Sentences with phrase «does federal campaign»

(2) Does federal campaign finance law even apply to this type of promotional ad for a movie about a candidate?

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If it sounds like Edwards still needed to apply FEC rules and limits, consider this: Scott Thomas, a former commissioner of the Federal Election Commission testified that he did not consider that the payments would have come under his agency's auspices — in part because they were not used directly for the campaign and did not free up any of Edwards» own money to be spent on the campaign.

She campaigned loudly for Thomas Mulcair's federal NDP (doing so at the aforementioned Calgary luncheon, which is roughly equivalent to dining at Vladimir Putin's house and telling him how much you love Pussy Riot).

An ongoing federal investigation into possible collusion with Russia during the 2016 Presidential campaign didn't do it either.

The proposals from the presidential campaign, reiterated last week by President - elect Donald Trump's choice for Treasury secretary, will massively favour the top 1 per cent of income earners, threaten an explosive rise in federal debt, complicate the tax code and do little if anything to spur growth.

What's more, even if the loan didn't have anything to do with the campaign — again, a questionable premise — Trump may have had to report the loan on his ethics forms as a federal officeholder.

Federal authorities did not specify exactly what they're investigating, but reports after his hotel, office, and home were raided suggest authorities are looking at potential bank fraud, wire fraud, and campaign finance violations.

This is just one poll, and as we learned from the May 2011 Federal Election, campaigns do matter.

The California officials responsible for implementing Proposition 8 (the people's amendment restoring the conjugal definition of marriage to the state constitution in 2008) would not defend it in federal court, and so the private parties responsible for proposing and campaigning for Prop 8 had to do so.

Boehm said Donahue's selection had nothing to do with the fact that her husband, Dan, worked on Mayor Dan McLaughlin's election campaign two years ago and her brother - in - law David Donahue was hired last year as the village's legislative liaison, a newly created position designed to foster communication between the village and state and federal lawmakers.

In an attempt to raise the nation's historically low rate of breast - feeding, federal health officials commissioned an attention - grabbing advertising campaign a few years ago to convince mothers that their babies faced real health risks if they did not breast - feed.

Note that some of this is public information for federal campaigns, you can dig through FEC reports to find out who did the work and how much they spent.

The [Federal Election Campaign] Act does not prohibit individuals with permanent resident status (commonly referred to as «green card holders») from making contributions or donations in connection with federal, state or local elections, as they are not considered foreign natFederal Election Campaign] Act does not prohibit individuals with permanent resident status (commonly referred to as «green card holders») from making contributions or donations in connection with federal, state or local elections, as they are not considered foreign natfederal, state or local elections, as they are not considered foreign nationals.

But if she does, potential violations of federal campaign finance rules could hamper her candidacy.

De Blasio claimed the firing of a top city official had «nothing to do» with the aide telling federal investigators City Hall improperly intervened on behalf of a big campaign donor.

The United States Postal Service took heat during a congressional hearing for allegedly violating the federal Hatch Act by «favoring» a union doing pro-Clinton campaign work.

And Nixon's pledge to refuse corporate donations doesn't actually mean as much in New York as it does on the federal level, because of New York's lax campaign finance laws, said Alex Camarda, senior policy adviser at Reinvent Albany.

The federal «pay - to - play» rule does contain one exception: If bond contracts are awarded by competitive bidding, then the prohibition on campaign contributions does not apply.

It ends with a call for state and federal lawmakers to reject campaign contributions from gun rights groups like the NRA, enact stricter licensing and registration requirements for guns, a ban on «all classes of weapons that do not serve the specific uses of personal protection and sport shooting» and other gun control measures.

The only real marriage news from his campaign came later, when a campaign adviser told BuzzFeed that Romney does still back the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment, which would bar states from recognizing same - sex couples» marriages.

The Warrior PAC, another Mercer - funded vehicle, didn't make any federal campaign contributions in 2016.

Sen. George Maziarz insists a federal investigation into his campaign spending has nothing to do with his abrupt retirement announcement, saying: «I'm just tired.

Cash - strapped ex-Cuomo aide Joe Percoco, now at the center of a federal corruption probe, submitted resignation papers when he left the public payroll to run the governor's re-election campaign, but then didn't go through with leaving, making his decision to take private consulting clients problematic upon his return.

Opponents of campaign - finance laws hope that the case argued Tuesday — McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission — will carry on the work the justices did in Citizens United in 2010, when they struck down as unconstitutional a ban on corporations making independent expenditures in elections.

Ambode disclosed this while speaking at the grand finale of the campaign of All Progressives Congress (APC) forSaturday's bye - election for Ifako - Ijaiye Federal Constituency of the House of Representatives, Governor Ambode assured that no electoral promise made by him would go unfulfilled, saying that he had operated under that principle ever since assuming office and remained committed to fulfilling all pledges and doing even more.

