Campaign Finance
Wherever one finds elections, one finds money. Add to this truism the fact that citizens always pay for parties and elections, whatever the particular financing scheme (private, publi...
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This election, with all the grumbling about Mike's money, provoked a round of concern about the city's public financing system, and a range of proposals from the probably-illegal (make self-finance...
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Previous efforts to reform campaign finance have failed miserably. The major problem is that candidates can still receive tons of money from individuals and entities that they do not actually repre...
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A wide-ranging list of political figures met with Eliot Spitzer at a closed-door luncheon on Lexington Avenue, organized by the Brennan Center, to discuss his efforts to overhaul the state’s ...
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A top adviser to Mitt Romney criticized rival Fred Thompson on Friday for his campaign finance reform efforts, triggering an exchange between the two Republican presidential contenders as they seek...
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Presidential candidates may solicit contributions for a general election campaign even if they later decide to take public money for the race, federal regulators said Thursday in a proposed opinion...
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Among Spitzer's proposed reforms, a comprehensive list of which the administration released today for the first time, includes the lowering of campaign contributions for all state officials, incre...
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No single person better embodies the complexities of New York City’s pioneering public campaign financing law than its author, Laurence Laufer.
In 1986, in the wake of a series of spectacular...
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Eliot Spitzer talked about universal broadband, taxes and alternative energy at the State of Upstate. Robert Harding at the Albany Project was impressed.
Even Jim Tedisco liked it.
Tonight on...
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WASHINGTON(Reuters) - The Supreme Court agreed
Friday to rule on a part of the U.S. campaign finance law that
allows congressional candidates to accept bigger contributions
when they run against o...
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Campaign Finance
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