Public Financing
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Mar27
Second Hawaii Senate Committee Holds Hearing on Small Donor Empowerment Bill
On Thursday, the Hawaii Senate Ways and Means Committee will hold a hearing on House Bill 1481, legislation that would create a small donor public financing system for state legislative races.
Under the system, which could still see changes before final passage, candidates would collect a set number of signatures and qualifying contributions to show broad-based community support. Once qualified, candidates would receive a public grant to fund their campaigns.
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Mar05
Hawaii House Passes Fair Elections Legislation
The Hawaii House of Representatives passed legislation Tuesday, HB 1481 HD2, to establish a Fair Elections program for state House and Senate candidates. The bill passed on a vote of 48-3 and now heads to the Senate.
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Jan10
Clips round up for 1/10/2013
In his State of the State address yesterday, Gov. Cuomo once again called for public financing and a broad reform agenda. New York Times editorial: "Most important, he vowed to start public financing for campaigns so that more candidates can compete against wealthy competitors." It ends with this: "It is a long, ambitious list. If Mr.
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Jan09
PRESS RELEASE: New York Gov. Cuomo Calls For New York City-style Public Financing Of Elections For State
In his State of the State address today, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo pledged his support for the legislature to pass publicly financed Fair Elections legislation to curb the influence of big money in New York politics.
Cuomo in his SoS: "...we need to implement a public finance system like in New York City. It works well there, and it will work well for the state too.“
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Sep04
DNC's Good, Not Great Campaign Finance Reform Platform
The Democratic Party released their convention platform yesterday, calling for many important campaign finance reform measures.
From the platform:
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May14
Clips Round-up for 5/14/12
A handful of national good government organizations, including Public Campaign, have been calling on Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy to sign HB 5565, a "disclosure on steroids" bill that would bring much needed transparency to the political process. It'd be a big win. And in the post-Citizens United political world, would help to maintain the integrity of the state's popular public financing program.
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Apr19
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Apr16
Albany Can Kick the Money Habit
This weekend the New York Times editorial page urged Gov. Cuomo and the New York legislature to move forward with Fair Elections:
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Apr12
Front Page Fair Elections Story in New York Times!
The New York Times has a front page story today on the effort to bring Fair Elections to New York State legislative races. The story focuses on "an unusual and well-heeled coalition, trying to tap public anger over the flood of money into politics, (who are) pushing to enact a public financing system for elections in New York State."
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Apr11
Clips round up for 4/11/2012
Morning must-read: "House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., may have irritated members of his conference by donating to an anti-incumbent super PAC before the Illinois primary, but Rep.