Sentences with phrase «session for public financing»

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The comptroller has been pushing for some time to have his office used as a pilot for a statewide public campaign finance system, but while his former colleagues in the Assembly passed a bill to do just that this past session, the Senate did not follow suit.

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

Advocates took out their anger and frustration on the Cuomo administration and leaders of the state Senate, after it became clear that a progressive agenda that includes abortion rights and public campaign financing is likely dead for the legislative session.

The governor's proposals — including a system of public campaign finance for all statewide offices as well as the Assembly and Senate — did not advance in the final days of the legislative session.

State Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries reiterated his strong support for public campaign finance in an interview on MSNBC this week, urging fellow state lawmakers to pass the Fair Elections Act before the end of the legislative session.

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There's three weeks to go in the legislative session, and advocates are pushing hard for two of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's agenda items — translating the federal abortion rights in the Roe v. Wade decision into New York state law, and enacting public financing of statewide political campaigns.

Governor Cuomo has said creating a public campaign financing system will be a priority for the second half of the legislative session, which begins April 15th.

Cuomo had listed the public financing of campaigns as one of his goals for the 2012 session, but the governor has been steadily backing away from the issue, as well as other campaign finance reform measures.

The change is expected to have implications for public campaign financing and other reforms left on the table at the end of this year's session.

With seven session days left until June 21, it seems unlikely for now that an overhaul of campaign finance laws, with a public matching system for political campaigns would be in the final mix.

Senate Republicans are laying into Stewart - Cousins, elected the Senate Democratic conference leader on Monday, for her comments on Fred Dicker's Talk - 1300 show this morning in which she endorsed the public financing of political campaigns, listing it as a top priority for her in the coming legislative session.

As the legislative session draws to a close, Senate Democrats are making an all - out push for their top priorities, including the full ten point women's equality act, the DREAM Act, and a statewide public campaign finance system.

But several advocates I spoke with today said the true test of whether Cuomo is serious about creating a public campaign finance system is if he puts funding for said system in his 2014 - 15 executive budget proposal (assuming, that is, no deal is reached prior to the start of the 2014 session, which, given the Senate GOP's opposition to the idea, seems highly unlikely at this point).

As The New York Times reported today, Fair Elections for New York, the coalition of groups making a sustained push this year for an overhaul of campaign finance laws, is starting a post-budget session $ 800,000 ad campaign and public meeting blitz.

To a tee, the Moreland Commission included all the major elements of the program bills Cuomo introduced over the course of the last legislative session, including the controversial push for public campaign finance.

There's speculation that Governor Cuomo could push a public campaign finance bill in a special session later this year, and perhaps trade the issue in exchange for granting law makers a pay raise.

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.

Governor Cuomo has listed enacting public financing of campaigns as a top priority for this session.

The governor announced that he would seek an array of good government reforms from the State Legislature, a number of them familiar: preventing donors from circumventing contribution caps through the creation of shell limited liability corporations; enhancing personal financial disclosures; creating a public financing system; and instating constitutional amendments to establish term limits for Albany lawmakers (though not Cuomo and the current class of legislators), extend the legislative session from six months to year - round and ban outside income.

The state legislature had for a decade before the current session bills for full public campaign financing like Arizona and Maine have.

As the title indicates, this is the third of a series of essays on the efforts to address the overhaul of Texas public school finance and search for a successor to the flawed «Robin Hood» system crafted by a series of special legislative sessions in the mid-1990's.

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