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.
The gist of our testimony was that the legislature should not appropriate any new funds for discretionary economic development programs until there are major transparency and accountability reforms, including a Database of Deals, Clean Contracting reforms and
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The conversation swung immediately to Texas Gov. Rick Perry's rejection of science pointing to disruptive human - driven warming and Yorke
focused on his campaign contributions from industry, particularly oil companies.
Rep. John Katko stands out among House members elected to Congress in 2014 for his
reliance on campaign contributions from special interest groups, according to an analysis by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
In keeping with their outsized roles, Koch Industries and ExxonMobil spent
more on campaign contributions and lobbying than any other fossil fuel company this year.
Speaking of lobbying, the Daily News reports that the NRA has given New York state legislators over $ 200,000 since 2003: more than the pro-gun group has
spent on campaign contributions in any other state.
For its part, the commercial real estate industry seems to be leaning Republican, according to NREI analysis of Center for Responsive Politics
data on campaign contributions.
Assemblyman Dan Quart, a Manhattan Democrat, has introduced legislation that would impost special restrictions
on campaign contributions for district attorney candidates.
Schultz's two major political initiatives this year — the CEO
moratorium on campaign contributions and the wristbands — reflect the same MO. (Starbucks will also donate half the profits from two inner - city stores to community organizations).
Mary Pasciak of The Buffalo News reports that Buffalo School Board candidates and their donors have ignored disclosure
laws on campaign contributions.
He said it was important that the same restrictions
on campaign contributions apply to corporations, unions, and individuals, hitting one of the key sticking points for Republicans: that unions are treated similarly to corporations.
Except for an NBC report two years
ago on campaign contributions, none of the rumors (or anything close to them) has yet been printed or broadcast.
The issue is: is there a willingness or a commitment to change the campaign finance system so that nobody has to run for office in the future
relying on campaign contributions from wealthy donors?»
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.
As EdSource, a nonprofit education news site focused on California recently reported, «In past years, the teachers union far outspent the [charter]
association on campaign contributions.
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.
Democrats called for new anti-nepotism rules, a
prohibition on campaign contributions from town employees, and a stop to taxpayer - paid mailers with officials» names on them 90 days before an election..
While the controversy was building over the Democrats» legislative proposal, a trial continued Tuesday in Hartford Superior Court — for the second day — over what Common Cause and others say was state Democrats» circumvention during the 2014 gubernatorial campaign of the clean - elections program's
ban on campaign contributions from state contractors.
Instead of
focusing on campaign contributions and elections, Chopra takes a look at the way special interests exercise undue influence over the federal bureaucracy and the broader policy debate in Washington.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. John Katko stands out among House members elected to Congress in 2014 for his
reliance on campaign contributions from special interest groups, according to a watchdog report issued Monday.
While Stand for Children prefers the grassroots organizing approach, Democrats for Education Reform depends less on on - the - ground tactics and
more on campaign contributions and political advocacy.
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.
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.
The gist of our testimony was that the legislature should not appropriate any new funds for discretionary economic development programs until there are major transparency and accountability reforms, including a Database of Deals, Clean Contracting reforms and
restrictions on campaign contributions from state vendors.
In second place, the New York state United Teachers union spent $ 3.2 million — a figure that does not include the millions of dollars the labor group
spent on campaign contributions and related advertising.
Curran's plan includes tougher restrictions on taxpayer - funded mailings and limits or prohibitions
on campaign contributions from county employees and vendors.
Verdant Labs has data on the political leanings sorted by profession, based
on campaign contributions.
Our creative culture is too important to be legislated based
on campaign contributions and back - channel lobbying alone — the creators, the remixers, the hosters and the consumers all need to be a part of what happens next.
Since 2007 and up until July of last year, pro-fracking businesses, trade organizations, and unions spent $ 15.4 million
on campaign contributions to state lawmakers, who are set to determine the fate of the practice in New York.
«In particular, a low limit — rather than a ban —
on campaign contributions may have been a safer route.»
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 LLC loophole allows wealthy companies and owners to circumvent the maximum limits
on campaign contributions,» said Assemblymember Harry Bronson.
But the ad released this afternoon goes further, knocking Cuomo for not achieving a budget agreement that includes other measures such as limits
on campaign contributions and for ending the Moreland Commission on Public Corruption.
A national conservative group on Wednesday is threatening to file a lawsuit unless New York repeal its aggregate limits
on campaign contributions.
A week after the U.S. Supreme Court stuck down overall aggregate limits
on campaign contributions, the three national Republican campaign committees have formed a new joint fundraising committee.