Sentences with phrase «senate campaign efforts»

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Yates» testimony came days after Comey reiterated during an open Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that the FBI was still «conducting an investigation to understand whether there was any coordination between the Russian efforts and anybody associated with the Trump campaign.»

«At that time we were working together and I was of the belief that the Senate Republican Campaign Committee solicited some donations that would help that effort to elect Senator Grisanti and that was about the extent of what I knew at that time,» Langworthy said.

De Blasio faces multiple inquiries into his efforts in 2014 to help Democrats take full control of the Senate as well as his relationships with donors to the Campaign For One New York.

Much to discuss this weekend — from the Democrats» latest effort to distance themselves from Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. to Gov. David Paterson's latest veto to the war of words between Rick Lazio and AG Andrew Cuomo's campaign / surrogates over the mosque proposed near Ground Zero.

Murphy's race against Democratic candidate Justin Wagner in 2014 was one of four contested Senate campaigns in question last year that saw transfers from county committees to candidates in an apparent effort to avoid donation limits.

The campaign arm of the Senate Democrats have spent $ 1 million to bolster Mayer in the race, mostly on TV and mail efforts, lead by Loren Amor, the DSCC's political director.

A Democratic - aligned super PAC that is trying to make a difference in several key House races and one state Senate campaign is increasing its efforts in the NY - 24 House race between Republican Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle, Democrat Dan Maffei and Green Party candidate Ursula Rozum.

Senate Democrats today renewed their effort to pass a form of overhauling the state's campaign - finance laws by introducing a measure by Sen. Eric Adams that would create an public financing system.

He gave $ 65,000 to the Senate Democrats» debt - laden campaign committee (Chairman Mike Gianaris gave $ 50,000 himself) and $ 10,300 to Democrat Lew Fidler's losing effort against Republican David Storobin.

Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

Rechnitz also contributed $ 4,950 to the mayor's inaugural campaign in 2013, and gave $ 102,000 to de Blasio's effort to unseat Senate Republicans.

Ann Kirkpatrick's campaign bragged that their haul was the «strongest off - year fundraising effort ever» for a Democratic Senate candidate in Arizona.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Wendy Long is unveiling a lengthy cast of her bold - faced endorsers to robocall on her behalf today in what her campaign says is a massive GOTV effort a day before the Tuesday primary.

In addition, authorities are looking into straw donors in the mayor's campaign and examining why the city lifted deed restrictions on multiple properties for individuals who donated to the mayor's nonprofit or his effort to win back the Senate.

Cuomo's office told the New Republic over email that Cuomo has worked to get Democrats elected: «The governor campaigned to get a Democratic Senate but those efforts were unsuccessful.»

Also being probed is whether de Blasio's effort to win control of the state Senate violated campaign finance and election laws.

But the state Senate is closely divided, and Gianaris is at the fore of the 25 - member Democratic Conference's campaign efforts.

Still, rank - and - file advocates remain unconvinced, especially over whether Cuomo will make a good - faith effort to create a system of public financed political campaigns, which is part of a tricky set of negotiations with the state Senate, divided between a coalition of Democrats and Republicans.

He denied reports that Cuomo has pledged to contribute all or some of a $ 10 million fund to pay for the Senate Democrats» campaign efforts.

Sugarman's memo paints a picture of a coordinated effort by the mayor and his allies — dubbed interchangeably as «Team de Blasio» and «Team Coordinated» — to deliberately circumvent legal campaign donation limits in three upstate races in what turned out to be an unsuccessful effort to help Democrats win control of the state Senate in 2014.

And while massive labor union 1199SEIU promised in 2014 to stop giving campaign cash to Senate Republicans — in an effort to win back the chamber for Democrats — the powerful healthcare union endorsed the Republican, Mr. McGrath, this week.

Cuomo made little public effort to move the multi-faceted reform agenda he proposed in January and instead appeared to move the goalposts for reform toward the end of session when he announced he wanted to tackle independent expenditure campaigns, something Senate Republicans found much more appealing than restricting legislators» outside income or closing the LLC loophole.

Sugarman, who was appointed by Gov. Cuomo, wrote that the effort on behalf of the Dems was led by de Blasio and his team and included a group of influential political consultants and labor unions close to the mayor, the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, several of the candidates who were helped, and the Ulster County and Putnam County Democratic committees.

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. is investigating whether de Blasio's fundraising efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate violated campaign finance laws.

de Blasio was unequivocal in insisting that neither he nor his «team» violated campaign finance laws in his 2014 efforts at electing Democratic state senate candidates and effecting a change in control of the senate.

«We have excellent candidates who have strong support from their communities and have the resources and on - the - ground teams needed to win,» said Senate President - designate Bill Galvano, who leads his party's campaign efforts.

The mayor is facing investigations into whether his unsuccessful bid to bring the state Senate under Democratic control in 2014 as well as fundraising efforts for the Campaign for One New York, a nonprofit to advance the mayor's agenda, violated campaign finance and electiCampaign for One New York, a nonprofit to advance the mayor's agenda, violated campaign finance and electicampaign finance and election laws.

