The budget provision, which first surfaced late Friday, would enact a pilot
public campaign finance program limited to the comptroller's office.
Not exact matches
Cuomo has also insisted the
public financing of political
campaigns being
limited to the state comptroller's race is a breath through considering the opposition to a statewide
program in the Senate.
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 pilot
public campaign financing program,
limited to just the state Comptroller's race as part of a state budget deal.
The governor had also wanted a voluntary
public campaign financing system for statewide races, including the governor and all 263 seats in the legislature, but the deal
limits the
program to the state comptroller's race.
His run for speaker began two years ago and the Manhattan Democrat even eschewed the
Campaign Finance Board's
public matching funds
program, which would have
limited his expenditures.
One of the candidates on the GOP statewide ticket, comptroller candidate Bob Antonacci, is participating in
public financing for his
campaign under a pilot
program approved in the state budget and
limited to that race only.
Cuomo's stated agenda during the
campaigns included
public financing of political
campaigns (no specifics on that, as yet),
limits on the outside income for legislators, raising the age of criminal responsibility and extending
public tuition assistance
programs to undocumented immigrants.
Several of Queens» state legislators lamented that a
public campaign finance pilot
program approved in the New York state budget was
limited to the state comptroller's race in 2014.