After both the state and federal complaints were filed in September, Cuomo's re-election campaign set aside contributions from Nicolla and Columbia Development, as it did for the other people charged in those cases.

This standard did prompt disclosure by NYSUT and the pro-Tkaczyk PACs, but it is looser than definitions governing federal campaigns and elections in New York City.

The doctor did not file a campaign finance report with the Federal Elections Commission for the fourth quarter of 2017.

The mixed messaging added another day of confusion about what exactly Trump wants to know — and do — about presidential pardons relating to the federal probe into his campaign.

But he added that as a legal matter, it did not matter since the payment did not violate federal campaign finance rules.

It represented the culmination of years of frustration over what Democrats denounced as a Republican campaign to stall the machinery of Congress, stymie President Obama's agenda and block his choices for cabinet posts and federal judgeships by insisting that virtually everything the Senate approves be done by a supermajority.

«If you have not already done so, please inform the Commission of your corrective action immediately in writing and provide photocopies of any refund checks and / or letters reattributing or redesignating the contributions in question,» Federal Election Commission analyst Jill Sugarman wrote in a letter to the campaign earlier this week, giving Mr. Linares 60 days to comply.

Local and federal investigations into his campaign activities and the now - defunct Campaign for One New York did not ultimately find criminal liability, but the din of scandal has only lessened, notcampaign activities and the now - defunct Campaign for One New York did not ultimately find criminal liability, but the din of scandal has only lessened, notCampaign for One New York did not ultimately find criminal liability, but the din of scandal has only lessened, not abated.

But now the campaign against sugar is even stronger, as the federal government released their 2016 recommended dietary guidelines, and sugar was at the top of the do not eat list.

Sunday afternoon, President Trump tweeted an extraordinary threat — extraordinary even by the standards of Donald Trump's norm - busting use of Twitter and abusive conduct toward the Justice Department and federal investigations: «I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI / DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes — and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!»

I do expect the administration to make an effort to act on President - elect Trump's campaign proposal to devote 20 billion federal dollars to expanding school choice for low - income students, but it's a bit hard to see a Republican Congress either approving that much new spending or even redirecting existing funds on which districts currently rely.

In time, the teacher - empowerment campaign also won federal funding - far more, ironically, than anything done about teaching in the name of the federally chartered Excellence Commission - and gained much sway in Washington and in state capitals.

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According to the last set of federal and state campaign finance reports, Governor Malloy, the champion of the corporate education reform industry and the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective bargaining for teachers working in the poorest schools has received well over a quarter of a million dollars from leaders and political action committees associated with the national education reform and privatization effort.

«I don't think there's a federal lever there, and many of us made this point throughout the campaign that we're not sure why Donald Trump thinks he can [eliminate Common Core].

Trump's campaign plan for school choice was scant on details: He did not say where the $ 20 billion in federal funding would come from or how it would be doled out.

Anticipating the Cruze launch, GM did begin a campaign to counteract hold - over stigmas just like Audi has, and behind it all are projections that diesel car sales will increase in the next few years as federal regulations push for cleaner cars with higher mpg.

I don't think you've gone so far as to say that this author campaign is a federal judgement violating campaign by Hachette.

Despite the typically bombastic campaign rhetoric by Trump to the contrary, I don't believe bond investors as a group believe the federal government is significantly more likely to default under Trump than it would have been under Clinton.

To reach children and adults nationwide, American Humane Association is embarking on a year - long campaign starting with a national media tour, educational roadshow to schools with a traveling museum aboard its fleet of famed Red Star Rescue trucks that save animals in disasters, and a website www.Kindness100.org where readers can find a fascinating historical retrospective of «Be Kind to Animals Week,» a series of pre-K-5 curricula to teach children compassion in all areas of life, official downloadable proclamations for local, state and federal officials, and a Kindness 100 Pledge with four things people can do to improve the lives of millions — actually, billions — of animals.

We are a member of the Combined Federal Campaign in the USA, but we do not work with any government.

The «Don't Mess with My Pet» campaign is designed to educate responsible pet owners on the legislative threats to their pets and their ability to own pets, as well as encourage pet owners to get involved in the activities of their state and federal government related to pet ownership and pets.

«What you can not do with a 501 - c - 3 is donate revenue from it for a 501 - c - 4,» Vinick said, in response to questions about his currently being paid by the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound for what has so far been his apparent full - time coordination of its opposition to Cape Wind, lobbying federal and state legislators and regulatory agencies to pass amendments and policies specific to Cape Wind, while coordinating media campaigns paid for by the Alliance or its donors.

There are no records of the Clinton campaign purchasing carbon offsets in their latest Federal Election Commission reports released earlier this month and, when asked, multiple campaign aides did not refute CNN's reporting that offsets have yet to be purchased.

First, Brown said, the Ron Paul campaign sued certain John Doe defendants in federal court trying to determine who posted an offensive video on YouTube attacking Jon Huntsman.