Sentences with phrase «opt for public financing»

If we opt for public financing, which doesn't seem likely, we could even the field for rich and not so rich candidates.

Not exact matches

As for the end result of all of that enthusiasm, we already know the story: online fundraising allowed Barack Obama to opt out of the public campaign financing system and outspend John McCain by hundreds of millions of dollars in the general election.

Instead of social networking, the online technology that's really shaken up 2008 is fundraising: the candidates» ability to raise almost unlimited amounts of money online has been a true game - changer, allowing Barack Obama to opt out of public financing and to begin to build a significant Democratic financial advantage for the first time in political memory.

Saying he won't be a «convenient sacrificial lamb,» state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli says he won't opt in to a test system for public campaign finance that applies only to his office, and would use money from the comptroller's unclaimed funds to pay for it.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has decided not to opt in to the yearlong public campaign finance system established in the 2014 - 15 budget solely for his office in the upcoming elections.

Obama opted out of taking public funds during the September to November general election period, becoming the first candidate for president to opt out of public financing since the system was created in the 1970s.

If these candidates choose to opt into the city's public financing program, the contributions from bundlers will be matched 6 - to - 1 for the first $ 175 of each donation.

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But in 2008 public financing of the presidential campaign plummeted to $ 139 million, largely because candidate Obama, a prodigious fundraiser, opted out of public financing for the general election.

Writing in Newsday, Ian Vandewalker, counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, praised New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli for opting out of the state's poorly crafted public financing «pilot» program.

Vandewalker: Public Financing «Pilot» Program Designed to Implode Writing in Newsday, Ian Vandewalker, counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, praised New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli for opting out of the state's poorly crafted public financing «pilot» prPublic Financing «Pilot» Program Designed to Implode Writing in Newsday, Ian Vandewalker, counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, praised New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli for opting out of the state's poorly crafted public financing «pilot»Financing «Pilot» Program Designed to Implode Writing in Newsday, Ian Vandewalker, counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, praised New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli for opting out of the state's poorly crafted public financing «pilot» prpublic financing «pilot»financing «pilot» program.

In other action, good - government advocates praised a proposed public campaign finance referendum for Suffolk legislators, which would give a 4 - to - 1 match on donations of up to $ 150 for candidates who opt in.

DiNapoli, an advocate for public financing of campaigns, has said he won't opt in to the pilot program.

That's because campaign spending in New York is closely regulated by strict and comparably low contribution limits — even lower for anyone with business before the city — and with a public financing system that offers matching funds from taxpayers to candidates who opt in and follow further fundraising rules.