Sentences with phrase «pac spent»

Over a two - year period, the super PAC spent $ 1.2 million on survey research.

In the two years that followed, Mr. Bolton's super PAC spent nearly $ 1.2 million primarily for «survey research,» which is a term that campaigns use for polling, according to campaign finance records.

Since the beginning of the 2006 election cycle, Koch's PAC spent more on contributions to federal candidates

The Senate Majority PAC spent $ 800,000 on the ad in support of U.S. Senator Kay Hagan in her bid for re-election against her Republican rival.

For the 2013 superintendent race, WEAC's PAC spent about $ 536,000 on advertising for Evers and spent a similar amount during his 2009 race on campaign ads and literature, according to campaign finance records.

The PAC spent just under $ 600,000 on Foy and Vallone, and about $ 45,000 against their opponents.

For example, in the race for District 15 (comprising Belmont, East Tremont and Bathgate), the PAC spent $ 267,212 to support Ritchie Torres, who won by a comfortable margin, and $ 110,655 to denounce Joel Rivera.

The super PAC spent $ 47,000 to support Calarco's re-election last year.

As of the middle of last month, the PAC spent $ 167,341 during this campaign cycle on behalf of Gonzalez, about double the $ 83,589 her campaign has spent so far.

Last year, the super PAC spent $ 802,000, it's highest annual amount ever.

The PAC spent about $ 100,000 each to help re-elect Legis.

During the period, the PAC spent $ 401,021 against Senate candidate Thom Tillis, R-S.C.

Steyer's NextGen Climate Action PAC spent nearly $ 70 million on elections in 2014.

During the period the super PAC spent $ 999,259 on independent expenditures against Christopher McDaniel, R - Miss., and $ 71,467 on independent expenditures supporting Sen. Thad Cochran, R - Miss.

According to the Sunlight Foundation, in the 2012 election cycle, the Independence USA PAC spent a grand total of $ 8,230,464.22 in independent expenditures, distributed as follows: $ 5,113,575.51 for Democrats, $ 296,161.40 against Democrats, $ 2,080,927.42 for Republicans, and $ 739,799.89 against Republicans.

In the two years that followed, Mr. Bolton's super PAC spent nearly $ 1.2 million primarily for «survey research,» which is a term that campaigns use for polling, according to campaign finance records.

(While the NYLCV PAC spent money on both Democrats and Republicans, several reports have indicated Litwin earmarked his money for Senator Mark Grisanti's failed re-election effort in western New York.)

The PAC spent more than it raised over the past six months, but still has $ 78,942 on hand.

It's not just the amount of money the PAC spent that bothers Zellner.

Records at state Board of Elections show the PAC spent $ 1 million on ad and media purchase opposing Kaminsky as well.

The NRA's PAC or super PAC spent $ 42.3 million in ads and other forms of electioneering supporting Trump in 2016.

In the two years that followed, Mr. Bolton's super PAC spent nearly $ 1.2 million primarily for «survey research,» which is a term that campaigns use for polling, according to campaign finance records.

«Candidate and PAC spending on ads vastly overshadowed Russian spending we know of, and much of it was every bit as divisive as the Russian campaign.»

Republican - leaning super PACs spent over $ 300 million in 2012 and could not convince average Americans that the Republican party was on their side.

The McCutcheon decision could usher in a new era of super PAC spending the state level, with one group already created to work on behalf of Senate Republicans as well as GOP attorney general candidate John Cahill.

A spokesman for Tkaczyk said her campaign learned of the super PAC spending over the weekend when a reporter called asking for comment.

Two super PACs spent a combined $ 654,000 in late October and early November 2012 on TV ad buys, mailers, robocalls and polling, with much of it directly benefiting Tkaczyk.

In the three months preceding the 2014 primaries, super PACs spent $ 1.2 million on state races.

He finished 139 votes behind Cecilia Tkaczyk, a former Senate aide who serves on a rural school board and had a de minimus public profile in the five - county district before two Super PACs spent $ 500,000 pushing her candidacy.

But we've already seen the Super PACs spend over $ 1.2 million... and that is just in the Republican primary.

The era of the super PAC spending in state legislative races — when the ad buys, especially in upstate media markets can go a long way — has been around for the last several election cycles.

And to be sure, Larkin, too, has benefited from super PAC spending.

In the last election cycle, the money raised in direct contributions by Cuomo's campaign committee was almost three times as much as the total Super PACs spent on every gubernatorial, attorney general, comptroller, Senate, and Assembly candidate combined.

Four PACs account for the lion's share of PAC spending for Collins.

So how much are all these Super PACs spending to take or keep control of our lousy state Senate?

The election fraud charges could counter expected PAC spending pushing public campaign finance.

These so - called «independent expenditure» campaigns are a growing force in New York elections: The New York State United Teachers union spent over $ 4 million to boost mostly Democratic candidates in 2012, and two downstate Super PACs spent over $ 500,000 supporting Duanesburg Democrat Cecilia Tkaczyk's bid for state Senate.

FEC records show that three PACs supporting Faso spent a total of $ 3,473,969 while three Teachout - backing PACs spent $ 1,128,300.

Drawing a comparison between this cycle and the last presidential election doesn't paint an accurate picture because super PAC spending was still in its infancy in 2012.

Carlos Menchaca, an openly gay candidate who won in District 38 despite the PAC spending $ 294,095 to support his challenger Sara Gonzalez, said that the PAC's negative onslaught against him — which included over $ 50,000 worth of negative campaign literature — was often xenophobic and racist.

The candidate Rivera said he objected to an outside PAC spending more than $ 250,000 on the race, referring to the cost of the negative mailings combined with $ 201,905 the group spent in favor of another contender for the seat, Ritchie Torres.

The PACs spent more than $ 250,000 to try to knock out Santa Clara County Board of Education member Anna Song, who survived nonetheless.

Not so much (though even I was taken aback by Crummy's preceding piece that chronicled a 150 - to - 1 advantage for Democrats in 2010 super PAC spending).

Not exact matches

One thing, however, is very different about this season's presidential campaign: an explosion of election spending by groups known as super PACs.

Super PACs legally can't co-ordinate their messages with candidates» campaigns, but they can spend unlimited funds pushing their own messages.

By September, super PACs had spent more than US$ 211 million.

Although similar nonprofits engaged in politics in past elections, their use exploded in 2010, particularly in tandem with super PACs, taking advantage of federal court rulings that paved the way for a new role for outside - spending groups in elections.

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.

Contributors to campaign committees have spending limits, so mega-donors like Singer and Griffin have increasingly used PACs to shell out millions.

Such so - called super PACs, which are free to take in and spend all the U.S. money they want, have helped drive election spending in the U.S. to a record high.