Sentences with phrase «public finance system»

Supporters, including those who have studied the model as well as public finance systems in other states, believe it can work.

The comptroller conceded that rolling out a statewide public financing system would be costly.

Earlier this year, lawmakers created a pilot public financing system that applies only to the comptroller's race.

If this program is designed to be a «test run» for a broader public financing system, it seems to be destined to fail.

The resolution charged a committee, composed of citizens from local labor unions and advocacy organizations, with examining the possibilities of a municipal public financing system.

If this program is designed to be a «test run» for a broader public financing system, it seems to be designed to fail.

It's argument Cuomo has made before, often in the context of creating a statewide public financing system for elections.

He expressed the hope that government would continue with the rigorous process of examination and tests that would bring out the best that the nation could offer, adding that the administration was also implementing a major reform of public finance system, emphasising integrity and fiscal prudence.

For now, Skelos indicated there aren't any immediate plans to release a reform package, but do plan to hold a hearing on potential fraud and abuse within the New York City public financing system.

The nation's top federal election official told Sen. John McCain yesterday that he can not immediately withdraw from the presidential public financing system as he had requested, a decision that threatens to dramatically restrict his spending until the general election campaign begins in the fall.

Institute a statewide public financing system based on the one used by NYC, which matches every dollar in small donor contributions with six dollars in public funds

Echoing some of the arguments made by his attorney, Ganim added, «Simply put, I am looking for the same equal opportunity, should I decide to seek state elected office, to participate in the clean and fair public financing system that has transformed Connecticut's elections for the better.

Connecticut has offered a voluntary public financing system for state - wide constitutional and General Assembly offices since 2008.

Unlike New York City, where a robust public financing system gives a wider range of candidates a real opportunity to run for office, money and media flow to power in Albany and stagnation is the result.

What New Yorkers got was a watered down partial public financing system for Comptroller races only.

Some appointed committee heads, who are charged with determining which candidate goes on the ballot line, have chided Cuomo for only getting a watered down version of a taxpayer - funded public financing system.

Such a severely limited public financing system fails to address Albany's pay - to - play.

All of our groups believe that such a limited public financing system fails to address Albany's culture of corruption that has been centered in recent years in the legislature.

The impact on the way presidential campaigns are financed is likely to be profound, potentially providing an epitaph on the tombstone of the existing public finance system.

This is why we need not just any «public financing» system, but a full public financing system of campaigns — and a U.S. Supreme Court that isn't so enamored of corporate «people» that it lets such a system stand.

Thursday's filings lay bare those donations and other jaw - dropping financial details of the first modern presidential campaign in which donors could give unlimited contributions for political ads and in which both major party candidates declined to participate in a Watergate - era public financing system designed to limit fundraising.

Among these measures is a bill to close the LLC loophole and campaign finance reform measures to limit the influence of big money in politics, including the clarification of housekeeping accounts and independent expenditures, as well as the establishment of a meaningful public financing system.

NYC Public Financing System Kept Focus on Constituents Although outside spending played a role in New York City's first citywide election since the Citizens United decision, Mark Schmitt argues in the New Republic that public financing helped keep the focus on small donors.

«The governor should live up to his own words and work with legislative leaders to pass a comprehensive public financing system for all state races as soon as possible.»

Senator Klein, in a statement, says he will continue to push for a more «comprehensive» public finance system between now and April 1st.

DiNapoli has championed public campaign financing, but won't participate in a pilot public financing system authorized for the comptroller's race this year.

New York City, as well as Maine and parts of Connecticut serve as thriving examples of effective public financing systems.

The Assembly bill would offer an optional public financing system for campaigns for state legislative and statewide offices, giving candidates six dollars for every one dollar in contributions.

Individuals have found ways to game New York City's own vaunted public financing system and the same will occur in a statewide system.

Teachout says New York City's public financing system allows candidates to get a message out there, even without being able to raise large amounts of money.

«The City's public finance system stands tall as a bulwark against a nation awash in political spending dominated by corporations, unions and other moneyed interests,» said Dick Dadey, Executive Director of Citizens Union.

New York City's public financing system facilitates fairer and more democratic elections.

With just two months left in the legislative session, advocates of campaign finance reform are pressing Governor Cuomo and the legislature to adopt a New York City style public financing system for the state.

Despite calls by the public and several good government groups to comprehensively reform New York's campaign finance laws, Governor Cuomo and the legislative leadership failed to deliver a real public financing system, instead agreeing upon an experiment limited to the 2014 comptroller elections.

The most significant legislation that's been enacted in this area during his tenure created a new enforcement counsel at the state Board of Elections and a temporary public financing system that was enacted so late into the 2014 cycle that nobody participated in it.

Addressing the topic of campaign finance, Ackert said other states used to look to Connecticut as an example of a top - notch public finance system.

The Cuomo budget plan includes calls for a 6 - to - 1 matching public finance system for small donations starting with the 2016 state legislative races followed by all statewide races in 2018.

The hard - left party has been bashing Mr. Cuomo since state lawmakers finalized a budget last weekend, labeling it «Cuomo's Inequality Budget» because it slashed some taxes, protected charter schools and did not create an expansive public financing system for statewide elections.

«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.»

We are also implementing a major reform of public finance system, emphasizing integrity and fiscal prudence.

All in all, this was not the optics Senate Republicans were going for when they announced the hearing to investigate the New York City public financing system.

The constitutional amendment that would create the new redistricting scheme is on the ballot this fall, and some on the left are already muttering darkly about turning against the proposal, in the same way they're calling on Comptroller Tom DiNapoli not to «opt in» to the pilot public financing system.

Under the Citizens Election Program, the state's voluntary public financing system, gubernatorial candidates who raise $ 250,000 by collecting donations of $ 100 or less are eligible for a $ 6.5 million grant to spend in the general election.

In fact, it was because of opposition from the Senate Republicans that a more robust public financing system was not created in 2014.

Democrats, though, may be reluctant to surrender the significant money - raising advantage they have developed over Republicans, saying that Mr. Obama, by cultivating millions of small donors over the Internet, has built what amounts to a parallel public financing system that is arguably more democratic.

A bill that has now cleared the Connecticut legislature's Joint Government Administration and Elections Committee would direct a study to determine whether or not to bring those elections into the state's existing public finance system.