Sentences with phrase «public campaign finance»

We should end donations all together with a full public campaign finance system.

The need for a voluntary system of public campaign financing for candidates to run with no - strings - attached clean money is now greater than ever.

The budget includes a multi step plan that could lower property taxes, $ 340 million dollars for schools to start pre-K programs, and a limited test program for public campaign financing.

The only statewide candidate participating in the pilot public campaign finance program says it's been slow going.

The initiative would enact a relatively small property levy to fund a system of public campaign financing in local elections.

He includes public campaign financing, though he did not name a dollar amount or identify a funding source.

We need a system of full public campaign financing alongside reforms to eliminate private donations that are the source of much government corruption.

Actually, we have a national referendum on public campaign finance every year with near 100 % participation.

Meanwhile, supporters of public campaign finance reform are keeping the pressure on.

The pilot public campaign financing program was limited to just the state comptroller's race as part of a state budget deal.

He also wants to close a campaign finance loophole that allows donors to form limited liability companies to get around contribution limits, and enact public campaign financing.

They're seeking a statewide public campaign financing system.

He has listed public campaign finance as a goal for several years, but has so far not been successful.

The budget includes testing public campaign finance with the state comptroller race this year.

He has proposed public campaign financing several times, but has not been able to convince the legislature to pass it.

Public campaign financing did make it into this year's budget, just not like many had hoped.

But a business group is urging the commission not to recommend public campaign financing, and says state lawmakers should not adopt it.

Still, we need public campaign financing for this office.

Will he accept public campaign financing in the future?

She is writing a book on political corruption, and became involved in the campaign to create a system of public campaign finance several months ago.

Now we'll work on making public campaign financing a reality, and try to ensure that all candidates will, in the future, get equal coverage and air time.

But the legislature refuses to ban outside income, or try public campaign financing.

State officials say $ 33 million in public campaign financing handed out for 2014 elections - a record amount.

Public campaign financing allows candidates to get contributions in amounts that many people can give and to make a credible run for office.

She says if public campaign financing is to be partially funded by a taxpayer check off, for instance, it would need to be part of the budget now.

A coalition of women's groups and elected officials pushed for public campaign financing saying it will mean more women are elected to public office.

Last year, bills to crack down on bribery and enact public campaign financing were never passed.

Under the city's public campaign finance program, qualified candidates have individual local contributions matched 6 to 1.

Time for a clean sweep, full public campaign finance reform.

The governor and legislators agreed to try out a system of public campaign financing with this year's race for state comptroller.

The same ballot question also created public campaign financing for state offices, opened primaries in elections where only one party fielded candidates and increased ballot protections for independents.

A new public campaign finance bill introduced in Congress is gaining support, including from Syracuse Rep. Dan Maffei.

The first experiment with the state's new public campaign financing law went out with a whimper.

Senate Republicans are also being pressured by the state's Conservative Party not to agree to a broader public campaign financing plan.

, which is solely focused on opposing public campaign financing, has launched and selected Hudson Valley Sen. George Latimer as its first target.

The state legislature had for a decade before the current session bills for full public campaign financing like Arizona and Maine have.

Addressing the governor's Women's Equality Agenda came in a distant second at 21 percent, with more than twice as much support from women as from men, followed by public campaign financing at 15 percent and the casino amendment at 13 percent.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo — who has proposed a broad public campaign finance system as well as restrictions on lawmakers» outside income, both to no avail — has said he wants to put ethics reform near the top of the to - do list for the Legislature in the weeks remaining in this year's session.

Sampson says his group will file a lawsuit if Cuomo and state lawmakers ultimately adopt public campaign financing.

In his speech to the Upstate Democrats, Cuomo blamed lawmakers for the failure to win public campaign financing in the budget.

Yep, the Gov will, If Passed, (BIG IF — which is his «out») «then have no choice but to sign them» in speaking about Public Campaign Finance legislation, Women's Equality Act and the DREAM Act.

He pointed to the dissenting commissioner's opinion, as well as opposition in the Republican - led State Senate, as reasons why it might be hard to get public campaign finance enacted.

An experimental public campaign finance system for the state Comptroller's race has fizzled, after the lone candidate who applied for the program failed to meet the minimum threshold to obtain the public monies.

He will begin touring the state to educate voters about public campaign financing in an effort to increase its public salience.

Governor Cuomo, one day after the report had been released, seemed to be backing away from public campaign financing.

NYC has struggled to recoup public campaign finance funds, and two dozen candidates owe a total of $ 800,000 from publicly subsidized races in 2001, 2003 and 2005.

On April 25, Cuomo, who made public campaign finance part of his 2010 campaign reform agenda and highlighted it in his 2012 State of the State address, had this to say on whether action might be taken this year:

This comes as public campaign finance talks between the governor and Senate Republicans have stalled.