Sentences with phrase «board election spending»

However, things have begun to change and the teachers unions now have competition in school board election spending.

Not exact matches

The President of the Treasury Board has recently released a four - pillar strategy (a 2015 election commitment) for Estimates Reform aimed at improving the ability of Parliament to properly scrutinize government spending.

In the board elections in April that unseated incumbents Gladys Fox and Reno Caneva, some of the challengers complained that too much money was being spent on Lockport and not enough elsewhere.

The legislative leaders quietly introduced a campaign finance bill last night that is designed to strengthen enforcement at the state Board of Elections and also address the US Supreme Court's January decision that overturned a 20 - year - old ruling barring corporations from spending freely to support or oppose candidates.

Records at state Board of Elections show the PAC spent $ 1 million on ad and media purchase opposing Kaminsky as well.

Grisanti, who has voluntarily filed six financial reports with the state Board of Elections since September even though he didn't run for re-election this year, started out with $ 72,642, spent $ 35,056 and now has $ 284,273 on hand.

After years of review in the case of former Niagara Falls Sen. George Maziarz, and no charges brought, a question remains: What happened to hundreds of thousands of dollars of questionable spending flagged by the state Board of Elections for prosecutors to review?

The filing posted by the Board of Elections on Monday shows the money is being spent by New Yorkers For A Balanced Albany, a group linked to StudentsFirstNew York.

«We have spent the last week listening to Senator Espaillat and Councilman Rodriguez launch terrible attacks, malicious, vicious and false allegations against the hardworking men and women at the New York City Board of Elections,» he said.

The end - of - campaign financial disclosure reports filed last week with the state Board of Elections show half of the spending in the county clerk and county sheriff campaigns occurred in the last two weeks leading up to the election.

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.

Howard's campaign spent some $ 221,400, compared to Democratic challenger Bernard A. Tolbert's almost $ 9,500, according to the most recent campaign finance reports filed with the state Board of Elections.

Organizations making independent political expenditures over $ 1,000 would have to disclose the name of the person or group behind the spending, and report all major contributors (those that donated over $ 1,000) to the Board of Elections.

The Buffalo businessman, who pledged to spend up to $ 10 million of his own money on his longshot bid for the executive mansion, received $ 33,500 yesterday, according to the 24 - hour notices posted on the state Board of Elections Website.

A full itemized report of how the committee spent its money, and where it was raised from, is yet to be posted on the Board of Elections website.

Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan loaned her campaign committee $ 162,000 in July — the same amount it spent on TV advertising, her latest filing with the state Board of Elections shows.

Fundraising: Through Aug. 28, Curran had raised $ 1 million, spent $ 745,134 and had $ 369,389 in cash on hand, according to the state Board of Elections.

Risa Sugarman, the independent enforcement counsel at the state Board of Elections, announced several days later that she would launch an investigation into whether they were spending money appropriately.

«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.

According to the complaint, the independent expenditure committee raised and spent money on behalf of candidates in order to circumvent contribution limits and also falsified its report to the state Board of Elections.

Fundraising: Through Aug. 28, Maragos had raised $ 72,697, spent $ 316,420 and had $ 1.2 million in cash on hand — largely from money he loaned his campaign, according to the state Board of Elections.

«There's a lot we'd like to help the Board of Elections do, but we must see commitment to reform and modernization, or we're not going to spend the taxpayers» dollars.»

The spending plan would also create a new enforcement counsel with the state Board of Elections.

The governor did not allocate any money for the program in this year's spending plans, although the board of elections will get extra money.

A filing at the state Board of Elections shows the labor group contributed $ 74,737 to its super PAC, which in turn began spending on TV and newspaper advertising opposing the convention.

The pro-public financing group Friends of Democracy this month spent virtually all of its $ 650,000 budget, according to a filing with the state Board of Elections.

«We have all seen the disturbing increase in spending by outside groups in federal, state and even local elections in recent years,» said Rose Gill Hearn, a CFB board member.

Additionally, in the weeks leading up to the election, the powerful New York State United Teachers union's political action committee spent more than $ 78,000 on mail and advertising for Doran, according to the state Board of Elections.

And Tuesday's disclosures to the State Board of Elections reaffirmed his drawing power for contributors: In the past six months, Mr. Cuomo has raised $ 8.5 million, while spending nearly $ 6.8 million, leaving the incumbent $ 35 million to spend.

ALBANY — Four days before the state Board of Elections issued a criminal referral over the role of county parties in fundraising for Senate Democratic candidates in 2014, forms detailing spending on those very candidates appear to have disappeared from the Nassau County Democrats» online filings.

But a required «schedule R» form which shows which candidates benefited from this spending has disappeared from databases maintained by the state Board of Elections.

The debate over public financing has begun in the state Senate, with the introduction of new legislation by Senator Eric Adams, which would establish a public financing program, create an independent enforcement counsel in the State Board of Elections, lower contribution limits and improve disclosure of independent political spending.

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.

Last week, Jacobs filed amended campaign spending documents with the state Board of Elections.

But the Campaign Finance Board found CF1NY actually did spend money on non-campaign issues such as the mayor's push for universal pre-K and that spending happened long before Election Day.

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.

The laws include provisions against bribery, a new enforcement unit at the state Board of Elections and requirements including spending and contributor reports from groups issuing public communications for or against candidates or ballot propositions.

The Erie County Board of Elections has spent the week counting absentee and affidavit ballots after a machine count showed Kennedy with a lead of less than 100 votes.

Candidates, state and county campaign committees and independent groups spent more than $ 7.1 million on last month's special election to fill the State Senate seat of former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, according to state Board of Elections records.

The preponderance of this spending has been to slam Larkin, filings with the state Board of Elections show.

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.

Four days before the state Board of Elections issued a criminal referral over the role of county parties in fundraising for Senate Democratic candidates in 2014, forms detailing spending on those very candidates appear to have disappeared from the Nassau County Democrats» online filings.

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.

Republican former Sen. George Maziarz has spent at least $ 74,878 from his campaign account on legal fees over the last six months, a filing with the state Board of Elections shows.

The election boards themselves are powerless, and sometimes corrupt, so who is going to watch over how this money is spent?

Filings with the state Board of Election show Jobs For New York spent $ 13,358 on mail in the third Senate district, where Republican Tom Croci is trying to retain a Suffolk County seat for the GOP.

The latest filings with the state Board of Elections show the independent expenditure committee backed by New York City landlords has spent $ 323,782 on key upstate Senate races.

The Real Estate Board of New York, which represents wealthy landlords in New York City, is funding an independent expenditure group called Jobs For New York, which so far has spent $ 483,609 on TV ads, staff and an avalanche of mailers in the race, according to the most recent Board of Elections filing.

Filings with the state Board of Elections show the NYLCV is spending $ 40,000 on a TV ad campaign in the district, along with $ 29,205 in mailers.

Although his office can not mandate repairs to the voting system, de Blasio announced that the city would spend $ 20 million to improve the Board of Elections, provided it would agree to a series of changes aimed at addressing the problems with last week's primary.