HELENA — As Sen. Max Baucus has taken the lead on health - reform legislation in the U.S. Senate, he's also become a leader in something else:
Campaign money received from health - and insurance - industry interests.
Not exact matches
It was set up after the director of the CIA, John Brennan,
received a recording of a conversation about
money from the Kremlin going into Trump's
campaign coffers, the BBC's Paul Wood reported.
No Nevada lawmaker
received money from Google in 2011, according to
campaign finance reports.
If you're running a «fixed funding»
campaign, in which you don't
receive any
money unless you reach your goal, then you risk investing months of work and walking away without any capital.
He uses his phone to market and manage the
campaign and, at the end, process any
money received.
«I think it's a concerted effort that there is too much
money to be made here and (they're) not going to be deterred by the structural or cultural defences (anymore),» said Chris Young, who works with companies on the
receiving end of activist
campaigns at Credit Suisse in New York.
If it isn't met, the
campaign starter doesn't
receive any funds and any
money raised is returned to backers.
Democratic politicians who have
received campaign contributions from Harvey Weinstein are being called upon to return the
money after the New York Times published an exhaustive story Thursday detailing decades of sexual harassment allegations against the Hollywood super-producer.
The rules are simple: you pay a set amount to get a certain good, and you
receive that good as long as a given amount of
money is raised by the end of the
campaign.
The white - label link building reports you
receive for every
campaign deliver all the necessary data (and proven to work copy) to convince your leads that your services are worth the
money.
«As Director of Media and Publicity of the Jonathan / Sambo
Campaign organisation I
received money on behalf of the Directorate of Media and Publicity which I headed from private individuals and companies during the election
campaigns but these were not public funds but rather private contributions specifically for the Presidential and other
campaigns.
A number of those aides
received campaign bonuses that represent considerably more
money than the 5 percent haircut they took on the public payroll.
Large recipients of REBNY's
money included the Senate Republican
Campaign Committee, which
received $ 1.7 million over the two years preceding December 2014.
Many state
campaigns which were the recipients of Glenwood contributions
received their
money almost entirely through Glenwood's LLCs.
The company
received more than $ 25 million in state grants after contributing
money to Cuomo's
campaign.
Under state law, the party committees, which can
receive contributions often 10 times larger than candidates can directly, are permitted to move unlimited amounts of
money into candidates»
campaign accounts.
Cuomo has always
received big
money from Cablevision itself, with the company and the Dolan family that had previously owned it giving $ 371,000 to his
campaign efforts in his first term.
As Gerald Benjamin, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at SUNY New Paltz, points out in aJournal News op - ed; Forty - nine out of 63 New York State Senators
received most of their
campaign contributions from corporations or big
money donors.Millions are wasted and misdirected each year because of sweetheart deals for the special interests.
Commission documents obtained and authenticated by City & State show that Moreland's investigators sought to determine if lawmakers were spending the contributions they
received for legitimate
campaign - oriented purposes, or whether any
money was going to their personal use, in violation of state law.
«In a sworn affidavit that is part of the paperwork, Assistant District Attorney Eric Seidel states that in an interview on March 12, Haggerty acknowledged that «he did not disclose to Mayor Bloomberg, his agents, and
campaign employees that he was going to keep the
money that was budgeted for election day ballot security operation for himself, because if he did, he would not have
received the
money.»»
It seems fairly obvious that Make the Road, which
receives millions of dollars from local and state government to provide social services, is siphoning some of that
money to an ostensibly independent «Action Fund» in order to
campaign for elected officials who will, lo and behold, allocate
money to Make the Road.
The
campaign on Tuesday published hundreds of pages of records detailing the
money it
received and spent in the first six months of 2017.
According to public filings and bank records subpoenaed by the Moreland Commission, the Maziarz
campaign failed to report more than $ 325,000 in expenditures since 2008, including more than 300 checks made out to «cash» with no indication of who ultimately
received the
money.
We need to start a petition and ask then to return all the
campaign contributions they
received from the Rich Democratic Bonus babies who have given them
money
The Democratic governor accepted the
money — and his officials handed out the government business without competitive bids — despite federal rules that bar
campaign contributors from
receiving taxpayer - financed state bond work.
As her primary opponent was taking her to task for failing to raise
money for yesterday's DCCC fundraiser headlined by President Obama, residents of the 14th CD were
receiving Rep. Carolyn Maloney's first
campaign mailer, featuring — what else?
He knows where the
money that he's
receiving from his
campaign is where his, where you get your
money from, John, you said it yourself.
