Sentences with phrase «pac donations»

But corporate donations are out, and PAC donations are limited to $ 15,000.)

Among the 97 individual PAC donations listed on Katko's disclosure report for the period from Jan. 1 through March 31 are contributions from industries that Katko helps regulate as a member of the House Transportation Committee and Homeland Security Committee.

Freshman Rep. Lee Zeldin, R - Long Island, accepted PAC donations that accounted for 46 percent ($ 208,570) of the money he raised.

«For her part Kirsten will be focused on running a positive campaign based on her core values like rewarding work again in our country, getting the special interest money out of politics by rejecting corporate PAC donations and fighting on behalf of all New Yorkers who need a voice as she successfully did for the 9/11 first responders,» Caplin said.

At a Wednesday fundraising brunch for Priorities USA and the congressional super PACs at the home of billionaire hedge funder Jim Simons, Emanuel joined congressional leaders Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Dick Durbin, Chuck Schumer, Steny Hoyer and Steve Israel to urge super PAC donations.

He will give $ 1.25 million through a combination of super PAC donations and funds given directly to the campaign.

This amount was split between their PAC and individual donations: $ 2,031,348 in PAC donations and $ 28,036 in individual donations.

The Dems say they will seek to use Mercer, who they expect to help pump millions of dollars into the 2018 New York gubernatorial, congressional and state legislative races through personal and Super PAC donations, as a «bogeyman» in heavily blue New York.

About $ 66,000 of his total came from PAC donations.

She received two PAC donations totaling $ 1,500.

Like Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and others, I'm not accepting corporate PAC donations.

According to Open Secrets, however, Ms. Stefanik has raised $ 805,283 from PAC donations compared to $ 471,208.68 in individual donations.

From the article:... Climate - change activist Tom Steyer gave the biggest super PAC donation in this month's reports: $ 7.5 million to his own group, NextGen Climate.

Casey and other campaign finance experts said one reason the Realtors could play amid the larger, more partisan groups and not get tainted is that the judgments driving their independent expenditure campaign mirrored those of a traditional PAC donation program.

Not exact matches

Sixty - five percent of those donations — more than $ 4.9 million — were from PACs associated with businesses.

U.S. Senator Dean Heller from Nevada, New York Representative Tom Reed and North Carolina U.S. Senator Richard Burr — all vocal proponents of renewables — together accounted for more than 40 % of the Solar Energy Industries Association PAC's total federal campaign donations.

Like most big corporations, Novo Nordisk runs a political action committee, or PAC, which solicits employee donations and gives the proceeds to political candidates» campaigns.

For a searchable database of members of Congress who received campaign donations from pharma PACs in 2017, click here.

But those figures don't include personal donations from industry executives to the super PACs that can collect unlimited amounts of money and spend it independently of a candidate's official campaign.

The securities and investment industry led all sectors with about $ 90 million in donations to candidate committees and the PACs supporting them, the Center for Responsive Politics said.

According to OpenSecrets, all of the money flowing from Morgan & Morgan comes from individual donations, not a PAC.

The totals below include employees» donations and donations from the companies» PACs.

Sen. Cory Booker fell in line with other high - profile Democrats by vowing to stop accepting donations from corporate PACs.

Tickets to the fundraiser cost $ 5,000, according to the invite, the maximum annual donation to leadership PACs allowed under federal law.

The Washington Free Beacon noted that the NRA PAC received $ 779,063 in donations in February versus $ 247,985 in January.

Also adding to the awkward questions for Facebook: Board member, Thiel, who supported Trump's presidential bid, made a $ 1M financial donation to a Trump - supporting Super PAC, called Make America Number 1, in 2016 — which Mashable reports subsequently paid Cambridge Analytica $ 231,352 toward the end of the same year, per an FEC filing.

The two entities plan to develop a donation system leveraging $ PAC.

PACs have become a big issue in Alberta politics since 2015, when the New Democratic Party government banned corporate and union donations to political parties as their first piece of legislation.

The most notable PAC created since the NDP banned corporate political party donations was Jason Kenney «s Unite Alberta PAC, which supported his campaign for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party and the United Conservative Party.

The bill would also ban corporate, union and out - of - province donations, and prohibit political entities from donating to PACs.

ANY non-profit 501C group donation is tax deductible... be it Christian, atheist, LGBT, Budhist, I Love Obama PAC, etc..

At these same regional education sessions, donations were accepted to help fund the Pennsylvania Athletic Training Political Action Committee (PAT - PAC).

In the last month I volunteered, as I try to regularly, at the kitchen of a local homeless shelter; I made a donation to Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger; I brought canned food to a food drive; I continued to work toward improving school food in my district by attending SHAC and Food Services PAC meetings; and I hope I increased awareness of various food policy issues through my writing on The Lunch Tray and The Huffington Post.

We were able to connect with so many of you as you registered, explored the great shopping in the Emporium, and stopped by the PAC booth to make a donation.

Statesmen, with a $ 50 donation, receive a special lapel pin and are invited to the exclusive PAC Statesmen Reception held annually at SNA's Legislative Action Conference (LAC).

So to answer your questions, foreign nationals can't directly contribute to Super PACs, but Citizens United has created some glaring loopholes for foreign nationals (with US subsidiary companies) to contribute to political causes without even having to publicly disclose such donations.

The two are prominent Republican and Tea Party backers and already Syracuse area Congressional Candidate Dan Maffei has seized on the issue and called on Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle to give back donations from the Koch brothers PAC.

An even simpler way for donors to keep their identities secret is through the creation of a shell corporation — an untraceable structure that can funnel donations to Super PACs while keeping the ultimate source of the money hidden.

Jacobs, the party chair, said there was «no linkage» between Promise PAC's donations and the money for local candidates.

Since he first ran for office in 1991, Shimkus has received approximately $ 111,949 in donations from the utility to his individual campaign account and PACs associated with him, according to OpenSecrets.org.

Katko continued to rely on money from special - interest groups, or political action committees (PACs), for most of his campaign donations.

Funneling money through party committees is a common and legal way to sidestep campaign finance rules that limit the amount of donations from PACs, individuals and corporations, said Barbara Bartoletti, legislative director of the League of Women Voters.

Lots of PACs and campaigns offer a bumper sticker or other small giveaway with your donation — they keep doing it because it works.

The Republican State Leadership Committee and its affiliated 501 (c)(4), the State Government Leadership Foundation, have made significant donations to New York political groups, including $ 10,000 to the Balance New York super PAC, most of whose funds in turn come from the Rent Stabilization Association PAC and the Neighborhood Preservation Political Action Fund.

A spokesman said the PAC raised «six figures» in July and August and that the average donation was under $ 25.

Independent expenditure committees will now be prohibited from living a dual existence as PACs that give contributions to candidates, and the threshold for donations that will need to be reported on a daily basis will drop from «more than $ 1,000» to $ 1,000 or more.

The third donation received by the new Senate Independence Campaign Committee after its creation was a $ 2,000 check from the landlord - backed Neighborhood Preservation PAC in August.

«By returning these pro-Trump PAC campaign donations, Rep. Stefanik will prove she serves only our democratic process and that she can be an impartial voice in this investigation,» Wilson said.

Wright has returned $ 4,700 of this money, including a $ 1,000 donation from the Neighborhood Preservation PAC, an organization of landlords that mostly supports Republicans.

Other notable donations include $ 6,500 from the Air Line Pilots Association PAC, $ 5,400 from Charles Schwab, chairman of the Charles Schwab Corporation, $ 2,500 from the Exelon Corporation's PAC and $ 1,500 from The Freedom Project.