Sentences with phrase «real campaign finance reform in»

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.»

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«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.

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.&raquIn 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.&raquin New York.»

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

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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.

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.»

«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.

«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.

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.

«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.»