Sentences with phrase «dollar campaign donations»

She said her run against Cuomo would be built on a critique of his use of high - dollar campaign donations and his support for linking teacher performance evaluations to student test scores.

The original concept, which passed following the conviction of Governor John Rowland in 2005, was that in return for a multi-million dollar campaign donation from the public, candidates would agree to forgo private funds raised from state contractors, lobbyists, political action committees, the wealthy and other special interest.

Not exact matches

Google announced on its blog on Monday that it will match every dollar of donation with two dollars in a new public giving campaign against Ebola.

And we then targeted them with a with a donor solicitation or small dollars solicitation campaign to ask them to send donations in.

Chartwells has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past few years on donations to local school food watchdog Healthy Schools Campaign, and it gives $ 20,000 annually to the late Maggie Daley's After School Matters charity, which counts Bloomer as a board member.

Instead they get campaign donations and cushy multi million dollar jobs after they retire.

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.

As the Obama campaign found, online fundraising also lets a campaign tap the vast number of politically interested people who can't donate hundreds or thousands of dollars at time but whose smaller donations can add up to a princely sum.

«In today's current political climate, when the average wealth of a member of Congress is $ 1 million, we are showing that a grassroots campaign focused on low - dollar and local support, can keep the doors to the halls of government open to those who can't write them selves a large check or rely on large corporate donations.»

Becker is trying to harness the power of the Internet to raise copious amounts of campaign cash, urging supporters to create a «chain connection» through social media and urge like - minded conservatives across the country to make a small dollar donation to his cause.

First up on the target list were Sens. Dave Valesky, John DeFrancisco and Steve Saland, all of whom rely on big dollar donations, many of which come from outside their respective districts, to feather their campaign nests.

The group, which has pushed for an overhaul of campaign - finance laws in the past year, found that corporate and large - dollar donations made up nearly three - fourths of the contributions to Senate lawmakers.

He accepted 11 donations for more than $ 5000 dollars earlier this year and then challenged the city campaign finance board in court.

Now Cuomo, the Republicans and the IDC are proposing millions of dollars more in subsidies to charter schools while filling their accounts with charter school campaign donations.

Since winning election to the House in New York's 4th District in 2014, she has subsequently spent thousands of dollars from the DA campaign account on ads, consulting services, and donations to local Democratic groups that have actively worked on her elections to the House, according to a report by Crain's New York.

He also knocked Donovan for being too close to Wall Street and criticized him for having received tens of thousands of dollars in campaign donations from a single hedge fund executive.

U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R - Willsboro, ranked eighth among House freshman in so - called «small dollar» donations, individual contributions of less than $ 200 that are unitemized, in the third quarter, according to a Post-Star analysis of campaign finance reports.

Obama's fundraising over the same period relied on plenty of big - dollar donors as well, but even then his campaign noted the advantage that a much larger base of small - dollar donors gave them: «Obama spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki repeated the campaign's emphasis on the 98 percent of its donations that were $ 250 or less — meaning that those donors are under the limit and can continue to contribute.»

WORKED Small - dollar Democratic email fundraising As of late September, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had raised $ 41 million more in donations under $ 200 than the National Republican Congressional Committee, per National Journal.

Healy, the former Republican chairman, blamed the glut of candidates on the state's public campaign financing system, where candidates collect $ 250,000 in small - dollar donations to receive millions in taxpayer - funded election grants.

Social media may grab the spotlight and online advertising the dollars, but campaign websites are still what gets the job done — at least when it comes to processing donations and signing up supporters.

Governor Cuomo's budget lays the groundwork for a public campaign finance system where small donations would be matched by taxpayer dollars.

Cross-posted on techPresident Interesting development in the Dems» race for online dollars — in the past few days, the Clinton campaign has started advertising for donations on Washington Post online properties, specifically the Post.com and Slate (I haven't spotted them on...

People and entities associated with a company that's reportedly part of a federal investigation into a close associate of Gov. Andrew Cuomo have given at least a quarter million dollars in donations to Cuomo's campaign fund, records show.

After a criminal referral to prosecutors from the state Board of Elections office, other subpoenas sought records related to hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations solicited by the mayor's campaign that were rerouted to upstate Democrats running for the state Senate.

