Sentences with phrase «money for public financing»

The money for public financing of the campaign would come from the comptroller's own unclaimed funds account.

The money for the public financing of the campaign would come from the Comptroller's own unclaimed funds account.

Sen. Kathy Marchione questioned whether the money for public financing would be better spent on gap elimination aid for education, while Sen. Greg Ball threw a pointed jab at Democratic Sen. Cecilia Tkaczyk, wondering out loud about independent expenditure groups funded by «Soros.»

Skelos, a Republican from Nassau County, said he would prefer to see the money for a public financing system to go to education.

The mayor of Lafayette, Louisiana has proposed the city create its own cryptocurrency to raise money for public finance, taking a cue from Berkeley, California, according to The Acadia Advocate.

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One bank exec who oversees US IPOs said this was «not a replacement for an IPO» since Spotify wasn't raising any money, one of the traditional purposes of an offering — to sell a portion of the company to the public to finance more growth.

The only time this has happened in history for a three year period or more was during World War II, when we were obviously printing enough money to finance a lot of deficit spending on infrastructure and public programs.

The Financial Services Authority, Indonesia's financial services regulator known as the OJK, is preparing a regulation that would allow local financial technology companies to lend money directly to customers to provide more financing choices for the public, its senior officials said on Tuesday (14/02).

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

Instead of social networking, the online technology that's really shaken up 2008 is fundraising: the candidates» ability to raise almost unlimited amounts of money online has been a true game - changer, allowing Barack Obama to opt out of public financing and to begin to build a significant Democratic financial advantage for the first time in political memory.

He also backs a public financing system for campaigns, but wrote in his accompanying policy book for the State of the State that the money would come from a non-taxpayer source.

But the governor, in making a refocused pitch for overhauling campaign finance laws with a system of public financing with matching dollars, told reporters earlier today in New York City he finds the process of raising money as it is now deeply unpleasant.

Connecticut has a public campaign finance system that requires a certain percentage of locally - raised money in order to qualify for matching funds.

Under Cuomo's proposal, donations to statewide candidates would be capped at $ 25,000 for those not receiving public money and $ 12,000 for those participating in the new publicly financed system.

Then there was the most recent stick in the eye: forcing on Dinapoli a pilot public financing program — only for his race — that would make the comptroller give back more than two - thirds of his campaign money or suffer a P.R. hit.

«The 6th District and America need to stop big corporate money from privatizing our democracy, which means public funding for public elections as we have in NYC and a DISCLOSE act so anonymous money from billionaires doesn't buy our government,» said Green, who is the author of Who Runs Congressand Losing Our Democracy, as well as the author of the multiple matching funds for small donors part of the City's campaign finance law.

Every Friday, the Brennan Center compiles the latest news concerning the corrosive nature of money in New York State politics — and the ongoing need for public financing and robust campaign finance reform.

I have no objection to private industry being involved in building schools etc under public sector management, but, as has been detailed time and time again, the financing issues are simply a licence for banks and investment companies to print money.

The only answer is comprehensive campaign finance reform, starting with a statewide public financing system to elevate the voices of average voters, who are too often forgotten amidst the search for big money.

19 December 2011 — COMMITTEE ON STANDARDS IN PUBLIC LIFE Question: To ask Her Majesty's Government how much they estimated the inquiry by the Committee on Standards in Public Life into party political finance would cost; what the final cost of the inquiry was; and how they would assess what represents value for money in the case of such inquPUBLIC LIFE Question: To ask Her Majesty's Government how much they estimated the inquiry by the Committee on Standards in Public Life into party political finance would cost; what the final cost of the inquiry was; and how they would assess what represents value for money in the case of such inquPublic Life into party political finance would cost; what the final cost of the inquiry was; and how they would assess what represents value for money in the case of such inquiries.

The groups, also strong supporters of comprehensive campaign finance reform built around a core of public financing of elections, today focused on the urgent need for ethics reform as another essential way to address the problems created by a money culture in Albany.

Saying he won't be a «convenient sacrificial lamb,» state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli says he won't opt in to a test system for public campaign finance that applies only to his office, and would use money from the comptroller's unclaimed funds to pay for it.

In preparation for the launch of the Fair Elections for New York campaign, a series of events in Albany and across the state are being held to call attention to state legislators» reliance on out - of - district campaign contributions — further evidence of the need for a state public campaign finance system that relies on small donors and local money.

«An unusual and well - heeled coalition, trying to tap public anger over the flood of money into politics, is pushing to enact a public financing system for elections in New York State,» reported the New York Times in a front - page article on the New York Leadership for Accountable Government (NY LEAD) coalition.

The public financing system for the comptroller's race as devised in the budget will use money from the comptroller's unclaimed funds pool.

