Sentences with phrase «passing public campaign»

highlights a tangible concern for Connecticut taxpayers and voters, but that concern is only half the reason for passing public campaign financing.

Media producer and NY LEAD coalition member Marc Weiss, writing for Newsday, called for New York senators and assembly members to support Gov. Cuomo and Speaker Silver in passing public campaign finance legislation, asking, «Do they want to continue business as usual, or do they want to be part of the solution?»

The IDC leader, Sen. Jeff Klein has said passing public campaign finance reform before session ends is a priority for him as well.

Then gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo campaigning in 2010 where he vowed to pass a public campaign finance law

There are currently not enough votes in the State Senate, which is ruled by Republicans and a group of break away Democrats, in order to pass public campaign financing.

«This is a matter of political will,» said Waldman, who says there is a majority of votes in the Senate to pass public campaign financing.

It's now up to leaders in Albany to heed the call and pass public campaign financing.»

Governor Andrew Cuomo implied this week that he may oppose the ruling Senate coalition of Republicans and Independent Democrats this coming fall if the chamber does not pass public campaign financing.

Not exact matches

But passing off the campaign talking points as real contributions to public debate?

«It was one of those nice resolutions we pass after someone retires from long public service, not intended as an accolade «to be brought back in a political campaign, Long Grove trustee Bruce Klein said at the Village Board meeting on Tuesday.

The comptroller has been pushing for some time to have his office used as a pilot for a statewide public campaign finance system, but while his former colleagues in the Assembly passed a bill to do just that this past session, the Senate did not follow suit.

Amid calls for passing the progressive agenda that ranges from protections for health care, abortion rights and the public financing of campaigns, Klein and company reiterated on Monday votes should be indeed be held.

Senate Democrats today renewed their effort to pass a form of overhauling the state's campaign - finance laws by introducing a measure by Sen. Eric Adams that would create an public financing system.

Good Government Groups to Cuomo and Legislative Leaders: Pass Reform Before Budget Deadline Several good - government groups, including the New York Public Interest Research Group, Common Cause, Citizen Action, the League of Women Voters, and the Brennan Center, gathered in Albany on Tuesday to encourage state leaders to enact comprehensive campaign finance reform.

In March ’17 we launched our Money Talks campaign, aimed at the NYS budget, to educate the public about the issues at stake in the budget negotiations and bringing attention to the progressive bills passed in the NYS Assembly that were either defeated or never brought to a vote in the State Senate.

He has proposed public campaign financing several times but has not been able to convince the Legislature to pass it.

Governor Cuomo, who's failed to achieve a number of progressive items over the last two years, including public campaign finance reform and a Women's Equality Act, told the Democratic Rural Conference that he'll try to get them passed in the state legislature in the next eight weeks, before the session ends in June.

But no bill will pass without the public support of Gov. Cuomo; the article finds that public campaign finance presents the governor with the opportunity «to step into the leadership vacuum and provide a rare glimpse of hope on a mission - critical progressive priority.»

«If we are going to restore public confidence in our state government, it essential that the Republican Senate Majority join the Assembly and the Governor to pass this legislation to close the LLC loophole, one of the most egregious gaps in the laws that are intended to ensure the integrity of our campaign finance system,» said Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh, who sponsors the bill in the Assembly.

State Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries reiterated his strong support for public campaign finance in an interview on MSNBC this week, urging fellow state lawmakers to pass the Fair Elections Act before the end of the legislative session.

The Republicans might be able to buy themselves some breathing room if they passed something like the DREAM Act or a statewide public campaign finance system before departing Albany on June 19.

Klein called the proposal a «very exciting development» but added the new Democratic coalition majority would need to be able to pass a range of issues sought by the left, including bolstering abortion rights, single - payer health care and the public financing of campaigns.

NJ Gov. Chris Christie was codenamed «Pufferfish» by the Romney campaign in 2012, which ultimately passed him up as a VP candidate because of concerns he couldn't withstand public scrutiny.

«During the campaign, I made a commitment that we would either pass real ethics reform with real disclosure and real enforcement or I would form a Moreland Commission on public integrity,» the governor cotinued.

She says the new Senate coalition of 30 Republicans and five Democrats will make it less likely that progressive legislation, including public financing of campaigns, will pass.

Cuomo's proposal for campaign finance reform, which did not pass this year, would have created a system of public financing.

