Sentences with phrase «about election spending»

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Wendy's CEO Todd Penegor said in August that uncertainty about the election was leading customers to spend less freely.

WA Labor says it will spend $ 45.5 million to bring new services to Royal Perth Hospital if it wins the March state election, while the Liberals say they will use about $ 83 million from the partial sale of Western Power to build three new Tafe facilities.

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

His room was attached to my office, and we spent hours talking about what might happen in the 2004 election.

«The group knows that it can do some candidate election work, but that such work can't be its primary activity — i.e., it has to spend more than half of its budget on non-candidate-election work,» Ryan told The Daily Beast when provided documentation about the organization.

The Trump campaign spent nearly $ 700,000 in legal consulting fees — or about 15.5 % of its total expenses between April 1 and June 30, according to the latest Federal Election Commission report.

WASHINGTON — Overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections.

As part of its 2006 election platform, the Conservative Party promised to «create an Independent Budget Authority to provide objective analysis directly to Parliament about the state of the nation's finances and trends in the national economy; require government departments and agencies to provide timely information to the Parliamentary Budget Authority to ensure it has the information it needs to provide accurate analyses to Parliament; and ensure that government fiscal forecasts are updated quarterly and that they provide complete data for both revenue and spending forecasts».

In addition to being ahead of Trump in polls in pivotal states, Clinton has maintained a staff of about 700 for months, opened up offices across the country and already spent $ 67 million on general election ads.

Instead, about half of the campaign's $ 18.5 million in spending was vacuumed up by Giles - Parscale, a web design and marketing firm new to national politics, Federal Election Commission filings show.

Manafort's last consulting assignment in Ukraine ended less than six months before he started working for the Trump campaign: He spent at least a month in Ukraine advising the Opposition Bloc ahead of local elections in October 2015... In [July], Manafort made a previously reported effort to patch his soured relationship with [Russian oligarch] Oleg Deripaska,... [and] offered to give private briefings about the campaign to Deripaska.

The report includes facts about lobbying spending that hit $ 2 billion in the last election cycle, and continues unabated, Wall Street executives in the Trump administration and regulatory agencies, tax cut windfalls for the finance industry, and a deregulatory free - for - all.

Republicans are panicking about the potential for conflict ahead of the 2018 midterm elections and have spent the past few days privately lobbying within the White House.

If Obama wants to spend the election talking to an economy - minded electorate about abortion from his own exposed position as a supporter of partial birth abortion and sex selective abortions, then Republicans should welcome such a Democrat strategy.

We would still need major entitlement reform and related health care reforms (among a whole lot else), but the above policies would give Republicans something real to say about the concerns of many Americans who spent the election just hearing about how the Republicans plan to cut marginal tax rates for high earners.

Pro-lifers get formal policy maximalism in the Republican platform, while Republican presidential candidates spend the general election talking about abortion as little as possible.

I had arrived at Harvard on a fellowship in philosophy in 1960, just before John F. Kennedy's election, and I have to admit I was about as green and innocent as a lad of twenty - six can be, having spent the prior twelve years in the seminaries of the Holy Cross Fathers.

I've spent a long long time in the Labour party, Kinnock was my MP, I had to put up with his idea for a long time, then bang he was new labour mind you never before an election he would then drivel about the left socialism and winning the war what ever that was.

They spent a lot of time talking about microtargeting, particularly for direct mail, a skill at which the Republicans have excelled over the past few election cycles.

Now that I have had a few days to unwind after Virginia's election, I thought I would spend a couple of minutes highlighting what we at VoterCircle learned about friend - to - friend outreach.

The group, New Yorkers For A Balanced Albany, has spent about $ 1.2 million through an independent expenditure campaign opposing Kaminsky's bid for the 9th Senate district in Nassau County, which will be decided in a special election on Tuesday.

I recently spent a month on the road in the United States and spoke with dozens of Americans about the election.

However, Blunkett said that Labour needed to spend more time focusing on its own problems before thinking about the next election:

Golden defeated Gentile in 2002 with the help of nearly $ 4 million from the Senate GOP, and Gentile, who spent about half a million dollars on his Senate campaign, subsequently won a special election for the NYC Council seat Golden vacated to move up to the Senate.

Totals for Assembly races have not been compiled for the past couple of election cycles, but they had previously come out to be about $ 40 million every two years, meaning that somewhere around $ 200 million can be expected to be spent on legislative races every four years.

