funds available for park improvements, the Park District increasingly has become dependent on private donations to raise the millions of dollars necessary for new park projects.

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 cash on hand total for the conference puts the Senate GOP at virtually the same point where they were at in May 2014, when the conference had a combined $ 3.2 million both of their campaign accounts (funds from the housekeeping account have restrictions on where they can be spent, but there is no limit on the donations to the committee).

Many of the measures were listed on Cuomo's 2018 State of the State agenda, including closing a loophole in election law that allows for unlimited political donations through a network of limited liabilities companies, as well as early voting.

It is important to note that under Speaker Sheldon Silver's bill, (1) receiving public funds depends on the candidate's ability to raise money from numerous small donors, so only donations up to $ 250 are matched with taxpayer dollars and that (2) candidates are limited to a maximum amount of public funds ($ 400,000 for Senate candidates and $ 200,000 for Assembly candidates in the general election race).

And he says that while he's willing to talk about limiting political donations of county vendors, he has no thoughts on what the limits ought to be.

Cuomo normally prefers to negotiate quietly with legislative leaders on proposals before actually writing legislation, but this time he's penned eight different versions of a bill to close the campaign donation loophole that allows unlimited contributions from limited liability companies and he's presented it to the legislature.

The groups urged bans on a pay - to - play culture in Albany to limit political donations by firms seeking state contracts, closing a loophole heavily used by Cuomo and others that allow limited liability companies to skirt donation limits to politicians by private companies, creation of «truly independent» ethics oversight agencies, a public, searchable database of state economic development deals and creation of «clean contracting» systems to govern awards of state contracts.

Between the size of the fees taken from the donations, the low limit on what donors can give, and the greatly reduced amount of information collected on each donor, online politics pros told techPresident weeks ago, the effort didn't seem worth the return.

The actors have endorsed the Fair Elections reform package which includes a system of matching small donations with public funds, as well as lower contribution limits, restrictions on contractors and lobbyists doing business with the state, and greater enforcement and transparency.

Flanagan is in a tough position as he has assumed the position of being the stalwart champion of continued corruption in NY State unless he delivers income limits and limits on donations.

Obama's fundraising over the same period relied on plenty of big - dollar donors as well, but even then his campaign noted the advantage that a much larger base of small - dollar donors gave them: «Obama spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki repeated the campaign's emphasis on the 98 percent of its donations that were $ 250 or less — meaning that those donors are under the limit and can continue to contribute.»

We have the The Kelly Report: recommendations include a limit of # 10,000 on donations from individuals, organizations and trade unions — unless individuals make a positive decision to «opt - in'to the affiliation fee.

He says they condoned the growing use of Limited Liability Corporations to skirt existing donation limits, and they loosely defined how politicians could spend their campaign funds on personal uses.

Jack Straw has rejected the idea of imposing a limit on donations to political parties, ahead of a review into party funding this autumn.

The bills provided limits on donations from LLCs to various combinations of elected offices - the Governor was covered by all of them.

BOE enforcement counsel Risa Sugarman brought a case rooted on the original logic that some donations through LLCs circumvented contribution limits, but this was eventually settled out of court.

George Latimer spent $ 30,000 of donations on fine dining in NYC AND violated his own term limits pledge by running again after what was supposed to be his fourth and final term.

Cuomo normally prefers to negotiate quietly with legislative leaders on proposals before actually penning legislation, but this time he's written eight different versions of a bill to close the campaign donation loophole that allows unlimited contributions from limited liability companies (LLCs), and he's presented it to the legislature.

The board called on the city council to close the loophole by limiting donations to outside groups and requiring full disclosure of contributors.

The core of Ms. Sugarman's accusations was that Mr. de Blasio and his allies flouted limits on the donations to individual Democratic State Senate candidates by funneling money into county Democratic committees, which enjoy much looser spending rules.

Critics of the system are calling on Cuomo and the Legislature to impose stricter donation limits and allow for matching public funds.

