Not exact matches
The 2002 law, usually called McCain - Feingold, banned the broadcast, cable or satellite transmission of «electioneering communications» paid for by corporations or labor
unions from their general
funds in the 30 days before a presidential primary and in the 60 days before the general
elections.
The Public and Commercial Services (PCS)
union has voted to
fund independent candidates in
elections, in what it claims is a «historic» move to fight austerity.
It needs more
funding and if that comes from
Unions or Non Doms... Labour has in the years shown us membership is not a priority but ensuring
Unions funding is and the hot potato is that if the Tories win the next
election and the argument is about
funding the Tories may hit back and state
union funding is illegal.
You award $ 10B in public
funds to a company or a
union who contributed to your
election as US President?
The report, «By the People: The New York City Campaign Finance Program in the 2013
Elections,» shows, among other things, that: the number of candidates participating in the public -
funding system in 2013 remained high; more than two - thirds of all New York City contributors gave $ 175 or less; and more than 90 percent of the total raised came from individual contributors, rather than from PACs or
unions.
And the responses suggest a growing divide between the nation and its highest court on constitutional questions that have moved to the heart of the American system, as the advent of super PACs and the abandonment of public financing by both parties in presidential
elections have enabled wealthy donors, corporations and
unions to play a greater role in political
fund - raising.
(Albany, NY)-- One day after being appointed Ranking Democratic Member of the New York State Senate
Elections Committee, Senator Brian Kavanagh today joined with fellow legislators and advocates — including the Brennan Center for Justice, Citizen Action of New York, Citizens
Union, Common Cause / NY, the League of Women Voters of New York State, the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), Planned Parenthood, and Transportation Workers United Local 100 and colleagues in the Senate to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to fully
fund early voting in the Fiscal 2018 - 2019 Executive Budget.
Research from the good - government group Citizens
Union confirms that the New York City
elections, where public
funding is already in place, allow for greater voter choice and more electoral competition, when compared with New York State races.
Elections run on money - and unlike Labour, we aren't
funded by the Trade
Unions and unlike the Tories we aren't
funded by big business.
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.
New York State United Teachers, a
union that remains powerful by virtue of its 600,000 members regardless of its losses in the recent
election cycle, denounced Cuomo's letter on Thursday, arguing that his apparent priorities — strengthening teacher evaluations, lengthening the probationary period before teachers may get tenure and boosting charter schools — are handouts to pro-charter billionaire hedge
funders who give generously to his campaigns.
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.
Notably, Common Cause and Citizens
Union favored publicly
funded elections long before this
funding materialized.
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.
Asked how
unions could take advantage of gaps in the law while criticizing others for exploiting LLC loophole, Korn said, «Twelve hedge
fund billionaires gave more than 187,500 teachers in the 2014
elections,» referring to charter school supporters that gave heavily to an outside group backing Senate Republicans.
After the next
election labour and the Liberals if they have any one left will go for state
Funding and the Tories will demand they be allowed to have single donations of # 5,000,
Unions will only be allowed to give the same and that will end the labour parties time with the
Unions it will be the split Progress have been fighting for.
Without substantial
funding from the
unions or elsewhere, there is no way they can mount a decent
election campaign.
Labour has become increasingly reliant upon
union sources of
funding in recent years, and large public sector
unions maintain an influential grip on the party's power structure, including having a third of the bloc - votes for the Labour leadership
election currently underway.
It seems Labour, a party
funded by
union barons who pick the candidates and the leader, are spending more time trying to invent nonsense about the Conservatives than research and develop policies for the next
election.
Every
election cycle, in every part of the country, AFL - CIO
unions and unaffiliated labor organizations make pragmatic calculations about who to back and
fund.
As the esteemed Peter Watt set out in a prescient post on party
funding last year, in a typical non-general
election year, trade
union affiliation fees will total roughly # 8m.
If the agreement on party
funding isn't also implemented at this point, then Labour will go into the next
election either: having to ask the
unions for enormous discretionary donations to
fund the campaign, rendering pointless the process started yesterday, or fighting an
election with a fraction of the
funds available to the Tories.
Miss Harman is addressing a
union movement that is increasingly important to Labour's ability to
fund a general
election campaign expected in 2010.
