Not exact matches
In response to questions by The Buffalo News about campaign
spending, the Brown campaign issued a statement Thursday: «Regardless
of the
opponent, the Brown campaign put a campaign strategy and
plan in place and ran the campaign accordingly.»
In 2012, Google and Facebook had separate salespeople dedicated either to Republicans, Democrats or Independent expenditure and advocacy groups — aka Super PACs — to ensure knowledge about media buys and
spending plans didn't leak to
opponents or, in the case
of Super PACs, to like - minded groups that were legally prohibited from coordinating with the official candidate campaigns.
Wilson is calling on DiNapoli, who was in Buffalo yesterday raising concerns about the state budget, not to sign off on the
spending plan (once it's officially finished), insisting that the comptroller has the power to refuse to certify — an assertion DiNapoli insists is false (as did one
of his predecessors, H. Carl McCall, who was needled on the same point by his then - primary
opponent in 2002, Andrew Cuomo).
Warren is facing a Democratic Primary in September, and earlier in the day, one
of her
opponents, James Sheppard, said that the proposed
spending plan would delay some development projects because
of the need to plug a budget gap.
Yet just about the same time that Obama released an 11 - page
plan (PDF) for science and innovation, on the heels
of his endorsement by dozens
of Nobel Prize winners (PDF), his
opponent's campaign started talking about a one - year freeze in discretionary
spending.
Regardless
of the outcome, though, the
plan will be nonbinding, serving primarily «as a parade banner that lawmakers can use to highlight their
spending and policy priorities for the public and to draw contrasts with political
opponents.»
• the financial resources and
spending of environmental groups and their
opponents; • the
planning efforts and investment strategies
of major foundations; • the patterns in news attention and media portrayals
of climate change; • the factors shaping the recent decline in public concern and belief in climate change; • the factors influencing how scientists and environmentalists interpret and make sense
of climate change politics.