The commission also recommended closing loopholes, like
unlimited donations by Limited Liability Companies, and creating a new independent agency to actually enforce campaign finance laws.
Not exact matches
The famous study of Harlem entitled Youth in the Ghetto has a significant subtitle: «A Study in the Consequences of Powerlessness» (published
by Harlem Youth Opportunities
Unlimited, 2092 7th Ave., N. Y., N. Y., $ 4.50
donation).
A letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo this signed
by the women of color in the state Assembly urged him to push for the adoption of early voting and the closure of the loophole in election law that allows for
unlimited donations through a web of limited liability companies.
Commissioners requested an accounting of how
unlimited donations to the housekeeping account were used not for individual campaigns, but rather for generalized support, as required
by law.
On ethics, Cuomo proposed requiring state lawmakers to seek an advisory opinion on any outside income and closing an election - law loophole that allows companies to skirt contribution maximums
by forming an
unlimited number of subsidiaries to channel
donations.
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.
CWA was able to give Democratic Senate candidates far more than the $ 10,300 general election limit
by routing funds through various party committees, each of which could receive six - figure
donations and then give
unlimited amounts to individual campaigns.
Until now, Hizzoner and his allies have directed much of their fundraising attention to the Campaign for One New York — a group that could collect
unlimited donations, not bound
by the $ 4,950 limit, and was created to promote the mayor's political agenda.
Those limits on candidate
donations have been dramatically surpassed
by the increasingly common practice of using nonprofit groups as a vehicle to make
unlimited contributions to independent political committees.
Mayor Bill de Blasio didn't violate the city's campaign finance laws
by soliciting
unlimited donations through a nonprofit organization — but the Campaign Finance Board today offered a stinging rebuke of the practice and called for the City Council to close a «loophole» that allows it.
For the first time, nearly every presidential candidate is flanked
by at least one independent group that can accept
unlimited donations from individuals and corporations.
Moreover, the
unlimited editions of tattoos and sustainably made bracelets
by Lawrence Weiner correlating to the work donated as well as the Tracey Emin special edition of digital works correlating to her neon
donation, were nowhere mentioned
by Blasberg or anyone else.