Sentences with phrase «real campaign finance»

It's time to pass real campaign finance reform that eliminates the strangle hold that lobbyists and special interests have on our politicians.

«With Brighter Future, I also hope to demonstrate a commitment to real campaign finance reform,» Jolly said.

«Therefore, it is imperative that we implement real campaign finance reform and provide citizens with a voice in the very foundation of democracy — the ballot box.»

«We look forward to working with Governor Cuomo to push a number of issues that are important to him but have been blocked by the Senate Republicans including raising the minimum wage, real campaign finance reform and passing common sense gun control measures like microstamping,» said Senate Democratic spokesman Mike Murphy.

This is evil and underlies why Flanagan will not allow a real campaign finance reform bill to come before Senators.

If there's one takeaway from this election, it is that we need real campaign finance reform in this country, and we need to elect leaders who have dedicated themselves to getting corporate money out of our electoral process.»

«If Cuomo and Hochul don't endorse Panepinto, Senate Democrats will lose the chance to enact real campaign finance reform, a real minimum wage, and a real DREAM Act,» Samuels said.

«The time is now for Governor Cuomo and lawmakers to make good on what they failed to do last time — pass real campaign finance reform and get money out of politics in this state for good,» said Samuels.

«There are some people who like myself can't believe it can't be real campaign finance reform without public matching, but I think there can be baby steps.»

«Those elected as Democrats should respect voters» clearly expressed intent and sit with the Democratic Conference to implement important progressive goals like standing up for women's health, passing real campaign finance reform, raising the minimum wage and enacting common sense gun laws,» said Senate Democratic spokesman Mike Murphy.

Flanagan pointed specifically to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's unique attempt to help Democrats raise money in 2014, which has been the subject of a criminal referral and a legislative response, as something that would need to be addressed in order to «achieve real campaign finance reform and target corruption.»

That would be real campaign finance reform, instead of throwing tax dollars at politicians.»

We have worked for real campaign finance reform.

In a statement obtained by CapTon, Koppell said Biaggi's election «will send a powerful message and take us one step closer to the progressive Democratic majority we deserve — one that passes stronger rent laws, the Dream Act, real campaign finance reform, and the Reproductive Health Act to firmly protect a woman's right to choose in New York.»

«I am running because we need universal health care, we need to ensure a quality education for every child, and we need to create real campaign finance reform on the state level,» Brezler wrote in the email.

We have a chance — and it won't be here long — to bring about real campaign finance reform that includes public financing.

Not exact matches

Underscoring that point is the latest campaign finance report filed by one of the early birds, a political action committee called «Real Conservatives.»

We are looking to help him achieve his goal of real reform for the campaign finance system.»

«The need for campaign finance reform in New York State is real and it is urgent.

Horner: Time for Cuomo and Legislature to Take Real Action on Reform Blair Horner, legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, in a commentary piece for the WAMC Northeast Public Radio, demanded that Governor Cuomo and the legislature take real action on campaign finance refReal Action on Reform Blair Horner, legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, in a commentary piece for the WAMC Northeast Public Radio, demanded that Governor Cuomo and the legislature take real action on campaign finance refreal action on campaign finance reform.

ALBANY — Members of the Real Estate Board of New York and their firms gave $ 21.7 million in campaign contributions to state - level elections in the last cycle, accounting for more than 10 percent of the money that entered the campaign finance system.

Tedisco also became the first Capital Region lawmaker to sign the «Clean Conscience Pledge» (photo attached) sponsored by Common Cause NY to support real ethics reform that includes closing the LLC Loophole for campaign finance reform, full disclosure in how legislative leaders spend tax dollars, and limiting outside income for legislators to reduce conflicts of interest.

But putting his reform initiatives in the executive budget, the governor will achieve one thing that has eluded his predecessors — a real debate on campaign finance reforms, including the big reform: establishing a system of public financing.

«Without changes to the ethics and campaign finance systems, no real changes will occur.

Elmhurst real estate agent Mujib Rahman is also listed as a candidate, but had not reported any fund - raising as of the most recent city Campaign Finance Board deadline May 15.

The Real Deal recently dove through data from the New York City Campaign Finance Board to get a sense of which candidates were attracting the most donations from the real estate secReal Deal recently dove through data from the New York City Campaign Finance Board to get a sense of which candidates were attracting the most donations from the real estate secreal estate sector.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and the FBI alleged that Skelos (R - Rockville Centre) extorted a real estate company to make campaign contributions to Republicans and finance the hiring of his son, Adam, through an Arizona - based environmental company.

