Sentences with phrase «campaign dollars»

It's time to move on, find another fake crisis to hype to scare voters and raise campaign dollars.

Investigators are looking at California Rep. Duncan Hunter's use of campaign dollars for personal expenses as far back as 2010.

Our policymakers are controlled by their need for campaign dollars from Big Food, Big Beverage and other billion dollar industries.

«Unfortunately, it's all too common for elected officials who find themselves in these types of situations to spend campaign dollars on criminal defense attorneys, but it's appropriate,» Goldfeder said.

WebVisible found that campaigns with the highest number of leads per campaign dollar used between 1 to 5 negative keywords, combined with the right number of long tail keywords.

They say he's raised tens of millions of campaign dollars from real - estate developers and the super rich, failed on a promise to clean up political corruption and, worse, gone back on his word to end Republican control of the state Senate.

Most of the crucial decisions about how U.S. schools run and who teaches what to whom in which classrooms are still made in 14,000 semi-autonomous school districts, nearly all of them run by locally elected school boards, often with campaign dollars supplied by those with whom they negotiate collectively, and managed by professional superintendents, trained in colleges of education and socialized over the years into the prevailing culture of public education.

And he is one of the very rare breed of Democrats who is not scared off by the Cuomo / Hochul horde of millions of campaign dollars collected almost exclusively from the one percent of corporate polluters, hedge fund billionaires and other rich special interests.

«Arthur Jones is not a real Republican — he is a Nazi whose disgusting, bigoted views have no place in our nation's discourse,» Tim Schneider, the state party chairman, said in a statement, adding that the party would put «real campaign dollars» into an independent candidate to challenge Jones in the general election.

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Also clear is that it's not always overly difficult to squeeze money out of public coffers — perhaps especially if you're willing to throw a few campaign dollars the governor's way.

I do not expect large campaign dollars to end up there, but for precisely targeted public affairs geofencing campaigns, it works.

Where campaign dollars used to be spent on direct mail and television ad buys, their thinking goes, modern political infrastructures should be spending money on YouTube pre-roll video ads, search engine optimization, promoted Tweets and Facebook posts.

Separately, Manhattan district attorney Cy Vance has been looking into whether de Blasio's operatives improperly funneled campaign dollars through party committees to help Democratic candidates for the New York State senate.

Addressing the press after an unrelated event in Manhattan, Cuomo dismissed the idea that he shouldn't keep raking in campaign dollars from entities applying for or receiving funds from Albany — entities like LP Ciminelli, Columbia Development, Competitive Power Ventures and COR Companies, four mega-donors named in U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's and state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's criminal complaints.

Assemblyman Al Stirpe of Cicero was one of those who most benefited from Silver's campaign dollars Silver controlled.

Coffey is believed to have highlighted the governor's scolding of Howe as part of a larger defense effort to try to show the «ziti» meant campaign dollars for Cuomo.

Because of the Board's decision, LLCs have now become one of the easiest ways to pump campaign dollars into the system.

«We believe that everybody should be doing well and it shouldn't be who you're connected to or how many campaign dollars that you received,» Kolb said.

When asked about this use of funds from a state campaign committee, the FEC directed Crain's to its 1996 determination that candidates may not allocate nonfederal campaign dollars toward a federal campaign unless the money comes from their personal funds.

With all that cash in hand, unions are in a position to tell state legislatures what to do, if they want campaign dollars next time around.

Jim Florio, a former Democratic governor of New Jersey who supports Sweeney, suggested public education could be at stake if campaign dollars are diverted from more competitive races in other legislative districts.

Annual Giving Campaign dollars are essential to maintaining a low teacher - to - student ratio and small class size, and to recruiting and retaining our outstanding faculty.

Devote Public Awareness Campaign dollars to educating the public about the extended and expanded home buyer tax credit.

Just the other week, two Niagara politicians were charged with trying to hide who they were paying with campaign dollars.

«Cynthia Nixon, who, unlike the incumbent, is not an ambitious career politician, is not deterred by Cuomo's horde of millions of campaign dollars collected almost exclusively from the 1 percent of corporate polluters, hedge fund billionaires, real estate speculators and other rich special interests,» said NYPAN co-chair Traci Strickland in a statement.

«Mayor Bloomberg spent no time dialing for campaign dollars or hosting fundraisers,» said Patrick Muncie of Tusk Strategies.

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When it comes to raising and spending campaign dollars and living large nobody does it better than Jeff Klein...

Key democrats such as Obama, Dodd and Kerry are the biggest recipients of campaign dollars from them.

«Rick Scott is going to need unprecedented campaign cash to try to cover up for all his self - serving work as Governor but every campaign dollar he spends just reminds voters how he's taken advantage of his job to enrich himself and his donors.

Some of her remarks give fresh fuel to liberals» worst fears about Clinton, namely that she is a political moderate, happy to cut backroom deals with corporate interests and curry favor with Wall Street for campaign dollars.

The League of Women Voters said his abuse of his campaign finances was «a flagrant misuse of campaign dollars,» while The New York Times said they were «concerned» that he had tried to cover - up a scandal.

Embattled California Rep. Duncan Hunter is trying to set up a legal expense fund as he faces a federal criminal investigation for misuse of campaign dollars.

«While the rest of the country was debating the issues of domestic violence, child abuse and the NFL, Cuomo spent his campaign dollars photoshopping Astorino's son out of a sport attack ad,» Hawkins noted.

Good government groups have for years complained that New York's campaign finance laws make it difficult for the public to determine the actual source of campaign dollars, whether due to the so - called «LLC loophole» — which allows business interests that control a network of subsidiaries to vastly multiply their political giving — or corporate formation laws that allow companies to obscure the individuals and other businesses behind them.

Kennedy, at his news conference, stated that twice the campaign rejected offers of campaign dollars but accepted it the third time when provided by an attorney for the Canadian businessman.

The eight lawmakers «solicited and received an unusually high proportion of campaign dollars from the financial sector,» collecting a combined $ 140,000, the Times reports.

And effective or not, I also think it's a bit weird to use campaign dollars and staff to promote a personal venture to line your own pockets.

When it comes to raising and spending campaign dollars and living large nobody does it better than Jeff Klein of The Bronx, who heads the eight member Independent Democratic Conference that has been allied with Republicans in running the state Senate.

Senate Republicans — who are major recipients of campaign dollars that flow through the LLC loophole — have bottled up legislation proposed by Democrats that would stop LLCs from being treated as if they were individual people under election law.

Appearing before the FEC with her 2 - year - old son and 3 - year - old daughter, Liuba Grechen Shirley, a New York Democrat, requested the $ 22 - per - hour childcare expenses she incurred as a result of joining the race for the 2nd Congressional District seat be covered by campaign dollars.

Levy spokesman Dan Aug said the district attorney's office allowed the use of campaign dollars for Scaring, and to pay $ 35,000 to the St. James law firm of Jakubowski, Robertson, Maffei, Goldsmith & Tartaglia, Llp.

Democratic Sen. Mike Gianaris of Queens stopped by Capital Tonight on Monday to tout his conference's ethics proposal that includes public financing of political campaigns, restrictions on using campaign dollars for criminal defense and stripping those convicted of public corruption of their pensions through a constitutional amendment.

But at the start of this election year, Molinaro said he would not run for governor as he viewed an incumbent sitting on 30 million campaign dollars and sweet polling numbers.

These expenses, which include staff dinners during late nights at the Capitol and fundraising meetings, represent less than 1.5 percent of his campaign dollars on hand,» she said.