Sentences with phrase «about campaign donations»

The Wisconsin Ethics Commission is asking the state Legislature to decide what to do about campaign donations made in bitcoin and other digital currencies.

Aside from major, and even minor, corruption scandals, there is a perpetual flow of questions about campaign donations, pay - to - play dynamics, and legislators earning outside income and how their non-governmental work may affect their work for the state.

Erie County prosecutors are asking questions about campaign donations to a Buffalo - based state Senate race in 2014 as part of a burgeoning statewide investigation into de Blasio's fundraising.

Another useless story about campaign donations to a particular candidate.

Both candidates accused one another of being too entrenched in the system to be in a position to cast themselves as the outsiders they both claimed to be, and concerns about campaign donations from questionable donors arose on both sides of the campaign.

Not exact matches

As you're building your crowdfunding campaign, sweetening it with perks galore, you may start fantasizing about all of the $ 1 million donations that are going to flow in.

As emails disclosed by WikiLeaks laid bare internal concerns about how the Clinton Foundation's funding might impact the former Secretary of State's run for the Oval Office, former President Bill Clinton announced in August that the nonprofit would reject corporate and foreign donations if Hillary Clinton prevailed in her campaign.

Politics today is more about crunching data — voter demographic information, tracking what individual voters care about, and campaign donation histories — and then acting on it.

Cohen paid them to keep quiet about their claims before the election, which may have broken campaign donation law or money transfer rules.

Ongax (ONG Access): We are an online SaaS platform where companies, NGOs, and social leaders worldwide can build customizable dashboards with data about their donations, campaigns, beneficiaries, donors, and more.

The province needs to create a formal enforcement and investigation mechanism to respond to complaints about potential breeches of the municipal campaign donation laws.

The screening was held as part of a social media campaign called #ForThePlayers created by Sony Pictures to support the movie's release in which football fans are being encouraged to «Dance or Donate»: either upload a video of their touchdown dance to YouTube or Instagram, or make a donation to make a tax - deductible donation to MomsTeam Institute, a leader in educating sports parents and other youth sports stakeholders about concussions and repetitive head trauma since launching its pioneering Concussion Safety Center in 2001, and challenge their friends to do the same.

[dropcap] I [/ dropcap] rarely post about causes and campaigns that are seeking donations.

In recent weeks not only have we talked about the Members Unite campaigns, but they have packed up toys and clothes that they no longer need for donation.

But Nestlé has no shame — the following year, when the Guardian newspaper reported that Breakthrough Breast Cancer had refused a # 1 million donation from Nestlé on ethical grounds, Nestlé sent a letter to the newspaper dismissing criticism of its baby food marketing and claimed it was a force for good in the world, citing the donation made to Ethiopia — of course, it did not mention that that the donation came about not because of Nestlé altruism, but because of campaign protest.

Breastmilk donation came in my mind again when I wrote the blog about Salma Hayek breastfeeding an infant in Sierra Leone while on a vaccination (tetanus) campaign.

With the state capital besieged by criminal investigations, Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos has warned his members about taking campaign donations from gambling interests.

«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.

So far, we've talked about how one campaign managed to increase their online donations by 158 % with A / B tests.

With your donation campaigns, you can analyze which ads performed best and which gave yielded the highest about of donations, but can't do much tracking on the individual donor level.

Asked about the middle - man in an alleged bribery scandal — Jona Rechnitz — who also made six - figure donations to the mayor's political efforts, Hizzoner said his campaign team had vetted him as much as possible.

Politico had a short piece yesterday (via PoliticalWire) about Obama 2012's new foray into mobile fundraising: The Obama reelection campaign is providing headquarters staff, field organizers and volunteers the ability to take campaign donations with their mobile phones.

And as Justin again points out, «what most impresses me about this campaign is the fact that it is the ONLY WAY to contact people on their cell phones to solicit financial donations» because of the limitations of the medium — no unsolicited calls, high vendor fees for donations - via - text message, etc..

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❯ About: Stemerman, a hedge fund manager and political newcomer, made headlines with a $ 1.8 million personal donation to his campaign.

A spokesman for the Cuomo campaign did not respond to questions about Howe or the donations he steered.

Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on organ donation.

