Sentences with phrase «of public financing of political campaigns»

Syracuse.com asked 14 state legislators from Central New York where they stand on two of the reform proposals: capping the outside income lawmakers can earn and creating a system of public financing of political campaigns.

At the very least, passage of the public financing of political campaigns will be an heavier lift.

In addition to support from labor unions and supporters of public financing of political campaigns, Senate Democrats are expected to receive strong organizational support from groups that focus on women's health and workplace rights issues.

Not exact matches

And in the political sphere, finance has become the great defender of deregulating monopolies and «freeing» land rent and asset - price gains from taxation, translating its economic power and campaign contributions into the political power to capture control of public financial regulation.

Cuomo is pushing a package of ethics reform proposals including public financing of political campaigns and strengthened disclosure of outside income for elected officials — measure he says must be in the final state budget agreement.

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.

In the lead up to this weekend's New York State Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus» conference in Albany, the Center for Working Families and Citizen Action of New York has released a study that found public financing of political campaigns helps candidates in poor and majority - minority districts.

In a memorandum being circulated this morning, good - government advocates call Speaker Sheldon Silver's measure to create a public financing system for political campaigns «a good first step forward» but then pick apart some of the wider loopholes in the legislation.

Fair Elections for New York, one of the groups pushing for establishment of a public campaign finance system, is hosting a free screening tonight of «Pricele $ $,» a documentary that looks at the pervasive nature of political cash and its power in shaping policy at the national level.

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.

In other words, Obama's decision to opt out of the public campaign financing system was THE decisive moment of the campaign, and his immense treasury the atomic bomb of this political war.

He told Syracuse.com he opposes Cuomo's calls for the Legislature to approve public financing of political campaigns, is undecided on closing the LLC loophole that lets wealthy donors contribute almost unlimited amounts to politicians, and is against the governor's call to limit the outside income of lawmakers to 15 percent of their $ 79,500 base salary as legislators.

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.

Randolph applauded the Public Campaign Action Fund's ad campaign pushing public financing, which analogizes the decrepit state of the Statue of Liberty with the corrosive political environment in APublic Campaign Action Fund's ad campaign pushing public financing, which analogizes the decrepit state of the Statue of Liberty with the corrosive political environment inCampaign Action Fund's ad campaign pushing public financing, which analogizes the decrepit state of the Statue of Liberty with the corrosive political environment incampaign pushing public financing, which analogizes the decrepit state of the Statue of Liberty with the corrosive political environment in Apublic financing, which analogizes the decrepit state of the Statue of Liberty with the corrosive political environment in Albany.

Susan Lerner, Executive Director of Common Cause / NY, noted that «Hydraulic fracturing has been one of the most polarizing issues in recent history, with no shortage of political money invested by pro-fracking interests to achieve a favorable outcome... New York State needs comprehensive campaign finance and lobbying reform to assure New Yorkers that public policy is based on their interest, not the special interests.»

The governor is already running smack into a wall of opposition in the Senate, where Republicans (and at least one Democrat) don't want to hold a vote on a measure to strengthen abortion laws or allow for the public financing of political campaigns.

Syracuse - area Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick is the co-chairman of Cuomo's Moreland Act Commission, and says he has become a convert to using public funds to finance political campaigns.

Several MoveOn and Occupy members braved a chill wind and snow to demonstrate outside the State Capitol in favor of the state's adopting a public small donor matching fund to finance political campaigns.

NYPIRG formally protested the decision to block advocates for public financing of political campaigns from room in a letter to the Committee on Open Government.

Republicans in the state Legislature opposed a public campaign finance proposal from Cuomo, saying it was a waste of taxpayer dollars and would unfairly tilt the political playing field in favor of Democratic - leaning unions.

Public financing of campaigns also would help, since most women don't have access to the good ol' boy networks that primarily fund political campaigns.

But liberal advocates have become increasingly frustrated over the bottling up of key bills in the Senate — including the public financing of political campaigns and the DREAM Act.

The groups pushing today for the closure of the loophole have also been full - throated in their support for the public financing of political campaigns.

