Sentences with phrase «dollar campaign stating»
Proctor and Gamble mounted a $ 50 million dollar campaign stating how natural their diapers were and gave people the impression they were biodegradable (sound familiar).
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«Arthur Jones is not a real Republican — he is a Nazi whose disgusting, bigoted views have no place in our nation's discourse,» Tim Schneider, the state party chairman, said in a statement, adding that the party would put «real campaign dollars» into an independent candidate to challenge Jones in the general election.
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 the latest move to attract business, the state is running a multimillion dollar national ad campaign promoting «Start - Up NY,» which offers 10 years free of all taxes to businesses that agree to partner with universities.
The «Yes on 61» campaign argues that Prop 61 would exploit the state's «bulk - purchasing power to secure lower prices for prescription drugs, saving taxpayers billions of dollars.»
The campaign also said that Prop 61 «would invalidate many drug discount agreements the state has negotiated with pharmaceutical companies,» which would increase state prescription costs by tens of millions of dollars each year.
United States officials had been shaken by tape recordings in which people identified as leaders of the Cali cartel were heard discussing contributions of millions of dollars to Mr. Samper's presidential campaign.
A court in Washington has ruled that the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) violated the state's finance disclosure law when it funneled millions of dollars in dark money from its major corporate members to the campaign that defeated a 2013 ballot initiative to label food containing genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.
Whether it's multi-million dollar advertising campaigns in the United States, gold - plated junkets to foreign energy markets, or muzzling opposition from -LSB-...]
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.
The same will be true in the struggle for control of Congress next year, as state parties, individual campaigns and outside groups spend tens of millions of dollars targeting their voters and working to get them to the polls.
«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.
No major statewide or coordinated campaign questions the need for a Digital Director staff position, yet down - ballot — at the state legislative and state party level — you would be hard - pressed to find one, except in rare high - dollar races in major media areas.
At 12:30 p.m., the Empire State Campaign for Child Care holds a rally and press conference for quality child care, Million Dollar Staircase, third floor landing, state Capitol, AlState Campaign for Child Care holds a rally and press conference for quality child care, Million Dollar Staircase, third floor landing, state Capitol, Alstate Capitol, Albany.
The Campaign Finance Institute estimates the state would need to spend $ 140 million dollars over a four year election cycle.
State Sen. Patrick Gallivan was found to have about $ 80,000 in unreported campaign credit card expenses, including hundreds of dollars spent on cigars, tanning, and at salons and casinos.
He is known as a committed advocate for public education, and co-founded the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which won billions of dollars for city schools from the state, though most of that money has never materialized.
The Commission's inquiry into personal use tracked campaign dollars spent by the current members of the state Legislature from July 2007 through June 2013 (as reflected in filings from 2008 - 13).
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.
Among its recommendations, the Commission called for legislation more clearly defining what candidates can not spend campaign dollars on, which would bring the state in line with stricter federal rules.
Unshackle Upstate's Brian Sampson says in a TU OpEd that state taxpayer dollars slated for a public campaign finance system would be better spent on repairing aging infrastructure, expediting ongoing storm recovery efforts, restoring the Gap Elimination Adjustment, or providing tax relief for struggling middle - class families.
Even in the United States, where presidential candidates must raise a war chest amounting to many millions of dollars before they can even consider running for the presidency, campaigns are still dependent on an army of activists.
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.
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York state lawmakers relied on lobbyists to contribute thousands of dollars to their campaigns at the 167 fundraisers they've held or scheduled in Albany so far this year, according to a government watchdog group.
Common Cause / NY Examines Fracking Contributions A new analysis by Common Cause / NY illustrates that millions of dollars have flowed from fracking interests in New York to state and local campaigns.
Republicans in the state Legislature opposed a public campaign finance proposal from Cuomo, saying it was a waste of taxpayer dollars and would unfairly tilt the political playing field in favor of Democratic - leaning unions.
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.
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.»
But it's going to be difficult to make a dent in the flood of TV ads — both positive and negative — that the Cuomo campaign and the state Democratic Party have been running, since they are both flush with many more millions of dollars worth of campaign cash than Astorino has managed to raise.
A political action committee associated with Jonathan Soros is prepared to spend millions of dollars against Republican state senators on Long Island if state lawmakers don't approve a system of public campaign finance.
«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.
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.
After working in New York politics in a variety of City Council and state legislative campaigns and on the staff of US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Rivera came on strong four years ago, defeating Democratic Senator Pedro Espada, long a target of criminal investigation and now serving a federal prison term for theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars from a health care non-profit he controlled.
That refusal further frustrated some employees who have disapproved of the union's tactics, namely the «Boycott the Desmond» campaign, which has cost the hotel at least a million dollars, according to management, and persuaded such patrons as New York State United Teachers, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and members of the Senate Democratic Conference to publicly withdraw their business.
The Democrat pledges to cap himself at $ 100,000 in fundraising at a time in politics that features multimillion - dollar state legislative campaigns.
4) For the many prominent politicians in both parties, from several states, who've taken campaign contributions from Joseph Pontoriero, Worth Construction, or any permutation thereof, one used 6000 dollar suit.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is spending some of his $ 33 million dollar campaign war chest on ads to promote his state budget priorities.
By prohibiting government from restricting people and corporations from creating unlimited independent expenditure campaigns capable of funneling billions of dollars into election cycles, this decision undid a century's worth of state and federal campaign finance reform.
The advocates, including Citizen Action's Karen Scharff, want the state to adopt a public campaign financing system similar to the one in New York City where every one dollar donated by a private individual to a political campaign releases $ 6 of public money.
He even hit the Cuomo for not honoring Gov. Eliot Spitzer's plan to reimburse the city billions in education dollars the State Court of Appeals determined Albany owed in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity decision, and for favoring the proliferation of charter schools.
«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.
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.
The Assembly bill would offer an optional public financing system for campaigns for state legislative and statewide offices, giving candidates six dollars for every one dollar in contributions.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is dipping into his multi-million dollar campaign war chest to run ads promoting his state budget priorities.
The idea behind Connecticut's public campaign financing system was that replacing major amounts of special interest money in the election process with taxpayer dollars would cut down on influence peddling and state corruption.
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.
The complaint alleges that Adam Skelos was also paid tens of thousands of dollars from companies that had business before the state and had contributed to Skelos» campaign.
Separately, Manhattan district attorney Cy Vance has been looking into whether de Blasio's operatives improperly funneled campaign dollars through party committees to help Democratic candidates for the New York State senate.
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.
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.