Sentences with phrase «city campaign funds»

He also used a shell company, Micro Targeting, ran by his relative, Jelemi Mills, to steal more than $ 11,000 in matching city campaign funds, according to state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office.

Some of those who have already announced, filed a City campaign fund, or told someone they were running who then told me are Assemblyman Felix Ortiz (D - Brooklyn), Mark Gjonaj (D - Bronx), Peter Abbate (D — Brooklyn) and Francisco Moya (D — Queens).

Not exact matches

This topic came up recently at a meeting where everyone was bemoaning the funding cutbacks in social services in many cities and the fact that outreach efforts, awareness campaigns and other marketing initiatives were among the first things to be dropped.

Funded by Failte, the city of Dublin's minister of transport, tourism, and sports unveiled a new marketing campaign, giving Dublin the slogan: «A breath of fresh air.»

Trump made numerous anti-immigration promises during his campaign, ranging from building a massive wall across the U.S.'s southwestern border to ending federal funding for «sanctuary cities» that are friendly to undocumented immigrants.

San Jose City Councilmembers Raul Peralez, Chappie Jones and Sergio Jimenez endorsed Antonio Villaraigosa for governor... Insurance commissioner candidate Asif Mahmood has been endorsed by Antioch Councilmember Monica Wilson; Skyler Tempel, Vice Chair Riverside Democratic Party and Monterey Councilmember Alan Haffa... The Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club, San Francisco's largest Democratic Club, has endorsed Dave Jones for attorney general... State Treasurer John Chiang's campaign for governor announced the endorsement of the AAPI Democratic Club of San Diego... The Latino Victory Fund endorsed Gil Cisneros in CA - 39.

A massive campaign aimed at forcing Switzerland to make billions available in «compensation» was launched by the WJC, with the governors of four American states threatening economic sanctions against the Swiss, and the City of Los Angeles withdrawing millions of dollars of pension funds from a Swiss bank.

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«The Merseyside giants earned # 97,544,336 from Premier League funds for their 2013 - 14 campaign, pushing champions Manchester City into second place.

In the late 1980s, Margaret Brodkin of Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth led a campaign that established the Children's Fund to ensure permanent funding for vital services for kids, and the city's Department of Children Youth and their Families was created, to make sure that children's issues were handled by a department focused solely on their unique needs.

A political organization funded by a top hotel - trades union has helped develop the Share Better campaign — a multifaceted lobbying effort to persuade New York City politicians to curtail Airbnb, according to emails and records reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

According to a report in today's City Hall News, the same consulting firm that handled the ads for the «NYC Not for Sale» campaign last year — the Advance Group — is handling a $ 200,000 labor - funded ad buy to help three Democratic incumbent senators — Foley, Aubertine and Valesky — in hopes of ultimately seeing passage of the Taxpayer Protection Act.

The New York City Campaign Finance Board has a long history of denying government matching funds to candidates with questionable fundraising operations, and Democratic mayoral hopeful / NYC Comptroller John Liu could become the highest - profile target.

De Blasio is defending the privately - funded non-profit organizations tied to his administration after a government watchdog group, Common Cause New York, demanded an investigation, saying he js making a mockery of the city's campaign finance laws and may be running afoul of the City Charcity's campaign finance laws and may be running afoul of the City CharCity Charter.

Cuomo highlighted the issue in his campaign policy book on government reform, wrting, «Like New York City, New York State needs a system of public campaign financing to set limits on campaign spending and to increase participation by qualified candidates who lack the means or the connections to raise significant campaign funds.»

During a brief press conference outside Mount Vernon City Hall, Thomas denied any allegations after being accused of misappropriating thousands of dollars in funds from his campaign committee.

It's about forcing the city to comply with the Campaign for Fiscal Equity which sued over inequitable distribution of funding among wealthier and poorer school districts back in 1993.

At 1 p.m., NYC Councilman Rafael Espinal and members of the council's Jewish Caucus launch a campaign to secure more funding for the Elie Wiesel Holocaust Survivors Initiative, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Sen. Jeffrey Klein, of New York City, the leader of a renegade caucus of Senate Democrats who temporarily shared power with the Republican majority, had the second - highest amount in campaign funds, $ 1.1 million.

Cuomo would like to model the state's system on the New York City campaign finance system, which offers candidates matching funds, once they have solicited small contributions from individual donors.

The report, «By the People: The New York City Campaign Finance Program in the 2013 Elections,» shows, among other things, that: the number of candidates participating in the public - funding system in 2013 remained high; more than two - thirds of all New York City contributors gave $ 175 or less; and more than 90 percent of the total raised came from individual contributors, rather than from PACs or unions.

The campaign fund recorded $ 140,000 in unitemized expenditures between 2008 and 2013, according to City and State, and Moreland Commission documents indicated the money paid for everything from wine to a clown rental.

The committee to reëlect New York City Councilmember Corey Johnson admitted in a filing made with the New York City Campaign Finance Board that it used reëlection funds to pay for his speakership race, an act that, in the past, was described as prohibited.

«The 6th District and America need to stop big corporate money from privatizing our democracy, which means public funding for public elections as we have in NYC and a DISCLOSE act so anonymous money from billionaires doesn't buy our government,» said Green, who is the author of Who Runs Congressand Losing Our Democracy, as well as the author of the multiple matching funds for small donors part of the City's campaign finance law.