In an open letter released on Tuesday, Gipson called for a special session to deal with ethics and campaign finance legislation, namely the closing of the loophole in state election that allows for unlimited donations to flow from a web of limited liability companies.

New York maintains caps on donations — $ 65,100 is the maximum Mr. Cuomo can receive from an individual — but the limits and rules are some of the loosest of any state with such restrictions.

Another involves de Blasio's fundraising on behalf of Democratic state Senate candidates in 2014, and whether individual donations de Blasio's team solicited were channeled to county committees before being sent to individual candidates as part of a coordinated effort to evade donation limits.

Most of the commission's recommendations have long been on the wish lists of good - government groups: lower limits on campaign donations, further disclosure of outside income and business clients, a $ 5,000 limit on LLCs, to reduce their power to amplify individuals» donating power, a $ 25,000 limit on donations to soft - money «housekeeping» accounts and, perhaps most controversially, the public campaign finance system.

Many GOP senators have not signed on to the changes the groups are seeking, including public financing of campaigns and strict new limits on donations, easier and quicker voter registration, and true independent oversight of politicians and their actions.

On the other side of the aisle, a liberal campaign money watchdog group said removing the limits on donations would be no better than keeping Citizens United in placOn the other side of the aisle, a liberal campaign money watchdog group said removing the limits on donations would be no better than keeping Citizens United in placon donations would be no better than keeping Citizens United in place.

The Conservatives, meanwhile, will be reticent to impose limits on donations, given their backing by numerous private donors giving large sums individually, and arguably stand to lose most from any reforms, given that they are currently at the top of the pecking order in terms of income.

In the UK, donations to political campaigns are capped to limit the influence of the hyper - rich on British democracy.

It was a not a condition of the donation either that the donation be spent on advertising — but that is what we wanted to do given the limited time left in the campaign period and the nature of our campaign,» Grimes wrote to the Electoral Commission, in one of the emails seen by openDemocracy.

The LLC loophole — based on a 1996 Board of Elections decision — allows limited liability companies to give up to $ 150,000 a year in aggregate donations to political candidates.

Those limits on candidate donations have been dramatically surpassed by the increasingly common practice of using nonprofit groups as a vehicle to make unlimited contributions to independent political committees.

Arguably, waiving these limits would have a more direct impact on the 2006 elections than the curtailing of large - dollar donations from individuals to various 527 issue groups.

All of this spending comes after lawmakers imposed campaign donation limits on public officials to curb the Blagojevich - era fundraising abuses.

The beauty of it is that there are no limits on donations,» Fitzpatrick said.

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.

An agreement along the lines of the recommendations of the 2011 Kelly committee report, with caps on donations and some measure of limited state funding would revolutionise his party's electoral capability.

The revelation that George Soros made a $ 750,000 donation to the Democratic State Committee to aid Mr. Cuomo, making a mockery of what's supposed to be a $ 60,000 limit on gifts to any statewide candidate, is disconcerting to anyone who's both sincere about transforming New York's political culture.

Well - heeled campaign contributors can now funnel millions of dollars of cash into political Super PACS after a federal judge Thursday struck down New York's $ 150,000 limit on such donations as...

Other proposals in the budget were lower corporate contribution limits, down to $ 1,000 per year, new limits on donations to party «housekeeping accounts» at $ 25,000 per year, detailed prohibitions on using campaign contributions for the personal benefit of a candidate, and disclosure of major donors supporting organizations engaged in independent expenditures.

a) A reformed system of party funding, including a ban on individual donations of more than # 50,000, with party spending limited to # 100m over a parliament and a «shake up» of union contributions.

Cuomo has sought restrictions on lawmakers» outside incomes and term limits, limits on campaign donations from those involved in the state contracting process and more review of potential conflicts of interest involving the outside incomes of lawmakers and the executive.

Maffei said it's one reason why he is supporting the two bills that would put dollar limits on donations, provide public financing of campaigns and amplify the impact of grassroots donations from average citizens.

The SMC's Trustees and Advisory Committee have agreed on a small number of exceptions to the 5 % upper limit on donations.