Sentences with phrase «campaign purposes»

State law makes it illegal to use state resources for campaign purposes.

On record, no such amount came into the region for campaign purposes in the first place, for it to even land in the pocket of the regional chairman.

By law, no elected official is allowed to use city resources for campaign purposes or work on a campaign while on the clock.

Those around Farage had expected Carswell to divert the money for wider campaigning purposes, something Carswell refused to do.

The state's campaign finance law permits the filing of unitemized expense reports for purchases under $ 50, but it does require that all funds be spent on legitimate campaign purposes.

Finally, the LA Times (via Political Wire) reports on controversy surrounding a «back - channel e-mail and paging system, paid for and maintained by the RNC, [and] designed to avoid charges that had vexed the Clinton White House — that federal resources were being used inappropriately for political campaign purposes.»

The board will also scrutinize candidate expenditures, and deny any not used for campaign purposes.

And Thomas noted that the gifts from one of the donors continued after Edwards dropped out of the race, indicating they were not for campaign purposes.

So if the payment was indeed made for a campaign purpose, then it is a loan to the campaign, and that is something which must be disclosed and reported to the Federal Election Commission.

It's easy to argue that when Michael Cohen used $ 130,000 of his own money to pay Stormy Daniels not to reveal her affair with then - candidate Trump, that payment was made for a campaign purpose.

If Trump knew that Cohen was advancing him a $ 130,000 loan for campaign purposes, that would have to be reported by the campaign, as would the payments Giuliani said Trump made in installments to Cohen.

Maybe then he'll have to admit he's only Catholic for campaign purposes and the only God he believes in is green on paper.

He is not an outlier when it comes to visiting breweries for campaigning purposes.

There is a reason organisations that rely on Parliament for campaigning purposes and income are desperate to know as much as possible about new arrivals following the next election.

A letter filing a formal complaint over the video to JCOPE, obtained by Capital Tonight, says the video «was both produced for campaign purposes and is expressly political content.»

«What we do know is that it is a clear violation of state law to use any government assets, including phones, computers, copiers, printers and office space for campaign purposes.

«What we do know is that it is a clear violation of state law to use any government assets, including phones, computers, copier, printers and office space for campaign purposes.

If any information had been improperly obtained by Gargiulo for the candidates, or if «there was any misuse of state resources for campaign purposes, then these candidates would have been denied their... grant money,» he wrote.

Social media is a great campaign tool and you shouldn't shy away from it (In fact, if you neglect social media it could hurt your chances of getting elected), but you should be careful when using social media for campaign purposes.

In 2010, they endorsed Joyce Johnson, a Seagram's exec with limited political experience, but they couldn't then endorse Charlie Rangel, whose use of rent - stabilized apartments for campaign purposes — a story that the Times uncovered — led to the longtime pol's censure in the House.

«Using official resources for campaign purposes is a clear violation» of House rules and federal law, Slaughter said, «and is a clear and undeniable abuse of official staff time, resources and attention.»

(In Cuomo's first term, that company loaned the governor a private jet for campaign purposes and it received $ 3.3 million to construct housing in Ballston).

This means that wealthy federal political candidates can use jointly - held assets for campaign purposes.

«Jack Martins is flagrantly abusing taxpayer dollars by using government mailers for campaign purposes,» said Haber campaign spokesman Jacob Tugendrajch.

We would, of course, request that all parties agree in advance that no portion of the video or audio of the debate could be used for commercial or campaign purposes.»

In other instances, the national executives received it and passed it on, so whatever had to be released for campaign purposes were released to be appropriate bodies.»

The trial did not produce evidence as to who approved such an unusual arrangement, one that violated state laws pertaining to use of public property for campaign purposes.

Ross Furlong, an online public relations expert, said Brown's tweets could help Labour despite the fact that she does not use them for campaigning purposes.

Many people are (reasonably enough) suspicious about polls commissoned by pressure groups for campaigning purposes.

Asked on Wednesday if DeFrancisco would also criticize his Republican colleague's apparent use of government resources for campaign purposes, DeFrancisco spokesman Bill O'Reilly said: «We don't know what occurred in that instance, but obviously the law should be followed.»

«I conclude, therefore, that the way Mr Hunter deployed this survey in his Liberal Democrat newsletter was a breach of the rules since he was using the product of material paid for from the Communications Allowance for party political or campaigning purposes.»

It's a violation of New York law to use a state office for campaign purposes.

But, the DA said, his recent use for campaign purposes was reason for concern.

Ball ignored Lyons» many efforts to get explanations for the transactions, nor would he detail the campaign purposes of other trips to Acapulco, Juarez, New Orleans and elsewhere.

He never introduced legislation or talked up the idea, but Republicans have exhumed the proposal for campaign purposes.

He argued: «The time of school staff that is taken away from supporting pupils to respond to vexatious complaints serves only to fulfil the campaigning purpose of one organisation.»

What do the Equifax breach, Cambridge Analytica's use of Facebook users» data for political campaign purposes and Grindr's sharing of users» HIV status have in common?

Musk's decision comes as users are abandoning Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations, where it emerged that the startup had harvested 50 million users» data for political campaigning purposes.

Over the weekend, two major investigations revealed that Cambridge Analytica collected the data of 50 million Facebook users without their permission to use for campaign purposes.

Facebook has to explain how exactly their platform was and is being used for political campaigning purposes.»