Sentences with phrase «talks about campaign finance»

On the campaign trail Mr. Koppell talks about campaign finance reform, a measure which Senator Klein continues to tirelessly advocate for in the State Senate, and yet, he can not follow the rules of our current system.

With the conventions in full swing, there's been lots of talk about campaign finance reform these past few days:

Senator Bernie Sanders said: ``... you are talking about campaign finance.

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His remarks were instead a mashup of his campaign stump speech greatest hits, talking about criminal justice reform, a «broken economy,» free tuition at public colleges, the minimum wage and campaign finance reform.

But now he is talking at a time when another keeper of confidential information about Trump, attorney Michael Cohen, is being stress tested by a federal investigation into possible bank fraud, wire fraud and campaign finance violations.

«He talked a lot about what he wanted to do during the campaign, including campaign finance reform.

Cuomo, too, has talked about the importance of limiting big donors» access to government by limiting political contributions and creating a public campaign finance system — although he has yet to formally propose any legislation to accomplish that.

Following Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos» comments yesterday about ongoing talks on a public campaign finance system, state Conservative Party is upping the ante on the issue, warning Republican lawmakers that they could lose a crucial endorsement if they vote «yes» should a bill come to the floor.

The younger Soros sat down with our Jimmy Vielkind to talk about his push for campaign finance reform.

They'll also talk about some of the areas of state government that need reform including, campaign finance, ethics and redistricting.

«I was tweeting during the voter part and the campaign finance part, and by the time I finished tweeting — and I like to think I'm a pretty fast typer — he was done talking about it, he was on to the next subject,» said Jennifer Wilson, policy director for the League of Women Voters of New York State.

«We're not talking about the substantive ethical and campaign finance reform changes that could turn things around.»

He's talking about the possibility of campaign finance reform, election reform, even possible changes to state lobbying laws.

«The type of democracy we've adopted is costly, you have to campaign, you have to have money to campaign and it is a dirty little secret nobody talks about, how do you finance this campaigns?

«Bill de Blasio talks about campaign - finance reform, but ends up bending the rules so much I am surprised they didn't break,» Murray said.

But the political stand down is a sign of forward progress for talks about a new package of tweaks to ethics and campaign finance laws that have proceeded as a whispered backdrop to the Moreland Commission's investigatory work.

They'll also talk about voter turnout, lobbying, campaign finance reform and much more.

The minority leader talks about Governor Spitzer's campaign finance reform proposals, the recently passed state budget, and his support for legislation to allow the death penalty for people convicted of killing law enforcement personnel.

They'll also talk about reforming Rockefeller Drug Laws, public financing of campaigns and the challenges of balancing the state budget.

He was caught on tape talking to the lobbyist about how to hide their relationship from reporters who had requested his travel and campaign finance records, and he told her it was «not safe» for them to be seen together.

Something, certainly, to keep mind next time Democrats talk about the need for campaign finance reform.

The leader of the Senate Republicans recently confirmed that talks about a public campaign finance bill are on going.

Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos says talks are ongoing about expanding public campaign finance to more statewide races in New York.

On a parallel track, the governor confirmed that he's talking with legislative leaders about a reform package that could change campaign finance laws.

The union in New Jersey financed an advertising campaign in which a grim - faced father talks about his son crying because of tests.

Craig Mauger, the executive director of the Michigan Campaign Finance Network, joined Stateside to talk about the DeVos family and the impact they have had on Michigan politics, education and beyond.

Campaign finance reform was once talked about seriously, championed by John McCain, a potential standard - bearer, as a true, indeed remarkable, American war hero.

The issues that we talk about here in terms of the voting rights, representations, the campaigns finance, corruption, access are ones that are continuously being debated in the United States.»