Sentences with phrase «dollar campaign fund»

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The RNC is using campaign funds to pay Trump's company more than $ 37,000 a month in rent, and to pay thousands of dollars in monthly salary to Vice President Mike Pence's nephew, John Pence, party officials confirmed this week.

While Kickstarter can't be used to fund businesses per se, it does accept products and has had some remarkably successful campaigns, including about 50 that have generated over a million dollars in funding.

The state of Washington's attorney general is seeking $ 14 million from the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), alleging the GMA created an «elaborate scheme» to secretly fund a multimillion dollar campaign to kill a food labeling initiative.

In addition to its corporate efforts, Marriott Vacation Club Owners and guests at its seven Central Florida resorts will also soon be able to get involved by rounding - up their final folio balance to the nearest dollar, with the additional funds supporting the campaign.

A massive campaign aimed at forcing Switzerland to make billions available in «compensation» was launched by the WJC, with the governors of four American states threatening economic sanctions against the Swiss, and the City of Los Angeles withdrawing millions of dollars of pension funds from a Swiss bank.

campaigned for a Local Food Act and multi-million dollar Local Food Fund to support and resource the efforts of all Australians who want a fair food future;

As now - President Obama's 2008 campaign showed, an online army can be a powerful source of funds — he raised close to over half a billion dollars online, two - thirds of it directly from someone clicking the «donate» button in a campaign email.

Look at the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit, and the court settlement there and the fact that to this day we still are owed billions and billions of dollars in education funding.

The latest questions center on funds from the Maziarz campaign account that were reportedly given to a youth softball team and thousands of dollars in purchases from a WNY business.

Also 30M for a campaign isn't much, she likely spent hundreds of millions in 2008, her campaign fund for this election is over a billion dollars.

«We continue to oppose siphoning off taxpayer dollars to fund political campaigns, especially in these difficult economic times.»

«We're not surprised that the Senate Democrats, who nearly bankrupted this state, would want to force New Yorkers to spend $ 200 million in taxpayer money to fund political campaigns rather than investing those dollars in our schools or providing incentives to help businesses create jobs,» said the spokesman, Scott Reif.

During a brief press conference outside Mount Vernon City Hall, Thomas denied any allegations after being accused of misappropriating thousands of dollars in funds from his campaign committee.

What we got this weekend was our first hint that it might be joined by an actual, intentional EFFORT to raise money from small - dollar donors and join the modern campaign - funding world.

And even though Gov. Andrew Cuomo is 1) sitting on $ 19.3 million worth of political cash as of mid-July; 2) fresh off hosting one of his biggest fund - raising events of the year — his 55th birthday bash at the Waldorf Astoria for which tickets ranged from $ 1,500 to $ 50,000 a pop; and 3) pushing for campaign finance reform; he's still interested in squeezing some additional dollars out of his donors before reporting his latest haul to the Board on Jan. 15.

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.

Oliver Rosenberg's campaign says that days after he filed papers to run in the June 28 primary, he was contacted by a Nadler ally who offered to raise thousands of dollars in campaign funds if Rosenberg instead ran for a City Council seat.

The Working Families Party spends millions of dollars on statewide and local campaigns through funds provided by labor unions and other left - leaning backers.

Obama's team carefully constructed of a long - term engagement campaign built on a base of repeat small - dollar donors who could also fund its TV advertising.

Liu's campaign receives tax dollars as part of a matching funds program, designed to deter corrupt practices, such as straw donors.

«It won't come as a shock to anyone that this complaint comes from organizations who support using taxpayer dollars to fund political campaigns,» Reif said in the statement.

It seems fairly obvious that Make the Road, which receives millions of dollars from local and state government to provide social services, is siphoning some of that money to an ostensibly independent «Action Fund» in order to campaign for elected officials who will, lo and behold, allocate money to Make the Road.

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.

Receiving matching funds would produce hundreds of thousands of dollars, possibly close to $ 1 million for Malliotakis, and meaningfully improve her campaign's ability to operate.

Still, Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos earlier this month at the state Republican convention said he was open to a compromise on publicly financed political campaigns as long as it did not use direct taxpayer dollars, otherwise known as «off - budget funds.»

If he using the campaign funds to pay for housing in Albany, that is exactly what Vlasto said he was doing — using the campaign money rather than taxpayer dollars for his per - diem.

The ex-campaign treasurer and a former fundraiser for embattled NYC Comptroller John Liu's failed mayoral bid dodged lengthy prison terms, each getting less than a year for trying to scam thousands of dollars in matching funds from the Campaign Finance Board.

«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.

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.

Governor Cuomo also, for the first time, is requesting a budget line for public financing of campaigns, though he has not yet filled in the details of a dollar amount or funding source.

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.

So far, he's not getting any traction on that, but he said today that he will continue to advocate for using taxpayer dollars to fund campaigns to «remove the power of money» from the process and «keep access to the system available to everyone.»

He does want $ 5.3 million dollars to fund an independent enforcement unit for policing campaign violations.

This administration has proposed cuts to funding for human services, starved our infrastructure of the resources it needs and paid millions of dollars in fines for being unable to provide clean drinking water but can spend several million dollars taking care of the law firms that employ his campaign donors,» said Brian Hegt, spokesman for the BoL Democratic Caucus.

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.

The report finds that Cuomo's campaign committee received the most money from lobbyists, nearly half a million dollars; second was Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, whose campaign fund got around $ 150,000.

Cuomo has already said he'll run for re-election in 2018, and has several million dollars in his campaign fund.

And he is one of the very rare breed of Democrats who is not scared off by the Cuomo / Hochul horde of millions of campaign dollars collected almost exclusively from the one percent of corporate polluters, hedge fund billionaires and other rich special interests.

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Cuomo was aided in negotiations of that budget by a multimillion dollar advertising campaign supporting his agenda that was funded by the Committee to Save New York.

«Our campaign's focus on grassroots, small - dollar donors has powered us to more than 11,000 contributions, and we are now fully funded for a Primary campaign,» said Elana Leopold, finance director for de Blasio's campaign, in a statement.

The letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Post, accuses Cuomo of wasting millions of taxpayer dollars «to fund his ludicrous Start - Up New York campaign,» which, Romney contends, has done virtually nothing to improve the state's business climate.

He broke into politics by co-founding the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which in 1993 sued Albany for billions of dollars it argued the state owed to city public schools — and eventually won, though Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration has since resisted delivering the funds.

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).

The calls come as Gov. Andrew Cuomo's re-election campaign on Tuesday signaled it would set aside the thousands of dollars he's received from the developers linked to the corruption cases should prosecutors seek to clawback those funds.

The duo characterized their proposal as a «grand bargain» that would silence the concerns of detractors — mainly, the Senate Republicans — that a public campaign finance system would be too expensive and should not be funded with taxpayer dollars.

Mount Vernon Mayor Richard Thomas has denied the new charges against him that claim he allegedly stole thousands of dollars in campaign funds when running for office three years ago.

«Your dollars, your taxes, may be going to fund someone's campaign who may have the complete opposite ideological views than you do and your dollars are going to support that,» O'Mara said.

In order to change the culture of corruption which puts democracy up for auction, we need wholesale campaign finance reform, built around a system of small dollar matching funds, to hold elected accountable to their constituents.

Nevertheless, Senate Republicans remain firmly opposed to the use of taxpayer funds or public dollars to fund political campaigns.