Sentences with phrase «on campaign finance issue»

The letter was circulated by the Public Campaign Action Fund, which has also aired TV ads urging Cuomo to focus on campaign finance issue.

He counsels on campaign finance issues for political committees and issue advocacy organizations, as well as for elected officials and political party committees.

Not exact matches

While the candidates currently hold some very similar positions on issues such as immigration reform, gay rights, gun control and campaign finance reform, Sanders has been able to stake out positions to the left of Clinton on other issues that excite some vocal voters.

But on this issue and others, Republican lawmakers face counterpressures from conservative antigovernment groups including Heritage Action, Club for Growth and Charles and David Koch's Americans for Prosperity, which want to kill the Ex-Im Bank and are ready to finance campaigns against unsupportive Republicans.

On Monday, the FBI raided Cohen's New York offices, raising the specter that prosecutors are looking into a potential campaign - finance violation or other issues unrelated to the ongoing Russia investigation.

An increasing number of news stories are centered on issues rather than personalities; for one thing, there seems to be a shift in the public's attention from personal scandal to issues of campaign financing and contributions.

The commitments come after DiNapoli, along with the Council of Institutional Investors, called on companies to increase their transparency as to how they finance political and issue campaigns.

Other issues that will receive the same treatment include legislation that would allow NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio to raise income taxes on the rich to fund pre-K, the public campaign finance bill and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Women's Equality Act (assuming that it includes the abortion - rights plank, which is the piece the right finds most offensive).

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.»

«You might not support all of these issues, but it is important to know where you stand and where all Democrats stand on a woman's right to choose, GENDA, single payer health care, contraceptive coverage, family planning funding, campaign finance reform and the DREAM Act.»

Cuomo has said he favors campaign - finance changes and told lawmakers at his State of the State address on Jan. 4 he would send them a bill this year on the issue, though no measure has emerged.

As a visionary for New York's economy, she has created a leading voice for business on economic growth, corporate governance, tax policy, labor, manufacturing, campaign finance reform, value creation, and education, among other issues.

Kaine will try to score points with millennial voters on issues like climate change and student debt, and with moderate independents on infrastructure and campaign finance reform, while addressing Hispanic concerns on immigration and health care.

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 embraced campaign finance reform as a priority in his State of the State Address back in January, but had not introduced his own bill on the issue until Tuesday of this week.

And, yes, the governor must resume the fight on the remaining critical issues in the battle to reform Albany — overhaul of New York's campaign - finance laws and nonpartisan redistricting for the 2012 elections.

She assailed Cuomo on issues such as campaign finance reform, tax cuts for corporations and the possibility of natural gas hydrofracking, which Cuomo later banned.

Hawkins is an advocate for campaign finance reform and said the recent trial of Joe Percoco, a former aide to Cuomo and a longtime friend who was convicted on corruption charges earlier this month, displays issues apparent in the state's campaign finance structure.

She then briefed on Cuomo - related issues, including him failing to close campaign finance loopholes, failing to veto any incumbent protection gerrymandering, not doing enough for election reform, for looting public schools to give tax cuts to banks and not taking a stance against fracking.

The New York State legislative session is ending this week without major progress on big - ticket issues such as campaign finance reform, minimum wage, and the women's equality agenda.

(CNN)- Campaign finance reform is the issue that the Tea Party and progressives can agree on — at least in new ads designed to drum up support for the Fair Elections Now Act.

In anticipation of the governor's proposal, which has not yet been publicly revealed, here are a few observations on Andrew Cuomo 2014, Inc.'s most recent campaign finance disclosure statement and the campaign finance reform issues which it frames.

It appears unlikely at this moment that a campaign finance deal will be reached between Cuomo and legislative leaders before the WFP meets to consider the endorsement, which means activists will be asked to trust that the governor can deliver — something about which they have grown wary after four - plus years of lip service on this issue and very little actual movement.

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.

The Daily Gazette: New York's 2014 Legislative Session a Failure The New York State legislative session is ending this week without major progress on big - ticket issues such as campaign finance reform, minimum wage, and the women's equality agenda.