According to Schneiderman, Wills used public matching funds from his 2009 campaign for City Council to pay $ 11,500 to Micro Targeting, a shell company created to translate and distribute campaign literature.

But it also presents grim funding questions for the MTA and other big - city transit agencies, according to the analysis, a joint study from transportation advocacy groups Riders Alliance and the Tri-State Transportation Campaign.

Many proposals to «fix corruption» focus on creating a taxpayer - funded campaign finance system, similar to New York City's, and do not address changes necessary for true reform and parity amongst all parties impacted by elections.

Despite the polling lead, de Blasio successfully argued to the city's campaign finance board earlier this month that his campaign should receive an additional $ 1.6 million in public matching funds, saying the race was indeed competitive.

While there are a number of expenditures that raise questions, several experts consulted by City & State made the point that the legal definition of what constitutes a legitimate use of campaign funds in New York State is extremely broad, and that even expenses that seemed like personal use on their face could actually be allowable based on the letter of the law.

«City law has more thorough regulations on the proper use of campaign funds than the state does,» said Amy Loprest, executive director of the New York City Campaign Financcampaign funds than the state does,» said Amy Loprest, executive director of the New York City Campaign FinancCampaign Finance Board.

That's because run - offs fall under state law, not city law, and the state allows campaign funds to pay for criminal defense lawyers.

Amidst the media's recent focus on independent redistricting, New York City Council member Dan Garodnick encourages New Yorkers not to lose sight of the importance of campaign finance reform, highlighting the many benefits that the New York City public matching funds system has created for small donors, candidates for public office, and the voting public.

But she is a longtime political activist who has lobbied for better education funding, marriage equality and women's rights, and she has campaigned for such politicians as President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Since 2011, Keith has worked for City Council Speaker Peter Vallone, Sr. helping to advocate for after school funding, expanded Advanced Placement, prevent bullying of LGBT students in public schools, secure funding for employment and workforce programs, create new affordable housing, and preserve the quality of life on the Upper East Side, In 2006, Keith was the tenant organizer for the «Preserve Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village» campaign during the sale of the neighborhood to Tishman Speyer.

Oliver Rosenberg's campaign says that days after he filed papers to run in the June 28 primary, he was contacted by a Nadler ally who offered to raise thousands of dollars in campaign funds if Rosenberg instead ran for a City Council seat.

Wills was elected in 2010, and used public matching funds from his 2009 City Council campaign to pay more than $ 11,000 to a shell company that was supposed to translate and distribute campaign literature, the state attorney general said.

«We're going to demand that Governor Cuomo provide the funding that was afforded to us in a court decision for our schools,» she said as she joined advocates to push for more funding under the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which in 2007 won a lawsuit against the state to provide increased education funding to the city.

The report, issued Monday and made public Thursday, came a week after Thomas was charged by the state Attorney General's Office with stealing nearly $ 13,000 in campaign funds and failing to report on his city financial disclosure forms more than $ 75,000 he received from individuals, companies and his inaugural committee.

A prominent Bronx politician lobbied to run a new City Council committee that oversees taxis and car services after collecting thousands in campaign funds from the industry.

He's taking advantage of the fact that while city law mandates donations for primary and general elections can only be used for lawyers handling non-criminal matters related to a campaign, funds raised for run - off elections face no such restriction.

Campaign Finance Reform Can Help Crack Down on Corruption A 2011 report by the Center for Competitive Politics has been seized upon by opponents of Fair Elections to argue that the public financing system in New York City is characterized by consistent abuse of public funds and corruption.

By most ways of measuring, New York City developers are the largest source of campaign funds in the state — they accounted for 10 percent of total contributions in the last election cycle.

And in 2008, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, after lavishing campaign funds on state Senate Republicans, still failed to get his coveted congestion pricing plan for New York City to help reduce emissions and limit vehicular traffic in Manhattan.

Good government groups have said this week's video is a questionable use of city funds that came off more like a campaign ad than your standard issue press release.

Besides actress Cynthia Nixon, nearly two dozen of 58 Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City appointees (or their relatives) gave Mayor de Blasio's campaign the maximum allowed, or raised above $ 4,950 as intermediaries, including Gina Argento, Jay Eisenhofer and Anthony Bonomo.

I'm sure you remember how Ball created a charity to introduce underprivileged inner city children to the sport of polo (I swear I'm not making that up) and used a fundraiser that donors believed was for the charity to fund his first campaign for the Assembly.

Malliotakis» financial picture may markedly improve with matching funds from the City's Campaign Finance Board.

Last year Mr. Martinez ran into trouble with the City Campaign Finance Board for submitting, in classic Uptown style, «self - created, non-contemporaneous» vendor receipts in order to receive matching fund reimbursement for non-existing expenses... okay maybe his campaign just lost the receipts... still, I would love to see what the forged ones loCampaign Finance Board for submitting, in classic Uptown style, «self - created, non-contemporaneous» vendor receipts in order to receive matching fund reimbursement for non-existing expenses... okay maybe his campaign just lost the receipts... still, I would love to see what the forged ones locampaign just lost the receipts... still, I would love to see what the forged ones look like.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

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