Sentences with phrase «dollar donations under»

The campaign did not respond to an email seeking a breakdown of the number of individual donors, how many of from are from within the district and the amount of small dollar donations under $ 200.

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The question under consideration at that vote was whether he should return a few thousand dollars» worth of donations that the city's integrity commissioner says were improperly gathered.

Her party was under fire for accepting millions of dollars of donations from real estate and construction companies that were profiting from a deluge of Chinese investment.

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.

It is important to note that under Speaker Sheldon Silver's bill, (1) receiving public funds depends on the candidate's ability to raise money from numerous small donors, so only donations up to $ 250 are matched with taxpayer dollars and that (2) candidates are limited to a maximum amount of public funds ($ 400,000 for Senate candidates and $ 200,000 for Assembly candidates in the general election race).

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.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has developed a close relationship with New York City's real estate sector and accepted millions of dollars in donations from the industry's executives, ties that are coming under scrutiny as investigators probe his fundraising.

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.

Under the state's Citizens» Election Program, gubernatorial candidates need to raise a quarter of a million dollars in donations of $ 100 or less with 90 percent of the money coming from Connecticut residents to receive millions in taxpayer - financed election grants.

Fundraising totals revealed donations largely came from outside of the district — just 7 percent of contributions came from district residents in the final quarter of 2017 — and just a fraction of the total haul, 12 percent, were from small dollar donations of under $ 200, according to Federal Election Commission reports.

Under current laws, a million dollar charitable donation nets the donor just $ 22,000 in tax credits.

One $ 4,950 donation — the maximum allowed under campaign finance rules — came from Paul Raps, who was accused of stealing millions of dollars in cash and gems from Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev.

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

Under Lexie's Law, corporations and insurance companies may claim a dollar - for - dollar tax - credit on their income or premium taxes respectively for donations to private charities that award scholarships to the children who were eligible to participate in the voucher programs.

Some of the most valued services activists provide the Billionaire's Club includes promulgation of propaganda, which creates an artificial echo chamber; appearance of a faux grassroots movement; access to nimble and transient groups under fiscal sponsorship arrangements; distance / anonymity between donations made by well - known donors and activities of risky activist groups; and above all — the ability to leverage tens of millions of dollars in questionable foreign funding.

Further, hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign donations to the GOP from fossil fuel interests ensure that climate action will come under attack from the new Congress.