«We call on Senator Flanagan and the Long Island Republican Senators to stand up for real reform and to restore the confidence of the residents of Long Island by enacting campaign finance reform efforts by instituting a system of publicly funded elections that will stop Albany's culture of corruption,» said Lisa Tyson, executive director of the LIPC.

But only a sliver of the more than $ 350,000 he received in contributions during the first half of the year came from the real estate industry, according to a review of campaign finance records by The Real Dreal estate industry, according to a review of campaign finance records by The Real DReal Deal.

Madel could make hay out of Greenfield's state - registered cash stash, which campaign finance experts say is a legal but hardly ethical way to collect contributions from real estate and other special interests barred from donating to his Council campaign coffers, thereby skirting the city's strong campaign finance laws.

«To be clear, we all want comprehensive campaign finance reform with public financing at the core and we feel public financing is the real game changer, but we're hearing a lot of myths around public financing in particular and trying to connect that to corruption in a bad way as opposed it to being a solution so we wanted to focus on that today,» he said.

Jeff supports high quality telecommunications services throughout New York, a higher minimum wage and real, meaningful campaign finance reform.

«Taking ethics or campaign finance advice from the Senate Democrats is more likely to get you investigated or indicted than it is to get you real reform,» said Senate GOP spokesman Scott Reif.

During the legislative session that's slated to end Wednesday, groups backed by some of the same unions have ramped up attacks against state Senate Republicans for refusing to close another quirk in campaign finance law, the so - called «LLC loophole,» that allows real estate interests to use limited liability companies to vastly multiply the power of their giving.

Despite the allegation involving funding for the DA's race — and another accusing Sampson of filing false Senate disclosure forms to conceal a $ 188,500 loan from a real estate developer — Carter insisted his case wasn't in the same category as a recent rash of other criminal cases accusing New York lawmakers of abusing their authority for personal gain or to cheat on campaign finance rules.

According to city campaign finance records, the campaign paid Tabone $ 3,000 on Feb. 16 — two days after the aide allegedly took a hefty cash bribe from an undercover FBI agent posing as a real estate developer, according to the criminal complaint.

UPDATED, April 21, 3:57 p.m.: A top executive at WeWork is the biggest bundler for Mayor Bill de Blasio's re-election campaign to - date, collecting money from WeWork's founders and others with close ties to the firm, according to an analysis of campaign finance records by The Real Deal.

The report The Met Council released on June 5, 2013, focused on the influence of real estate moguls, like the now infamous Leonard Litwin, and their ability to flood politicians» campaign coffers with cash, subverting campaign finance limits by using the also infamous LLC loophole.

People familiar with the investigation have said prosecutors are also investigating whether Cohen violated campaign finance law by working to squelch damaging information about Trump before the November 2016 election, including with a $ 130,000 payment to adult - film actress Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford.

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In July 2012, Cuomo was pressing a campaign finance measure that would further disclose campaign donations to public officials made through real estate trade associations and other third parties.

Individuals tied to the real estate developer and investor Fisher Brothers shelled out $ 40,000 for Cuomo, while an entity sharing an address with Vornado Realty Trust gave $ 25,000, according to state campaign finance filings.

According to the latest complaint, Skelos pressured a real estate company to make campaign contributions to Republicans and finance the hiring of his son through an Arizona - based environmental company, AbTech Industries.

Maybe he'd have to finance his own campaign this time if the downstate real estate barons don't pony up with Preet watching.

Below is a rundown of some of the candidates making headlines, how much money they've raised as of the most recent campaign finance - filing deadline last month and where they've come down on the real estate issues of the day.

Despite vowing to finance his own campaign, the real estate showman raised $ 3.9 million — 71 of which came from small donors — and only gave $ 100,000 to his campaign from his own pocket in in - kind contributions.

The court papers reveal how business interests felt they «owned» Dean Skelos, with real - estate bigwigs discussing Gov. Cuomo's plan to enact campaign - finance reform, with statements like, «We better make sure Dean keeps his word, AC [Andrew Cuomo] is a wild card,» according to the court documents.

All of the progressive things that California's doing and Oregon and Washington — campaign finance reform and voting reform and fully funding our schools and being a leader in renewable energy and enacting real criminal justice reform... this is the kind of stuff we want to be doing in New York.

Real reform would require a publicly funded state - wide campaign finance system.

The OBAMA online campaign represented real «public financing».