Not exact matches
«Any payment by a person such as Cohen on behalf of or in consultation
with a candidate to influence an election is an in - kind «
contribution'to the candidate under
campaign finance law subject to a $ 2,700
limit and disclosure requirements,» he said.
Any payment by a person such as Cohen on behalf of or in consultation
with a candidate to influence an election is an in - kind «
contribution» to the candidate under
campaign finance law subject to a $ 2,700
limit and disclosure requirements.
The $ 8,000 transfer had to in part
with the different
contribution limits between a primary and general election
campaign.
According to
campaign disclosure reports the Erie County GOP received five separate
contributions of $ 20,000 each in 2012 from
Limited Liability Corporations
with the same address as New York City real estate company Glenwood Management.
«For most offices, New York State's
contribution «
limits» are substantially higher than those of any other state that imposes
limits, and they are so high as to ensure that large donors dominate major political
campaigns and candidates spend as much time as possible raising money from donors rather than talking
with voters about issues,» Cuomo said in the written version of the SoS.
Last Friday, he announced he was doing away
with his self - imposed
campaign contribution limits, saying he didn't want to unilaterally disarm against Wilson, who may or may not invest a boatload of his own cash into his
campaign.
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Limit Contributions to City - Affiliated Nonprofits by Donors Doing Business
with the City Recommends Commission Phase in
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Cuomo normally prefers to negotiate quietly
with legislative leaders on proposals before actually writing legislation, but this time he's penned eight different versions of a bill to close the
campaign donation loophole that allows unlimited
contributions from
limited liability companies and he's presented it to the legislature.
Entities that do business
with the State, their executives, and those who are paid to lobby state officials should be
limited to making extremely modest
campaign contributions.
Adopt system of public financing of
campaigns,
with new lower
limits on direct
contributions to statewide and state legislative candidates; Establish the «New York State
Campaign Finance Fund»,
with transfers from the Abandoned Property Fund and taxpayer designations of PIT liability; and
limiting contributions to «housekeeping accounts» to $ 25,000.
Horner,
with NYPIRG, says the testimony illustrates the need to clean up New York's
campaign finance laws by setting stricter caps on
contributions and eliminating a loophole that allows donors to use LLCs or
limited liability companies, to skirt existing donor
limits.
Corporations Use
Limited Liability Companies to Skirt
Campaign Contribution Limits Limited Liability Companies associated
with luxury real estate mogul Leonard Litwin have channeled more than $ 900,000 into races for the New York State Senate this election cycle, largely to Republicans seeking to hold on to majority control.
Along
with vigilant enforcement of the law, disclosure of
contributions, and lower
contribution limits, public financing of elections can «end the mad chase for
campaign cash that starts some elected officials down the road to corruption and... make candidates dependent on ordinary voters rather than special interests.»
Campaign cash from
limited liability corporations — Arwin 88th Street LLC, Columbus 60th Realty LLC and Briar Hill Realty LLC are but a few connected to Glenwood — is now the subject of intense scrutiny as good - government groups demand lawmakers close loopholes that have allowed LLCs to make political
contributions with so few constraints.
The
Campaign Finance Board does have different, lower
contribution limits for individuals who are categorized by them as doing business
with the city — registered lobbyists, those applying for land use actions, grants or contracts — but neither Herrera nor his relatives who worked at MJM or Masonry were categorized as such.
The full bill, which can be read here on the State Assembly website, in addition to providing new
contribution limits and enforcement rules, also stipulates that the public
campaign fund would be partially financed
with money from Wall Street fraud settlements.
And there should be more stringent restrictions on what
campaign funds can be used for, along
with significantly lower
contribution limits.
Yes, it is completely legal in New York for a person doing business
with the state to give the governor $ 250K worth of
campaign contributions using
Limited Liability Companies (LLCs) and then get an enormous state contract.
New York has the highest
campaign contributions of any state
with limits.
The ethics pledge envisions a reinvigorated ethics commission
with sweeping jurisdiction and subpoena power, comprehensive annual financial disclosure requirements and the creation of a panel to recommend
limits on
campaign contributions from individuals and organizations that solicit or obtain state business.
What's more, they are enforced by an energetic and independent
Campaign Finance Board, which oversees a carefully constructed system that combines generous public matching funds
with limits on
contributions to political candidates,
limits that are especially strict for lobbyists and others doing business
with the city.
The week began
with the leak of a confidential report by the state's elections enforcer that alleged that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio had engaged in an illegal effort to circumvent
campaign contribution limits in his 2014 push to bolster the re-election prospects of some sitting state Senate Democrats, who presumably would be more favorable to the democrat mayor's city agenda in Albany.
Question topics included whether there are similarities between past defenses of states banning interracial marriage and current defenses of states banning same - sex marriages, his reaction to NYPD Chief of Department Philip Banks's resignation, whether
campaign contribution limits are too high and what Cuomo intends to seek as
campaign finance reforms if reelected, whether he's going to the Somo el Futuro conference in Puerto Rico next week, whether he's worried that «minorities» will not turn out on election day and how his recent references to recent New York Republicans as being «moderates» reconciles
with his past statements about «ultraconservatives» in the state senate.
