Sentences with phrase «action committees»

Court documents say that the developer was the largest political donor to state candidates and political action committees from 2005 - 2014, with $ 10 million in contributions over that time span, including about $ 200,000 to Silver and his political action committee.

Early filings of January financial activity by companies and organizations with political action committees (PACs) show that American Crystal Sugar Company PAC and Comcast Corporation / NBCUniversal PAC - Federal were in the top group of contributors.

The pact joins a parallel attempt by one candidate to urge his colleagues to not to accept donations from corporate political action committees.

Most of the financial support for Katko's campaign came from political action committees and Protect The House, a joint fundraising committee established to support incumbent Republicans in competitive congressional races.

In all, the Republican committee and its supporting political action committees netted about $ 480,000 in 2015 from airport interests, Ms. Cunningham said.

On Wednesday, with only four days remaining of this year's legislative session, Cuomo announced a new prong to his ethics reform agenda: an ambitious plan to better regulate the activities of political action committees and limit the impact of shadowy independent expenditures that he says are all too often not actually independent from the candidate they are supporting.

Katz spent more than $ 855,000 but also benefited from $ 13,000 shelled out in her support by political action committees.

Fueled by political action committees, Gibson outraised Schreibman in the last several weeks of June, and reported $ 1.2 million in his account.

So far, Buerkle has yet to attract the attention of Washington's big political action committees.

Another hurdle to raising money: Dewald was convicted in Michigan on fraud and larceny charges connected to two of his political action committees formed during the 2000 presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore.

In all, the Democratic committees in Putnam, Ulster and Monroe Counties raised at least $ 1.2 million in large donations from union political action committees, private companies and individual donors, state records show, and sent money to four Senate candidates in close races.

Katko has received more than four times as much funding from political action committees as Deacon, with more than $ 1.2 million to her less than $ 300,000.

More than half of Katko's campaign money came from political action committees, according to the

During the same time period, he received $ 4.4 million in donations from political action committees, $ 25.5 million in donations from individuals and $ 17.74 million in donations from committees, unions and limited liability companies, nearly five times as much as he received from corporations.

The list of organizations includes traditional political action committees and a single 501c (4): Citizens Union of the City of New York, a good government group.

Its provisions include putting tighter controls on lobbying and activities of political action committees that are independent of candidates.

«This executive order is largely symbolic and reduces transparency since it allows financial contributions made by employees to political action committees and political parties to be transferred back to the county executive,» Nicolello said in a statement.

More than half of Katko's campaign money came from political action committees, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

She also collected $ 179,500 from political action committees and $ 97,092 from her joint fundraising committee, the Gillibrand Victory Fund, the filing shows.

LGBT advocacy groups, well - funded political action committees and Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo had insisted in a letter that he would endorse McDonald should he have move forward with the run.

In the race for the 21st, four out of the five Democrats and Ms. Stefanik have received donations flagged by the political finance website OpenSecrets.org as coming from political action committees or other candidate committees, as of the last filing date on March 31.

Maragos has said he is not accepting campaign contributions from county contractors and political action committees.

Katko continued to rely on money from special - interest groups, or political action committees (PACs), for most of his campaign donations.

The Durst family has historically donated to Democratic candidates and political action committees.

Corporations are limited to giving $ 5,000 in aggregate direct contributions to all candidate, party, and political action committees in a calendar year; individuals were restricted only by the maximum amount they could give committees.

The 145th District contest cost slightly over $ 2 million, counting the money spent by the candidates themselves, by the Democratic and Republican parties and by political action committees.

Tickets for the «Galactic Trivia Battle» ranged from $ 100 per person to $ 1,000 for teams or political action committees.

The Reform Party takes no money from political action committees or any other special interest groups.

As a result, wealthy donors and the political action committees of unions and corporate interests often give to political party committees that are backing candidates they favor — in addition to, or rather than, the candidates themselves.

In his most recent re-election effort, political action committees donated $ 2.4 million to Boehner's campaign fund, a staggering number for a House member.

It's such a shame, but our opponent, Ken LaValle, has gotten $ 76,000 from Albany PACs (Political Action Committees).

One bill, backed by Assemblyman Michael Cusick, clarifies the distinction between political action committees and independent expenditure groups, which have grown in spending and scope in state campaigns following the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizen United decision.

Former NYC Mayor Mike Michael Bloomberg is among the nation's top financial backers of the school - choice movement, topping the list of New York's political contributors by donating $ 1.8 million to ballot measures and political action committees focused primarily on school choice.

Prohibited spending by independent expenditure committees and political action committees...

Only American citizens (and immigrants with green cards) can contribute to federal politics, but the American divisions of foreign companies can form political action committees (PACs) and collect contributions from their American employees.

This weekend, Leslie Wayne reported in The Caucus that the very successful Democratic fundraising site ActBlue is trying to expand beyond its emphasis on candidates and into the world of fundraising for political action committees and labor unions.

A new independent expenditure ad from the political action committees AFSCME and SEIU is trying to torpedo any notion that Rep. Nan Hayworth is a moderate Republican.

This is an area in which churches should be involved through their social action committees.)

Alberta Liberal MLA David Swann has introduced Bill 214, An Act to Regulate Political Action Committees, which clearly defines political action committees (PACs) and regulates them in accordance with the same rules as other political entities.

We will have to wait until Gray's Bill 32 is tabled before we know what action the NDP government plans to take, but even if their bill is removed from the order papers, Swann and Khan deserve the credit for making unregulated and unaccountable Political Action Committees an issue in Alberta politics.

Political Action Committees will be back up for debate before MLAs depart Edmonton for the Christmas break at the end of next week.

Shareholders are also taking notice of issues related to socioeconomic and political equity, access and opportunity — such as public disclosure of corporate funding for political action committees (PACs), campaigns and lobbyists.

Even before the decision, he said, corporations could act through their political action committees or outside the specified time windows.

«It's worth noting that donations to political action committees and groups designated as 501 (c)(4) nonprofit organizations are not tax - deductible,» said Kay Bell, author and tax journalist for the blog Don't Mess With Taxes.

The biggest contributors to Hensarling are employees and political action committees of banks, securities and investment firms and other financial companies, which have given him about $ 6.9 million since he first ran for Congress in 2002.

Point Bridge Capital, a financial firm in Fort Worth, Texas combed through election filings to identify 150 corporations whose employees, management and political action committees have donated the most money to Republican candidates for office and any party - affiliated federal committees or groups.

Contributions from Bank One Corp. and Northwestern Mutual were a large part of the $ 60,000 political action committees and bank employees donated to Ryan's first reelection campaign in 2000.

The Center for Responsive Politics» numbers include all donor contributions to outside groups and political action committees, as well as individuals giving over $ 200.

Political action committees, or PACs, face different contribution regulations and file records of contributions with the FEC on a different schedule than presidential campaigns.

New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand will no longer accept money from political action committees linked with corporations for her reelection campaign, she announced on Tuesday, citing the «corrosive» effect of corporate money in politics.