Sentences with phrase «by a campaign finance»

However, I did not vote for President Obama either time, as I didn't feel he had the experience or leadership skills (2008), let alone reneging on his promise to abide by campaign finance reform; or had accomplished what he promised (2012).

Holtzman showed up at two different candidate forums in New York City, first attending an event hosted by the Campaign Finance Board and then jetting uptown to a closed - door meeting of the Manhattan Democratic Party.

The method was immediately assailed by campaign finance expert Prof. Michael Malbin, who called it «little more than back of the envelope arithmetic based on incredible assumptions.»

Democratic candidate Bill de Blasio, Republican and Conservative candidate Nicole Malliotakis and independent candidate Bo Dietl jousted, interrupted, ignored and even debated each other last night, participating in the first of two candidate debates mandated by the Campaign Finance Board.

ASTORIA — Costa Constantinides, one of three candidates vying for the City Council seat held by term - limited Peter Vallone Jr., is far ahead of his competitors when it comes to fundraising, according to filings released by the Campaign Finance Board last week.

New rules adopted by the Campaign Finance Board require independent spenders to disclose expenditures above $ 100 and certain contributions above $ 1,000 to the CFB.

De Blasio's 2013 campaign was recently fined nearly $ 50,000 by the Campaign Finance Board for violations of campaign finance law, more than half of which were fines related to what the board deemed were inappropriate post-election expenses.

The official filing totals — including for Mayor de Blasio and Comptroller Scott Stringer — won't be released by the Campaign Finance Board until early next week.

«It should have been treated as a routine administrative matter and examined by the Campaign Finance Board, and Roger Adler himself has admitted as much.»

Republican incumbent Lt. Gov. Phil Scott of Berlin brought in over $ 52,000 by the campaign finance report filing deadline on Tuesday.

Questions during the off topic portion of the press Q&A included the NYPD's proposed expansion of it's use of tasers, a fine levied by the Campaign Finance Board against de Blasio ally and pro-carriage horse ban advocate NYCLASS, de Blasio's recent comments on the City's long drop in crime being attributable to former mayor David Dinkins and former city council speaker Peter Vallone Sr., a city council proposal to allow filing in City Council district offices of NYPD - related complaints with the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the proposed bill which would ban carriage horses and resulting loss of jobs, an attempt by a staff member of the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor to goad the mayor into agreeing to appear on that show, a possible tax on non-resident apartment owners, the mayor's planned meeting tonight with Jewish community leaders in Crown Heights and whether the mayor has concerns about the «secrecy» of the NYPD's disciplinary process.

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: «The ghost of John Liu — Playing politics by a non-partisan board» — 3/18/2014 EXCERPTS — John Liu was mugged by the Campaign Finance Board.

Mayor de Blasio, Republican nominee Nicole Malliotakis and independent Bo Dietl will all participate in the forum, sanctioned by the Campaign Finance Board and sponsored by media outlets including CBS2 News and the Daily News.

In the words of the CFB Chair, the City Council created «a gaping loophole for union contributions, undermining the contribution limits established by the Campaign Finance Act.»

The debate program is administered by the Campaign Finance Board, which also sets the criteria to qualify for the stage.

Malliotakis, de Blasio and independent mayoral candidate Bo Dietl will all participate Wednesday a third and final pre-general election debate, sanctioned by the Campaign Finance Board and sponsored by media outlets including CBS2 News and the Daily News.

During the conference, Hawkins said there is a need for an independent commission in New York state that would ensure debate opportunities for all candidates, or at least clear guidelines spelled out by campaign finance laws.

The debate was sponsored by CBS 2, WCBS 880, 1010 WINS, El Diario La Prensa and Common Cause, and it was sanctioned by the Campaign Finance Board.

The bill, co-sponsored by Council Member Ben Kallos, who chairs the committee, would tweak the city's public campaign finance system by removing a cap on public funds disbursed to candidate campaigns by the Campaign Finance Board (CFB).

Mayor Bill de Blasio's 2013 campaign is being fined $ 47,778 by the Campaign Finance Board for ten separate violations, including improper post-election spending.

As the September 12 primary elections approach and campaigns kick into high gear, a vast majority of candidates for the city's elected offices will have their coffers bolstered by the Campaign Finance Board's (CFB) public matching funds program, which matches eligible donations at a 6 - to - 1 ratio.

The rules require contenders to have spent at least $ 174,255 by a cutoff date to participate in the Aug. 23 Democratic primary debate sponsored by the Campaign Finance Board.

Doing so would allow investigators to see if legislators are playing by campaign finance rules.

Amazing how she uses this company which has been declared by Campaign Finance Board to be an arm of the working families party and she ens up with their endorsement... See article which only touches the surface.

Crowley was slapped with $ 80,000 in fines by the Campaign Finance Board for fundraising irregularities associated with her 2001 campaign, which she lost to former Councilmember Dennis Gallagher.

