Sentences with phrase «public campaign finance program says»

The only statewide candidate who is participating in a pilot public campaign finance program says it's been slow going, but Republican candidate for Comptroller Bob Antonacci expects to collect enough individual donors to qualify for the state matching funds.

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

Not exact matches

Cuomo today reiterated his support for overhauling campaign finance laws and a public matching program, though he would not say specifically if he would veto a reform bill without the matching program.

The state's comptroller says he won't be participating in a new pilot public campaign finance program agreed to in the state budget, and government reform groups say they don't blame him.

He is also not participating in the state's public financing program, saying he is philisophically opposed to using taxpayer money to fund campaigns.

The incumbent State Comptroller, Democrat Tom DiNapoli, a long time proponent of public campaign financing is not participating, and government reform groups say he is right to stay away from what they consider to be a deeply flawed program.

But Silver says Supreme Court actions in recent years, including the ruling permitting the formation of the independent Super PACS, have eroded existing public campaign finance programs.

But he said his group, which has been under intense pressure from progressives to return to the fold since the election of President Trump, is «ready to move forward,» but only if any final agreement is based on a legislative agenda that includes passage of a bill to strengthen abortion laws, enact a state DREAM Act, create a public campaign finance system, and adopt a single - payer health care program.

«Throughout the history of the presidential public finance system, the program has operated admirably to the point of fairly equalizing campaign expenditures between the major party candidates, and providing primary candidates with the resources to be able to run campaigns,» said Holman «It made elections very competitive, quite open and fairly scandal - free.»

The New York State Comptroller says he won't be participating in a new pilot public campaign finance program agreed to in the state budget, and government reform groups say, they don't blame him.

Malliotakis has said she opposes public financing of elections but she will be participating in the Campaign Finance Board's public matching funds program, which matches small dollar contributions up to $ 175 at a 6 - to - 1 ratio with public funds.

The governor in late May set a benchmark for his support of the alliance between Republicans and the five - member Independent Democratic Conference, saying he wanted action on the Dream Act (which failed in April), a broader system of public campaign finance (beyond the pilot program passed in the state budget) and his Women's Equality Act, which has been controversial because of a plank changing the state's abortion laws.

Skelos in a gaggle with reporters said a public financing system for state offices modeled after New York City's program could cost up to $ 200 million (advocates peg the cost much lower, at $ 30 million) and that corruption is still bred with campaign contributions.

The incumbent state comptroller, Tom DiNapoli, has said he won't participate in the public campaign finance option because the program is badly flawed.

Good government groups and some lawmakers say the provision to use this year's state comptroller race to test public campaign financing is far short of the comprehensive program initially proposed by Cuomo and that it is flawed in conception.

DiNapoli, an advocate for public financing of campaigns, has said he won't opt in to the pilot program.

Of late, Cuomo has said the commission had done its job because it prompted state lawmakers in 2014 to create a pilot program for public campaign finance, create an enforcement counsel at the Board of Elections and change the statutory definition of bribery.