Sentences with phrase «malloy campaign effort»

Now, with just weeks to go in the 2014 gubernatorial election, laws have been changed to the point that instead of having $ 6.2 million, the Malloy campaign effort will probably spend in excess of $ 16 million to try and get a second term in office.

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Republican state legislators Tuesday blasted a state Democratic Party plan to pay for part of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's re-election effort with money raised for federal congressional campaigns, saying it would destroy the «last remnants of «clean campaign laws»» in Connecticut.

The State Elections Enforcement Commission on Tuesday sent federal election regulators a strongly worded denunciation of the state Democratic Party's plan to pay for part of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's re-election effort with money raised for federal congressional campaigns — saying that it would «circumvent and violate» state clean - election laws.

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.

At the time, few fully appreciated how the legislation would change the political landscape, but you can read more about the Democrats successful effort to destroy Connecticut's campaign finance law in the June 2013 CTNewsJunkie article entitled, «Malloy Signs Bill Changing Campaign Finance Reforms of 2005campaign finance law in the June 2013 CTNewsJunkie article entitled, «Malloy Signs Bill Changing Campaign Finance Reforms of 2005Campaign Finance Reforms of 2005.»

In the coming weeks, the Connecticut Forward PAC is expected to raise another $ 3 - $ 5 million or more in their effort to promote Malloy's campaign.

SKD Knickerbocker was also the company created the advertising that used in the two extremely expensive «independent expenditure» campaigns that took place during last year's Connecticut legislative elections and that sought to elect two candidates that education reform lobbyists thought would be the most supportive of Malloy's education reform efforts.

In addition to being one of Malloy's largest sources of campaign cash during his 2014 re-election campaign, the owners and operators of Connecticut's charter schools, along with the corporate elite who support Malloy's «education reform» initiatives have dumped more than $ 9 million into the lobbying effort to support Malloy's agenda to undermine public education in Connecticut.

Most recently, Sackler and his family were the largest contributors to Malloy's re-election effort, pumping well over $ 100,000 into the various committees that paid for the Governor's campaign activities.