Sentences with phrase «positions for campaign contributions»
What was once suspected — that elected officials could their trade policy positions for campaign contributions — has become more and more openly discussed.
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In some cases, evidence of past incorrect opinion is sufficient: The CEO of the software firm Mozilla, Brendan Eich, was hounded from his post in 2014 for a $ 1,000 contribution to a 2008 California referendum campaign against gay marriage, evidence of a position he shared at the time with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
According to New York law, state - level campaign contributions can be used for «any lawful purpose,» but they «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.»
The report cited a 2013 legislative proposal by Cuomo that campaign contributions should be used only for a purpose «directly related to promoting the nomination or election of a candidate or the execution of duties associated with the holding of a public office or party position.»
She criticizes Maragos for his past positions as a Republican against abortion and same - sex marriage and for taking campaign contributions from county vendors when he ran for comptroller.
An executive order signed last week will require chaplains to be active clergy members and also live in Westchester County comes as a response to a federal probe into whether or not former County Executive Rob Astorino, a Republican, offered up a chaplain position in exchange for campaign contributions.
The candidates selected will need to take a position on hard issues, like the five outlined at reform.to, which provide concrete plans to create a small donor system for campaign financing: matching citizen contributions and providing voters with vouchers.
It would bar the mayor and department heads from holding positions in any political party or soliciting subordinates for campaign contributions for anyone running for a city office.
«That's why you have big campaign contributions and you get the temptation for the people within government to take advantage of their positions of power.»
On his questionnaire, Astorino refused to take a position on lowering campaign contribution limits for legislative and statewide candidates.
However, in 1999, the FEC reversed its position and decided that LLCs should be treated either as a corporation or a partnership for the purposes of campaign contribution limits — but not the limits set for human beings.
The governor went so as far as to circulate a questionnaire to candidates quizzing them on their support for ethics law changes, asking their position on limiting lawmakers» outside income and stricter campaign contribution requirements for Limited Liability Companies (LLCs).