Sentences with phrase «dollar campaign allowed»

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As for the end result of all of that enthusiasm, we already know the story: online fundraising allowed Barack Obama to opt out of the public campaign financing system and outspend John McCain by hundreds of millions of dollars in the general election.

«Not only are those ads relatively inexpensive; they've allowed often cash - strapped campaigns to determine whether their dollars were well spent, before voters went to the polls.»

Allies of the mayor are under investigation in part for channeling millions of dollars in campaign donations to county committees, which allowed them to seemingly avoid contribution limits when those dollars wound up in the coffers of individual candidates.

Gambling Industry Donates Millions to New York Politicians As Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature discuss the process of amending the State Constitution to allow up to seven new full - scale, privately owned casinos in New York, the gambling industry is funneling millions of dollars into lobbying efforts and campaign war chests.

«The people of New York are demanding change and it's time we took action to restore the public trust by closing the LLC loophole and bringing fairness to our campaign finance system,» Cuomo said in the May 24 statement announcing his bill menu aimed at closing the loophole that has allowed tens of millions of dollars into campaign accounts.

Last month, President Obama spoke at a Murphy fund - raiser in Miami — one of many high - dollar events that Murphy advisers believe will allow them to spend as much as $ 8 million in his primary campaign against Grayson.

But Sugarman said there is evidence demonstrating that the de Blasio team coordinated its fundraising activities and intentionally solicited significantly higher - than - allowed contributions for three candidates — totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars — by having the checks sent to the two county committees and the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, which then quickly transferred the funds to the campaigns.

Good government groups have for years complained that New York's campaign finance laws make it difficult for the public to determine the actual source of campaign dollars, whether due to the so - called «LLC loophole» — which allows business interests that control a network of subsidiaries to vastly multiply their political giving — or corporate formation laws that allow companies to obscure the individuals and other businesses behind them.

Klein, a former head of the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, said the public's mood over publicly financed campaigns needes to be gauged first, noting that some voters may be uneasy with allowing taxpayer dollars to fund political campaigns (the Senate GOP, which has equal governing weight in the coalition, has cited this reason for its opposition to public financing).

That the Governor who raised 33 million dollars from real - estate donors and corporate entities before the gubernatorial campaign even started may have allowed undue influence for these entities to lobby and pass legislation they desired as a result of their donations to the Cuomo campaign war chest.

Instead, the release cites McDonald's support last December of a «3 billion dollar tax increase even though his campaign pledge was not to support taxes,» and his backing of a recent attempt to «weaken the tax cap» by allowing school districts to bond out pension costs.

The party's willingness to pick up certain expenses for the two candidates allowed them to avoid hundreds of thousands of dollars in what are identified under state campaign law as organizational expenses.

The loophole has allowed special interest groups to funnel tens of millions of dollars into political campaigns, sometimes in secret, and circumvent contribution limits that individuals would otherwise have to follow, according to the Brennan Center, which has sued New York's Board of Elections to try to force it to close the loophole.

De Blasio has drawn criticism from good government groups for his use of the Campaign for one New York, which allowed donors with business before the city to give in amounts far greater than the small dollar limits imposed by the city's campaign financeCampaign for one New York, which allowed donors with business before the city to give in amounts far greater than the small dollar limits imposed by the city's campaign financecampaign finance system.

One $ 4,950 donation — the maximum allowed under campaign finance rules — came from Paul Raps, who was accused of stealing millions of dollars in cash and gems from Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev.

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Since every dollar donated allows Feed Nova Scotia to distribute $ 14 worth of food, the campaign makes a big difference.