Sentences with phrase «limits on the campaign contributions»

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.

A national conservative group on Wednesday is threatening to file a lawsuit unless New York repeal its aggregate limits on campaign contributions.

Good - government advocates fear this morning Supreme Court ruling could have wide - reaching effects for New York's own aggregate limits on campaign contributions in a given election cycle.

The ethics pledge envisions a reinvigorated ethics commission with sweeping jurisdiction and subpoena power, comprehensive annual financial disclosure requirements and the creation of a panel to recommend limits on campaign contributions from individuals and organizations that solicit or obtain state business.

But this month, the administration backed off, citing the cost of a public system and legislative resistance to the limits on campaign contributions.

The letter came in response to the leak on Friday of a confidential report by the board that accused a team formed by Mr. de Blasio of illegally funneling money to various candidates through county Democratic Party committees and a statewide party committee, in order to evade limits on campaign contributions.

Lafazan called for limits on campaign contributions by county contractors; term limits for elected officials; an end to taxpayer - funded political mailers; affordable housing for recent college graduates and increased funding to fight heroin abuse.

Sugarman says the whole scheme was designed to avoid limits on campaign contributions.

But lawmakers rejected other proposals, including measures to lower limits on campaign contributions and close loopholes that allow for outsize donations.

At the time, Mr. Spitzer and Mr. Bruno had been discussing a deal that would have imposed some form of new limits on campaign contributions, which was important to Mr. Spitzer.

Dong is accused of trying to evade limits on campaign contributions in several ways, for example, by using the name of his daughter, then a minor, as a campaign contributor.

But lawmakers rejected other proposals, including measures to lower limits on campaign contributions and close loopholes that allow for outsize donations.

The Supreme Court of the United States recently considered whether Missouri's limits on campaign contributions violated the First and Fourteenth Amendment free speech guarantees found in the Constitution of the United States.

In 1997, Missouri voters approved a ballot initiative that established limits on campaign contributions.

Not exact matches

«Any payment by a person such as Cohen on behalf of or in consultation with a candidate to influence an election is an in - kind «contribution'to the candidate under campaign finance law subject to a $ 2,700 limit and disclosure requirements,» he said.

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.

Any payment by a person such as Cohen on behalf of or in consultation with a candidate to influence an election is an in - kind «contribution» to the candidate under campaign finance law subject to a $ 2,700 limit and disclosure requirements.

It was announced today that Kerrey, the former president of the New School in New York City, had signed on to the effort to tighten campaign finance laws by introducing a voluntary public matching system similar to New York City and lower contribution limits.

He also opposes public campaign financing, which is being discussed in Albany at the moment, and reducing the limit on individual campaign contributions.

Longtime League of Women Voters lobbyist Barbara Bartoletti expressed frustration at the lack of action on items including closing a giant campaign finance loophole that allows big money donors to make unlimited contributions to candidates by setting up multiple Limited Liability Companies.

• Transforming the ethical environment in Government: Governor Cuomo's «Clean Up Albany» agenda would institute campaign finance reforms including a system of public financing for elections, limits on contribution levels, creating an independent redistricting commission, creating independent monitoring and enforcement of ethics laws, and requiring full disclosure of outside income and clients.

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.

By contrast, in New York City, where profound reforms were implemented in 1989, the Campaign Finance Board imposed 128 penalties on 31 candidates that accepted contributions above the legal limit.

Limited Liability Companies (LLCs) are used by a wide variety of industries to circumvent the $ 5,000 annual corporate contribution limit in New York State campaign finance law, relying on the New York State Board of Elections» 1996 determination to treat LLCs as individuals, subject to a $ 150,000 annual contribution limit.

Adopt system of public financing of campaigns, with new lower limits on direct contributions to statewide and state legislative candidates; Establish the «New York State Campaign Finance Fund», with transfers from the Abandoned Property Fund and taxpayer designations of PIT liability; and limiting contributions to «housekeeping accounts» to $ 25,000.

Horner, with NYPIRG, says the testimony illustrates the need to clean up New York's campaign finance laws by setting stricter caps on contributions and eliminating a loophole that allows donors to use LLCs or limited liability companies, to skirt existing donor limits.

Corporations Use Limited Liability Companies to Skirt Campaign Contribution Limits Limited Liability Companies associated with luxury real estate mogul Leonard Litwin have channeled more than $ 900,000 into races for the New York State Senate this election cycle, largely to Republicans seeking to hold on to majority control.

Along with vigilant enforcement of the law, disclosure of contributions, and lower contribution limits, public financing of elections can «end the mad chase for campaign cash that starts some elected officials down the road to corruption and... make candidates dependent on ordinary voters rather than special interests.»

«In particular, a low limit — rather than a ban — on campaign contributions may have been a safer route.»

He told them that he can no longer rely on Senate Republicans to approve key issues like the Dream Act for children of undocumented immigrants and a reform package that limits campaign contributions.

The June 25 event to raise funds for Mr. Cuomo's 2014 re-election campaign includes a host committee reception, dinner and musical performance, and is set to occur five days after the scheduled end of the legislative session in Albany, by which time the governor has pledged to attain legislative action on campaign - finance reform, including lowering contribution limits.

Oregon Democrats and Republicans have never enacted limits on political campaign contributions but have repealed voter - enacted limits 3 times.

The donors include George Soros and Time Warner Cable, who were legally able to skirt limits on direct contributions to Cuomo's individual campaign account.

Both Curran and Maragos made anti-corruption reforms a central campaign platform, proposing term limits for county elected officials, tighter contracting oversight and limits or bans on contractor campaign contributions.

State of the State: Gov. Cuomo Once Again Calls for Public Financing In his 2013 State of the State Address on Wednesday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo reemphasized his support for comprehensive reform of the state's campaign finance laws including effective disclosure, lower contribution limits, and public financing.

The full bill, which can be read here on the State Assembly website, in addition to providing new contribution limits and enforcement rules, also stipulates that the public campaign fund would be partially financed with money from Wall Street fraud settlements.

And there should be more stringent restrictions on what campaign funds can be used for, along with significantly lower contribution limits.

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.

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.

A coalition of groups on Monday urged the state Board of Elections to prohibit the practice of allowing individual donors to give unlimited campaign contributions through a network of limited liability corporations.

«I have voluntarily held contributions to my campaign well below the legal limits and I have instituted a ban on pay to play contributions as proposed by the SEC,» DiNapoli continued.

The loophole allows donors to skirt limitations on individual campaign contributions by donating anonymously through one or more limited liability companies.

As a candidate for governor, Andrew Cuomo advanced a proposal to place new, strict, and lower campaign contribution limits on those seeking and receiving government contracts.

The plan includes a total contribution limit of $ 2,600 for all candidates running for state office, a complete ban on corporate campaign contributions, the elimination of «housekeeping accounts,» a $ 2,600 limit for transfers between party and candidate committees, and the repeal of the Wilson Pakula provision of the State Election Law which allows non-party members to be approved for candidacy by party officials.

What's more, they are enforced by an energetic and independent Campaign Finance Board, which oversees a carefully constructed system that combines generous public matching funds with limits on contributions to political candidates, limits that are especially strict for lobbyists and others doing business with the city.

In past years, the group of breakaway Democrats have proposed a new system for campaign contributions and limits on outside income.

However, since there is no limit on the number of LLCs a corporation or an individual may create, it effectively allows unlimited campaign contributions.

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.

If you want real ethics reform to clean up Albany, including limits on the outside income legislators can earn, term limits, and closing the loophole for LLC campaign contributions, vote yes.

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.