Sentences with phrase «taking public matching funds»
Polanco Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking Bronx attorney and former Public Advocate J.C. Polanco inadvertently took it on the chin in today's NY Post editorial shaming Public Advocate Letitia James for unnecessarily taking public matching funds in her blowout against Polanco.
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«We need additional disclosure and more transparency, but the abuses that took place in the Liu campaign and in countless others which received public matching funds make it increasingly clear that we don't need taxpayer - funded political campaigns.»
Taking public financing would require them to abide by strict state - by - state spending limits until a nominee is selected in exchange for which he would receive matching funds from the U.S. Treasury.
But since he didn't take in enough in contributions to qualify for public matching funds, Albanese said he deserved leniency.
Therefore, we are disappointed that he has taken in over $ 200,000 in public matching funds (plus, $ 1.3 million in private funds) in a contest where his opponents, a disgruntled former aide Camella D. Price, has struggled to raise a meager $ 6,000 and Avery Selfridge has raised no money.
, who has already qualified for $ 9 million in public matching funds, reported yesterday that between 11 a.m. and noon his operation took in more money online than in any previous hour of the campaign.