Sentences with phrase «limits on campaign spending»

Imposing limits on campaign spending for candidates who forego taxpayer dollars and instead run traditional campaigns would be unconstitutional.

The list of what's needed is long and well known, including closing the loophole that allows secretive corporations to evade limits on campaign spending, strictly limiting outside incomes, publicly financing all candidates for state offices and otherwise curbing the influence of lobbyists and crooks.

Trade unions will not be able to redress the balance with adverts in newspapers to correct the distorted messages, because of the limits on their campaign spending, which will be thinly stretched.

Both Malloy and Kennedy had pledged to abide by limits on campaign spending by the state's public campaign financing system.

For example Germany has no limits on campaign spending, but also has strict rules on transparency, and generous public funding of political parties in order to level the playing field.

Assemblyman Nojay says the US Supreme Court's Citizens United decision prohibits limits on campaign spending by outside groups, so he believes there's no way to totally eliminate the influence of money in politics.

New York is one of several states that have aggregate limits on campaign spending, though a state - level court ruling tossed the cap and the state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office plans to appeal.

Cuomo highlighted the issue in his campaign policy book on government reform, wrting, «Like New York City, New York State needs a system of public campaign financing to set limits on campaign spending and to increase participation by qualified candidates who lack the means or the connections to raise significant campaign funds.»

In a statement, NEC chairman Mike Griffiths also said Tony Blair backed this position, refuting claims that he had already endorsed Hayden Phillips» reported recommendations for a # 50,000 cap on individual donations and an annual limit on campaign spending.

(The lack of effective limits on campaign spends also makes this a more attractive approach than it might in other countries) And if your policies are popular with the electorate then the party will probably approve you.

Not exact matches

The CTC halted funding for U.S. - targeted marketing in 2012 on the grounds that existing campaigns were ineffective, U.S. visitors to Canada spent less than overseas visitors and the Commission's limited funds were better allocated elsewhere.

If it sounds like Edwards still needed to apply FEC rules and limits, consider this: Scott Thomas, a former commissioner of the Federal Election Commission testified that he did not consider that the payments would have come under his agency's auspices — in part because they were not used directly for the campaign and did not free up any of Edwards» own money to be spent on the campaign.

A longer election period has the effect of allowing political parties to spend more on their campaigns — the spending maximum is pro-rated, so that as the official election period grows, the spending limit rises proportionally.

It is also under investigation for allegedly violating limits on spending during that campaign to benefit the «leave» side.

A version of this article appears in print on January 22, 2010, on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: Justices, 5 - 4, Reject Corporate Campaign Spending Limit.

In a recent op - ed in the Edmonton Journal, Public Interest Alberta «s Larry Booi called on the new NDP government to institute campaign spending limits, lower contribution limits to $ 1,200 per year, impose much stronger rules on disclosure of contributions and spending and extend the rules on contributions and spending to cover party leadership and constituency contests.

Further limits will be imposed on organisation which campaign for or against a specific party or target their spending at a particular constituency.

Reel in all donations and limit the total amount that can be spent on a campaign and then we can talk.

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).

«Just as we've seen on his decision to abandon campaign spending limits he once supported, it's increasingly clear that Eliot Spitzer believes there are two standards in public life — one for him, and one for everyone else.»

Trade unions will have to submit to an annual audit of their membership and accept new limits on their spending power in election campaigns.

The Lib Dems for a while campaigned on putting a penny on Income Tax to fund education spending and it's unlikely it did them much harm (although it's possible that what was popular with their supporters might have had limited appeal beyond).

Governor Cuomo proposed a broad set of laws including stricter limits on campaign contributions and party spending on behalf of candidates, public financing of elections to match small contributions from individuals, and new public corruption crimes in an attempt to reduce the culture of corruption in Albany.

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.

Another free - speech challenge is pending before the Supreme Court, which heard arguments earlier this month on corporate spending limits in U.S. political campaigns.

The total, his campaign manager Bill Hyers said, brings the campaign's total raised (including expected matching funds) to more than $ 5.3 million — «well on our way to hitting the primary spending limit,» Hyers said.

But, on the evening of the count an exasperated Nigel Farage, interviewed by Channel 4 News political correspondent Michael Crick, raised the first concerns about Conservative election expenses — which, he suggested, might have breached the # 100,000 limit for campaign spending in a byelection.

