Candidates in last November's first ever police and crime
commissioner elections spent a total of # 2.1 m trying to get elected in the four weeks before the polls, an average of # 11,220 each, the Electoral Commission has reported.
Not exact matches
If it sounds like Edwards still needed to apply FEC rules and limits, consider this: Scott Thomas, a former
commissioner of the Federal
Election Commission testified that he did not consider that the payments would have come under his agency's auspices — in part because they were not used directly for the campaign and did not free up any of Edwards» own money to be
spent on the campaign.
- When we are losing thousands of police officers and police staff, how have we ended up
spending more on police
commissioners than the old police authorities, with more
elections currently timetabled for 2016?
In addition, although the investigation of independent expenditure groups was part of the commission's mandate, the governor's staff allegedly told
commissioners not to mention a pro-Cuomo organization, the Committee to Save New York — which
spent more than $ 16 million on lobbying and
elections without fully disclosing the source of its contributions — in their final report.
James P. O'Neill, the police
commissioner, wrote in a letter in February to the state's congressional delegation that the Police Department had
spent $ 300,000 a day protecting Trump Tower between
Election Day and Inauguration Day and $ 127,000 to $ 145,000 a day since then, on top of other costs.
The New York City police
commissioner said the department had
spent $ 300,000 a day protecting Trump Tower between
Election Day and Inauguration Day.
All told, Onondaga County
spent about $ 187,000 to open 180 polling places for the primary, according to Dustin Czarny, the county's Democratic
elections commissioner.
Sugarman said in a memo to Board of
Elections Commissioners, reported by the Daily News, that she tailored her investigation to complaints referred to her office specifically about de Blasio's fundraising and
spending by the Ulster and Putnam County Democratic Committees.
The purpose of the law is to prevent candidates from
spending contributions improperly, said Edward Szczesniak, the county's Democratic
elections commissioner.
The winner of this year's mayoral
election will
spend two years as Deputy Mayor and
commissioner, followed by two years as Mayor.