She has criticized the governor over his failure to pass campaign finance reform to address public corruption.

Although Rowland was convicted and spent 10 months in prison on a non-campaign related federal charge, public anger over political corruption in general pushed state lawmakers to pass major campaign reforms.

He says his group is also against some measures that could be more likely to pass, including public campaign financing, and a higher minimum wage in some cities in New York.

The Assembly has been passing a New York City - style system of public campaign financing for years, and it has been a major piece of the Senate Democrats» agenda.

Yep, the Gov will, If Passed, (BIG IF — which is his «out») «then have no choice but to sign them» in speaking about Public Campaign Finance legislation, Women's Equality Act and the DREAM Act.

George Soros, the liberal financier, contributed to key Senate candidates, and his son Jonathan Soros once again funded the Friends of Democracy PAC as a vehicle to pass the public financing of political campaigns.

«The only way a comprehensive Campaign Finance Reform package as outlined above will be passed, is if the Governor presents his own plan and takes it to the public.»

Alexandra Woodsworth, public transport campaigner at Campaign for Better Transport, said: «We're pleased that the government is accepting that there should be a review of fares, but with massively higher fare rises planned for the next three years, passengers want action now, rather than having to wait years for any savings to be passed on to them.»

Former Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, in a piece published on the Huffington Post earlier today, is questioning Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to enact a Moreland Act Commission to investigate the Legislature following its failure to pass any reform bills — especially public campaign finance — saying the legal basis for this move» is at best uncertain, if not flat wrong.»

«The Fair Elections for New York campaign has been clear that all of our partners want to see the Senate pass comprehensive campaign finance reform with public funding at its core,» he said.

A measure to public finance political campaigns passed the Democratic - led Assembly earlier this year, but that did not include a curb on soft money.

It is one of the issues that appears to still be «live» down at the Capitol, as opposed to public campaign financing and the Women's Equality Act, which Cuomo himself has admitted are unlikely to pass before lawmakers leave Albany for their summer vacations.

Nevertheless, Klein has come under criticism from liberals and other advocacy organizations for the Senate's failure to pass measures aimed at strengthening abortion rights, the DREAM Act and the full public financing of political campaigns.

SEIU 32BJ is continuing its campaign to get the Assembly to follow the Senate's lead and pass a bill that would close a so - called loophole and extend a prevailing - wage law to apply to public utilities.

Jeff Gural, the owner of the Tioga Downs facility, had in particular been deeply upset at losing his bid, going as far as to point out how much he spent backing the public campaign to pass an amendment to the state's constitution for the casino expansion.

The governor in late May set a benchmark for his support of the alliance between Republicans and the five - member Independent Democratic Conference, saying he wanted action on the Dream Act (which failed in April), a broader system of public campaign finance (beyond the pilot program passed in the state budget) and his Women's Equality Act, which has been controversial because of a plank changing the state's abortion laws.

«We crossed the ideological Rubicon and the world did not stop spinning - now it's time to finish what we started and pass a full - fledged program of public financing for state campaigns.

The restrictions on all personal use of campaign funds as well as the full disclosure of legislators» outside incomes and public financing of all state campaigns by 2018 would be major achievements if passed.

Reformers believe that getting issues like early voting or campaign finance reform passed would require an aggressive public campaign from Cuomo, like the ones he undertook on same - sex marriage and minimum wage.

In 2014, she successfully led the statewide campaign «We Are Florida's Future» to pass in - state tuition for undocumented students and led the campaign to establish the Office of New Americans of Miami - Dade County, establishing a public - private partnership to promote naturalization.

The Citizens» Election Program was Connecticut's landmark effort, passed in 2006, to remove the taint of special - interest money from elections and to level the playing field for candidates through voluntary public financing of political campaigns.

Cuomo pointed a host of liberal legislation that's yet to pass the chamber, including a 10 - point women's agenda, the public financing of political campaigns and the Dream.

NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio was at SEIU 1199's HQ in Manhattan last night to phone bank with New Yorkers United for Marriage, the coordinated campaign that is lobbying to get a bill passed in the Senate prior to the session's end next month.

At 5 p.m., members of the Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement hold actions in Ithaca to call on the governor and the Legislature to pass the Humane Alternatives to Long Term Solitary Confinement Act, Tompkins County Public Library, Green Street and Cayuga Street, Ithaca.