The elder Mr. Kushner built the family's real estate business into a multibillion - dollar empire of apartments and land until he was sent to federal prison in 2005 for tax evasion, witness tampering and illegal campaign donations, many of them to Democratic candidates.

«Donations to [Cuomo's] campaign committee and to the housekeeping account of the New York State Democrats — which spent millions of dollars running television advertisements featuring the governor selling New Yorkers on his agenda — accounted for 40 percent of the total money raised from this list of mega-donors,» NYPIRG's Bill Mahoney said.

Campaign finance reports show the state Democratic party approved independent expenditures of hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to the accounts of Wagner, Tkaczyk, O'Brien and Gipson during the months before the November election.

And according to her campaign, she raised more small - dollar donations — meaning less than $ 200 — in her first day as a candidate than Cuomo had raised since 2011.

Taxi medallion owners, who in 2013 were part of an industry that gave NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations, say he is betraying them by capitulating to Uber on wheelchair accessibility.

Then it's on to Andrew «Show Me The Money» Cuomo's 33 million dollar plus campaign committee and all those «DONATIONS»

The mayor's campaign campaign accepted donations from two Manhattan jewelers who were accused of scamming millions of dollars in cash and gems from an Israeli billionaire known as the King of Diamonds.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's Campaign for One New York was accepting thousands of dollars in donations from people who do business with the city, potentially violating a directive from the city's Conflicts of Interest Board.

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.

Although incumbents tend to have a leg up in fundraising, the Campaign Finance Board's public matching funds program ensures that first - time candidates and those with little access to wealthy donors can run serious campaigns by matching small dollar donations at a 6 - to - 1 ratio up to a certain amount.

But Councilman Dan Garodnick has, like Weprin, donated tens of thousands of dollars to other council campaigns and political organizations, including a $ 500 to the Working Families Party, an $ 800 donation to the Brooklyn Democratic Party and a $ 1,700 to the Queens Democratic Party.

It's one example of how union dollars can enhance campaign accounts far beyond donation limits in New York, through what critics view as gaps in state election law.

NYSUT had previously directed millions of dollars in campaign donations to that parent union.

I believe the bridge is with lots of small dollar donations, build a big online campaign, engage new people.»

In testimony at the federal bribery trial of former city correction union boss Norman Seabrook, Rechnitz told how he bought the key to the city for some $ 160,000 in donations to de Blasio and the state Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, plus tens of thousands of dollars more in gifts to NYPD brass.

Of the thousands of dollars in 2013 campaign donations returned by New York City Comptroller John Liu, more than half were connected to so - called intermediaries, often - prolific fund - raisers whose role in his operation has recently come under scrutiny.

(CNN)- A Democratic source told CNN Friday the Obama campaign raised $ 2 million dollars in donations in the 24 hours following the president's announcement he personally supports same - sex marriage.

«Lee Zeldin is a Wall Street bonus baby who has supported tax breaks for millionaires in exchange for tens of thousands of dollars in campaign donations, and wants to raid the retirement savings of working families.

Silver and Skelos were once two of the «three men in a room» - the other being Gov. Andrew Cuomo - who controlled $ 150 billion a year in state spending, decided what legislation would get voted upon and what bills would die, and controlled millions of dollars in campaign donations that they could use to help elect lawmakers across the state.

unning for Congress on an anti-corruption, anti — free trade agenda, her campaign was built on grassroots mobilization and small - dollar donations.

A 45 - year - old law professor running for Congress on an anti-corruption, anti — free trade agenda, her campaign was built on grassroots mobilization and small - dollar donations.

ALBANY — Companies involved in bidding for casino licenses in New York State spent nearly $ 11 million on lobbying and campaign donations in 2012 and 2013, and are donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to campaign committees through holding companies, according to a new report from the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Republican Tim Herbst, the former first selectman of Trumbull, has surpassed $ 250,000 in small - dollar donations, putting him in position to qualify for public campaign financing as he seeks his party's gubernatorial nomination.

The gubernatorial campaign of Cynthia Nixon is touting her success in the first week of fundraising from small - dollar donors, saying she has raised more money in modest donations than Gov. Andrew Cuomo has over the last seven years.

That's where money is the medium of the message, in millions of dollars in hard - to - trace campaign donations.