Sentences with phrase «as election expenditure»

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That would appear to make Cohen's payments an excessive contribution to Trump's campaign, as well as an unreported campaign expenditure, both violations of federal election law.

Matthew Sanderson, who served as a campaign finance lawyer for the 2008 McCain - Palin campaign, said the timing of the payment «strongly suggests it was related to the election, and therefore is either a contribution, or at least a reportable expenditure by the campaign».

Federal campaign finance law defines «expenditures» as any funds spent «for the purpose of influencing» federal elections.

The slide in initial - quarter GDP as the election loomed demonstrates how vulnerable to political uncertainty business expenditure decisions can be.

The expenditures upon which we seek a report are those that Congress has said to not warrant a deduction as an ordinary and necessary business expense, namely, lobbying, participation in the political system by supporting or opposing candidates for office, and trying to influence the general public or segment thereof as to elections, legislative matters or referenda.

Expenditure is «controlled» if it is spending on election activities which «can reasonably be regarded as intended to influence voters to vote for or against political parties or categories of candidates including those parties and categories of candidates who support or do not support particular policies or issues».

Because of the way Maryland election law works, however, the Task Force Action Fund's registration as independent expenditure committee meant that Penn National Gaming was effectively able to hide this expenditure during the time the legislature considered whether to press forward with the measure.

Finally, under new Racing, Pari - mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law § 1330 - a, any current gaming licensee who spends more than $ 1,000 supporting or opposing the November referendum on casino gambling must file their expenditure reports with the Gaming Commission as well as with the state Board of Elections.

Loeb's financial support of the Senate Republicans has been widely reported, as has his contribution to the IDC and his donations to a pro-charter school independent expenditure that spent heavily on behalf of members of both conferences in the last election cycle and helped keep them in power.

ABQ was registered with the city Campaign Finance Board as an independent expenditure — meaning it should have been uncoordinated with other election year efforts — and most of its funding came from the anti-horse carriage group New Yorkers for Clean, Livable and Safe Streets.

Advocates see independent expenditures as a minor issue in New York where Super PACs are not rampant in state elections.

According to the Sunlight Foundation, in the 2012 election cycle, the Independence USA PAC spent a grand total of $ 8,230,464.22 in independent expenditures, distributed as follows: $ 5,113,575.51 for Democrats, $ 296,161.40 against Democrats, $ 2,080,927.42 for Republicans, and $ 739,799.89 against Republicans.

He also slammed de Blasio for staying silent on the independent expenditure while railing against the flow of corporate money in elections for years in his role as public advocate.

He identified the use of Labour's «pink bus» targeting female voters, Nicola Sturgeon using a helicopter as transport, and the Liberal Democrats using an election bus as examples where expenditure was not allocated to the constituency where campaigning took place.

The ad will air on cable through Election Day as part of the fund's $ 900,000 independent expenditure campaign here.

Before 2011, the public had no view of the murky world of independent election expenditures — where attack ads masquerade as issue ads.

The Commission found no reason to believe the respondents violated the Act because the film, associated trailers and website represented bona fide commercial activity, not «contributions» or «expenditures» as defined by the Federal Election Campaign Act.

ALBANY — As of late Wednesday afternoon, independent expenditure committees had spent $ 5.42 million on this year's State Senate general elections.

The money comes as an independent expenditure committee aligned with the state's teachers union has sought to bolster Democrats running for the Senate over the last several weeks with TV ads and mailers in the final weeks of the general election.

The super PAC's spending comes as the state Republican Committee has complained to the Board of Elections over the PAC's spending, alleging an illegal degree of coordination between the labor union and the independent expenditure committee — a claim that's denied by NYSUT.

But instead of just backing Senate Democratic's as the union's VOTE - COPE independent expenditure committee has done so far, NYSUT is also spending money in a handful of state Assembly races as well, filings with the state Board of Elections show.

«Five, that they would reduce recurrent expenditure so as to create capital funds for development, and six that if he wins election and accept those conditions, they would support them, we would expect all those in the next government.»

Citizens Union's report found that 224 political clubs failed to register as political committees with the NY State Board of Elections, and that millions of contributions and expenditures have gone unreported.

Opponents of campaign - finance laws hope that the case argued Tuesday — McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission — will carry on the work the justices did in Citizens United in 2010, when they struck down as unconstitutional a ban on corporations making independent expenditures in elections.

A foreign national shall not direct, dictate, control, or directly or indirectly participate in the decision making process of any person, such as a corporation, labor organization, political committee, or poltiical organization with regard to such person's Federal or non-Federal election - related activities, such as decisions concerning the making of contributions, donations, expenditures, or disbursements in connection with elections for any Federal, State, or local office or decisions concerning the administration of a political committee.

John Lapp, who served as executive director of the DCCC during the 2006 election that saw Democrats retake control of the House, will serve as a senior adviser to the independent expenditure operation.

