Cuomo has also failed to advance
any proposals on campaign finance reform, another part of his litmus test.»
Not exact matches
Good Government Groups Ask Gov. Cuomo for
Reform Thirty good - government, trade and faith - based organizations penned a letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo
on Wednesday, urging him to include public
financing of state
campaigns in his annual executive budget
proposal.
Many
proposals to «fix corruption» focus
on creating a taxpayer - funded
campaign finance system, similar to New York City's, and do not address changes necessary for true
reform and parity amongst all parties impacted by elections.
It is up to the citizens of New York to keep the pressure
on their elected officials in order to ensure that public matching for small in - district donations remains a crucial aspect of any
campaign finance reform proposal.
In anticipation of the governor's
proposal, which has not yet been publicly revealed, here are a few observations
on Andrew Cuomo 2014, Inc.'s most recent
campaign finance disclosure statement and the
campaign finance reform issues which it frames.
During his 2018 State of the State speech
on Wednesday in Albany, Governor Andrew Cuomo spent little time
on government ethics
reform, but did address at somewhat greater length his
proposals to increase access to the ballot box and change state
campaign finance law.
The attorney recalled the legislator talking with him ahead of a 2012 meeting with Mr. Ross and Mr. Beal at Porter House Restaurant
on Columbus Circle — a meeting where the three were to discuss key races and the effort to block Gov. Andrew Cuomo's
campaign finance reform proposals — where Mr. Skelos impressed upon him his son's urgent financial needs.
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Syracuse.com asked 14 state legislators from Central New York where they stand
on two of the
reform proposals: capping the outside income lawmakers can earn and creating a system of public
financing of political
campaigns.
The Democratic - led Assembly
on Tuesday released its one - house budget resolution that includes income disclosure
proposals as well as
campaign -
finance reform measures, but does not embrace the plan released by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in his budget amendments.
Taken as a whole, the
proposals seemed geared to appease Mr. Cuomo's detractors
on the left in his party, who have been upset by the governor's pace
on issues like
campaign finance reform and public
financing of elections, and by his lackadaisical support of Democrats in the State Senate.
Even
on his top policy priority of
campaign finance reform, he wrestled with his words and had to be pulled back twice by debate moderator Errol Louis of NY1 when he strayed to attack de Blasio in the middle of explaining his
proposal.
He also wants his previously proposed
campaign finance reform proposal to be passed by the county legislature and hopes the legislature and the Kingston Common Council to sign off
on the plan to combine the county's UCAT bus and Kingston's Citibus operations.