Sentences with phrase «campaign war chests by»

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

The younger Cuomo has about $ 30 million in his campaign war chest, and registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by a 2 - 1 margin in New York state.

Gianaris did not give Vallone any cash, but three months before that endorsement the lawmaker dished out $ 3,850 to Avella — the maximum allowed by campaign laws and the largest contribution in the lawmaker's war chest.

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.

Blair Horner, legislative director for the New York Public Interest Research Group, said the track should not be used by politicians to fatten their campaign war chests.

With $ 1.1 mil still sitting in his campaign war chest, he COULD bump it up another $ 750Gs in matching funds if he steps into the «gettin» crowded» city Controller's race by just raising another $ 125G.

The new deputy Senate majority leader, a Syracuse Republican who opposes most campaign finance reforms proposed this month by Cuomo, has more money in his campaign war chest than any of the 61 other sitting senators.

Republican Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb earned a note of distinction by becoming the first major - party candidate to formally declare a campaign to unseat Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whose formidable war chest and bruising political style have seemingly made other potential candidates wary to enter the 2018 race.

The day after Paterson's energetic Jackson - lunch speech, his latest campaign filing showed a paltry $ 3 million in the bank, a war chest dwarfed by his putative rival's $ 16 million.

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.

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.

In «Submarine Politics,» the New Times wrote: «Despite a $ 1.8 million campaign war chest financed by county contractors and various special interest groups like the Florida International University Foundation, and an army of heavy - hitting political strategists such as Keith Fredericks, voters flatly rejected the tax increase because of their mistrust of county government.

Gillibrand, who was appointed by former Governor David Paterson to replace Hillary Clinton, has already won an election for her job, in 2010, and she's fairly popular and has a significant campaign war chest.

He's been running 30 points behind Cuomo in the polls, and has been outspent by the governor's massive $ 35 million campaign war chest.

According to the Olusola Oke Campaign Committee, the contract sum was perfected and released without going through due process and the money has now been earmarked as part of the war chest to be used by the APC to rig the election later this month.

By comparison, Katko had more than $ 1 million in his campaign war chest.

We have already seen shifts in the July filing of his campaign war chest which showed $ 12.7 million, a cesspool of vulnerability for the new standards being carved out by federal prosecutor Bharara.

«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.

He had $ 699,177 on hand after paying back that loan to himself, but thanks to his efforts in 2017, his campaign war chest was back up to $ 1.18 million by the end of the year.

WASHINGTON — Rep. Chris Collins had $ 1.22 million in his campaign war chest after winning re-election by 34 points in November 2016.

«Corrupt elected officials who are caught defrauding the public should not be allowed to add insult to injury by utilizing campaign war chests to pay their legal fees,» O'Brien said in a statement in May this year.

The organization says its support is based on its assessment of a candidate's viability, judged mainly by the professionalism of the campaign and the size of its war chest.