Sentences with phrase «try public campaign financing»

But the legislature refuses to ban outside income, or try public campaign financing.

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The Senate Democrats are again trying to use a 2009 chamber rule change to their advantage in hopes of forcing a public hearing on their reform agenda, which is contained in five ethics and campaign finance - related bills.

After a new wave of indictments against state lawmakers in the spring, Cuomo tried to convince the legislature to adopt public financing of campaigns, the closing of loopholes for large donors, and better policing of the laws.

Governor Cuomo, who's failed to achieve a number of progressive items over the last two years, including public campaign finance reform and a Women's Equality Act, told the Democratic Rural Conference that he'll try to get them passed in the state legislature in the next eight weeks, before the session ends in June.

Cuomo says he will try to sway the public to support campaign finance reform, working with a coalition of reform groups to «raise awareness» in the coming months.

Meanwhile, government reform groups say New York's politicians need to enact public financing of campaigns, one day after a State Senator was arrested for allegedly trying to bribe his way onto the ballot for the New York City mayor's race.

Now we'll work on making public campaign financing a reality, and try to ensure that all candidates will, in the future, get equal coverage and air time.

The governor and legislators agreed to try out a system of public campaign financing with this year's race for state comptroller.

«To be clear, we all want comprehensive campaign finance reform with public financing at the core and we feel public financing is the real game changer, but we're hearing a lot of myths around public financing in particular and trying to connect that to corruption in a bad way as opposed it to being a solution so we wanted to focus on that today,» he said.

Also, the 2012 race was dominated by spending (some $ 500,000) by outside interests trying to make Tkaczyk into the poster child for public campaign financing.

The organization Fair Elections for NY, which is calling for public financing of campaigns, has for weeks now been trying to raise awareness about the current system by revealing the donations that state lawmakers have recieved from corporations and interest groups.

However, WFP and Citizen Action do have a strange approach in how they use individual elections to try to claim a mandate for public campaign finance reform.

The Campaign Finance Board wants its money back — the public's money, that is — from a Bronx councilman who's trying to use it to win a state Senate seat.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who's failed to achieve a number of progressive items over the last two years, including public campaign finance reform and a Women's Equality Act, told the Democratic Rural Conference that he'll try to get them passed in the state legislature in the next eight weeks, before the session ends in June.

For its part, the Legislature agreed to some changes to campaign finance reporting requirements, bribery laws and to try public financing of elections in this year's race for state comptroller.

News of Ravitch's potential candidacy is coming to light as talks on a major W.F.P. priority — public campaign finance — have broken down, and as the governor continues to line up labor leaders allied with the third - party to try and convince its state committee to support him.

He's tried twice and failed to enact public campaign finance reform for all statewide offices, and last year lost on a battle to enact a Women's Equality Act that contained an abortion rights provision.

Government reform groups say New York's politicians need to enact public financing of campaigns, one day after a State Senator was arrested for allegedly trying to bribe his way onto the ballot for the New York City mayor's race.

He says if the governor tries as hard to get campaign finance reform passed as he did to achieve legalization of same sex marriage and a new lowered benefit pension tier for public workers, then the bills can become law this year.