Sentences with phrase «special elections operation»

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Thursday's sanctions target Russians indicted last month as part of the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's election meddling on charges of conspiracy to interfere in the election by waging a social - media influence operation to sow discord and sway public opinion in the US in favor of Trump.

Even before all this, though, Cambridge was under scrutiny in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election — both because Nix contacted Julian Assange of WikiLeaks that summer to discuss hacked Democratic emails and because of broader questions about whether Trump's digital operation collaborated with Russians in some way.

By donating now we can show that we are much stronger than the special interest driven money that dominates Albany and we will make sure Bill has the money he needs to put together a strong Election Day operation and withstand the negative, unfair attacks.

More than half the money given to the candidates in last month's special election to replace former state Sen. Dean Skelos was transferred by political party committees, a long - standing practice that is under new scrutiny following criminal investigations into New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's fundraising operation.

City Council Member Ben Kallos, who chairs the committee on governmental operations, said in a phone interview that «All of these [reforms] should've happened before Election Day and if there's an Albany special session it should be part of that agenda.

Because the primary is being held so early, it's more or less tantamount to a special election, which means turnout will be low and victory will likely go to whoever has the stronger GOTV operation.

Given the fact that the June 26 primary is early, it could be viewed as a sort of hybrid special election, which means it will have low turnout and could turn on which candidate has the best GOTV operation.

As The Post first reported, Haggerty set up a mysterious company — Special Election Operations LLC — to conduct a supposed poll - watching operation on Election Day 2009.

Rep. - elect Mark Critz's (D) surprisingly wide margin in the Pennsylvania 12th district special election last night is a testament to the fact that the DCCC — from Chairman Chris Van Hollen (Md.) to executive director Jon Vogel, communications director Jennifer Crider and the entire independent expenditure operation — knows how to win close races in tough districts.