Sentences with phrase «campaign chest of»

In Idaho, the company poured $ 44,000 into the 2010 campaign chest of the state's superintendent of public schools, who has since backed policies that favor the for - profit education industry.

And today, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, also expected to run against Paterson, is expected to announce that he has a campaign chest of... (drumroll)... $ 16 million, with $ 6 million raised in the past six months.

Not exact matches

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.

Some observers had thought that Lipinski's decision to sit on his campaign war chest rather than unload it on Newman was a sign of either stupidity or surrender.

One of her favourite City goals came on the final day of the 2014 campaign - a chest - and - volley against Chelsea - and in August this year, it was voted the Nissan Goal of the Season at City Live, marking the first time a woman had won the award.

The full filing will be released next Monday, but the campaign clearly wants to get out ahead of the news that the longtime Democratic incumbent will bring a considerable war chest to the campaign.

Wilson is an attractive candidate to some Republicans because his personal wealth could fuel a competitive campaign against Cuomo and his war chest of more than $ 25 million.

Rather than sucking all of the fundraising air out of the room, Clinton's apparatus would do well to work directly with the DNC and state parties and lend the time and resources of the campaign toward helping those entities build their war chests.

Some have just been overcome by the prospect of this year's elections — a senior Liberal Democrat in Leicester (there were four elections there) accosted my colleague Gary O'Donoghue on the campaign trail and pronounced: «If you write your name across my chest, I'll never wash it off.»

«We are confident that Eric Schneiderman will be prosecuted for his horrific crimes against women, but in the meantime anyone who has benefited from his massive campaign war chest should do the right thing and step up to help victims of domestic violence,» they said in the statement.

The New York Gaming Association — a consortium of casino and gambling interests — spread $ 226,250 in campaign contributions to a broad mix of state lawmakers and campaign war chests, their Board of Elections filing today shows.

But Liu has not yet released the names of «bundlers» or individuals empowered by the campaign to solicit contributions for Liu's political war chest.

Jeff Klein (the head of the IDC) refused to give his war chest to the Democrats, and instead kept the IDC bank account inorder to fight IDC primary campaigns.

DeFrancisco, a Republican from Syracuse who opposes most campaign finance reforms proposed this month by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, has more money in his Senate campaign war chest than any of the 61 other sitting senators.

Then, earlier this month, Carl Kruger of Brooklyn was indicted for bribery, putting an instant freeze on his $ 2 million campaign war chest, which Gianaris had hoped to tap to pay off nearly $ 3 million in Senate Democratic debts.

As of the close of the reporting period on October 15, Ryan had $ 521,656 in his campaign war chest.

Gambling Industry Donates Millions to New York Politicians As Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature discuss the process of amending the State Constitution to allow up to seven new full - scale, privately owned casinos in New York, the gambling industry is funneling millions of dollars into lobbying efforts and campaign war chests.

Cuomo is far ahead in early public polls, and has a $ 30 million campaign war chest and the support of some key labor unions.

Sen. Stephen Saland still has most of his robust campaign war chest still intact, according to his 32 - day pre-general campaign filing with the state Board of Elections.

Cox is continuing to insist that the GOP has time to coalesce around a candidate, even though the governor is sitting on a massive campaign was chest — we'll find out exactly how big of a haul he has managed to amass later this month.

He has over one million dollars in his campaign war chest, much of it from other congresspersons in «safe» districts (like Pelosi and Hoyer) and big labor unions.

McDonald's once formidable campaign war chest now has $ 7,045 following one of the most expensive Senate primaries in the state's history.

The tissue company's been promoting its products with a campaign in which random people «pour their hearts out» to a stranger on a couch, and the Greenpeace folks decided that they had a couple of thing to get off THEIR chests: namely, that Kleenex tissues are made from 100 % virgin fibers, largely from the fragile boreal forests of Canada.

