Sentences with phrase «campaign war chest on»

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

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 campaign to take on Cuomo this year is considered in uphill one, given Democratic advantages at the polls in a midterm election and the governor's $ 30 million campaign war chest.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's re-election campaign is set to report having more than $ 8.5 million in cash on hand, his biggest war chest ever.

Still, despite a built - in statewide enrollment advantage, Republicans do have an edge in fundraising, with their campaign committee sitting on a $ 2.2 million war chest.

The junior senator has amassed a $ 9.9 million war chest (and counting), while Long's campaign debt exceeds her cash on hand by about $ 81,000.

Gillibrand is also sitting on a $ 9.6 million campaign war chest.

The money John siphoned from the Mayor's campaign war chest was used as a payoff to his brother Bart Haggerty for a fancy house on a hill where they presumably ate the fruit from the poisoned tree.

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.

There's one bank account that Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara can't get his asset - freezing fingers on as he plans a likely multimillion - dollar restitution order against Sheldon Silver: the pol's campaign war chest, which Silver can continue to use to pay legal fees.

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.

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

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, armed with a $ 4.9 million campaign war chest and a double - digit polling lead over his nearest Democratic primary rival, is expected to cruise to victory on Tuesday, but not without a fight from four long - shot candidates.

He now heads into the general election campaign with a nearly $ 5 million war chest, compared with Malliotakis, a Staten Island assemblywoman who entered the race in April, with $ 220,000 on hand.

«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.

Republican candidate for governor Rob Astorino has $ 1.2 million in cash on hand with about a month to go before Election Day in November — a sum that is vastly smaller than Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $ 25 million war chest, campaign - finance filings posted today show.

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.

The union ads that strafed the weaker Governor Paterson during his brief tenure won't be as effective on a popularly elected governor in his first year, particularly one who saved millions from his campaign war chest — and is therefore able to finance his own ads in response.

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.

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.

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.

Republican county chairpersons are meeting in Albany on Monday to talk about who should be the candidate, with a need to start fundraising to match Cuomo's $ 26 million campaign war chest.

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.

Former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos spent another $ 427,000 from his election war chest on criminal - defense lawyers who helped get his corruption conviction overturned, according to campaign - finance filings.

The campaign of Andrew Cuomo announced yesterday that it had raised a very healthy $ 9.2 million over the past six months, bringing his total war chest up to $ 23.6 million, the most cash on hand that any candidate for governor has ever had in July.

Cuomo, drawing from a $ 35 million campaign war chest, has bought a significant amount of air time on news and sports programs to run spots painting a negative picture of his GOP opponent, including one that criticizes Astorino for allegedly putting relatives on the public pay roll, saying it's Christmas in July.

On this week's Gazette: Governor Andrew Cuomo is tapping his campaign war chest to pay for a criminal defense lawyer after U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said his office is looking into possible obstruction of justice or witness tampering in the activities of the Moreland Commission.

Unlike the Yes campaign, who can rely on the war chests of the Electoral Reform Society and Joseph Rowntree, we have had to raise funds from a standing start to fight this referendum.

Karen Welzel of Winter Haven, a former chair of the Polk County Democratic Party, blamed Shira's loss, not on Republican ideologies, but on the massive war chest Tomkow «s campaign had amassed.

They're both stalwart incumbents with high name recognition, and their campaigns were fueled by war chests that, on the scale of elections in these upstate communities, should have been big enough to make them invincible.

In comparison, Christine Quinn who is widely expected to run for Mayor — but has not yet declared — is sitting on a $ 4.5 million dollar campaign war chest.

He has more than $ 30 million in his campaign war chest and has incumbency on his side.

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.

Cuomo, who has a large campaign war chest reported to be $ 33.3 million and is seeking to receive a historically large victory this year, received 146,576 votes in 2010 when he ran on the Independence Party's line.

He didn't need to mention that this incumbent has spent most of his time in office building a large campaign war chest and a huge «favor bank» — by selling access to City Hall and showering public resources on all those he expects to help in the future.

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.

Mr. Astorino, for reasons that aren't clear, refused to participate in the radio debate, which at the least would have attracted heavy newspaper coverage of the one opportunity the Governor was offering him to go one - on - one on equal footing rather than taking body blows from Mr. Cuomo's far superior campaign war chest.

Republicans also face the likelihood that the Skelos - seat battle will be a multimillion - dollar drain on their campaign war chest that will, should the Democrat win, leave them with reduced prospects of raising large sums for the November elections.

He said he plans to rely on grassroots fundraising to take on Collins, who had nearly $ 1 million in his campaign war chest at the end of March and who had at least nine D.C. fundraisers in the year's second quarter.

Republican presidential candidate made the rounds courting the mega-rich for donations in the Hamptons on Sunday in effort to add to his campaign war chest.

Democrat Brian Moran, the former House delegate from Alexandria, raised roughly $ 755,000 since June and rustled up more than $ 2 million over the course of the year, but his campaign spent much of that war chest building their operation and finished 2008 with about $ 770,000 on hand.

Other elected Republicans balked at running for county executive against Bellone, who a year ago had been sitting on a $ 2 million campaign war chest with a well - organized Suffolk County Democratic Committee and politically influential police unions firmly in his corner.

Cuomo is sitting on a massive $ 23.6 million campaign war chest, and only recently started spending some of that on ads for his gubernatorial campaign.

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).

He campaign war chest dwarfs those of all of his rivals except Paladino, a wealthy developer who has pledged to spend $ 10 million on his campaign and is worth an estimated $ 150 million.

Cuomo, drawing from a $ 35 million dollar campaign war chest, has bought a significant amount of air time on news and sports programs to run spots painting a negative picture of his GOP opponent, including one that criticizes Astorino for allegedly putting relatives on the public pay roll, saying it's Christmas in July.