Sentences with phrase «political uses of public funds»

The commission also conducted «dozens of interviews» with public officials, lobbyists and their clients, political insiders, whistleblowers and both «expert and lay witnesses,» and sought lawmakers» payrolls, timesheets, per diems and travel expenses, records of when they entered and exited official buildings, and any other records that could «potentially improper personal and political uses of public funds,» according to the report.

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While in that job he shaved billions off the government's bottom line, but he's also been accused of using the public purse for his own political ambition getting millions in infrastructure funding for his Muskoka riding around the G8 summit there in 2010.

Syracuse - area Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick is the co-chairman of Cuomo's Moreland Act Commission, and says he has become a convert to using public funds to finance political campaigns.

Such funds shall not be converted by any person to a personal use which is unrelated to a political campaign or the holding of a public office or party position.»

William Fitzpatrick, the Syracuse - area Onondaga County DA, who is the co-chair of Cuomo's anti-corruption commission, says he has become a convert to using public funds to finance political campaigns.

Senate Democratic official added: «There are no plans to print this at the taxpayers expense because it won't allow us to use public funds for political purposes to retake the Senate, which is what most of what our public funds are used for.»

Nevertheless, Senate Republicans remain firmly opposed to the use of taxpayer funds or public dollars to fund political campaigns.

Their package includes plans for a public funding of political campaigns, retroactively stripping pension beneifts of a public official who has been convicted of felony corruption charges, restricting the use of campaign funds for criminal defense and tighten campaign disclosure reports to identify lobbyists.

Earlier, speaker of the House of Representatives, Bronwyn Bishop, was forced to resign in 2015 after it was revealed that she had used 5,200 dollars in public funds to charter a helicopter to fly to a political fundraiser.

State election law prohibits the use of campaign funds unless they are related to «a political campaign or the holding of a public office or party position.»

There was also discussion of a proposal to use public funds to finance political campaigns, which Cuomo has proposed but is in limbo as lawmakers move to finish state budget negotiations.

The use of taxpayer - funded resources to benefit a political campaign is prohibited by state Public Officers Law.

«The Special Adviser's Code of Conduct clearly states that Special Advisers «must not:... ask civil servants to do anything which is inconsistent with their obligations under the Civil Service Code» and that they «should avoid anything which might reasonably lead to the criticism that people paid from public funds are being used for party political purpose».

In addition a review of the expenditure reports and donations for the Independence Party that are on public file demonstrated the potential that funds from the Independence Party may have been used for the collection of signatures in the contested Republican Party primary that was being waged by Legislator Frank Sparaco with the help of Clarkstown's Superintendent of Highways, Wayne Ballard, in a continuing strategy to consolidate political power under Vinny Reda and himself and thereby thwart reform.

In his budget proposal, the governor again included ethics and campaign fund - raising changes, including putting in place a system of public financing for state political campaigns modeled after the one used in New York City, where small donations are matched with public funds.

«Whether this sort of harassment should be countenanced is not about any particular political or special - interest groups; instead, it is a fundamental question about whether anyone can use (or, rather, misuse) public record laws to stifle science,» the legal defense fund said in the amicus brief.

When it comes to their new proposed education agenda, it is bad enough that Malloy and Wyman plan to give more money to the privately owned but publicly funded charter school industry while making the deepest cuts in state history to Connecticut's public schools, but in a little understood piece of proposed legislation, the Malloy administration is trying to sneak through legislation that would give his Commissioner of Education and the political appointees on his State Board of Education a new mechanism they would use to punish taxpayers in certain communities where more than 5 percent of parents opt their children out of the wasteful and destructive Common Core SBAC testing program.

White House and Climate Change Science Program officials have never offered an honest public explanation of why the terms of that dismissal would have legally required (as distinct from an unofficial, secret political agreement) that the White House and the federal agencies suppress a taxpayer - funded, scientifically based assessment sponsored by the federal global change research program, even for purposes of using it as a scientific document or in program planning for research and future assessments.

Front page stories at The New York Times and The Washington Post have also highlighted Steyer's past investments in the fossil fuel industry and the profits accrued by the hedge fund he used to lead, noting the apparent inconsistency with his political advocacy.16, 17 Bill McKibben who helped inspire Steyer's opposition to the Keystone pipeline and who consults with the billionaire activist, offers an opposing perspective: «After years of watching rich people manipulate and wreck our political system for selfish personal interests, it's great to watch a rich person use his money and his talents in the public interest.»

Just as tobacco and lead companies sowed doubt about the dangers of their products through the use of front groups and third - party experts, so did ExxonMobil — through its funding of a sophisticated network of denialists — work to deceive the public about climate science and the need for political action to end the fossil fuel era.

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