However, another prominent Republican, Onondaga county district attorney Bill Fitzpatrick — who is investigating public corruption in the state as the co-chair of the Moreland Commission — thinks public financing would be an excellent use of public money, leading to long - term savings for taxpayers.

Term limits and outside income bans for lawmakers are silly ideas, according to former LG Richard Ravitch, but public financing of elections, a system designed to take the big money out of politics, would be «key» to any ethical reforms of state government.

With public financing of campaigns WE would allot a finite amount of money which could only come from the taxpayers instead of corporate donors thus they would automatically be working for the voters only which would beholden them to the public automatically forcing them to do our will versus others.

There's a continuing push for public financing of campaigns, arguing it removes the influence of big money and allows challengers who would have trouble raising money to run.

The question before progressive advocates of public campaign financing in New York State is whether we push for full public campaign finance on the Clean Money model of equal and sufficient funding grants for all qualified candidates, or whether we settle for partial public campaign financing on the Matching Funds model used for presidential primaries since 1976 and for New York City local elections since 1989.

Meanwhile, 30 government reform groups wrote a letter to Cuomo asking him to make good on his call for public campaign financing, and for an independent agency to enforce regulations by putting money for those plans in the budget.

«We must end the ability of so - called not - for - profit advocacy organizations to elude regulation and to mock New York City's public finance system, by allowing campaigns access to virtually unlimited money from special interests,» he said.

Reformers Unite in Manhattan to Push for Public Financing On Thursday Citizen Action, the Center for Working Families, Communications Workers of America, SEIU 1199, Sierra Club, NAACP and the Brennan Center, among others, gathered in Manhattan for a summit to discuss the next steps for fomenting the transition to a clean money system.

Both groups, perhaps ironically, sought to eliminate the influence of money in politics by electing candidates, like Tkaczyk, who backed public financing for elections.

At our state conference last month, we overwhelmingly passed resolutions supporting guaranteed healthcare as a human right, free public education from pre-K through college or trade school, a living wage and fair compensation for all, investments in environmental protection and renewable energy, restoration of voting rights to former felons, public financing of elections to eradicate the corrupting influence of big money in politics, and other policies that serve the people.

An experimental public campaign finance system for the state Comptroller's race has fizzled, after the lone candidate who applied for the program failed to meet the minimum threshold to obtain the public monies.

Queens Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras - Copeland, who chairs the powerful Committee on Finance, suggested the city could lose precious monies for the NYPD for its non-cooperation on immigration issues, while the public hospital network could suffer if the president repeals the Obama - era Affordable Care Act and the school system might lose funding under the policies of U.S. Secretary of Education - designate Betsy DeVos.

Since Malloy is participating in public financing in the governor's race, Clinton will be raising money for the Democratic Party instead of directly for the campaign's account.

Candidates who accept public financing get rewarded for raising money from small donors, which helps make those candidates less beholden to special interests.

Despite the severe constraints of our public finances, which have resulted from years of mismanagement and corruption, Government has contributed US$ 10 million as seed money for the Plan.

With public financing and the alignment of the governor with the legislature, Connecticut passed mandatory paid sick days, increased the minimum wage, adopted an Earned Income Tax Credit, passed in - state tuition for undocumented students, and reversed a nearly 30 - year trend that gave bottle deposits back to distributors and redirected the money to public programs.

Easton today called the committee «nothing but a hit squad for millionaires and the largest landlords in New York City who want to take money out of the public schools to finance a tax cut for themselves.»

Public financing by itself does nothing to rein in the rampant corruption in Albany, and instead provides yet another pot of taxpayer money for the Albany elite to game and loot.

It's not entirely clear what the language on public financing will ultimately look like, but the expectation is that the resolution will not offer a framework for how to pay for the system or where the money would come from.

As for the claim that is widely made by good government groups and left leaning reformers that establishing a public campaign finance system would go a long way toward getting big money out of the political system and reducing corruption, New Yorkers aren't really on board.

I emailed Cuomo's press office to ask whether the governor might put money for a public campaign finance system in the budget, but have yet to receive a response.

The public campaign financing option would offer a six to one match, using government money, for individual contributions up to $ 175.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos would rather spend money earmarked for the public financing of state political campaigns go to education, reiterating his opposition to a measure introduced by Speaker Sheldon Silver in the Assembly on Tuesday.

«In the end, we would save more money than we would spend by having a public financing system that allows people to run based on contributions from ordinary citizens rather than from special interest looking for something in return from the federal or state budget,» she said.

Senate Democrats, who are the minority party in that house, held a news conference with government reform advocates to push for public financing of campaigns, a bill Senate Democratic Leader John Sampson says will lessen the influence of big money special interests in politics.