Sentences with phrase «of public campaign funding»

The Campaign Finance Institute has used peer - reviewed methods to conclude that the cost of public campaign funding under current proposals would be between $ 26 and $ 41 million per year.

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His reported close ties to US presidential candidate Hilary Clinton are not popular in certain corners of the French press, while there are also allegations he used public funds to finance his own presidential campaign.

While donation - based crowdfunding has blossomed on the public stage for getting arts and music projects funded, the majority of crowdfunding campaigns back social causes or startups.

Since most politicians» campaigns are largely funded by wealthy companies and individuals, it would give voters a better sense of who the candidate they are voting for is actually representing if the company's logo, or individual's name, was prominently displayed upon the candidate's clothing at all public appearances and campaign events.

Elliott owned only 4 % of Hess's stock — not enough to necessitate an activist warning - shot 13D filing with the SEC — in January 2013 when the fund went public with a proxy campaign to replace five of the board's directors.

Outspoken in the world of conservative politics and public policy, the Koch brothers, who have a combined net worth of $ 95.8 billion, are advocates for smaller government and routinely fund political campaigns, although they took a step back during the 2016 election cycle.

Connecticut's Green Bank is a widely praised program, and a public bank campaign in Vermont fell short of establishing a true public bank but led to the establishment of a loan program, funded through state reserves, for energy investments, weatherization, and other local projects.

Shareholders are also taking notice of issues related to socioeconomic and political equity, access and opportunity — such as public disclosure of corporate funding for political action committees (PACs), campaigns and lobbyists.

These platforms, on which entrepreneurs are allowed to raise funds from the general public, have repeatedly witnessed campaigns raising insanely large amounts of money.

«With the political race already drawing substantial media attention and potential candidates doing everything in their power to gain the support of the public at large, regulation of the hedge fund industry is a topic that will likely receive significant attention throughout the campaign period.»

Jobs also became one of Silicon Valley's most prominent opponents of the Trump administration's restrictive immigration policies, including speaking out at public events, lobbying politicians on both sides of the aisles and funding multi-platform media campaigns, this year aimed at the at - risk Dreamers.

Allowed public funding of campaigning groups who use health and bullying issues to promote their vision of sexual relationships and the acceptance of homosexuality.

To stay on the air, public broadcasting stations were forced resort to year - round fund raising campaigns, to accept forms of «underwriter recognition» that looked suspiciously like commercials, and to tailor their programming schedule to whatever corporate underwriters would support.

Published lists of donors, the announcement of pledges to the church building fund campaign, the insistence on a tax write - off for a donation - all these would seem to belong to the kind of public display that Jesus decried.

Animals Australia campaigns and investigations are funded entirely through the generosity of the public.

«SNF has funded important school foodservice research, and conducted a major campaign to raise funding to enhance the public image of school foodservice professionals and school meals in general,» says School Nutrition Foundation Executive Director Patricia Montague.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

«Not one kobo of public funds was spent by or given to my Directorate during the campaign and as far as I am aware not one kobo of public funds was spent by or given to the PCO.

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.»

«As Director of Media and Publicity of the Jonathan / Sambo Campaign organisation I received money on behalf of the Directorate of Media and Publicity which I headed from private individuals and companies during the election campaigns but these were not public funds but rather private contributions specifically for the Presidential and other campaigns.

NYC has struggled to recoup public campaign finance funds, and two dozen candidates owe a total of $ 800,000 from publicly subsidized races in 2001, 2003 and 2005.

In a political system in which candidates are largely responsible for funding and organising their own re-election campaigns, it is dangerous for parliamentarians to stand against the tide of public opinion.

Only about 5 % of taxpayers choose the $ 3 check off for public campaign funding (which is about $ 23 million per year because there are about 150 million 1040 tax returns filed each year), but public television, radio, the NEA and the NEH might get closer to the 25 - 27 % percent participation that the check off got when it was started (bringing the take to perhaps $ 115 million a year), because their programming is probably more popular than campaign funding for politicians.

And the Public Campaign Action Fund, an organization that supports the public financing of political campaigns spent $ 1.36 miPublic Campaign Action Fund, an organization that supports the public financing of political campaigns spent $ 1.36 mipublic financing of political campaigns spent $ 1.36 million.