Harold M. Ickes, a longtime friend and mentor of Mayor Bill de Blasio, delivered about $ 13,000 in donations last week to the mayor's re-election campaign, on the day that one of his lobbying clients received the de Blasio administration's go - ahead to hold a lucrative music festival in New York City.

This is what we know: the Electoral Commission is still assessing claims that potentially illegal donations were made; the information commissioner is investigating «possible illegal» use of data; the heads of MI6 and GCHQ have both voiced unprecedented warnings about foreign interference in our democratic systems; the government has refused to elaborate on what these are; one of the leave campaigns has admitted the undeclared support and help of the American hedge fund billionaire who backed Trump; the Crown Prosecution Service is being asked to mount a criminal investigation; and questions have been raised about possible unlawful collaboration between different elements of the leave campaign.

If paid expenses are not listed, then the campaign is either being inaccurate about how much money it has in its account, or it's concealing some of its donations.

The $ 500,000 given to the Committee to Save New York thus brings the total from the developer that went to support the governor during his first term to $ 1.97 million — about 32 times the campaign contribution limit imposed on donations from most individuals.

It's easy to be pious about where campaign donations come from when no large donors are offering them anyway.

Mayor de Blasio's team raised conflict - of - interest questions about the state awarding two big contracts to a firm owned by a top campaign donor to Cuomo one a day after the state put on hold a Brooklyn construction project because Cuomo ESDC appointees expressed similar concerns about the developer who made donations to a fund supporting the mayor.

A DNAinfo New York examination of de Blasio's campaign finances has found some unusual contributions — one commercial driver who flip - flopped about making two sizeable donations and a Bronx landlord who said he did not give $ 4,500 to the mayor's transition team, even though records show he did.

About an hour later, Acting U.S. Attorney J.P. Kennedy detailed the complaint, which alleges Pigeon conspired to help a Canadian citizen make a $ 25,000 donation to a reelection campaign in New York State.

Harold Ickes, a veteran political consultant and longtime friend and mentor of de Blasio, delivered about $ 13,000 in donations last week to the mayor's re-election campaign — the same day that one of his lobbying clients received the de Blasio administration's go - ahead to hold a lucrative music festival in New York City.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is reportedly questioning people in the real estate industry about donations solicited by de Blasio's campaign, as part of the investigation into possible NYPD corruption.

A federal investigation into NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's campaign fund - raising has zeroed in on whether donations were exchanged for beneficial city action in about a half - dozen cases, according to people with knowledge of the inquiry.

D'Souza, 52, of San Diego, was charged with one count of making illegal campaign donations in the name of others and a second count of making false statements about those donations, authorities said.

She reported the most campaign donations, about $ 5 million, and appeared to have the quiet support of gubernatorial front - runner Cuomo, who declined to formally endorsed anyone.

Another check examined in the case was a $ 1,000 donation that Wormuth's campaign account received that month from Edward Robertshaw, a Ballston Lake resident who has worked for Tanski for about a decade.

Is Small's campaign manager right about her opponent taking donations from Ciminelli and his colleagues?

Staffers with the city Department of Investigation and city comptroller quizzed Morales last March and April about two real - estate transactions that allegedly benefited developers and lobbyists who gave donations to the mayor's campaign and the mayor's nonprofit, the Campaign for One Ncampaign and the mayor's nonprofit, the Campaign for One NCampaign for One New York.

They maintain databases of lobbying contracts, campaign expenditures and donations that are publicly available, and as Horner noted, have been mined by good - government advocates and journalists to raise questions about lawmakers» motivations and potential conflicts of interest.

The committee hosts house parties where people talk about the campaign and make donations.

«For a few desperate Democrats to now whine about some legal donations from LLCs to Sen. Marchione's campaign, while deliberately ignoring the fact that their own governor has raked in millions from LLCs, is political hypocrisy at its worst,» Marchione's spokesman, Josh Fitzpatrick, said in a statement.

Donations to the several Republican campaign committees added up to about $ 55,000, raising their total income to a bit over $ 150,000.

Instead of saying, «Well, geez, I'm just going to think about people who give campaign donations because that's going to help me appeal to this very small select group of people that already vote,» we would be widening that, in essence doing what I believe our founding fathers through this process wanted us to do.»

The average contribution to the Republican's campaign is about $ 500, and about 220 individual donations have been made to Lavine's mayoral campaign.

ALBANY — No more griping about debates, qualifications, campaign donations or garbage plates.