Sentences with phrase «wide campaign finance»

Real reform would require a publicly funded state - wide campaign finance system.

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The idea now has some legs, thanks to IDC leader Jeff Klein's wide - ranging campaign finance / electoral reform proposal that includes repeal of Wilson - Pakula.

In a memorandum being circulated this morning, good - government advocates call Speaker Sheldon Silver's measure to create a public financing system for political campaigns «a good first step forward» but then pick apart some of the wider loopholes in the legislation.

Small Donations Fueled «Wide - Open» Elections Last Year A report by the New York City Campaign Finance Board shows that the city's 2013 elections were «the most wide - open» since the city's small - donor matching system was put in place 25 years Wide - Open» Elections Last Year A report by the New York City Campaign Finance Board shows that the city's 2013 elections were «the most wide - open» since the city's small - donor matching system was put in place 25 years wide - open» since the city's small - donor matching system was put in place 25 years ago.

A report by the New York City Campaign Finance Board shows that the city's 2013 elections were «the most wide - open» since the city's small - donor matching system was put in place 25 years ago.

Limited Liability Companies (LLCs) are used by a wide variety of industries to circumvent the $ 5,000 annual corporate contribution limit in New York State campaign finance law, relying on the New York State Board of Elections» 1996 determination to treat LLCs as individuals, subject to a $ 150,000 annual contribution limit.

Reform groups are focusing attention on Governor Andrew Cuomo's anti corruption commission's recommendations to beef up the anemic State Board of Elections but say they have not given up hope of public campaign financing for state wide races.

Reform groups are focusing attention on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's anti-corruption commission's recommendations to beef up the anemic State Board of Elections but say they have not given up hope of public campaign financing for state wide races.

The left - leaning minor party was angered when Cuomo failed to win a public campaign financing system for state wide offices in the budget.

We see a wide spectrum of fracking related interests taking full advantage of New York's lax campaign finance laws in the hope of a future payday if fracking is permitted.»

Cuomo has about three weeks to achieve his goal of convincing the Senate to vote for a wider public campaign finance plan.

Davis, a former hedge fund senior vice president, first filed with the city campaign finance board in September of 2012 to run for city - wide office.

New York State's campaign finance rules allow lawmakers wide latitude to use campaign funds for covering legal fees, restaurant tabs, season tickets to professional sporting events, or in the infamous case of former Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, a $ 1,300 pool clean - up.

De Blasio's commission is expected to focus on campaign finance reforms, while the council is looking to examine «a wide swath of issues — including a more transparent budgeting process, more robust community engagement in land use, and a more independent Law Department,» according to Council Speaker Corey Johnson.

Money from real estate and construction interests flows to Cuomo because he's an incumbent attorney general seeking the governor's office, which has wide influence over the industry, said Denise Roth Barber, research director for the National Institute on Money in State Politics, which analyzes campaign finances.

Cuomo's wide - ranging, 10 - point ethics reform agenda advocates for a public campaign financing system, early voting, and several additional measures that reform - minded advocates and legislators have been calling for, as well as others of his own.

However, it seems as if the campaign to raise awareness of the dire prospects facing schools» finances was highly successful in feeding into a wider anti-austerity narrative which so spectacularly denied Theresa May the mandate she had sought.

Anyone seeking to finance a wide variety of projects and products initiates a campaign on a website.

On the whole, when a vast majority of scientists from a wide variety of disciplines have moved on and only want to be allowed get on with their work, not argue with diehard dissidents, stubborn backsliders, and well - financed PR, along with misguided legal campaigns (Mann et al.), you may assume it's because they've satisfied themselves to the best of their ability that the facts are as stated.

The wide canvas of democratic elections, means that it embraces normative enquiries into meanings and modes of representation as well as policy debates over campaign finance, corruption and criminalization of politics.

It is vitally important for charities like Adoption UK to have high - profile ambassadors as they help us to attract finances, offer moral support to our campaigns and help to influence and educate the wider - world about the challenges facing today's adoptive families.