It is no longer a news item that there was a wanton diversion of public funds meant for fighting insurgency to fund campaigns of PDP.

In the first two days alone, activists filled his council page and campaign page with over 150 messages, in a very public display of their desire to keep adequate funding for social programs for the District's poor.

Alleged over-provision for rural health facilities and boreholes, already provisioned for; and alleged scrapping of funds to buy drugs for major public health campaigns, like HIV / AIDS and Polio.

The case stems from the contribution from the New Yorkers for a Brighter Future to the Fund for Great Public Schools, the latter of which has been heavily involved in state legislative campaigns on behalf of Democratic candidates, primarily for the state Senate.

He wants taxpayer - funded political campaigns, allowing politicians to campaign exclusively on the public dime and forcing you, the taxpayer, to cover the cost of their negative TV ads, mailers and robocalls.

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

Marcellino had repeatedly voted to drain public schools of tens of millions and ship to the charter school companies that fund the GOP campaigns.

He accused the Cuomo campaign of using «threats and intimidation» to prevent rabbis from meeting with Paladino — even going so far as to make veiled suggestions that public funding might be in jeopardy, although no proof of this claim was provided.

The report, «By the People: The New York City Campaign Finance Program in the 2013 Elections,» shows, among other things, that: the number of candidates participating in the public - funding system in 2013 remained high; more than two - thirds of all New York City contributors gave $ 175 or less; and more than 90 percent of the total raised came from individual contributors, rather than from PACs or unions.

It is insult added to injury when an official succeeds in defending themselves and then has the state reimburse their campaign fund, which can then be used for anything they want,» said Blair Horner, director of New York State Public Interest Research Group.

These revelations were uncovered by the Moreland Commission on Public Corruption as part of a broad investigation into the spending of campaign funds by state lawmakers that was shut down when Gov. Andrew Cuomo abruptly disbanded the Commission last month.

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«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.

Scharff, with Citizen Action, says an agreement on «comprehensive reform» that incudes matching donor public funding for candidates and strong enforcement of the campaign finance laws would be great.

In reality however, 72 percent of New York business leaders support campaign finance reform, including matching small donations with public funds.

«UJA - Federation of New York applauds Governor Cuomo for being the first governor in the nation to issue an executive order directing state entities to divest all public funds supporting the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel,» said UJA Federation of New York CEO Eric S. Goldstein in a statement.

Amidst the media's recent focus on independent redistricting, New York City Council member Dan Garodnick encourages New Yorkers not to lose sight of the importance of campaign finance reform, highlighting the many benefits that the New York City public matching funds system has created for small donors, candidates for public office, and the voting public.

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.

Since 2011, Keith has worked for City Council Speaker Peter Vallone, Sr. helping to advocate for after school funding, expanded Advanced Placement, prevent bullying of LGBT students in public schools, secure funding for employment and workforce programs, create new affordable housing, and preserve the quality of life on the Upper East Side, In 2006, Keith was the tenant organizer for the «Preserve Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village» campaign during the sale of the neighborhood to Tishman Speyer.

In its preliminary report issued to the public in December, the Moreland Commission concluded there were «few rules limiting the personal use of campaign funds and even less enforcement.»

Common Cause / NY is an active member of the Fair Elections Coalition, working for the passage of a broad package of campaign finance measures, built around a core of small donor matching fund public financing of elections.

Governor Cuomo should put his money where his mouth is and make sure there is funding in the state budget to implement it,» said Jonah Minkoff - Zern, Director of the Public Citizen's Democracy Is For People campaign.

● Eliminate private contributions including 527s and PACs and replace with public funding of campaigns.

She said the state could have tackled a range of issues, from fully funding public schools to fixing the beleaguered subway system and enacting campaign finance reform.

Campaign Finance Reform Can Help Crack Down on Corruption A 2011 report by the Center for Competitive Politics has been seized upon by opponents of Fair Elections to argue that the public financing system in New York City is characterized by consistent abuse of public funds and corruption.

Ssempa, who is associated with Saddleback pastor Rick Warren and is a recipient of U.S. funds to combat HIV / AIDS through «abstinence only» programs, has been linked to prior public vigilante campaigns against LGBT people.