Sentences with phrase «campaign war chest of»

But while the legal proceedings challenging his candidacy winds its through state court, Blake continues to campaign and add money to his campaign war chest of over $ 160,000 (with about $ 60,000 cash - on - hand).

Senate Republicans have amassed a campaign war chest of nearly $ 5 million, money that will come in handy as the GOP heads in what's widely considered to be a difficult political season.

Ex-city Comptroller John Liu has let his legal challenge of $ 525,000 in fines against his prior campaign languish for at least 18 months — as he sits on a new campaign war chest of $ 444,000, his opponent charged Tuesday.

Sen. Tony Avella says the city should force his primary opponent, former NYC Councilman John Liu, to pay $ 525,000 in fines against his prior campaign, which have languished for 18 months as he sits on a new campaign war chest of $ 444,000.

Meanwhile, Gov. Andrew Cuomo enters 2018 with a campaign war chest of around $ 25 million, having mastered, as the Times recently reported, the art of wooing large donors.

Meanwhile, Gov. Andrew Cuomo enters 2018 with a campaign war chest of around $ 25 million, having mastered, as the

She has also amassed a campaign war chest of over $ 8.1 million.

The next citywide election is three years away, but in the first campaign filing of the 2017 election cycle, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. is sitting on the largest campaign war chest of any politician in the city.

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.

«Charlie Rangel might not have been found guilty of ethical misconduct yet, but there is proof beyond a reasonable doubt that he helped build the Democratic majority by padding the campaign war chests of dozens of members of congress with millions of dollars in contributions,» said NRCC communications director Ken Spain.

According to Reuters, «Like BP, both Transocean... and Halliburton, a contractor, also pumped money into the campaign war chests of senators who sit on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the Environment and Public Works Committee.»

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.