Sentences with phrase «testing public campaign finance»

The budget includes testing public campaign finance with the state comptroller race this year.

New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli says a test public campaign finance plan that would apply only to his office is «seriously flawed,» and might even be unworkable.

Good government groups and some lawmakers say the provision to use this year's state comptroller race to test public campaign financing is far short of the comprehensive program initially proposed by Cuomo and that it is flawed in conception.

The state's Comptroller says test public campaign finance plan that would apply only to his office is «seriously flawed», and might even be unworkable.

Not exact matches

Saying he won't be a «convenient sacrificial lamb,» state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli says he won't opt in to a test system for public campaign finance that applies only to his office, and would use money from the comptroller's unclaimed funds to pay for it.

DiNapoli has suggested his office should be used as a test - case for public campaign financing at the state level to get out from under the pay - to - play pension fund scandal of his predecessor.

The budget includes a multi step plan that could lower property taxes, $ 340 million dollars for schools to start pre-K programs, and a limited test program for public campaign financing.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said recently that he will also be introducing an alternative measure that offers public campaign financing for just the state Comptroller's race, as a test case, as a compromise that perhaps the Senate could find «palatable».

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).

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said the last - minute, comptroller - only public campaign finance test project was unfair to both him and his opponent, Onondaga County Comptroller Bob Antonacci.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's executive budget contains a public campaign financing proposal with requirements that are essentially unchanged from those used in a «pilot program» last year, even though the governor's office apparently did not seek input from the one candidate who tested the system.

For years, elites in big business, foundations, well - endowed think tanks, and corporate media have conducted a well - financed marketing campaign to impress on the nation's public schools an agenda of change that includes charter schools, standardized testing, and «new and improved» standards known as the Common Core.