Sentences with phrase «campaign finance funds»

As the 2013 session of the Connecticut General Assembly came to a close, Malloy and the Democrats passed legislation that allowed candidates to keep the public campaign finance funds while opening the flood gates to tainted campaign contributions.

With Governor Cuomo holding a massive campaign finance fund and the incumbents in a position to raise cash, the choices are expected to be made soon.

Separately, he pocketed $ 11,500 in city campaign finance funds, using much of the money on himself at stores ranging from Nordstrom to Dunkin' Donuts to Victoria's Secret.

The disparity was due to Hogan's commitment to a publicly financed campaign, which meant a single payment of $ 2.6 million from the state's dedicated campaign finance fund.

NYC has struggled to recoup public campaign finance funds, and two dozen candidates owe a total of $ 800,000 from publicly subsidized races in 2001, 2003 and 2005.