Sentences with phrase «of campaign contribution limits»

January 20, 2014 - Election Law: Summary of Campaign Contribution Limits Under Federal, California State, San Diego County & San Diego City Laws, Hull McGuire PC

As of January Sugarman had also not begun assembling a report on the biggest violators of campaign contribution limits the board has traditionally issued.

Instead, the Board decided to follow the lead of the Federal Election Commission and treat LLCs as individuals for the purposes of campaign contribution limits.

However, in 1999, the FEC reversed its position and decided that LLCs should be treated either as a corporation or a partnership for the purposes of campaign contribution limits — but not the limits set for human beings.

«The Legislature has created this very comprehensive system of campaign contribution limits in New York state,» said Republican Co-Chairman Peter Kosinski.

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.

If the $ 130,000 payment was meant to help Trump win the election (something Cohen denies), it could count as a campaign contribution that was well in excess of federal limits.

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.

This has been my experience for over 40 of my 67 years in a fellowship that has no buildings, is not organized, accepts no outside financial contributions, limits end of life personal contributions, has NO fund raising or capital campaigns, does not define stewardship in the level of financial «benevolence!»

Allies of the mayor are under investigation in part for channeling millions of dollars in campaign donations to county committees, which allowed them to seemingly avoid contribution limits when those dollars wound up in the coffers of individual candidates.

According to campaign disclosure reports the Erie County GOP received five separate contributions of $ 20,000 each in 2012 from Limited Liability Corporations with the same address as New York City real estate company Glenwood Management.

Cuomo called for lowering contribution limits; requiring that all contributions of more than — including to independent expenditure entities — be disclosed within 48 hours, or 24 hours close to Election Day; and creating a publicly funded campaign finance system.

«For most offices, New York State's contribution «limits» are substantially higher than those of any other state that imposes limits, and they are so high as to ensure that large donors dominate major political campaigns and candidates spend as much time as possible raising money from donors rather than talking with voters about issues,» Cuomo said in the written version of the SoS.

At the moment, a single campaign donor can give unlimited contributions through a network of limited liability companies or LLCs.

«Indeed, the transactions appear contrary to the intent and spirit of the laws that impose candidate contribution limits, laws which are meant to prevent «corruption and the appearance of corruption» in the campaign finance process.»

Last Friday, he announced he was doing away with his self - imposed campaign contribution limits, saying he didn't want to unilaterally disarm against Wilson, who may or may not invest a boatload of his own cash into his campaign.

Jacobs, much of his extended family, and a number of Limited Liability Companies or LLC's have given Cuomo nearly $ 125,000 in campaign contributions since he first ran for Governor in 2010.

Cuomo, too, has talked about the importance of limiting big donors» access to government by limiting political contributions and creating a public campaign finance system — although he has yet to formally propose any legislation to accomplish that.

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.

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.

Reinvent Albany Asks Charter Revision Commission to Better Disclose and Limit Contributions to City - Affiliated Nonprofits by Donors Doing Business with the City Recommends Commission Phase in Campaign Finance Reform Because of Unprecedented 2021 Election Activity Due to Term Limits Reinvent Albany delivered testimony to the mayor - convened New York City Charter Revision Commission this evening, calling -LSB-...]

• 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.

The Republican candidate for the vacant seat of the New York State Assembly's 145th District, Mickey Kearns, is facing a formal complaint that he violated state campaign laws by accepting individual and corporate contributions for the upcoming special election over the legal limit.

Thursday's filings lay bare those donations and other jaw - dropping financial details of the first modern presidential campaign in which donors could give unlimited contributions for political ads and in which both major party candidates declined to participate in a Watergate - era public financing system designed to limit fundraising.

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.

«When the limits for contributions to the parties are much higher than for candidates, contributions to the parties in effect become a pass - through to the candidates,» said Michael Malbin, a University at Albany political science professor and director of the Campaign Finance Institute, a nonpartisan Washington, D.C., think tank.

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.

A Justice Department probe of the campaign alleges that Durand, a former business associate of Grimm, illegally reimbursed donors in order to evade legal contribution limits and funnel more money to Grimm's 2010 Congressional campaign.

The governor had proposed in his budget sweeping changes in the state's campaign finance system: lower contribution limits, more expensive disclosures, enhanced enforcement, and a voluntary system of public financing.

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.

This ongoing corruption is made possible because Glenwood, through its aggressive use of its LLCs, is effectively not subject to any campaign contribution limits.

The Skelos complaint shows how the multiple Limited Liability Companies, or LLCs, controlled by Glenwood can be used to coordinate and bundle hundreds of thousands of dollars of campaign contributions in order to buy favorable policy outcomes and tax breaks.

They also took advantage of a loophole in campaign finance laws and bundled $ 125,000 in contributions, using limited liability companies, or LLCs, to hide the true amount of their donations.

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.»

Our analysis underscores how unlimited campaign contributions - as limited liability companies effectively have no limits - warp our elections and result in important policy decisions being driven by the demands of wealthy special interests.

That second account has $ 1.76 million in it, but because there are higher contributions limits in that statewide account most of it could not be used for a Senate campaign.

Investigators are probing whether the effort was part of a deliberate attempt to circumvent campaign finance contribution limits.

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.

Campaign cash from limited liability corporations — Arwin 88th Street LLC, Columbus 60th Realty LLC and Briar Hill Realty LLC are but a few connected to Glenwood — is now the subject of intense scrutiny as good - government groups demand lawmakers close loopholes that have allowed LLCs to make political contributions with so few constraints.

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.

Companies routinely circumvent New York's campaign contribution limits by giving through multiple LLC entities, which has degraded the integrity of our elections and given certain interests outsized influence in both chambers of the legislature.

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.

Jenny Hou is accused of helping Liu's campaign skirt campaign finance laws by allegedly using straw donors to channel illegal contributions far above the legal limit into Liu's campaign coffers.

«The LLC loophole allows big special interests to virtually by pass the campaign contribution limits that apply to most New Yorkers, and give politicians vast sums of money, often without clearly identifying the source,» said Kavanagh, the bill's sponsor.

Yes, it is completely legal in New York for a person doing business with the state to give the governor $ 250K worth of campaign contributions using Limited Liability Companies (LLCs) and then get an enormous state contract.

When Mr. Cuomo ran for governor in 2010, he characterized large LLC contributions as one of the campaign finance system's «loopholes,» proposing that such donations be counted against the parent company's $ 5,000 contribution limit, to make that limit «meaningful.»

If there is anything recent events have taught us, it's that we need to limit the outsized influence of wealthy corporate donors, who have been able to influence lawmakers by making virtually unlimited campaign contributions to candidates — often without even disclosing their identities.

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.

The groups further urged state leaders to reduce the potential for conflicts of interest by exploring options to limit campaign contributions from anyone seeking a state contract.