Sentences with phrase «state contractors»

The law banned contributions from state contractors and restricted contributions from lobbyists.

Specifically, he and other advocates want to see tight limits on what state contractors can give to politicians.

Few would imagine it a good idea for state officials to try to tell all health - care providers or state contractors how to evaluate their employees.

A lot of that money has come from state contractors.

«We saw this first with his pay - to - play shakedown of state contractors for campaign cash, and we're seeing it again now through his apparent illegal coordination with the Democratic Governors Association and Connecticut Forward.»

Under terms of the deal, Howe would receive «favorable treatment» and «leniency» in exchange for supplying details of his lobbying work for state contractors who wanted to influence the Cuomo administration, the Post reported.

Business groups are pushing back on Cuomo's executive order requiring state contractors to regularly disclose worker - pay data broken down by race and gender.

The New York Post reported Aug. 8 that Howe has signed a cooperation agreement with Bharara to provide details of his lobbying activities on behalf of several major state contractors in return for «favorable treatment» from prosecutors.

Reiff also asked whether the State Elections Enforcement Commission would be blocked by federal law from objecting to that proposed funding of the mailing - inquiring, in effect, whether federal campaign laws trump state laws including a ban on state contractors contributing to Connecticut election campaigns.

NU is on the SEEC's list of state contractors whose executives are banned from contributing to state election campaigns, the SEEC said, and a number of the NU executives» contributions would have been illegal if sent directly to the party's state account.

Furthermore, states have very different rules governing who's allowed to work where, according to the National Association of State Contractors Licensing Agencies.

A coalition of business organizations on Tuesday called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to rescind an executive order mandating the collection of salary information for state contractors as a means of ensuring pay equity.

Worse, much of the money in the account they snatched to help the unpopular Malloy defeat the more unpopular Republican Thomas Foley, was contributed by state contractors.

This has to cause Connecticut voters to wonder why they're paying for state elections if public financing can't keep state contractor and lobbyist money out of them.

$ 5,000 from the political action committee (PAC) of Cigna, the Connecticut - based insurer that is included on State Election Enforcement Commission's (SEEC) list of «state contractors prohibited from contributing to statewide candidates.»

«Known state contractors» is a vague (some say weaselly) phrase.

The election commission's now - settled lawsuit against the state Democratic Party, and lawsuits by the party against the SEEC, came after the state Republican Party chairman filed a complaint that the Democrats funneled state contractors» money into the 2014 gubernatorial race through a back door.

Having taxpayers fund the campaigns» expenses was considered better than candidates indebting themselves to big - money contributors — including state contractors — who have special interests in government decisions.

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«What Justice Perell doesn't do is look at the test for a non-party getting around settlement privilege and there is a leading case on that from 1989 — Mueller Canada Inc. v. State Contractors Inc. — that sets out when a non-party or a party can use documents that were part of settlement privilege and that issue isn't really discussed in Justice Perell's decision.»

Investigators found that Cappuccilli saved more than $ 75,000 on one of the two lavish affairs, including free use of state facilities and a cut - rate catering bill secured from a friendly state contractor.

Common Cause and a coalition of reform groups, including the League of Women Voters, the New York Public Interest Research Group, and Reinvent Albany recommend reinstating the state Comptroller's role as a watchdog over state contractors.

Based on what the commission said in last month's decision, it could consider the Democrats» use of the federal account to be an impermissible «coordinated expenditure» with the state account, or an illegal contribution to the state account that's not allow to accept money fromo state contractors.

The agreement promises Howe, whose ties to Cuomo go back three decades, «favorable treatment» and «leniency» in the event that he's criminally charged, in exchange for full details of his lobbying activities on behalf of several major state contractors with senior Cuomo administration officials.

Ron Johnson is contending the public support he is drawing from more than 100 state contractors shows that he will be a strong advocate for the industry in the U.S. Senate.

ConnPIRG was among the first good government critics showing the need to stop state contractor and lobbyist money from circumventing state law.

In an effort to circumvent the Legislature, Cuomo has unilaterally enacted some initiatives throughout his tenure, most recently addressing pay equity for state employees and employees of state contractors last month.

A Menands - based state contractor outsourced work digitizing fingerprint records and other personal files to India, threatening the privacy of millions of people in the process, the IG said.

The Democrats paid for pro-Malloy mass mailings with about $ 250,000 from the state party's federally regulated campaign account, which is allowed by federal law to accept heavy contributions from state contractors despite the state clean - election laws» ban on contractors» money going to candidates for state office.

State election law bars state contractors from contributing directly to the campaigns of statewide candidates, but the FEC isn't bound by state law.

If the party gets the FEC's permission to preempt the law, what's to stop Democrats or Republicans from using state contractor money on its statewide candidates?

State contractors put money in a segregated fund that state Democrats and the Malloy cabal used for the governor's benefit.

Assemblyman Roger Green was convicted of falsifying records while Assemblyman and had been forced to resign — he received free transportation to and from Albany from a major State contractor which he sponsored for many years.

She said that includes establishing uniform sexual harassment policy for all branches of government, holding state contractors to strict sexual harassment reporting standards, stopping taxpayer dollars from being used on settlements and establishing a specialized sexual harassment unit within the New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE), the state's lobbying and ethics ombudsman.

The program bans campaign contributions from state contractors such as those who improperly provided lucrative benefits to Rowland.

Last year, Malloy and his Republican opponent, Tom Foley, each received more than $ 6 million in taxpayer funds for his campaign, on the promise that each wouldn't accept state contractors» money.

«We oppose any attempt to allow state contractor or other special interest money to influence Connecticut campaigns.»

The hosts have been soliciting private sector companies, many of which are current or prospective state contractors, to pay up to $ 15,000 to underwrite the cost of the four - day conference at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

May's solicitation, which raised about $ 50,000 for the Democrats» federal account, was «both offensive and disturbing and violate [d] the spirit and intent of the Connecticut State Contractor Ban,» the SEEC said in last month's decision.

Percoco, Cuomo's once - powerful deputy secretary and one of his closest friends, is being investigated by Bharara over money he received from state contractors while running the governor's re-election campaign in 2014.

«Stephen Whitaker was told that because much of the work was being done by a private, nonprofit state contractor he could not use the state's public records law to gain access to its records.

The Assembly proposal would also require state contractors to report on all types of harassment investigations and settlements, while Cuomo's was limited to sexual harassment settlements.

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Additional requirements for state contractors to report on settlements they've reached, as Cuomo proposed, or that they didn't use arbitration clauses for such cases, were not included.

Republicans charged that the fundraising skirted laws intended to keep state contractors» money out of campaigns.

The Democratic Party also points out that it has set up a separate account for donations from «known state contractors.»

He said Sharkey and Aresimowicz are only looking to «distract» from the state Democratic Party's «shenanigans» in its circumvention of state clean - election laws to funnel state contractors» money into Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's 2014 re-election campaign.