It
received over $ 25 million in state grants after contributing
money to Governor Cuomo's
campaign.
The report finds that Cuomo's
campaign committee
received the most
money from lobbyists, nearly half a million dollars; second was Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, whose
campaign fund got around $ 150,000.
Cecilia Tkaczyk, who
received money in October 2014 from the Ulster County committee during her unsuccessful re-election
campaign, said the state party's efforts, which included fliers attacking her opponent, ended up working against her.
Senators Diane Savino, Jose Peralta, Tony Avella, Jessie Hamilton, David Carlucci, Marisol Alcantara and David Valesky discuss adding the protections for a woman's right to choose abortion in the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision into state law, enacting the Dream Act, which would allow the children of undocumented immigrants to
receive college aid, a law to protect the rights of transgender New Yorkers, and putting limits on the amount of
money donors can give to
campaigns, among other items.
However, Mr. Avella, unlike Ms. Katz and Mr. Vallone, struggled to raise
money: after
receiving matching funds, he had a little over $ 319,000 in his
campaign account, compared to $ 744,529 for Ms. Katz and roughly $ 1 million for Mr. Vallone.
However, other parties have also
received big
money for the general election
campaign.
The Boca Raton Democrat did as much to Clemens in the 2016 race, using nearly $ 1.9 million of his own
money to bolster his insurgent
campaign, though he ultimately
received less than a third of the vote in in the three - way primary race.
The Independent Democrats have backed that idea in the past, and have
received campaign money from pro-school choice donors.
Buying Time has
received $ 16 million in business from candidates and political organizations in New York State since 2010, with most of that
money — almost $ 12 million — coming from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's 2010
campaign, according to
campaign finance reports.
VFGG was able to pay some of Foley's early political expenses after
receiving money from Citizens for Democracy, a 527 group whose chairman is Larry J. Lawrence of Greenwich, the treasurer of Foley's 2010 and 2014 gubernatorial
campaigns.
Mr. Fischer claims that because Mr. Cruz is
receiving federal funds for his
campaign, «any «fraudulent» or otherwise ineligible candidate causes the waste and squandering of U.S. taxpayer
monies.»
Moya said in a statement that his
campaign had
received «strong grassroots support» and that
money from real estate represented a «meager» portion of the overall
money he has raised.
The grass - roots effort will be financed with
money from the party's
campaign coffers, which in July
received a $ 1 million donation that funded ads opposing the controversial Ground Zero mosque the Conservative Party ran.
Multiple federal and state probes are examining whether donors to the mayor's nonprofit
received anything in return for their donation and if de Blasio and his team violated election and
campaign finance laws by funneling
money to upstate senate candidates.
The public has a right to know how he is spending his publicly - financed
campaign money and where the $ 83,550 grant he
received from the public to run his
campaign went.»
A spokesperson for the mayor's
campaign committee said she's looking into how much, if any,
money she
received from people connected to this case.
«Every year, hundreds of donors give more
money than is allowed by state law that has highest limits of any state capping donation size; scores of candidates fail to disclose large contributions
received in the run - up to Election Day; thousands of filings obfuscate the identity of donors or the purpose of expenditures through the inclusion of incomplete or incorrect information; and dozens of incumbent lawmakers spend
campaign funds for what reasonable people would unanimously agree are non-
campaign reasons,» the report found.
I emailed Cuomo's press office to ask whether the governor might put
money for a public
campaign finance system in the budget, but have yet to
receive a response.
An email from Rhodes»
campaign said he raised the
money in just seven weeks,
receiving nearly 700 contributions that show a broad base of grassroots support.
The report finds that Governor Andrew Cuomo's
campaign committee
received the most
money from lobbyists, nearly half a million dollars, second was Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, whose
campaign fund got around $ 150,000.
With little
campaign money of his own — he hasn't
received or spent enough to meet the minimum federal filing threshold of $ 5,000 — Clyde is counting on volunteers and social media exposure, which he hopes will result in mainstream media exposure, to get his message out.
Last year, Malloy and his Republican opponent, Tom Foley, each
received more than $ 6 million in taxpayer funds for his
campaign, on the promise that each wouldn't accept state contractors»
money.
Kennedy, as did his opponent in 2014, signed a contract promising to limit
campaign spending to a grant of about $ 95,000 in taxpayer
money he
received under the Citizen Election Program (CEP), the landmark Connecticut
campaign finance reform that its supporters claim is a model for keeping special interest
money out of elections.