Sentences with phrase «public campaign financing handed»

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

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On the other hand, comprehensive campaign finance reform, including public financing, can be enacted this year.

It could be a way for Cuomo, without actually delivering on the Dream Act or public campaign finance, to claim that he has handed proponents of those bills the means of doing so.

The previous campaign finance record was set during the last statewide election in 2010 when approximately $ 29 million in public financing was handed out to candidates.

«Even if there is no quid pro quo arrangement, just the mere appearance of someone handing over cash and then receiving a lucrative contract is damaging to the integrity of the public's confidence in government,» said Craig Holman, government affairs lobbyist for Public Citizen, a Washington, D.C. nonprofit that focuses on ethics and campaign finance ipublic's confidence in government,» said Craig Holman, government affairs lobbyist for Public Citizen, a Washington, D.C. nonprofit that focuses on ethics and campaign finance iPublic Citizen, a Washington, D.C. nonprofit that focuses on ethics and campaign finance issues.

The former Long Island congressman has just $ 688,821 on hand, including $ 200,000 he loaned his campaign just before his finance report went public.

As Rich Calder noted in Tuesday's Post, Mayor de Blasio took off for a Rhode Island family vacation just days after the Campaign Finance Board handed him an extra $ 1.6 million in public funds for the Democratic primary — cash he's supposedly entitled to because that race is so competitive.