The IDC had previously called for votes on key liberal issues in the Senate through a «call the roll» campaign — indicating that even with a Democratic majority, the votes on concerns like abortion rights and campaign finance reform may not be there.

Following Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos» comments yesterday about ongoing talks on a public campaign finance system, state Conservative Party is upping the ante on the issue, warning Republican lawmakers that they could lose a crucial endorsement if they vote «yes» should a bill come to the floor.

The party sent out a press release this morning reiterating its «staunch» opposition to «the wasteful and often abused system of public financing of campaigns,» and reminding members of the Senate and Assembly who plan on seeking the Conservative line this fall that legislation that would create such a system is double rated — meaning it will carry twice the rate of other bills in determining lawmakers» score, as it were, on top party issues.

The question there is whether the rank - and - file activists, who are unhappy with Cuomo for his fiscal conservatism and lack of movement on progressive issues — mainly creation of a public campaign finance system — will buck party and labor leaders who are more pragmatic and want to endorse the governor for re-election.

«I'm to the left of Gangi on political reform,» Albanese said on the podcast, where he explained his number one issue is campaign finance reform.

Those issues included closing the «L.L.C. loophole» in campaign finance, amending the SAFE Act, passing GENDA, a law banning discrimination on the grounds of gender identity, and no amendments to raise the age of adult criminal culpability.

In fighting hard for campaign finance reform, even to the point of causing a stalemate on other major issues, the governor may yet win support from voters who expected him to live up to his feisty reputation.

Hawkins not only supports but organizes on issues such as a $ 15 minimum wage, a ban on fracking, 100 % clean energy by 2030, full public campaign financing, single payer health care, the legalization of marijuana, worker rights, taxing the rich, an end to the New Jim Crow and mass incarceration, universal child care... the list goes on and on.

The 52 - year - old Takoma Park resident, who is a professor at American University Washington College of Law, has focused his energy on a number of civil rights and constitutional issues in both the academic and legislative arenas, including marijuana legalization, campaign finance, and voting rights.

A schlubby version of Michael Bloomberg, a self - made, self - financing successful businessman and effective CEO focused on serious campaign issues and governing, albeit with a thick New York accent, $ 100 suits and a messy haircut?

The candidates selected will need to take a position on hard issues, like the five outlined at reform.to, which provide concrete plans to create a small donor system for campaign financing: matching citizen contributions and providing voters with vouchers.

The Republican Senate Leader also threw cold water on a proposal to enact public financing of campaigns, an issue that both Speaker Silver and Governor Cuomo support.

«Whether it's fighting for better wages, women's rights or campaign finance reform, it's obvious that he is better than Republican Marty Golden on all the issues 1199 says are important to their members.

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.

But the Campaign Finance Board found CF1NY actually did spend money on non-campaign issues such as the mayor's push for universal pre-K and that spending happened long before Election Day.

In 2010, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that dramatically changed campaign finance laws, removing the cap on what outside groups, like the NRA, can spend to influence elections.

Steve Williams addresses the audience in Bowne Hall on Wednesday night, where he discussed issues with campaign finance.

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But rather than pointing to state issues — like abortion rights or campaign finance — that Democrats typically highlight when arguing why Republican control of the chamber is bad, the governor kept his focus on the GOP in Washington.

The New York State Board of Elections recently issued its final report on an experimental public campaign finance system that had no participants.

«In the current political campaign environment, the presidential campaign finance system doesn't work at all and can not work,» said Craig Holman, who lobbies Capitol Hill on ethics and campaign finance issues for the nonprofit consumer advocacy group Public Citizen.

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.

Senate Co-President Jeff Klein issued an appreciated statement on Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's proposal to introduce a system of public financing for political campaigns, but added the measure introduced today doesn't go far enough.

«We strongly believe that our expertise would assist the members of the committee in developing a fuller understanding of the issues presented; conversely, excluding testimony from our groups will prevent the committee from receiving a well - rounded, full airing of views on the issues of corruption and campaign finance reform.»

«Issues about how much was spent on the launch will be dealt with by the finance committee of the campaign team.