In addition,
unions draw on their political
funds to provide one - off donations, mainly at
election times, amounting to about # 12m.
The donors, topped by hedge
funder Stanley Druckenmiller, the Trial Lawyers Association and the health care
union 1199SEIU, combined to contribute $ 10 million, according to a POLITICO New York analysis of state Board of
Elections records.
The RMT rail
union and the Fire Brigades Union both ended their affiliation during the Blair years, although they continued to fund Labour election candid
union and the Fire Brigades
Union both ended their affiliation during the Blair years, although they continued to fund Labour election candid
Union both ended their affiliation during the Blair years, although they continued to
fund Labour
election candidates.
But he will have to campaign for the special Nov. 6
election without public
funding, since he missed the one - week window to apply for matching
funds, and without the support of the Bronx Democratic party, which will back local activist and
union organizer, Andy King.
They include fairer
funding of the trade
union movement; staggered timing of the
election debates; and, most interestingly, the holding of a referendum on general
election day to mobilise the maximum possible Tory vote.
Alliance for Quality Education, which gets partial
funding from the teachers
union, hopes to make the underfunding an issue in the legislative
elections in November.
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Funds for Scientific Research [March 23, 2018] AAAS Statement on FY 2018 Omnibus
Funding Bill [March 22, 2018] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on Death of Rep. Louise Slaughter [March 16, 2018] AAAS CEO Urges U.S. President and Congress to Lift Funding Restrictions on Gun Violence Research [March 13, 2018] AAAS Statements on Elections and Paper Ballots [March 9, 2018] AAAS Statement on President's 2019 Budget Plan [February 12, 2018] AAAS Statement on FY 2018 Budget Deal and Continuing Resolution [February 9, 2018] AAAS Statement on President Trump's State of the Union Address [January 30, 2018] AAAS Statement on Continuing Resolution Urges FY 2018 Final Omnibus Bill [January 22, 2018] AAAS Statement on U.S. Government Shutdown [January 20, 2018] Community Statement to OMB on Science and Government [December 19, 2017] AAAS CEO Response to Media Report on Use of «Science - Based» at CDC [December 15, 2017] Letter from AAAS and the American Physical Society to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Regarding Scientist Ahmadreza Djalali [December 15, 2017] Multisociety Letter Conference Graduate Student Tax Provisions [December 7, 2017] Multisociety Letter Presses Senate to Preserve Higher Education Tax Benefits [November 29, 2017] AAAS Multisociety Letter on Tax Reform [November 15, 2017] AAAS Letter to U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee on Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1)[November 7, 2017] AAAS Statement on Release of National Climate Assessment Report [November 3, 2017] AAAS Statement on EPA Science Adviser Boards [October 31, 2017] AAAS Statement on EPA Restricting Scientist Communication of Research Results [October 25, 2017] Statement of the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility [October 18, 2017] Scientific Societies» Letter on President Trump's Visa and Immigration Proclamation [October 17, 2017] AAAS Statement on U.S. Withdrawal from UNESCO [October 12, 2017] AAAS Statement on White House Proclamation on Immigration and Visas [September 25, 2017] AAAS Statement from CEO Rush Holt on ARPA - E Reauthorization Act [September 8, 2017] AAAS Speaks Out Against Trump Administration Halt of Young Immigrant Program [September 6, 2017] AAAS Statement on Trump Administration Disbanding National Climate Assessment Advisory Committee [August 22, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Issues Statement On Death of Former Rep. Vern Ehlers [August 17, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt and 15 Other Science Society Leaders Request Climate Science Meeting with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt [July 31, 2017] AAAS Encourages Congressional Appropriators to Invest in Research and Innovation [July 25, 2017] AAAS CEO Urges Secretary of State to Fill Post of Science and Technology Adviser [July 13, 2017] AAAS and ESA Urge Trump Administration to Protect Monuments [July 7, 2017] AAAS Statement on House Appropriations Bill for the Department of Energy [June 28, 2017] Scientific Organizations Statement on Science and Government [June 27, 2017] AAAS Statement on White House Executive Order on Cuba Relations [June 16, 2017] AAAS Statement on Paris Agreement on Climate Change [June 1, 2017] AAAS Statement from CEO Rush Holt on Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Proposal [May 23, 2017] AAAS thanks the Congress for prioritizing research and development funding in the FY 2017 omnibus appropriations [May 9, 2017] AAAS Statement on Dismissal of Scientists on EPA Scientific Advisory Board [May 8, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on FY 2017 Appropriations [May 1, 2017] AAAS CEO Statement on Executive Order on Climate Change [March 28, 2017] AAAS leads an intersociety letter on the HONEST Act [March 28, 2017] President's Budget Plan Would Cripple Science and Technology, AAAS Says [March 16, 2017] AAAS Responds to New Immigration Executive Order [March 6, 2017] AAAS CEO Responds to Trump Immigration and Visa Order [January 28, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on Federal Scientists and Public Communication [January 24, 2017] AAAS thanks leaders of the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act [December 21, 2016] AAAS CEO Rush Holt raises concern over President - Elect Donald Trump's EPA Director Selection [December 15, 2016] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement Following the House Passage of 21st Century Cures Act [December 2, 2016] Letter from U.S. scientific, engineering, and higher education community leaders to President - elect Trump's transition team [November 23, 2016] Letter from AAAS CEO Rush Holt to Senate Leaders and Letter to House Leaders to pass a FY 2017 Omnibus Spending Bill [November 15, 2016] AAAS reaffirms the reality of human - caused climate change [June 28
Funding Bill [March 22, 2018] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on Death of Rep. Louise Slaughter [March 16, 2018] AAAS CEO Urges U.S. President and Congress to Lift
Funding Restrictions on Gun Violence Research [March 13, 2018] AAAS Statements on Elections and Paper Ballots [March 9, 2018] AAAS Statement on President's 2019 Budget Plan [February 12, 2018] AAAS Statement on FY 2018 Budget Deal and Continuing Resolution [February 9, 2018] AAAS Statement on President Trump's State of the Union Address [January 30, 2018] AAAS Statement on Continuing Resolution Urges FY 2018 Final Omnibus Bill [January 22, 2018] AAAS Statement on U.S. Government Shutdown [January 20, 2018] Community Statement to OMB on Science and Government [December 19, 2017] AAAS CEO Response to Media Report on Use of «Science - Based» at CDC [December 15, 2017] Letter from AAAS and the American Physical Society to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Regarding Scientist Ahmadreza Djalali [December 15, 2017] Multisociety Letter Conference Graduate Student Tax Provisions [December 7, 2017] Multisociety Letter Presses Senate to Preserve Higher Education Tax Benefits [November 29, 2017] AAAS Multisociety Letter on Tax Reform [November 15, 2017] AAAS Letter to U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee on Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1)[November 7, 2017] AAAS Statement on Release of National Climate Assessment Report [November 3, 2017] AAAS Statement on EPA Science Adviser Boards [October 31, 2017] AAAS Statement on EPA Restricting Scientist Communication of Research Results [October 25, 2017] Statement of the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility [October 18, 2017] Scientific Societies» Letter on President Trump's Visa and Immigration Proclamation [October 17, 2017] AAAS Statement on U.S. Withdrawal from UNESCO [October 12, 2017] AAAS Statement on White House Proclamation on Immigration and Visas [September 25, 2017] AAAS Statement from CEO Rush Holt on ARPA - E Reauthorization Act [September 8, 2017] AAAS Speaks Out Against Trump Administration Halt of Young Immigrant Program [September 6, 2017] AAAS Statement on Trump Administration Disbanding National Climate Assessment Advisory Committee [August 22, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Issues Statement On Death of Former Rep. Vern Ehlers [August 17, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt and 15 Other Science Society Leaders Request Climate Science Meeting with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt [July 31, 2017] AAAS Encourages Congressional Appropriators to Invest in Research and Innovation [July 25, 2017] AAAS CEO Urges Secretary of State to Fill Post of Science and Technology Adviser [July 13, 2017] AAAS and ESA Urge Trump Administration to Protect Monuments [July 7, 2017] AAAS Statement on House Appropriations Bill for the Department of Energy [June 28, 2017] Scientific Organizations Statement on Science and Government [June 27, 2017] AAAS Statement on White House Executive Order on Cuba Relations [June 16, 2017] AAAS Statement on Paris Agreement on Climate Change [June 1, 2017] AAAS Statement from CEO Rush Holt on Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Proposal [May 23, 2017] AAAS thanks the Congress for prioritizing research and development funding in the FY 2017 omnibus appropriations [May 9, 2017] AAAS Statement on Dismissal of Scientists on EPA Scientific Advisory Board [May 8, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on FY 2017 Appropriations [May 1, 2017] AAAS CEO Statement on Executive Order on Climate Change [March 28, 2017] AAAS leads an intersociety letter on the HONEST Act [March 28, 2017] President's Budget Plan Would Cripple Science and Technology, AAAS Says [March 16, 2017] AAAS Responds to New Immigration Executive Order [March 6, 2017] AAAS CEO Responds to Trump Immigration and Visa Order [January 28, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on Federal Scientists and Public Communication [January 24, 2017] AAAS thanks leaders of the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act [December 21, 2016] AAAS CEO Rush Holt raises concern over President - Elect Donald Trump's EPA Director Selection [December 15, 2016] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement Following the House Passage of 21st Century Cures Act [December 2, 2016] Letter from U.S. scientific, engineering, and higher education community leaders to President - elect Trump's transition team [November 23, 2016] Letter from AAAS CEO Rush Holt to Senate Leaders and Letter to House Leaders to pass a FY 2017 Omnibus Spending Bill [November 15, 2016] AAAS reaffirms the reality of human - caused climate change [June 28
Funding Restrictions on Gun Violence Research [March 13, 2018] AAAS Statements on
Elections and Paper Ballots [March 9, 2018] AAAS Statement on President's 2019 Budget Plan [February 12, 2018] AAAS Statement on FY 2018 Budget Deal and Continuing Resolution [February 9, 2018] AAAS Statement on President Trump's State of the
Union Address [January 30, 2018] AAAS Statement on Continuing Resolution Urges FY 2018 Final Omnibus Bill [January 22, 2018] AAAS Statement on U.S. Government Shutdown [January 20, 2018] Community Statement to OMB on Science and Government [December 19, 2017] AAAS CEO Response to Media Report on Use of «Science - Based» at CDC [December 15, 2017] Letter from AAAS and the American Physical Society to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Regarding Scientist Ahmadreza Djalali [December 15, 2017] Multisociety Letter Conference Graduate Student Tax Provisions [December 7, 2017] Multisociety Letter Presses Senate to Preserve Higher Education Tax Benefits [November 29, 2017] AAAS Multisociety Letter on Tax Reform [November 15, 2017] AAAS Letter to U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee on Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1)[November 7, 2017] AAAS Statement on Release of National Climate Assessment Report [November 3, 2017] AAAS Statement on EPA Science Adviser Boards [October 31, 2017] AAAS Statement on EPA Restricting Scientist Communication of Research Results [October 25, 2017] Statement of the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility [October 18, 2017] Scientific Societies» Letter on President Trump's Visa and Immigration Proclamation [October 17, 2017] AAAS Statement on U.S. Withdrawal from UNESCO [October 12, 2017] AAAS Statement on White House Proclamation on Immigration and Visas [September 25, 2017] AAAS Statement from CEO Rush Holt on ARPA - E Reauthorization Act [September 8, 2017] AAAS Speaks Out Against Trump Administration Halt of Young Immigrant Program [September 6, 2017] AAAS Statement on Trump Administration Disbanding National Climate Assessment Advisory Committee [August 22, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Issues Statement On Death of Former Rep. Vern Ehlers [August 17, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt and 15 Other Science Society Leaders Request Climate Science Meeting with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt [July 31, 2017] AAAS Encourages Congressional Appropriators to Invest in Research and Innovation [July 25, 2017] AAAS CEO Urges Secretary of State to Fill Post of Science and Technology Adviser [July 13, 2017] AAAS and ESA Urge Trump Administration to Protect Monuments [July 7, 2017] AAAS Statement on House Appropriations Bill for the Department of Energy [June 28, 2017] Scientific Organizations Statement on Science and Government [June 27, 2017] AAAS Statement on White House Executive Order on Cuba Relations [June 16, 2017] AAAS Statement on Paris Agreement on Climate Change [June 1, 2017] AAAS Statement from CEO Rush Holt on Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Proposal [May 23, 2017] AAAS thanks the Congress for prioritizing research and development
