Sentences with phrase «want public financing of campaigns»

Yet, no one seems to want to do away with it because they don't want public financing of campaigns — which seems to me to be the only logical solution.

He wants public financing of campaigns and will push to legalize gay marriage and protect abortion rights.

Not exact matches

Shifting swiftly to the general election, Trump says he's narrowed his list of potential running mates to «five or six» people and doesn't want to accept public money to finance a fall campaign against Clinton.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has said he wants to move to a form of public financing for campaigns similar to what is in place for New York City elections, though no bill has been produced.

The governor is already running smack into a wall of opposition in the Senate, where Republicans (and at least one Democrat) don't want to hold a vote on a measure to strengthen abortion laws or allow for the public financing of political campaigns.

Media producer and NY LEAD coalition member Marc Weiss, writing for Newsday, called for New York senators and assembly members to support Gov. Cuomo and Speaker Silver in passing public campaign finance legislation, asking, «Do they want to continue business as usual, or do they want to be part of the solution?»

Progressive leaders and Democratic state lawmakers on Tuesday said they wanted a measure overhauling campaign finance that included a public system of funding for campaigns, saying they wouldn't accept any «watered down» compromises.

IDC Leader Jeff Klein said he's «excited» by the prospect and said he also wants the rest of the Democrats to adopt his group's policy agenda, including transgender rights and public financing for campaigns, items supported by many mainstream Democrats.

The question there is whether the rank - and - file activists, who are unhappy with Cuomo for his fiscal conservatism and lack of movement on progressive issues — mainly creation of a public campaign finance system — will buck party and labor leaders who are more pragmatic and want to endorse the governor for re-election.

The advocates, including Citizen Action's Karen Scharff, want the state to adopt a public campaign financing system similar to the one in New York City where every one dollar donated by a private individual to a political campaign releases $ 6 of public money.

If the past debate on public campaign financing is any guide, the Republicans will likely punch back at Democrats» calls for reform by saying the party wants to create a class of professional politicians.

Cuomo has been sympathetic to the push for a salary hike, but has said he wants lawmakers to take up sweeping campaign finance and ethics reform in the process, including the public financing of political campaigns and limits on outside income for lawmakers.

«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.

«The Fair Elections for New York campaign has been clear that all of our partners want to see the Senate pass comprehensive campaign finance reform with public funding at its core,» he said.

Cuomo said that he wanted a special session to tackle sweeping ethics and campaign - finance reform changes, including the public financing of political campaigns as well as a cap on outside pay and banning employment of state lawmakers from firms that have business before the state.

The governor in late May set a benchmark for his support of the alliance between Republicans and the five - member Independent Democratic Conference, saying he wanted action on the Dream Act (which failed in April), a broader system of public campaign finance (beyond the pilot program passed in the state budget) and his Women's Equality Act, which has been controversial because of a plank changing the state's abortion laws.

And he wants more financial disclosure requirements for local elected officials, a campaign public financing program, and legislation to subject the Legislature to the state's freedom of information laws.

In addition, Schneiderman wants to limit the influence of large donors on campaigns by enacting public campaign financing and limiting contributions.

Meanwhile, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's press secretary is accusing the comptroller of just not wanting to participate in public campaign financing.

But the Obama campaign — which was building its own fund - raising behemoth, even at the expense of the candidate's earlier pledge to accept public financing and the spending cap that came with it — didn't want outside interference.

He's also touted his desire to reform Albany as a reason to pair with Senate Republicans, and yet Senate Republicans have stood opposed to banning outside income for legislators, reforming campaign finance laws and enacting public financing of campaigns — things Klein has said he wants to do.

The governor also proposed a public campaign financing system, based on New York City's model, and he wants greater disclosure of donors to new Super PACS that currently use not for profit loopholes to hide contributors» identities.

Supporters of public financing of campaigns see this as potentially forcing change, both by limiting contributions and providing public financing to those who want it.