Authorities are also examining whether de Blasio's unsuccessful effort to win control of the state Senate violated campaign finance and election laws.

The document alleged the mayor and several unions and wealthy donors conspired to circumvent state campaign donation limits in their effort to flip the State Senate to Democratic control — a move «warranting prosecution,» Ms. Sugarman wrote.

De Blasio has agreed to host a fund - raiser for the Senate Democrats» campaign committee and said the attempt to recapture the Senate marks an «unprecedented effort.»

The move appears to be an effort to boost Flake's Senate campaign and to present a national face of fiscal conservatism.

The week began with the leak of a confidential report by the state's elections enforcer that alleged that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio had engaged in an illegal effort to circumvent campaign contribution limits in his 2014 push to bolster the re-election prospects of some sitting state Senate Democrats, who presumably would be more favorable to the democrat mayor's city agenda in Albany.

Labor's candidates for United States Senate, Congress, State Senate and Assembly were victorious yesterday, with organized labor's massive get - out - the - vote grassroots efforts an integral part of each campaign.

Kaminsky triumphed anyway and, as the governor looked to burnish his national profile in the run - up to the presidential election, he helped in State Senate Democratic campaign efforts.

The hedge fund manager also made donations to several additional GOP efforts, including $ 209,600 apiece to the Republican State Committee and Senate Republican Campaign Committee.

The Human Rights Campaign, which played a big role in Cuomo's successful campaign to get gay marriage passed by the Legislature here in New York and has now launched a similar effort at the national level, released an undated letter signed by Cuomo, Mayor Bloomberg and 13 other mayors and governors that urged members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee to pass the Respect for Marriage Act (RMA), the bill to repeCampaign, which played a big role in Cuomo's successful campaign to get gay marriage passed by the Legislature here in New York and has now launched a similar effort at the national level, released an undated letter signed by Cuomo, Mayor Bloomberg and 13 other mayors and governors that urged members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee to pass the Respect for Marriage Act (RMA), the bill to repecampaign to get gay marriage passed by the Legislature here in New York and has now launched a similar effort at the national level, released an undated letter signed by Cuomo, Mayor Bloomberg and 13 other mayors and governors that urged members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee to pass the Respect for Marriage Act (RMA), the bill to repeal DOMA.

Indeed, he is probing local connections involving New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's efforts in the 2014 State Senate campaigns.

Schneiderman's proposal comes as state lawmakers prepare to debate once again a public financing of campaigns on the state level that could see the adoption of a matching program based off the New York City system (Senate Republicans have blocked efforts to institute public financing).

Acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance on Thursday announced no charges would be brought following the investigation into de Blasio's efforts on behalf of Democratic state Senate candidates by seeding county committees in key legislative races as well as an inquiry into the Campaign For One New York, a non-profit that backed his agenda.

New Yorkers For Quality Health Care, an independent expenditure committee backed by the Greater New York Hospital Association, has expanded its campaign efforts in the state Senate.

The Moreland Commission on Public Corruption last year sent a subpoena to the firm Strategic Advantage International, a vendor for the group Common Sense Principles, in order to gain more information on who funded the group's efforts during the 2012 campaign cycle on behalf of Senate Republicans.

Two big LGBT groups, the Empire State Pride Agenda and the Human Rights Campaign, and poised to support Sen. Shirley Huntley's primary challenger, Lynn Nunes, despite Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson's efforts to convince them not to.

An effort to create a system of publicly financed campaigns was a non-starter in the state Senate this year, and lawmakers did not take up any changes to the existing campaign finance laws.

Samuels recently called on Cuomo to transfer $ 10 million from his overflowing campaign coffers to the Senate Democrats» to help fund their political efforts this fall.

Senate Republican Campaign Committee Chairwoman Cathy Young in a statement on Friday blasted «New York City Democrats» for heading to Rochester to help fundraise for Sen. Ted O'Brien's re-election effort.

The Senate Democratic Campaign Committee and the state Democratic Committee are undertaking a coordinated and layered advertising effort in key races.

Ulrich is clearly the favorite of the Senate Republican Campaign Committee and the GOP majority conference in Albany, both of which have contributed heavily to his effort to unseat Queens Democratic Sen. Joe Addabbo.

But a Democratic source insisted Koppell's campaign is indeed «real» and supported by the regular Senate Democrats, who will announce their involvement in the effort to oust Klein on their own timetable.

He also gave $ 1 million to the state party for its coordinated campaign and raised the Senate Democrats some $ 250,000, according to a source familiar with his effort.

The Feerick Commission's investigation was not viewed positively by many lawmakers, including the legislative leaders (Senate Majority Leader Ralph Marino and Assembly Speaker Mel Miller), who declined to formally testify on campaign fund - raising efforts by their respective conferences, but did say they would meet in formally with commission members.