Sentences with phrase «campaigned given the rules»

Trump and Hillary Clinton both campaigned given the rules in place; they would've campaigned differently with different rules.

Not exact matches

Our colleague, David Bullock, has given us a great verbal rule of thumb for testing ads and marketing campaigns:

But under federal campaign finance rules, a contribution is «anything of value given, loaned or advanced to influence a federal election.»

Requesting that the city be given be the ability to independently establish campaign finance and disclosure rules in advance of the 2017 Municipal Election, either via the City Charter or other means.

The rules are simple: you pay a set amount to get a certain good, and you receive that good as long as a given amount of money is raised by the end of the campaign.

Campaign group Republic said the «Queen's and Prince's consent» rule gives the Prince of Wales an effective veto on legislation, which allows Charles to insist on changes to laws which affect his private interests.

The 2004 election cycle saw a dramatic rise in the number and size of nonprofit organizations that bought TV ads, organized voter turnout drives and conducted political «education» campaigns that were effectively working on behalf of (or against) one candidate or party, and because they used «soft money» in the process, their donors weren't limited in how much they could give and didn't fall under the strict disclosure rules required when trying to influence an election.

Despite Gov. Andrew Cuomo not ruling out supporting Republicans this year, Democratic Senate Campaign Committee Chairman Mike Gianaris remains upbeat, telling Liz last night on the show that Cuomo will ultimately settle with the minority conference given their agreement on bread - and - butter party issues such as women's» health and increasing the state's minimum wage.

Individual donors can give no more than $ 5000 per campaign under the current rules, for example, while direct donations from corporations and labor unions are banned altogether.

After the Judge ruled Phil Ragusa as the Chairman plenipotentiary of the Queens GOP, City Councilman Ulrich, who received political help from the GOP during his campaign, gives an old fashion public backstabbing to Robert Hornak and Vince Tabone.

Symbols of the ruling party and the president — including pagnes (clothing fabric / tissue) decorated with RDPC insignia and the face of the president, campaign T - shirts from every campaign of the last 25 years (given free of charge to Cameroonians as an impetus to vote for Biya), official Biya portraits in every public office, campaign posters in private homes and businesses, billboards of Biya's grinning face at the entrances and exists of most towns — abound.

Worse still, given the wrangles over Scotland's future currency, the decision by both campaigns to simply stare each other down on the retention (or otherwise) of sterling has ruled out important discussion of the alternatives — from a free - floating «Scot #» or currency peg, to union with sterling or the euro.

On the campaign trail, Akufo - Addo is literally imploring the electorate to give him the mandate to rule them.

In effect, the ruling has allowed each LLC to give $ 150,000 annually to New York campaigns, and developers to give multiple maximum donations to the same candidate.

And given that campaign treasuries can be used for almost anything, including veterinarian bills, pool parties and birthdays, clear rules regarding campaign funds are paramount.

Good - government advocates fear this morning Supreme Court ruling could have wide - reaching effects for New York's own aggregate limits on campaign contributions in a given election cycle.

Peter Kehoe, the Meyer campaign attorney, had argued the state party didn't follow its rules for giving notice of the meeting.

Advocates for stronger enforcement of campaign finance rules said the group's maneuver around the coordination ban effectively circumvents the limits on how much individuals can give to candidates.

Leshinsky himself gave $ 2,500 to de Blasio's mayoral run — donations that broke the city's campaign finance rules.

Due to a 1996 reading of a later changed federal rule, a single contributor can give well above the legal limit to political campaigns and causes in New York through a network of LLCs.

«Her Excellency Aisha Buhari has appealed to the ruling party All Progressives Congress, APC not to renege on their campaign promise of paying N5, 000 to 25 million unemployed Nigerians and giving school children one free meal a day,» read a statement issued on her behalf by Adebisi Olumide, her media aide.

The LLC loophole, which grew from a controversial 1996 state Board of Elections ruling, allows each limited liability company owned by a developer to give up to $ 150,000 annually to New York campaigns, the same amount an individual can give.

But whenever he was given the chance to rule it out decisively — as he had done four years earlier, in the run - up to the 1988 campaign — he demurred.

But under current rules, 501 C 4's do not have to publicly say who gave them donations to carry out the campaign.

Despite revelations last week that the governor's officials have steered state housing bond work to his campaign contributors in apparent defiance of federal pay - to - play rules, New York state officials on Friday announced they are giving those same donors even more lucrative business — this time on a massive new transportation revenue bond.

The LLC loophole came about from a 1996 ruling by the state Board of Elections that allowed LLC's to give $ 150,000 annually to New York campaigns because it recognized them as individuals rather than corporations.

Despite revelations last week that the governor's officials have steered state housing bond work to his campaign contributors in apparent defiance of federal pay - to - play rules, New York state officials announced they are giving those same donors even more lucrative business.

Given the new rules, and the phenomenal increase in the size of the party electorate that these (and Corbyn's campaign) have generated, it is inevitable that some Trotskyists, Greens and others will have been able to slip through the net.

New Jersey's Republican governor said at a town hall in Somerset Tuesday that rules limiting the amount someone can give to a campaign doesn't «stop money from getting into politics anyway.»

To officially endorse any campaign, we would need to follow the rules we established in our bylaws for fairness to all candidates: we need to invite candidates to meet with our members, then give members a chance to vote on an endorsement.

Mr. Cuomo himself has benefited from lax rules that have allowed him to raise nearly half of the $ 45 million for his campaign mostly from the developers and lobbyists giving $ 40,000 or more.

Vince Cable told Channel 4 News: «Following that advertisement, and it may not have been the best designed advertisement campaign that's ever been considered, I was repeatedly asked... what our views were on VAT and I said many times that this is not something that can be ruled out - no sensible person would rule it out, given the seriousness of the financial situation.»

The name of a «high elected official» who is alleged to have received cash payments or campaign contributions in exchange for giving a Stony Brook title company public work can be revealed in an upcoming fraud trial, according to a court ruling issued Thursday.

The amount of money provided by the state party to local candidates far exceeded what Miner's Promise PAC could give them directly, under state campaign finance rules.

Spencer Livermore, Labour's general election campaign director in 2015, has said that John McDonnell's announcement about fiscal rules is «unlikely to give us credibility».

But earlier this fall, it emerged that some of the people listed as donors to his campaign hadn't actually given to him, and that their names had been deployed so that wealthy Liu supporters could skirt the rules that limited them from giving too much.

I am sure your campaign will be a huge success and I hope it gives some fellow females the boost they need to rock their desired look, and break the «rules».

During the campaign, the OQLF ordered several multinationals including Best Buy, Costco, Gap, Old Navy, Guess, Wal - Mart, Toys «R» Us and Curves International to change their signs to either give themselves a generic French name or add a slogan or explanation in French that reflects what they sell, otherwise they would risk running afoul of the rules governing the language of business in the province.

Unlike laws allowing legislatures to override court rules or giving politicians more control over judicial selection, recusal rules govern the ethics of judges, and they are only necessary in states in which the high courts have failed to respond adequately to the swelling tide of campaign cash.

Under the ethical rules and guidelines in place in most states, judges must disclose any campaign donations from parties or attorneys before their courts, and they must refrain from hearing a case if it would give rise to «impropriety or the appearance of impropriety.»

To meet federal election rules, such support must be given without coordinating with the candidates» campaigns.