Sentences with phrase «unlimited contributions through»

The city Campaign Finance Board found NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio did not break contribution limitation rules by raising unlimited contributions through his Campaign for One New York fund — then immediately issued a de facto rebuke of the tactic.

Cuomo wants to close a loophole in election law that allows for unlimited contributions through LLCs, as well as a bill to block those convicted of corruption from receiving pension benefits through a constitutional amendment's first passage.

At the moment, a single campaign donor can give unlimited contributions through a network of limited liability companies or LLCs.

Not exact matches

A coalition of groups on Monday urged the state Board of Elections to prohibit the practice of allowing individual donors to give unlimited campaign contributions through a network of limited liability corporations.

The state Business Council on Wednesday urged the Board of Elections in a letter to not end what in effect has been a regulation allowing unlimited campaign contributions through LLCs.

The city Campaign Finance Board Wednesday found Mayor de Blasio broke no contribution limitation rules by raising unlimited donations through an outside fund — then immediately issued a de facto rebuke of the tactic.

David Weprin: Well, clearly when you're dealing with an opponent that is not part of the system, who has unlimited funds, as the recent election we just went through with the mayor of the city of New York, I would remove the individual cap on contributions for donors and go to a much higher cap similar to the one that's at the state level for the governor of the state of New York.

Cuomo's prescriptions in his 2016 State of the State speech included closing a legal loophole that lets campaign donors funnel unlimited sums to candidates through limited - liability companies; requiring office holders to report campaign contributions every 60 days instead of twice a year; allowing lawmakers to earn no more than 15 percent of their legislative salaries in private - sector work; and adopting a system of voluntary public campaign financing similar to what New York City has.

The measures include provisions Assembly Democrats have backed in the past, including an end to unlimited political contributions funneled through limited liability companies, new regulations for party conference «housekeeping» or soft money accounts and new transparency proposals for lobbying funds.

Mr. Cuomo's office had no immediate response to the proposal, which also included a plan to close the so - called L.L.C. loophole, which allows corporate interests to spend almost unlimited amounts of money on campaigns by channeling contributions through limited liability companies, which can be designed to provide little transparency.

But any effort to fix the system would be complicated by loopholes that permit wealthy individuals and moneyed interests to exert outsize influence, including through 527 groups, which can accept unlimited contributions.

Campaign finance reform is currently a hot button issue in the New York State Legislature where a bill to close the LLC loophole, which allows unlimited campaign contributions to individuals and parties through multiple LLCs, has languished in the state Senate.

While in that instance money was routed through county committees in what election enforcement officials suspect was an effort to circumvent contribution limits, both the Republican State Leadership Committee and Balance New York are outside, independent groups that can take and give unlimited donations.

They found that it solicited unlimited contributions to support candidates and then passed them through a «sham organization» called The Coalition for Energy and the Environment that ran attack ads against Democrats.