Even with this latest investment, he's still a far sight short of the $ 10 million he pledged to spend and a heck of a long way from matching Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Andrew Cuomo's bulging $ 25.6 million campaign war chest, which, as the Buffalo News reported today, is stuffed full of special interest cash.

Even in the United States, where presidential candidates must raise a war chest amounting to many millions of dollars before they can even consider running for the presidency, campaigns are still dependent on an army of activists.

The New York Democratic Senate Campaign Committee has had a historic year, filing its war chest with $ 3.5 million in cash on hand at the conclusion of the first six months of 2010, it announced July 16.

He can dump a fortune into your campaign war chest and optimize the use of media to sway the hearts and minds of the electorate.

As of January, Gillibrand had $ 9.6 million in her campaign war chest.

In fact, his entire campaign war chest has only about $ 8,000 of on - Island money.

But as the former congressman still has a full campaign war chest and strong name recognition — and the fact that electoral politics is a zero - sum game — the question rises: which of his hypothetical rivals would be most impacted by his decision?

Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos threatened to order a probe of Cuomo's $ 20 million campaign war chest — if the governor's anti-corruption panel investigation turns into a «witch hunt» against state lawmakers.

The contributions included $ 53,000 to the state Senate Republican campaign treasury and $ 34,000 to the war chest of Assembly Democrats.

«Cuomo has built a $ 31 million war chest with the donations of millionaires, billionaires and corporations,» Nixon told supporters at her campaign kickoff event in Brownsville, Brooklyn, on Tuesday.

The rules explicitly seek to stop financial companies from circumventing those strictures: They prohibit firms from channeling contributions to bond overseers through PACs, which are giant pools of money distributed to multiple campaign war chests.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is using money from his $ 35 million campaign war chest to pay for a criminal defense lawyer in a federal probe of his office.

But during that time, she has managed to quietly amass a campaign war chest of more than $ 500,000 — $ 519,327, to be exact, according to the July 15 report on file with the state Board of Elections.

In mid-January campaign filings, Cuomo reported raising more than $ 33 million for his campaign war chest, most of it from large donations.

Ms. Quinn, who already reached the maximum contribution limit for this year's Democratic primary, also asked her supporters to boost her campaign's war chest in order to fight back against these sorts of attacks.

One obvious method is public financing of campaigns, but it's very tough to persuade incumbents to limit their own resources, and Cuomo isn't exactly an outsider or a radical: His $ 16 million war chest contains money from all the usual suspects too.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is spending some of his $ 33 million dollar campaign war chest on ads to promote his state budget priorities.

Cuomo had recently reported having $ 35 million in his campaign war chest, compared to Astorino's comparatively tiny sum of $ 2.4 million.

as for the campaign war chest issue, it is unfortunate that many elected officials of both major partiese use campaign war chests for legal fees and even to subsidize their lifestyle (i.e. car payments, meals)

His overall total is still six figures ahead of Enneking's $ 271,000 war chest, though she was enthused by her campaign gaining ground.

But riding a wave of anti-tax sentiment, Mangano beat Suozzi — who had run recently for governor and sat on much of his campaign war chest — by fewer than 400 votes.

The Senate Republican Campaign Committee supplied part of this war chest, thanks to REBNY.

Cuomo in the final weeks of the race, spent from his hefty campaign war chest at the rate of nearly half a million dollars a week on television advertising, some featuring his daughters and partner Sandra Lee, but much of it negative against his Republican opponent Rob Astorino.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- Republican Bob McDonnell has more money in his campaign war chest than any of his potential Democratic rivals in the closely - watched Virginia governor's race, his campaign announced Monday.

Instead, his war chest could barely fund a game of Battleship — as of July 15, the Faso campaign had $ 1.4 million; Spitzer reported $ 8.5 million on September 22 — and his first ad is a study in anti-capitalist aesthetics.

Cuomo is also sitting on a campaign war chest in excess of $ 30 million.

Beyond that, if Hochul were to find herself in any electoral danger, she could tap into a huge chest of campaign cash, should the governor's donors learn that it is a priority for him.