Sentences with phrase «public campaign finance reform»

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

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

Governor Cuomo has also pushed for public campaign finance reform for statewide campaigns, modeled on the New York City system.

Governor Cuomo, who's failed to achieve a number of progressive items over the last two years, including public campaign finance reform and a Women's Equality Act, told the Democratic Rural Conference that he'll try to get them passed in the state legislature in the next eight weeks, before the session ends in June.

The IDC leader, Sen. Jeff Klein has said passing public campaign finance reform before session ends is a priority for him as well.

Expect a lot of activity at the Capitol — including a big press conference held by groups pushing for public campaign finance reform slated for Wednesday.

Silver notably did not choose to highlight public campaign finance reform, which has generated a lot of support on the left (Citizen Action, Working Families Party, Strong Economy for All etc), or a reduction of contribution limits for regular candidate committees or PACs.

DiNapoli says he hopes the governor and the legislature will reconsider, and enact more comprehensive public campaign finance reform before the end of the legislative session.

They promise us a minimum wage hike that will still keep working families in poverty, a drug reform program that seeks to enforce the decriminalization law passed 40 years ago, and a so - called public campaign finance reform deal that maintains the right of politicians to still spend unlimited private money from their wealthy backers,» noted Hawkins.

Governor Cuomo's statement today to New Yorkers on public campaign finance reform admits defeat as he claims to champion reform: «We may not be able to shut off the spigot of money into the system.»

He's tried twice and failed to enact public campaign finance reform for all statewide offices, and last year lost on a battle to enact a Women's Equality Act that contained an abortion rights provision.

Cuomo listed public campaign finance reform as a goal in his election campaign, and mentioned it in his State of the State message, but recently cast doubt on the bill's chances for passage this year, saying that in an election year, there's not a «tremendous appetite» for it.

Governor Andrew Cuomo, who's failed to achieve a number of progressive items over the last two years, including public campaign finance reform and a Women's Equality Act, told the Democratic Rural Conference that he'll try to get them passed in the state legislature in the next eight weeks, before the session ends in June.

Cuomo has also pushed for public campaign finance reform for statewide campaigns, modeled on the New York City system.

Astorino tried to link the loss of the governor's «dubious» bridge funding scheme to a long list of seemingly unrelated items, including: The use of federal Sandy aid to pay for TV ads, the property tax cap that wasn't backed by long - promised mandate relief, the lack of public campaign finance reform, and the now - defunct anti-corruption Moreland Commission — the closure of which by Cuomo is now the subject of an investigation by US Attorney Preet Bharara.

Protesters outside the hearing were advocating for public campaign finance reform, chanting «money out, voters in,» and displaying a wall of shame, featuring pictures and likenesses of dozens of politicians who've been indicted, arrested, convicted or jailed in recent years.

Some in Albany have used former Speaker Sheldon Silver's arrest to promote a public campaign finance reform agenda.

However, WFP and Citizen Action do have a strange approach in how they use individual elections to try to claim a mandate for public campaign finance reform.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who's failed to achieve a number of progressive items over the last two years, including public campaign finance reform and a Women's Equality Act, told the Democratic Rural Conference that he'll try to get them passed in the state legislature in the next eight weeks, before the session ends in June.