But good government groups wanted more, including: • Meaningful public campaign financing • Donation limits • Oversight on pork barrel spending • Oversight on lawmaker spending

On Wednesday Campaign Finance Board Chairwoman Rose Gill Hearn said she could not comment on the ongoing probe but noted, «We have all seen a concerning increase in activity by organizations that face no limits on what they can raise and spend at the city and state level in recent yearOn Wednesday Campaign Finance Board Chairwoman Rose Gill Hearn said she could not comment on the ongoing probe but noted, «We have all seen a concerning increase in activity by organizations that face no limits on what they can raise and spend at the city and state level in recent yearon the ongoing probe but noted, «We have all seen a concerning increase in activity by organizations that face no limits on what they can raise and spend at the city and state level in recent yearon what they can raise and spend at the city and state level in recent years.

Cuomo has often decried the Citizens United decision, which ushered in the era of the «super PAC» of unlimited political spending on the national level as constraining efforts in New York to limit the state's porous campaign finance laws.

Campaign finance — The Scottish Parliament will set the campaign spending limits, although the SNP government will have to consult the commission on any prCampaign finance — The Scottish Parliament will set the campaign spending limits, although the SNP government will have to consult the commission on any prcampaign spending limits, although the SNP government will have to consult the commission on any proposals.

The UK has very tight regulations for spending on election campaigns, with maximum spending limits on both individual races and the overall campaign.

The personal use ban does not include a limit on spending campaign funds for legal fees (Which Gov. Andrew Cuomo himself has done during the investigation of the Moreland Commission by the U.S. attorney's office).

It aimed to limit spending on campaign activity in the year ahead of a general election and redefined electoral activity as anything which could affect the outcome of an election.

Democracy watchdog the Electoral Commission set a # 11,003 limit on spending by candidates in Richmond Park in the 23 days between the dissolution of Parliament and the May 6 election - known as the short campaign.

At issue was whether the costs of a Conservative campaign battlebus should have been accounted for by local campaigns where the legal spending limits are tighter at between about # 11,000 and # 16,000, depending on the size of the constituency

Much of the early debate about Britain's coming in - out referendum on the European Union has concerned the operation of these rules: the wording of the question on the ballot paper, campaign spending limits and the extent to which David Cameron and his ministers should go into policy - purdah in the final weeks.

Mr. Cuomo's office had no immediate response to the proposal, which also included a plan to close the so - called L.L.C. loophole, which allows corporate interests to spend almost unlimited amounts of money on campaigns by channeling contributions through limited liability companies, which can be designed to provide little transparency.

A combined 96 seconds of his 92 - minute speech were spent on issues like campaign finance, outside income rules, term limits and early voting.

ProPublica reports that Crossroads GPS claimed in an application filed two years ago with the IRS that its spending on campaigns would be «limited.»

Because Stringer is participating in the city's campaign finance program, his spending is capped at $ 6 million — up from the previous $ 4 million limit, which was increased when it became clear that Spitzer planned to spend at least $ 2 million on the race.

In real terms, these rules which exist in virtually every jurisdiction, include laws and regulations which forbid the unauthorized use of state resources for political purposes, contributions from dubious sources, violation of campaign funding limits as prescribed by enabling laws, the use of money to influence voters and election outcomes, non-disclosure of campaign spending, abuse of media, broadcasting and political advertising rules, and rules on declaration of assets, academic qualifications, health and other disclosures and internal party guidelines and rules.

Unlike traditional campaign accounts, «issue - oriented» nonprofits have no limits on how much money they can collect and spend.

Incumbent highway superintendent Brian Stiscia petitioned the Gardiner Town Board for the change in term, arguing that the present system requires too much of the superintendent's time to be spent on campaigning during the limited months when weather conditions are favorable for road repairs.

«There is significant public interest in being satisfied that the facts are known about Vote Leave's spending on the campaign, particularly as it was a lead campaigner with a greater spending limit than any other campaigners on the leave side.»

A Flanagan spokesman, Scott Reif, insisted that Dunham was not running the GOP campaign — a sensitive matter since rules in both the Senate and the Assembly strictly limit the time paid staffers can spend on political work.

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.

On Wednesday, Mr. Cuomo is also expected to call for a constitutional cap on state spending that would limit growth to the rate of inflation and for a budget that does not raise corporate, personal income or sales taxes, echoing proposals he made on the campaign traiOn Wednesday, Mr. Cuomo is also expected to call for a constitutional cap on state spending that would limit growth to the rate of inflation and for a budget that does not raise corporate, personal income or sales taxes, echoing proposals he made on the campaign traion state spending that would limit growth to the rate of inflation and for a budget that does not raise corporate, personal income or sales taxes, echoing proposals he made on the campaign traion the campaign trail.

Hein included, along with campaign spending limits and restrictions on vendors» donations a controversial matching - grant proviso for those running for legislature.

GPS claimed in an application filed two years ago with the IRS that its spending on campaigns would be «limited.»