WCBS - TV, WCBS Newsradio 880, 1010 WINS, El Diario La Prensa and Common Cause NY teamed up to sponsor the debate, which was sanctioned by the Campaign Finance Board.

Stringer was also a vocal critic of the Campaign for One New York, de Blasio's political nonprofit, calling it a «slush fund» shortly after de Blasio had been criticized by the Campaign Finance Board for how the nonprofit raised and spent funds.

Not exact matches

Nevertheless, the sites described by The Intercept and Inc. expose the limits of campaign finance laws passed in an earlier era of media, before anyone anticipated the rise of platforms like Facebook.

In October, that prime minister was replaced by one who campaigned on borrowing money to finance an infrastructure program.

Supporters of the Senate's SOPA, lead by Hollywood, shelled out $ 118 million to support the draft legislation, eight times the measly $ 14 million contributed by opponents of the bill (which were mostly tech companies), according to campaign - finance tracking website MapLight.

Campaign finance experts who spoke to CNBC said this type of spending by a party committee on behalf of a campaign is highly unusual but legal, and it appears the RNC disclosed it coCampaign finance experts who spoke to CNBC said this type of spending by a party committee on behalf of a campaign is highly unusual but legal, and it appears the RNC disclosed it cocampaign is highly unusual but legal, and it appears the RNC disclosed it correctly.

Mueller has also recruited James Quarles, who specialized in campaign - finance research for the Watergate task force, according to Wired; Michael Dreeben, considered by some to be «the best criminal appellate lawyer in America»; and Aaron Zebley, a former senior counselor in the DOJ's National Security Division specializing in cybersecurity.

Protecting Michigan Taxpayers, a group backed by DeVos, spent $ 22.7 million to oppose it, according to campaign finance disclosures filed with the state.

Through her family's trust, she has contributed more than $ 1.3 million to the organization's efforts to defeat California's recreational marijuana proposal, given at least $ 30,000 to the campaign against Nevada's proposed legal weed law, and donated another $ 25,000 to defeat the pro-pot effort in Massachusetts, according to an analysis of state campaign finance filings by VICE News.

Supporters in the five states set to vote on recreational marijuana had a war chest of $ 30 million as of Oct. 20, compared to just $ 6.6 million for their rivals, according to campaign finance data collected by the nonpartisan site Ballotpedia.

«The hackers accessed software designed to be used by poll workers on Election Day, and in at least one state accessed a campaign finance database.»

A little - known data company, now embedded within Cruz's campaign and indirectly financed by his primary billionaire benefactor, paid researchers at Cambridge University to gather detailed psychological profiles about the US electorate using a massive pool of mainly unwitting US Facebook users built with an online survey.

In a tweetstorm this morning aimed at containing the fallout from Wednesday night's revelation by Rudy Giuliani that Donald Trump repaid Michael Cohen for hush money Cohen paid to Stormy Daniels, the president attempted to thread the various legal needles involved in trying to explain how this arrangement did not violate campaign finance law.

«The complaint alleges that I somehow violated campaign finance laws by facilitating an excess, in - kind contribution,» Mr. Cohen said in his statement.

He made the acknowledgment, in part, because the transaction had been scrutinized by watchdog groups that pointed out the transaction as a possible campaign finance violation.

«Any payment by a person such as Cohen on behalf of or in consultation with a candidate to influence an election is an in - kind «contribution'to the candidate under campaign finance law subject to a $ 2,700 limit and disclosure requirements,» he said.

New comments by President Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani about a payment to Stormy Daniels place the president at the center of questions about possible campaign - finance violations, two former Federal Election Commission leaders said.

«The complaint alleges that I somehow violated campaign finance laws by facilitating an excess, in - kind contribution,» he said.

A series of filing anomalies point to a Donald Trump camp that is either unaware of campaign finance law, or is actively funneling donors» cash to insiders, according to several experts interviewed by CNBC.

The firm, which announced later Wednesday that it is declaring bankruptcy and shutting down, also was paid by the Tillis campaign and the state GOP for work in the 2014 elections, according to campaign finance reports.

There has been steady growth in interest in public banking, spurred by the 2008 recession, by criticism of investment practices of some Wall Street banks, and, in some cities, by recent campaigns to divest from banks financing the Dakota Access Pipeline.

In a complaint filed in January by Common Cause with the FEC and the Department of Justice, the organization charges that the failure to report this expenditure to the FEC violates not only campaign finance law but also violates federal law prohibiting false statements of material fact to the Federal government.

Cambridge Analytica secured contracts for US elections that were served by the UK - based SCL, despite the possibility that its use of data scientists with foreign citizenship was a violation of campaign finance laws.

But now he is talking at a time when another keeper of confidential information about Trump, attorney Michael Cohen, is being stress tested by a federal investigation into possible bank fraud, wire fraud and campaign finance violations.

Under federal campaign finance law, any expenditures by a candidate or someone working on behalf of a candidate must be reported to the Federal Election Commission (FEC).