Sentences with phrase «political finance»

I completely agree with this assessment and was glad to see the issue of political finance strongly incorporated into the findings of the report.

The Truth: Christy Clark knows there are many examples of political financing systems that rely solely on individual donations, including the system currently in place at the federal level, implemented by Stephen Harper.

«They were useless,» said Justin Fisher, a professor of political science at Brunel University London who has studied the regulations for the Electoral Commission, which oversees elections and regulates political finance in Britain.

The Commission has launched a public consultation on its future enforcement policy, which sets out how we propose to use these new powers to regulate political finance in a fair, open and consistent way.

The Trump campaign has dished out nearly $ 228,000 to cover legal fees for the President's embattled personal attorney Michael Cohen, thereby potentially violating political finance laws, according to federal records.

The Deepening Democracy report recommends a number of measures to limit the impact of political finance on the integrity of elections.

However, Bob Posner, the director of political finance at the Electoral Commission, said there were «systemic failures in ensuring that the rules were being followed».

«The political sentiment in the Senate did not, at this time, support a more robust political finance system,» Mr. Cuomo said, adding, «It's a priority, and I hope to make more progress.»

During the first week of January, the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance announced it had levied a $ 31,000 fine on Strong Economy for Growth (SEFG), charging the group violated finance laws in 2016 by not making public its contributors.

We will close political financing loopholes.

19 December 2011 — COMMITTEE ON STANDARDS IN PUBLIC LIFE Question: To ask Her Majesty's Government how much they estimated the inquiry by the Committee on Standards in Public Life into party political finance would cost; what the final cost of the inquiry was; and how they would assess what represents value for money in the case of such inquiries.

A study by the World Bank this year shows that less than 5 % of adults in Yemen have an account at a formal financial institution, which shows how difficult it would be for any monitoring and oversight authority to trace political finance within Yemen.

In general, building capable institutions in Yemen in any field (including political finance) is a long and uncertain process, and if we are not able to freely elect the right people who are committed to building these institutions, then we will continue to spiral in this vicious cycle forever.

The Deepening Democracy report, published by the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy & Security, highlights that «The rise of uncontrolled political finance threatens to hollow out democracy everywhere in the world, and rob democracy of its unique strengths — political equality, the empowerment of the disenfranchised, and the ability to manage societal conflicts peacefully.»

As the Report of the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy, and Security highlights, the integrity of elections depends at least in part on the regulation of «undisclosed and opaque political finance.»

Political Finance Regulations in Nigeria and An Overview of Campaign Finance Tracking in 2015 General Elections.

New political finance reports covering February financial activity show wealthy individuals and organizations are strengthening the accounts of Super PACs with contributions of $ 100,000 or more.

But I must pay tribute to the work of my 1970 co-author, Michael Pinto - Duschinsky whose British Political Finance 1830 - 1980 chronicles the extraordinary

They do it all» to protect drug companies from potential policy risks, said Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks political financing.

The Office of Campaign and Political Finance once again fined a nonprofit with close ties to Governor Baker for «an intent to influence the election» and for failing to disclose its donors.

The Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance determined a pro-charter group that poured $ 15 million into the campaign, Families for Excellent Schools - Advocacy, illegally hid its donors.

The Office of Campaign and Political Finance settlement with FESA required FESA to forfeit over $ 425,000 — the largest civil forfeiture in the agency's history, and prohibits them from fundraising, soliciting donations, or engaging in any election - related activity in Massachusetts for four years.

Several recommendations focus on reforms to political financing rules, including removing tax credits for political contributions to shield political party financing from influence.

«The political sentiment in the Senate did not, at this time, support a more robust political finance system,» Mr. Cuomo said, adding, «It's a priority, and I hope to make more progress.»

It did not take long before wealthy donors, now unable to fund political parties, began pouring funds into unregulated PACs, which with the exception of advertising activities, fall outside of Alberta's political finance laws.

The startling evidence, first unearthed by Channel 4 News and confirmed in a condemnatory report released last week by the Electoral Commission — the independent body that oversees election law and regulates political finance in the UK — suggests that the Conservative party gained an advantage by breaching election spending laws during the 2015 election.

First, the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance announced a settlement with Families for Excellent Schools — Advocacy (FESA) a New York - based organization that promotes charter schools.

Prescott said he favoured a change to state funding but also said he would not rule out the suggestion that private loans should be capped: [78] «There's a kind of unhealthy approach to political financing in this country.

Bob Posner, the electoral commission's director of political finance and regulation, said there were legitimate questions over the funding of campaigners which «risks causing harm to voters» confidence in the referendum».

In these past few years, I have learned a lot about what makes B.C. politically unique — and it's not just Premier Clark's now infamous cash - for - access scandals or our province's new reputation as the «Wild West» of political finance.

-- Benjamin Franklin At this point it's hard for anyone to justify that B.C.'s «Wild West» of political finance is a good thing.

One of the lovely quirks of our political finance system is the role of «dark money» spent by organizations that DO N'T have to disclose their donors.

The results of a nationwide State Integrity Investigation conducted by the Center for Public Integrity were published this week, giving New York an overall grade of D, ranking it 36 out of the 50 states (based on a numerical score of 65 out of 100), and issuing D or F grades for its handling of ethics enforcement, political financing, and state budget processes, among other areas.

They are now increasingly disappointed and frustrated with their new reality, and the top reason for their frustration is political finance.

In a country like Yemen, we do not even have a functioning Revenue Authority, so how can we expect to be able to comprehensively monitor and regulate political finance and private contributions to create a transparent and fair system?

Based on records from the Office of Campaign and Political finance the average raised by incumbent Republican State Representatives was $ 21,236 and the median was $ 15,680.

Lord Levy, a close friend of Tony Blair (who was the Prime Minister's personal envoy to the Middle East, as well as tennis partner), had raised funds for Labour and was identified in the press as a key figure in arranging the loans and on 17 March 2006 it was announced that the Public Administration Select Committee of the House of Commons had invited him to give evidence on political financing.

The external resource person, Dr D. A. Yagboyaju from the Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan, spoke on What is Political Finance?

The state scored a 62 — a D --- in the separate but related category of Political Finance.

The report assessed and graded states on a number of government functions, including public access to information (F), political financing (D --RRB-, electoral oversight (F) and the enforcement of ethics (F).

However, this is an experienced party that failed to meet the basic requirements of the law, and cases like this undermine voters» confidence in our political finance system.

Australia's political finance system is corrupt — but not because of bribery, or indeed any substantial quid pro quo.

Another example of why the state's political finance and ethic laws need to get tough..

The Electoral Commission's director of political finance and regulation and legal counsel complained that the # 70,000 fine he was permitted to impose on Leave.EU did not meet the severity of the offences committed by a «key player in the EU referendum».

Bob Posner, the Electoral Commission's director of political finance, said campaign finance rules were put in place «to ensure transparency and public confidence in our democratic processes».

Bob Posner, the political finance director at the Electoral Commission, said: «There is significant public interest in being satisfied that the facts are known about Vote Leave's spending on the campaign, particularly as it was a lead campaigner with a greater spending limit than any other campaigners on the «leave» side.

In exchange for their tax - exempt status, federal law bars 501 (c)(3) organizations from engaging in political activity, and some are calling on Schneiderman to investigate why Families for Excellent Schools made a multimillion - dollar contribution, now that the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance has acted.

During the first week of January, the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance... Read more about Illegal Campaign Donations to Pro-Charter Campaign, Ties to Governor Baker