«Conduct and activities of The Advance Group during the last election cycle may have involved the coordinating of independent expenditure Super PACs with official campaigns, and The Advance Group provided unpaid lobbying services to a public official and, as a consequence, The Advance Group will benefit from selling access to the public official to influence official acts,» the complaint alleges.

He said that the IDC Initiative has always historically functioned as both types of donor, and that despite the Board of Elections» July rule change regarding independent expenditures, the group has continued to disclose all required documents, and was never asked to behave differently.

Despite being formed by members of the I.D.C. and being the political spending arm for the conference, since filing as an independent expenditure the I.D.C. has sought to distance itself from the I.D.C. Initiative so as not to break election law.

When reporting credit card expenditures, campaigns are advised by the Board of Elections to note the expenditure in full to the creditor (e.g. AMEX), and where applicable to itemize purchases with a sum of $ 0.00 but then to describe the merchant and cost as a memo in the Explanation line.

That figure was calculated by searching the Federal Election Commission's independent expenditure public disclosures, as well as from a source tracking media buys across the country.

In addition to this issue with the national campaign, an analysis of the local, constituency - based campaigns at the 2010 election was carried out by the Electoral Reform Society in 2013, finding that the difference in expenditure was 22 times as high in the constituency with the highest campaign spend per vote as it was in the lowest.

State Board of Elections filings show New Yorkers for a Brighter Future, an independent expenditure committee that has NYSUT president Andrew Pallotta as treasurer, gave $ 200,000 on Friday to Teachers for Christine, another independent expenditure committee, where NYSUT vice president J. Philippe Abraham is treasurer.

According to independent expenditure filings available on the Federal Election Commission's website, the DCCC and NRCC have spent a combined $ 244,261.74 as of Monday.

«While it's well - intentioned by them,» said Mike Reich, a member of the Queens party who presided over the meeting, «the executive committee has voted to table this because the additional expenses would be astronomical and the restrictions on it would hamper the ability of the political party to operate in an election time where you have to make quick expenditures in response to Republicans — as you know, Republicans can drop a million dollars in a district in a blink of an eye — and we have to be able to respond.»

«As we think back to elections, and the ads, and tremendous amounts of money that are being poured in to candidates, to committees, from out of the area, from out of the state, independent expenditures, all this sort of thing.

In August 2014, Connor told the Daily News that the IDC Initiative was in the process of re-registering with the state Board of Elections as an independent expenditure committee, a change that would allow it to spend unlimited sums as long as its spending decisions were made independently of candidates» campaigns.

«To conceal these payments — and to avoid public scrutiny of his decision to retain the former staffer for campaign - related work — Maziarz, acting with others, falsely reported the expenditures on five separate filings with the New York State Board of Elections as payments to pass - through entities,» Schneiderman said.

Prompted by the widespread Russian influence campaign that targeted nearly two dozen states during the 2016 presidential election and the proliferation of secretive political advertising on social media platforms like Facebook, Cuomo proposed and the state Legislature successfully passed the «Democracy Protection Act,» which prohibits foreign entities from creating independent expenditure committees or buying political ads, requires anyone who purchases an online political ad to register as an independent expenditure committee, and also requires online ads to include information about who paid for them, as is currently required of traditional media platforms.

But the 2010 election knocked that plan into a cocked hat, as the newly elected Republican majority in the House of Representatives pushed federal expenditures downward.

The Registry of Election Finance voted to fine Williamson Strong a total of 5K for failure to register as a PAC and failure to file campaign expenditures.

And as a 501 (c)(3) organization, Surfrider Foundation has made a 501 (h) election which allows us to participate in lobbying activity that is limited by the financial expenditure on that lobbying (regardless of the overall amount of lobbying that may include volunteer time).

You will hear far smaller expenditure being talked about as a General Election winner or loser.

Planned Parenthood NYC Votes (PPNYC Votes) is a non-partisan, nonprofit organization registered with the New York State Board of Elections as an Independent Expenditure Committee.

The PAG is also recommending added funding to increase NAR's ability to promote federal issues through the Federal Issues Advocacy Program and would increase our federal independent expenditure program from 8 - 10 U.S. House races per election cycle to include more U.S. Senate races, as well.

The Federal Election Commission Regulations define independent expenditure as expenditure for a communication «expressly advocating the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate that is not made in cooperation, consultation, or concert with, or at the request or suggestion of, a candidate, a candidate» $ ™ s authorized committee, or their agents, or a political party or its agentsElection Commission Regulations define independent expenditure as expenditure for a communication «expressly advocating the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate that is not made in cooperation, consultation, or concert with, or at the request or suggestion of, a candidate, a candidate» $ ™ s authorized committee, or their agents, or a political party or its agentselection or defeat of a clearly identified candidate that is not made in cooperation, consultation, or concert with, or at the request or suggestion of, a candidate, a candidate» $ ™ s authorized committee, or their agents, or a political party or its agents.»