Sentences with phrase «big campaign checks»

But if the GOP really wants to clean up Albany and not merely take political pot shots in between taking big campaign checks, Senate Republican Leader John Flanagan would declare, this Monday morning, that he and his conference are ready to end one of the most flagrant tools of the culture of corruption they so decry.

Not exact matches

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First, it helps a campaign immensely if most individual donations, even the big ones, come in online rather than as paper checks.

Unlike traditional big donors who often reach their quota for a given candidate with a single check, small donors can contribute again and again, providing a financial consistency that's useful in a short campaign and priceless in a long one.

A campaign benefits immensely if most individual donations, even the big ones, come in online rather than as paper checks.

Stepping back from the email precipice for a minute (that Cap Ad study has been stirring up some BIG waves in the online advocacy world), ealier this year the Bivings Report conducted a study of how campaigns for U.S. Senate were using the internet that's worth checking out.

The criticism Teachout was making was not over direct contributions like the checks cut by the Soros family to her campaign, but the influence of big money flowing to super PACs.

A check of campaign finance records shows in June Pence received about $ 354,000 in individual big contributions (those over $ 10,000) and the Republican Governors Association bought nearly $ 855,000 in advertising on his behalf.

Similar to Gov. Jerry Brown's ballot - measure committee, Gray has used the second campaign account to accept larger campaign checks from special - interest groups and big corporations that lobby the Legislature, including $ 35,000 from the California Independent Petroleum Association, $ 25,000 from the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians and $ 15,000 from tobacco giant Philip Morris.

We made a point of trying to get away from the campaign to cover the choice: the 6 and 10 did a series on big issues, from airports to defence spending to social care, that weren't getting much play in the campaign; Newsnight interrogated the future of the NHS; Andrew Neil's series of Daily Politics debates analysed policy, department by department over two weeks; and, online, from Reality Check to constituency profiles, we scrutinised the detail.

In its 2013 report, the commission outlined examples of illegal and unethical behavior by campaign contributors and lawmakers looking for big checks.

After a 2012 analysis of his affinity for big checks, his campaign issued a statement that Cuomo «is not campaigning at this time, so we haven't done many fund - raising events, which would include low - donor events.

He said the percentage of campaign cash coming from local donors is now smaller because PACs tend to write bigger checks.

While the film likely won't hit big screens until next year (you can check out its Indiegogo campaign here), Appel says there are steps you can take to ensure your trip to Tulum — or any popular beachside tourist destination — is easy on the land.

Hilton is kicking off a big new marketing campaign to get the word about the discount out to its loyal customers, and to remind them of the other benefits of direct booking for HHonors members — i.e., they earn HHonors points that they wouldn't get for third - party bookings, and they also get free Wi - Fi, digital check - in and room selection, and a Digital Key to open their guest room door via the HHonors mobile app.

The first big change I noticed was how much better the graphics looked, with this being the first Halo game brought out specifically for the Xbox One and (possibly) PC, rather than the rest which originated on the 360 etc, within the 9 hour sitting of playing through the campaign in a co-op game I did notice a few glitches, one of my team mates fell through the map, it randomly decided to teleport us forward past 2 vehicles when we were searching a map for Easter eggs but other than that the game was flawless, the 13 hour download time was worth the wait (I'm assuming this was due to the Microsoft servers, I started downloading at 18:30 on the 26th and when I checked my Xbox at 07:40 am the following morning it was at 93 percent, my connection is 152mbps so as you can imagine I was rather annoyed and surprised how long it had taken, after playing the game for all of 30 minutes I had completely forgotten about the length of time this had taken, I'll let 343 off with it as they have done such a good job with Halo 5.

My biggest issue with Brutal Legend was that the open world feel seemed to write a check that he campaign length couldn't cash.