Sentences with phrase «statewide system of public campaign finance»

Wisneski lives near Eldridge's new Shokan home, and said they met briefly while advocating for a statewide system of public campaign finance.

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With all the talk of Gov. Andrew Cuomo potentially pushing to reunify the IDC and so - called «regular» Democrats as payback for the Republicans» refusal to support a statewide public campaign finance system, I thought it would be worth checking it with the lone Democrat who is actually conferencing with the GOP: Brooklyn Sen. Simcha Felder.

Adopt system of public financing of campaigns, with new lower limits on direct contributions to statewide and state legislative candidates; Establish the «New York State Campaign Finance Fund», with transfers from the Abandoned Property Fund and taxpayer designations of PIT liability; and limiting contributions to «housekeeping accounts» to $ 25,000.

The only answer is comprehensive campaign finance reform, starting with a statewide public financing system to elevate the voices of average voters, who are too often forgotten amidst the search for big money.

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.

Karen Scharff, with Citizen Action, which is part of a coalition advocating for a statewide public campaign finance system, says DA Fitzpatrick's support is good news.

And Klein, who was initially ambivalent over whether the public can get on board with a statewide system of publicly financed campaigns, is embracing it.

Klein said the IDC had served as a «strong, stabilizing force» during its partnership with the Senate Republicans, but the time has come to reassess that relationship in light of the fact that top progressive priorities like the DREAM Act, a statewide public campaign finance system and the Women's Equality Act aren't being allowed to the floor of the Senate for a vote due to the opposition of GOP Leader Dean Skelos.

Several other ideas, like a state hotline for sexual harassment complaints, a statewide database of medical records and $ 4 million for a new office to police campaign finance laws and eventually set up a system of public matching funds, have appeared in newspapers in the days ahead of Cuomo's speech.

Cuomo proposes to extend a system of public campaign finance to all statewide offices and legislative races, ban the use of campaign funds for personal expenses, require the disclosure of outside income and the clients who supported it and change the state Constitution to allow prosecutors to claw back the pensions of officials convicted of public corruption.

Changes to the campaign finance system would include an expansion of «the current pilot project for public funding of the Comptroller's race to all statewide and legislative races.»

A statewide public financing system to elevate average New Yorkers» voices in our elections, buttressed by other comprehensive reforms — like lower limits on how much one person can contribute to a political candidate (now at an outrageous $ 60,800 for statewide candidates per election cycle) and strong independent enforcement of campaign finance laws — will reduce the power of big money special interests.