The accountant is under investigation for his alleged role in illegal campaign financing, vote-buying, and money laundering schemes — all linked back to Dassault's stint as mayor of the Paris suburb of Corbeil-Essonnes from 1995 to 2009.
Since the energy legislation sharply divided the two parties and is likely to attract a barrage of amendments, that could delay the campaign finance vote for weeks.
Thomas V. Ognibene, a Queens Republican who spoke against the bill and offered up the match of $2 for each dollar raised that the administration supports as a more fiscally responsible formula, moved to separate the campaign finance vote from other business.
To prove its point it ran a radio ad in Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's district at the edge of Chicago last week just before the Illinois primary (and before the Senate campaign finance vote).
Their confrontation was a continuation of verbal assaults over personal finances, voting habits and prospects for success in November.
But on the biggest cases — on climate change, labor unions, campaign finance, voting rights and more — a pure partisan split is the norm.
After the board of finance voted that down, the newly elected board of selectmen, led by then-First Selectman Abraham Morelli, voted to give the Friends group $750,000 with the caveat that they raise $200,000 first.
Last week, the federal oversight board that is guiding Puerto Rico's finances voted to authorize Prepa to seek debt relief under Title III of Promesa, which is similar to Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy.
"The voters are fully informed as to how their elected representatives stood on the issue". Last year, the only campaign finance votes were not directly about the issue, but about whether to sustain filibusters.
