More stringent campaign finance reforms were in place, and campaigns were a lot cheaper, reducing the role of money in politics.
Ms. Quinn has responded by calling the ad a "disgrace" and labeling it a troublesome intrusion of outside money into the city's stringent campaign finance system.
Critics said the measure, introduced nine months ahead of what is expected to be a closely contested mayoral race, would effectively outsmart the city's stringent campaign finance system, which tries to rein in spending by interest groups and candidates alike.
Stringent campaign finance laws focused on rooting out party-related corruption have arguably exacerbated that trend.
Voters approved Proposition 34 in 2000, written by the Legislature after a more stringent campaign finance law was challenged in court.
The EPF is an innovative flexible transitional funding mechanism to provide the Government of Liberia with the much needed resources to rebuild the education system and to make progress towards meeting the stringent requirements for sector financing, such as through the Catalytic Fund, and evolving into direct budget support.
The reform movement got its start in the wake of Watergate: with reporters hot to uncover Nixonesque venality, congressmen realized that clean politics was good politics and produced campaign finance reforms, stringent ethics guidelines and new self-policing committees.
It is to provide sufficient financing coupled with stringent management and Congressional oversight -- not meddling.
The whole problem of lack of uniform and stringent obligations of LIC governments in financing health leads to a disproportionate sharing of the burden of financing global health leading to inequity in global health financing.
This year's conferences sharpened the party divide, with George Osborne committing the Conservatives to newly stringent targets for the public finances, while Ed Miliband pledged Labour to reversing the coalition benefit cut known as the "bedroom tax".
