Sentences with phrase «pilot public financing system»

The constitutional amendment that would create the new redistricting scheme is on the ballot this fall, and some on the left are already muttering darkly about turning against the proposal, in the same way they're calling on Comptroller Tom DiNapoli not to «opt in» to the pilot public financing system.

DiNapoli has championed public campaign financing, but won't participate in a pilot public financing system authorized for the comptroller's race this year.

Not exact matches

Lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2014 backed a public financing system for the comptroller's race that year, intended as a pilot program of sorts.

At the time, the program was described as a «pilot» public financing system, but it was only developed to for the one comptroller's race with no automatic re-approval.

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.

DiNapoli, a public financing supporter who had initially recommended a pilot program for the comptroller's race, had blasted the system approved by Cuomo and the Legislature for being developed in the middle of the election cycle.

The pilot public financing program in the state comptroller's race, modeled on the New York City campaign finance system, provides a six - to - one match for contributions between $ 10 and $ 175 from New York residents.

The budget would create a public matching system for the public financing of the state's comptroller race as a pilot program in the public protection, general government portion of the budget.

Antonacci launched his campaign in the weeks after state lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo agreed to a compromise in the state budget that created the system, which at the time was referred to as a «pilot» for statewide public financing.

While the Democratic incumbent for State Comptroller, Tom DiNapoli, has rejected the pilot public finance program as flawed and unworkable, the newly announced Republican Candidate for Comptroller, says he's going to take advantage of the public matching small donor system.

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.

New York Times: Most Fundamental Reform Missing from State Budget Governor Andrew Cuomo and state legislative leaders passed New York's 2014 - 15 budget last week without a comprehensive small donor public matching system — instead establishing a very limited pilot public financing program for the state comptroller's race in 2014.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's executive budget contains a public campaign financing proposal with requirements that are essentially unchanged from those used in a «pilot program» last year, even though the governor's office apparently did not seek input from the one candidate who tested the system.

Separately, a good - government advocate unloaded her frustration with Cuomo that a broader system of public campaign finance was rejected in place of a pilot program that applies to the state comptroller.

Changes to the campaign finance system would include an expansion of «the current pilot project for public funding of the Comptroller's race to all statewide and legislative races.»