Sentences with phrase «to fund elections»

Some groups say publicly - funded election systems will help get more women in the legislature.

Would I have funded the elections with state funds?

In the resulting reports, neither Common Cause nor Citizens Union disclosed that the Education Fund was the donor who provided their funding, although it was well - publicized they were all working together on the publicly funded elections campaign.

In response to a call to AFC's national headquarters to ask why they are interested in funding election campaigns for lawmakers in North Carolina, Matt Frendewey, communications director, said via email, «as the nation's voice for educational choice, AFC and its coalition partners in states such as North Carolina support candidates on a bipartisan basis who believe in strengthening education by giving parents more educational options for their children.»

He takes a benign view of private interests, one which is presumably informed by the type of people who fund his election campaigns.

Citizen Action NY (a group looking to introduce publicly funded elections in New York) will be hosting a screening of PRICELE$ $ in Albany, NY at the Spectrum 8 Theaters on May 2nd, 7:00 pm.

Healy, the former Republican chairman, blamed the glut of candidates on the state's public campaign financing system, where candidates collect $ 250,000 in small - dollar donations to receive millions in taxpayer - funded election grants.

Rudd's $ 43bn fast web gamble The global recession has forced Kevin Rudd to scrap plans for a high - speed national broadband network funded by the private sector and wager at least $ 21.9 billion of taxpayers» money to fund his election pledge to bring internet speeds into the 21st century.

This leaves raising taxes or finding new funds through reallocations of existing spending and revenues to fund their election promises.

CitizenLink funds an election season mailer from Focus on the Family quoting Barak Obama as saying: «we are no longer a Christian nation.»

I suspect they have administrators with the brains to make tradeoffs based less on funding an election campaign than on what would benefit the people of their country in the long term.

«Her victory shows that voters will support candidates who champion real campaign finance reform, including citizen funded elections.

Notably, Common Cause and Citizens Union favored publicly funded elections long before this funding materialized.

«As our movement for publicly funded elections spreads across New York, we are confident that lawmakers will hear the voters and decide to transform our campaign finance system and restore our democracy during this legislative session.»

The money was supposed to fund an Election Day poll - watching effort, but Haggerty has never entirely accounted for how it was spent.

Despite the evidence, clamor for publicly funded elections remains.

Global Witness is warning that unless Congo strengthens and enforces its mining law, the country could once again see its natural resource wealth siphoned away from the Treasury and used to help fund an election that will likely be brutally contested and possibly even unconstitutional.

In the wake of controversies surrounding Russia - funded election ads and Cambridge Analytica's improper acquisition of user data, Alex Stamos, Facebook's chief security officer, is said to be leaving the company by August.

Guess which party these particular requesters belong to, and who funds their election campaigns.

«They say they support free speech, yet they attempted to disrupt a hearing and prevent members of the Elections Committee from taking testimony on the City's taxpayer - funded election system.

Fundraising in the form of small - dollar donations is critical for candidates planning to participate in the state's Citizens» Election Program, which offers millions in taxpayer - funded election grants to gubernatorial candidates who raise at least $ 250,000 in qualified contributions.

Quinn is using taxpayer dollars to fund her election with a political hit team in a separate office way from all of the other council members.

These AIS allow investors who file U.S. tax returns, with the advice of their tax advisor, to report holdings in their mutual funds as a Qualified Electing Fund Election (QEF) on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form 8621.

Financial Industry Heavyweights Join NY LEAD The New York Leadership for Accountable Government (NY LEAD), a group of business, civic and philanthropic leaders organized to push for a citizen - funded elections in New York State, has added several prominent new members to its ranks.

History appears to be repeating itself, with Congo's valuable natural resources at risk of being stolen to fund an election campaign instead of the basic services that the country's population needs so urgently.

Skelos and the Senate Republicans have also quoted exaggerated, unsubstantiated and contradictory numbers pertaining to the cost of publicly funding elections, ranging anywhere from $ 143 to $ 286 million per year.

As I describe in Survival +, there is a positive feedback in the process of concentrating wealth and thus political power: the more wealth one acquires, the more political influence one can purchase, which then enables the accumulation of even more wealth as the State / Elite partnership showers benefits and monopolies on those who fund elections, i.e. the wealthy.

Publicly Funded Elections!

The Cost of Public Financing is about $ 2 per New Yorker per Year Recently, the New York State Senate Republican Conference, which is opposed to publicly funded elections, finally explained how it arrived at its inflated estimate of the cost of public financing.

Are there any other Constitutional problems with closed, taxpayer - funded elections that I've missed?

Closing the LLC loophole is an essential step toward achieving the comprehensive campaign finance reform, including publicly funded elections, that will put government back in the hands of voters.»

The New York Leadership for Accountable Government (NY LEAD), a bipartisan group of business, civic and philanthropic leaders, sent a letter to Governor Cuomo asking him to make citizen - funded elections a priority in his State of the State Address.

We really need to elect Greens so that we can implement term limits, campaign and ballot access reforms and publicly - funded elections.

As for Citizens Union, Executive Director Dick Dadey said the Education Fund's money supported two reports: one examining the undisclosed spending of New York political clubs, the other pushing publicly funded elections and campaign finance reform.

Citizens Union and Common Cause both took grants from a key faction of the labor - backed Working Families Party that funded studies meant to promote publicly funded elections, a top labor priority.

The money raised by the Education Fund was then directed to Common Cause, Citizens Union and a number of other groups as part of a 2013 push for publicly funded elections, which many believe would help Senate Democrats» electoral odds.

The 1910 election saw 42 Labour MPs elected to the House of Commons, a significant victory since, a year before the election, the House of Lords had passed the Osborne judgment ruling that Trades Unions in the United Kingdom could no longer donate money to fund the election campaigns and wages of Labour MPs.

«We call on Senator Flanagan and the Long Island Republican Senators to stand up for real reform and to restore the confidence of the residents of Long Island by enacting campaign finance reform efforts by instituting a system of publicly funded elections that will stop Albany's culture of corruption,» said Lisa Tyson, executive director of the LIPC.

The endorsement comes after 1199's political director, Kevin Finnegan, announced his group was committed to swinging the State Senate into the Democratic column, in order to pass its liberal statewide initiatives — including college tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants, a locally set minimum wage and taxpayer - funded elections.

He has failed to enact a ban on hydro - fracking that would poison our beautiful state, failed to pass the Dream Act, and failed to live up to his promise of publicly - funded elections and of fairly districted elections.»

Cuomo in the past has pushed issues such as a publicly funded elections and closing the «LLC loophole» in state election law that allows vast giving by real estate interests, but has been unsuccessful — in large part due to opposition from the state Senate Republican majority.

HARTFORD — State officials said Monday that public campaign financing awards to candidates for 2014 will total more than $ 33 million — a record amount for Connecticut's taxpayer - funded election system.

Publicly funded elections, or «Fair Elections,» can help make that happen.

Even when I will fund their elections for them to win and make lives easy for our people, yet they will go there and forget us.

«We need to change the way we fund elections AND not let take over so much power in the marketplace that they squeeze out the little guy,» she said.

We need far more transparency and accountability,» Gillibrand said in response, adding she backs publicly funded elections.

Malick told the audience she has pledged to support the full package of reforms championed by Demand Democracy, which includes publicly funded elections, enhanced protection of voting rights, and ethics reform in Albany.

Eleven localities nationwide now force taxpayers to fund elections, and more are considering it.