New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is spending some of his $ 33 million
dollar campaign war chest on ads to promote his state budget priorities.
Not exact matches
There's one bank account that Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara can't get his asset - freezing fingers
on as he plans a likely multimillion -
dollar restitution order against Sheldon Silver: the pol's
campaign war chest, which Silver can continue to use to pay legal fees.
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.
Cuomo in the final weeks of the race, spent from his hefty
campaign war chest at the rate of nearly half a million
dollars a week
on television advertising, some featuring his daughters and partner Sandra Lee, but much of it negative against his Republican opponent Rob Astorino.
In comparison, Christine Quinn who is widely expected to run for Mayor — but has not yet declared — is sitting
on a $ 4.5 million
dollar campaign war chest.
Republicans also face the likelihood that the Skelos - seat battle will be a multimillion -
dollar drain
on their
campaign war chest that will, should the Democrat win, leave them with reduced prospects of raising large sums for the November elections.
Cuomo, drawing from a $ 35 million
dollar campaign war chest, has bought a significant amount of air time
on news and sports programs to run spots painting a negative picture of his GOP opponent, including one that criticizes Astorino for allegedly putting relatives
on the public pay roll, saying it's Christmas in July.
If nothing changes, right now Cuomo is sitting
on a scandal where top members of his administration, close to him, are accused in federal complaints of corruption involving many millions of
dollars, not a small percentage of which has found its way into Cuomo's
campaign war chest.