Sources Friday evening said Cuomo and the leadership of the party had reached a tentative deal for the incumbent Democrat to take the labor - backed line in exchange for pushing on key progressive issues such as the Dream Act, the public financing of political campaigns and the women's agenda.

A political action committee associated with Jonathan Soros is prepared to spend millions of dollars against Republican state senators on Long Island if state lawmakers don't approve a system of public campaign finance.

Hundreds gathered at the state Capitol to rally for public financing of political campaigns.

Advocacy groups are encouraged by recent statements made by the co-chairman of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's anti-corruption commission, who says he now favors public financing of political campaigns.

Cuomo has also insisted the public financing of political campaigns being limited to the state comptroller's race is a breath through considering the opposition to a statewide program in the Senate.

The resolution, approved earlier this month after some back - and - forth haggling over pre-Kindergarten spending levels, the public financing of political campaigns and the Dream Act, doesn't go into detail as to what the sales tax exemptions and adjustments would cost in revenue to the state budget.

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A math war is being waged over public financing of state political campaigns, one of the most contentious proposals to fight New York's epidemic of public corruption.

Still, rank - and - file advocates remain unconvinced, especially over whether Cuomo will make a good - faith effort to create a system of public financed political campaigns, which is part of a tricky set of negotiations with the state Senate, divided between a coalition of Democrats and Republicans.

There are other differences as well, including Cuomo's support for the public financing of political campaigns, which the Assembly supports and the Senate does not.

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The budget included only a pilot program for the public financing of political campaigns and just for the state comptroller's race.

Cuomo on Saturday was endorsed by the labor - backed WFP and at the same time announced his support for a Democratic takeover of the Senate, as well as a package of liberal measures including the public financing of political campaigns.

There's three weeks to go in the legislative session, and advocates are pushing hard for two of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's agenda items — translating the federal abortion rights in the Roe v. Wade decision into New York state law, and enacting public financing of statewide political campaigns.

William Fitzpatrick, the Syracuse - area Onondaga County DA, who is the co-chair of Cuomo's anti-corruption commission, says he has become a convert to using public funds to finance political campaigns.

She is writing a book on political corruption, and became involved in the campaign to create a system of public campaign finance several months ago.

The Moreland Commission, after several months of hearings and investigations, concluded in early December that public financing of statewide political campaigns would go a long ways toward curbing the influence of large money donors.

Advocacy groups are encouraged by recent statements by the co - chair of New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo's anti-corruption commission, who says he now favors public financing of political campaigns.

«Independent expenditures tend not to be particularly as big in New York as say the LLC Loophole or housekeeping accounts,» said Blair Horner of The New York Public Interest Research Group, referring to political party accounts not subject to the same campaign finance limits as candidate campaigns.

Advocacy groups are encouraged by recent statements by the co - chair of Governor Cuomo's anti corruption commission, who says he now favors public financing of political campaigns.

The advocates, including Citizen Action's Karen Scharff, want the state to adopt a public campaign financing system similar to the one in New York City where every one dollar donated by a private individual to a political campaign releases $ 6 of public money.

He favors public financing of political campaigns.

He has, however, voted against both public financing of political campaigns and the Dream Act, which would make foreign nationals entering college eligible for state aid.

Cuomo, to chants of «four more years», promised to deliver in his next term on a mostly progressive agenda, including enacting a number of items that were stalled in the State Senate over the past couple of years, like an abortion rights provision as part of a women's rights agenda and public financing of political campaigns.

Good government groups have for years complained that New York's campaign finance laws make it difficult for the public to determine the actual source of campaign dollars, whether due to the so - called «LLC loophole» — which allows business interests that control a network of subsidiaries to vastly multiply their political giving — or corporate formation laws that allow companies to obscure the individuals and other businesses behind them.

Larry Norden, senior counsel at the Brennan Center lauded the benefits of campaign finance reform, presenting original research that indicates how small donor matching and public funding of elections has increased political participation and competition in New York City elections.

But while Cuomo was able to get several Republican Senators to vote to enact same sex marriage in 2011, he could not get them to budge on several issues that the Democratic left was pushing for, including, further increasing the minimum wage, allowing children of undocumented immigrants college aid known as the Dream Act, and public financing of political campaigns.