Sentences with phrase «dollar campaign backed»
On Tuesday, however, Mr. Cuomo took square aim at six members of New York's Republican congressional delegation, kicking off what promises to be a multimillion - dollar campaign backed by the state's Democratic Party.
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Paladino, who has kept a rather low profile of late (for him, anyway) while he dials for dollars and plots his next move (according to campaign manager Michael Caputo), engaged in a little mockery of Cuomo, insisting the once - comfortable frontrunner has been rocked back on his heels and showing the strain.
«Not only did Buerkle overlook the tens of thousands of dollars she owed in back taxes, but at the very same time, she was lavishing tens of thousands of dollars on her own political ambition, extending a major loan to her own campaign.»
The result: tens of millions of dollars from small donors, people that the campaign can go back to over and over for money.
After the congressional campaign of Democrat Zephyr Teachout this week challenged the top - dollar donors to a super PAC backing Republican John Faso to a debate, Republicans are highlighting her ties to the mega rich, namely the Soros family.
«It's disappointing that Governor Cuomo and some state lawmakers — pushed by powerful, labor - backed special interests — continue to pursue the use of tax dollars to fund partisan political campaigns,» said the group's executive director, Brian Sampson.
They say he's raised tens of millions of campaign dollars from real - estate developers and the super rich, failed on a promise to clean up political corruption and, worse, gone back on his word to end Republican control of the state Senate.
ALBANY — A group advocating public campaign finance is taking the rare step of endorsing Zephyr Teachout's bid for Congress, a nod that aligns her with a cadre of donors who have previously spent half a million dollars backing Democrats in the district.
Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo made it clear this morning he intends to back up his tough talk against the so - called «special interests» — chiefly, the public employee unions — with dollars in an air campaign war, if necessary.
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.
Former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Bloomberg, who tried — and failed — to ban over-sized sodas in the Big Apple, and provided millions of dollars to support successful soda - tax initiatives in Mexico and Berkeley, Calif., is now backing a campaign to pass a sugary - drinks tax in Philadelphia.
By the typical benchmarks, Jeffries appears to be the strong favorite, sewing up the majority of union backing and filling his campaign coffers with more than half a million dollars from scores of affluent donors.
Back in his first campaign for State Assembly, it was the union dollars coming into Donnelly's campaign.
The day before the Nov. 8 election, Mayor Stephanie Miner summoned reporters to announce that four Syracuse - area political candidates would give back thousands of dollars that she had steered to their campaigns through the state Democratic Party.
At some point in the not - to - distant future, this simmering symbiosis — backed by hundreds of millions of dollars in marketing campaigns — is going to explode onto popular culture.
The new Kickstarter campaign to bring it back in the digital form has just surpassed 3.3 million dollars and is on pace to be the most successful campaign in history.
The Liberal's campaign pledged several significant tax policy changes aimed at putting more money back into the pockets of middle - class families — and depending on your income bracket, you're probably now wondering how all of this is actually going to impact your wallet in real dollars and cents.
Arguably one of Trudeau's least popular campaign promises (an Angus Reid survey recently found that 67 % of Canadians aren't in favour of any political party reversing the increase), the roll back could cost savers tens of thousands of dollars over the long term.
They keep going and going and going in multi-million dollar ad campaigns, inhabit many beloved stories from your childhood, pop up in odd - ball comedies, and stare back at you from...
They keep going and going and going in multi-million dollar ad campaigns, inhabit many beloved stories from your childhood, pop up in odd - ball comedies, and stare back at you from your morning cereal box.
Yes it is, because this is the time of year for our Annual Paw It Forward Campaign, where through the generosity of our advertisers, we are able to donate our ad dollars back into the local rescue community.
That same year, IER and its lobbying arm, the American Energy Alliance (AEA), together received millions of dollars from foundations affiliated with the Koch brothers, who have bankrolled an all out campaign to roll back state and federal clean energy policies.
If you want to get the best possible deal on this battery - free contactless dynamo light for your bike, you'll need to act fast, because if you're one of the first six people to back the new Kickstarter campaign, you'll receive a Magnic Light iC for just one dollar.
Amazon has acquired Blink, the wireless security camera company that launched back in 2014 and then subsequently closed a million - dollar Kickstarter campaign.