The media spent the entire election asking me about the scale of the likely disaster and predicting a wipeout for the Welsh Liberal Democrats.

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox, who spent a lot of time after the November elections crowing about how the GOP has gained more House seats in New York (6) than any other state in the nation, just released the following statement in response to former Rep. Chris Lee's resignation yesterday:

Last week I had the privilege of going on Karen Jagoda's Digital Politics Radio show, where we talked at length about the DSCC and other Democratic groups» grassroots outreach and media spending to try to salvage the 2014 elections, largely funded by small - dollar online donors.

We have to wait for the spending review, after the conclusion of Labour's leadership election, to find out about the 80 per cent spending cuts.

The Republican State Leadership Committee planned to spend about $ 18 million on state elections while the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee planned to spend about $ 20 million.

«The Board of Elections was just ensuring that everyone that spends money on our elections, whether it's a super PAC, a 501 (c) 4 or a wealthy individual, discloses information about its donors to public,» said David Earley of N.Y.U.'s Brennan Center forElections was just ensuring that everyone that spends money on our elections, whether it's a super PAC, a 501 (c) 4 or a wealthy individual, discloses information about its donors to public,» said David Earley of N.Y.U.'s Brennan Center forelections, whether it's a super PAC, a 501 (c) 4 or a wealthy individual, discloses information about its donors to public,» said David Earley of N.Y.U.'s Brennan Center for Justice.

She's also good at producing a memorable phrase: this press conference included «this mayor has spent money like a Saudi prince,» the moniker «Mayor «I don't care» de Blasio» and «this election is not about Trump, it's about transit, traffic and trash.»

But as it happens they did win the election, and George Osborne is spending much of this parliament talking about his so - called fiscal charter, which has replaced the referendum bill on the Mickey Mouse shelf.

Many people who are angry about spending cuts seem to have had a particularly satisfying night, constantly tweeting their delight at ever - worse Lib Dem local election results.

Now the 2015 election is just over a year away, we know the political context in which it can be deployed: the «good society» breaks the economic deadlock by opening up a way to spend money better, and fits in with Miliband's broader «One Nation» dialogue about helping the little people deal with the faceless monolithic institutions of the private — and now, the public — sectors.

With the reasonableness of the provincial lawyer that he is, Darling muses that if Brown had come clean with the British public about the depth of the economic crisis and the urgent need to cut spending in the coming years, this could have brought success at the 2010 general election.

More of his colleagues joined the movement after Trump fired back at the congressman on Twitter, saying he should spend more time fixing his «crime - infested district» than «falsely complaining» about the election results.

It spent much of the last parliament trying to pass a bill guaranteeing an EU referendum this parliament, even though anyone with the tiniest glimmer of understanding about how politics works would tell you that the way to guarantee that is to win an election.

«All they talked about - spent $ 2 million on - were guns and abortion in (his last election) in Westchester.»

Appropriate laws about campaign financing and spending on election day should be enforced.

Since then, Tenney has lost ground as independent groups spent about $ 900,000 on advertising against her campaign, Federal Election Commission records show.

The committee spent about $ 2 million in a failed effort to unseat Katko in the 2016 election.

In response to questions about by - election hotel expenses, the party responded that «all byelection spending has been correctly recorded in accordance with the law».)

But, on the evening of the count an exasperated Nigel Farage, interviewed by Channel 4 News political correspondent Michael Crick, raised the first concerns about Conservative election expenses — which, he suggested, might have breached the # 100,000 limit for campaign spending in a byelection.

Many commentators have suggested that one reason opposition parties have not spoken out about Tory election spending is because they feel vulnerable to similar accusations.

New Yorkers have learned much about Mayor de Blasio since Daily News Albany Bureau Chief Ken Lovett revealed that the state Board of Elections» enforcement counsel had accused the mayor of heading a criminal scheme to evade campaign spending limits.

All told, Onondaga County spent about $ 187,000 to open 180 polling places for the primary, according to Dustin Czarny, the county's Democratic elections commissioner.

Speaker grants emergency Commons debate on allegations about Vote Leave breaking election spending rules — as it happened

The News, however, found that the bulk of Brown's spending — all but about $ 160,000 — was during the primary, although some of the primary spending could carry over into the general election.

Sugarman said in a memo to Board of Elections Commissioners, reported by the Daily News, that she tailored her investigation to complaints referred to her office specifically about de Blasio's fundraising and spending by the Ulster and Putnam County Democratic Committees.