Sentences with phrase «direct in campaign contributions»

He does not have a personal fortune to direct in campaign contributions, but has decades of experience in government and relationships with many key players that date just as long.

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In first quarter of 2018, 61 percent of the direct contributions to his campaign committee came from donations of $ 200 or less.

These include activities considered intervention under the Internal Revenue Code in any political campaign, such as direct and indirect political contributions to candidates, political parties, or political organizations; independent expenditures; or electioneering communications on behalf of federal, state, or local candidates.

Disclose Company's Own Political Spending If a company chooses to use its own funds for direct campaign spending, the issue raised in many shareholder proposals is whether such corporations should — in addition to the governance procedures noted above — issue a comprehensive report which lists in one place all the recipients both of such direct spending and of contributions made from the company's employee PAC.

Campaign contribution limits in effect during the 2016 election capped direct donations to candidates at $ 2,700 for a primary or general election.

In contrast, they welcomed the contributions of those with direct experience of the issues — whether a prison guard talking about immigration in Boston, a former EU commissioner describing his work in Brussels, or a Brussels - based journalist challenging the elected politicians representing the campaignIn contrast, they welcomed the contributions of those with direct experience of the issues — whether a prison guard talking about immigration in Boston, a former EU commissioner describing his work in Brussels, or a Brussels - based journalist challenging the elected politicians representing the campaignin Boston, a former EU commissioner describing his work in Brussels, or a Brussels - based journalist challenging the elected politicians representing the campaignin Brussels, or a Brussels - based journalist challenging the elected politicians representing the campaigns.

Governor Cuomo has received $ 47 million in direct campaign contributions between December 31, 2010 and November 30, 2014.

The Dhingra campaign and Englund campaign spent a combined $ 2.8 million in direct contributions.

Liberal activist groups last week called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to return thousands of dollars he has received in campaign contributions from Daniel Loeb, a billionaire who has come under criticism for racially charged remarks directed at Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

In addition to direct campaign contributions, campaign finance laws also apply to third - party organizations and nonprofit organizations that seek to influence elections through independent expenditures or issue advocacy.

Singh of Syosset pleaded guilty in October 2016 to bribing Mangano and former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto and attempting to bribe de Blasio, to whom Singh said he directed campaign contributions in exchange for efforts to save the struggling Water's Edge.

Using the record from a previous BCRA § 203 challenge, he argued that independent expenditures were sometimes a factor in gaining political access and concluded that large independent expenditures generate more influence than direct campaign contributions.

This includes any activity considered intervention in a political campaign under the Internal Revenue Code, such as direct and indirect contributions to political candidates, parties, or organizations, and independent expenditures or electioneering communications on behalf of federal, state, or local candidates.

In the last election cycle, the money raised in direct contributions by Cuomo's campaign committee was almost three times as much as the total Super PACs spent on every gubernatorial, attorney general, comptroller, Senate, and Assembly candidate combineIn the last election cycle, the money raised in direct contributions by Cuomo's campaign committee was almost three times as much as the total Super PACs spent on every gubernatorial, attorney general, comptroller, Senate, and Assembly candidate combinein direct contributions by Cuomo's campaign committee was almost three times as much as the total Super PACs spent on every gubernatorial, attorney general, comptroller, Senate, and Assembly candidate combined.

Along with Nislick's and Neu's direct contributions to de Blasio's campaign, both they and NYCLASS funded a PAC called New York City is Not for Sale, which, in turn, underwrote ads attacking Christine Quinn, who defends the carriage drivers, and who was at the time considered to be the Democratic front - runner.

In an email, the senator directed a «cooperating witness» about how to funnel campaign contributions through various real estate subsidiaries.

At issue in Vance's investigation is whether the mayor or his apparatchiks sought to circumvent state campaign contribution caps by directing their political allies to write checks to upstate Democratic county committees, which do face the same donation ceilings.

According to testimony and evidence presented at the trial, $ 125,000 in campaign contributions were directed by an outside lobbyist, working with a company seeking to do business with the state, to the governor's re-election campaign through a network of limited liability companies.

The decision found that a quid pro quo arrangement must show some kind of direct benefit to the person paying the alleged bribes — or, in de Blasio's case, the legal campaign contributions.

Meanwhile, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance has another panel hearing arguments that the mayor and his closest political assistants deliberately circumvented campaign finance laws in their failed 2014 effort to flip the State Senate to the Democrats, by directing donors (many of whom also had business before the city) to funnel money into upstate party committees instead of into candidates» individual campaign accounts — thus bypassing state contribution caps.

The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the so - called Citizens United case, which allowed almost unchecked independent expenditures by corporations and unions, also made it nearly impossible for candidates to block outside campaign efforts, whether positive or negative — unlike direct campaign contributions.

«The combination of foundation - funded front - groups, big lobbying budgets, [political action committee] donations, and direct campaign contributions makes Koch Industries and the Koch brothers among the most formidable obstacles to advancing clean energy and climate policy in the U.S.,» Greenpeace says.

Mendes was honored with the John Schlesinger Britannia Award for Excellence in Directing presented by The GREAT Britain Campaign and Ford was honored with the Albert R. Broccoli trophy «for worldwide contribution to entertainment.»

Koch executives and their families wield political influence in other ways too, including direct federal lobbying and campaign contributions.

According to a new paper on judicial integrity, direct campaign contributions undermine the public's confidence in the judiciary.

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