Sentences with phrase «used public matching funds»

Wills was elected in 2010, and used public matching funds from his 2009 City Council campaign to pay more than $ 11,000 to a shell company that was supposed to translate and distribute campaign literature, the state attorney general said.

According to Schneiderman, Wills used public matching funds from his 2009 campaign for City Council to pay $ 11,500 to Micro Targeting, a shell company created to translate and distribute campaign literature.

«City law places clear restrictions on post-election spending and does not allow candidates to use public matching funds to build a war chest for future elections,» CFB spokesman Matt Sollars told the Daily News Monday.

Not exact matches

Institute a statewide public financing system based on the one used by NYC, which matches every dollar in small donor contributions with six dollars in public funds

The question before progressive advocates of public campaign financing in New York State is whether we push for full public campaign finance on the Clean Money model of equal and sufficient funding grants for all qualified candidates, or whether we settle for partial public campaign financing on the Matching Funds model used for presidential primaries since 1976 and for New York City local elections since 1989.

The GOP has long maintained that a matching small donor plan using public funds is a waste of the taxpayers» money, and would only lead to more annoying robo - calls.

New York City Comptroller John Liu's former campaign treasurer Jia «Jenny» Hou will appeal her conviction on charges of using phony donors to obtain public - matching funds for his unsuccessful run for mayor.

They have also shown a different approach to the use of taxpayer funds for their respective campaigns, though Malliotakis — who plans to accept public matching funds — used to criticize the city's campaign finance system as a waste of taxpayer dollars.

City Council candidate Heidi Harrison Chain said she will decline public matching funds for her campaign and said the money should instead be used to better the community in a rough economy.

We certainly hope her election will push state lawmakers to support public campaign financing — especially a Clean Money Clean Election approach where funds are provided based on obtaining a small number of donations (as opposed to the 6 to 1 matching approach used in NYC).

Mr. Schneiderman also called for matching public funds for all state elections, like the system used in New York City elections.

In his budget proposal, the governor again included ethics and campaign fund - raising changes, including putting in place a system of public financing for state political campaigns modeled after the one used in New York City, where small donations are matched with public funds.

Some proposals aim at reducing coordination between campaigns and independent expenditure groups (Super PACs), others make it easier for candidates to run campaigns and simplify documentations requirements while also tightening restrictions on how public matching funds may be used.

The money, to renovate a building at Sylvania Public School so it used less electricity, was spent on one in a series of projects that appear not to match the Climate Change Fund's main objective: cutting carbon emissions.

During primaries, public funds are used to match private individual contributions, and at each stage the FEC has set limits on what can be spent.