funding in the FY 2017 omnibus appropriations [May 9, 2017] AAAS Statement on Dismissal of Scientists on EPA Scientific Advisory Board [May 8, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on FY 2017 Appropriations [May 1, 2017] AAAS CEO Statement on Executive Order on Climate Change [March 28, 2017] AAAS leads an intersociety letter on the HONEST Act [March 28, 2017] President's Budget Plan Would Cripple Science and Technology, AAAS Says [March 16, 2017] AAAS Responds to New Immigration Executive Order [March 6, 2017] AAAS CEO Responds to Trump Immigration and Visa Order [January 28, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on Federal Scientists and Public Communication [January 24, 2017] AAAS thanks leaders of the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act [December 21, 2016] AAAS CEO Rush Holt raises concern over President - Elect Donald Trump's EPA Director Selection [December 15, 2016] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement Following the House Passage of 21st Century Cures Act [December 2, 2016] Letter from U.S. scientific, engineering, and higher education community leaders to President - elect Trump's transition team [November 23, 2016] Letter from AAAS CEO Rush Holt to Senate Leaders and Letter to House Leaders to pass a FY 2017 Omnibus Spending Bill [November 15, 2016] AAAS reaffirms the reality of human - caused climate change [June 28
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The Australian Education
Union (AEU), which has previously committed to make The Gonski Review and needs - based
funding one of the key issues in the 2016
election, has welcomed new Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's announcement.
California voters will go to the polls this fall to decide controversial issues of teacher tenure and school
funding in a special
election that will test the strength of the state teachers»
unions in their ongoing conflict with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Newly - appointed Federal President of the Australian Education
Union (AEU) Correna Haythorpe addressed its annual conference over the weekend highlighting her commitment to make The Gonski Review and needs - based
funding one of the key issues in the 2016
election.
Since her
election to this role in 2008, Weingarten has led a series of projects, one of which was the creation of the AFT Innovation
Fund, which supports education reform projects developed by teachers in collaboration with their local
unions.
Rayner also praised parents and
unions involved in the campaign against real - terms school
funding cuts, which brought the issue to the fore during last year's general
election.
But with four of seven seats on the board up for grabs in Tuesday's
election, reformers find themselves fending off a spirited challenge from a coalition of angry parents and well -
funded teachers
unions.
Kevin Courtney, general secretary of the National
Union of Teachers, said: «The general
election has forced the government to accept that there is a major problem with school
funding that must be addressed.
The
union - led school
funding campaign credited with bringing the issue to the forefront of last year's general
election campaign is not over, Kevin Courtney said today.
Last year I said our
union would try to make school
funding the centre of the general
election campaign.
Over the past five
election cycles, the American Federation of Teachers has handed the Democratic Governors Association more than $ 5.5 million in money that was earned by America's teachers and given to their
union with the intention that the
funds would be used to support candidates and promote policies that support teachers and enhance public schools.
With the 107,000 - member Massachusetts Teachers Association gearing up for a fight — and also thinking that it wanted to avoid a protracted battle and a diversion of
funds away from political causes in an important Senatorial
election year, the
unions sought compromise.
In it, Zimmer makes clear his disdain for the wealthy
funders who backed the losing candidate, Marshall Tuck, congratulating the state teacher
unions for standing up to them and urging them to continue, with a particular eye on next year's LA Unified school board
elections.
The DfE confirmed consultations can not be published because of purdah rules after Kevin Courtney, the general secretary of the National
Union of Teachers, called for the announcement on school
funding to be brought forward to take place before the general
election.
And any financial loss suffered by (or profit opportunity denied to) a
Union Super
fund deprives Labor of its ability to
fund election campaigns and much else besides.
Some «critics and dissenters immediately predicted it would alter
elections in 2010 and beyond by unleashing a new flood of corporate and
union money into a system already awash with special - interest
funds» wrote Tony Mauro in The National Law Journal.