Cuomo normally prefers to negotiate quietly
with legislative leaders on proposals before actually penning legislation, but this time he's written eight different versions of a bill to close the
campaign donation loophole that allows unlimited
contributions from
limited liability companies (LLCs), and he's presented it to the legislature.
The rationale is simple: If an outside group that has no
contribution limits could work
with a
campaign on strategy and tactics, there is essentially no point in having
campaign limits at all.
That's consistent
with the Cuomo
campaign statement that they have focused on large dollar contributors, but still surprising and a powerful demonstration of the effect of New York's high
contribution limits.
With just 10 days left in the legislative session, Cuomo offered eight bills to close the «LLC loophole,» a shady way of circumventing
campaign contribution limits.
«Like you, we agree that in order to truly give Albany a «clean bill of health,» a system of public
campaign finance along
with other
campaign finance reforms including lower
contribution limits, closing loopholes and strong but fair enforcement, must be enacted.»
The inquiry into 2014
contributions solicited by NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's
campaign apparatus and intended to assist the Senate Democrats is based on a state ban on
contributions to a party committee if they are given or solicited for a particular candidate,
with an intent to evade individual
contribution limits.
Sue Lerner,
with Common Cause, says currently most
contributions for
campaigns for statewide offices, as well as the Senate and Assembly, come from a
limited number of zip codes, many from the area right around the Capitol, where major lobbying and other interest groups have their offices, as well as the Upper East and West Sides of Manhattan, and Wall Street, and «not from the actual voters».
At the heart of the Silver and Skelos scandals were a network of
limited liability companies — LLCs for short — that admitted to funneling $ 10 million in
campaign contributions,
with a cool $ 1 million to the governor himself.
According to testimony and evidence presented at the trial, $ 125,000 in
campaign contributions were directed by an outside lobbyist, working
with a company seeking to do business
with the state, to the governor's re-election
campaign through a network of
limited liability companies.
With money corrupting the democratic process becoming a major issue in the United States, Suffolk Legislator Rob Trotta (R - Fort Salonga) has introduced a bill to
limit campaign contributions from county contractors and public employee unions.
As the two investigations diverged, the U.S. attorney's office focused almost exclusively on potential quid pro quo arrangements
with de Blasio donors from the 2013
campaign, while Vance's office remained focused on complaints referred by the state Board of Elections over whether the mayor violated
contribution limits in steering money to Democratic State Senate candidates in 2014.
At the same meeting, the board announced that it will soon be raising
campaign contribution limits,
with candidates for statewide office allowed to receive up to $ 65,100 per donor in the 2016 election cycle, an increase from $ 60,800.
Teachout, who has made
limiting the influence of money on politics a core
campaign issue, has said that she was focused on grassroots fundraising efforts,
with contributions averaging just $ 19.
That's because
campaign spending in New York is closely regulated by strict and comparably low
contribution limits — even lower for anyone
with business before the city — and
with a public financing system that offers matching funds from taxpayers to candidates who opt in and follow further fundraising rules.
Mr. Cuomo's call for public
campaign financing, along
with substantially lower
contribution limits and much more aggressive enforcement of
campaign finance laws, already faces the well - funded wrath of a political establishment that cares little that elections are bought as much as they are won.
«We must replace the public embarrassment of existing
campaign financing laws, which allow enormous
contributions and unlimited expenditures,
with a system of reasonable
limits that levels the playing field and ensures that meritorious candidates are not discouraged by the costs of running for public office.»
«You see that in New York and you don't see it at the state level because you have the highest
campaign contribution limits of any state that has
limits in the country, coupled
with a rigged system of redistricting and the normal powers of incumbency.»
Good government groups see the pension forfeiture measure as a token reform and have pressed for the closing of the «LLC loophole» that allows businesses to create multiple
limited liability companies to donate virtually unlimited amounts of
campaign cash; public financing of candidate
campaigns; the end of lump sum appropriations in the budget;
limits on political
contributions by companies
with business before the state;
limits on legislators» outside income; and a renovation of Albany's ethics watchdog, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE).
Several of the attorney general's proposals echoed similar calls from government reform groups, including lowering
campaign contribution limits and drastically
limiting campaign contributions from any entity
with business before the state.
But there are no
limits to
contributions to independent expenditure committees, as long as they don't coordinate their activities
with the candidates or their
campaigns.
Campaign contributions are huge in America,
with no
limits of any kind.
Let's start
with the obvious: I think Rick Hasen is exactly right to suggest that such a move by the lefties is actually a «relative victory» for
campaign finance reformers, given the extent to which» [t] aking the case would have been an opportunity for the majority of Supreme Court justices to make things worse [from the reformers» perspective], such as by suggesting that
limits on direct
contributions to candidates are unconstitutional.»