Sentences with phrase «donation by political campaigns»

The FEC recently ruled that bitcoin can be accepted as a donation by political campaigns and organizations.

Not exact matches

The drugmaker's political action committee spent $ 405,000 on federal campaign donations and other political outlays last year, more than in 2016 — an election year — and nearly double its allocation for 2015, data compiled by Kaiser Health News show.

After the release of a list with the names of hundreds of politicians who have received campaign donations made by the construction company Odebrecht, a corporation largely implicated in the corruption scandal of Petrobras, it became even more evident that the main political actors have much to explain.

The range of experiences brought by these consultants suggests that McCain's web strategy will be integrated with the campaign's message, donation and political operations — just like Dean's was in the primary — and certainly hewing to [the] example set by the Bush campaign in 2004.

In the Nevada case, they're trying to help Harry Reid break up Republican Angle's support among the fringe Right, in part by pointing out the fact that this «political newcomer» has been in the Nevada Legislature since the late»90s and (I assume) has taken campaign donations from financial services firms.

online fundraising powerful here because of quirks in the U.S. political funding system (individual donations, individual campaigns, money = speech, campaigns are driven by need to raise money)

The first release of donations by the Electoral Commission for this campaign shows more than # 7m has already been donated to all political parties.

Sierra Club representative Robert Ciesielski cited a study by Common Cause that the governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, had received over $ 1.6 million in political donations from the industry — a figure that, given the current state of New York's campaign finance laws, lobbyists in Albany could well surpass.

There's no disputing that the Campaign for One New York, the political non-profit created by Mayor de Blasio to promote his agenda, accepted large donations from those with business before the city.

Federal authories are accusing longtime political operative G. Steven Pigeon of conspiring to help make an illegal campaign donation by a Canadian interest.

Zeldin, a state senator from Suffolk County, is running to unseat Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop, who has been hammered by the National Republican Campaign Committee, including an ad this week that reignites the controversy over his office securing a permit for a fireworks display and then campaign seeking a political dCampaign Committee, including an ad this week that reignites the controversy over his office securing a permit for a fireworks display and then campaign seeking a political dcampaign seeking a political donation.

(CNN)- President Barack Obama's reelection campaign returned political donations made by Jon Corzine, the embattled former Democratic governor and senator from New Jersey, on Friday.

At issue in Vance's investigation is whether the mayor or his apparatchiks sought to circumvent state campaign contribution caps by directing their political allies to write checks to upstate Democratic county committees, which do face the same donation ceilings.

The donations were allowed because the mayor's political nonprofit was not governed by city campaign finance law.

Under electoral law, political donations can not be made anonymously and must be declared within two months, a deadline the newspaper says Mr Johnson's campaign team missed by four months.

A PAC could be operated by a corporation, but its donations to political campaigns had to come from donations from individuals.

In a letter to Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire seen by openDemocracy, Scottish National Party MP Martin Doherty - Hughes says that the public should know who funded the DUP's Brexit campaign — and points out that the Secretary of State has the power to publish all political donations since 1 January 2014 under legislation that is already on the statute books, but which has never been enacted.

«Other campaigns are bankrolled by big donors who have given so much even under our current corrupt political system they can't legally give any more,» campaign manager Jeff Weaver said in a statement that pegged the average donation to Sanders at $ 30.

Until now, Hizzoner and his allies have directed much of their fundraising attention to the Campaign for One New York — a group that could collect unlimited donations, not bound by the $ 4,950 limit, and was created to promote the mayor's political agenda.

Established last year by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to examine Albany's pay - to - play political culture and campaign donations, the commission's investigations were halted by Cuomo this spring after he got agreement from lawmakers to enact a limited version of campaign finance reform.

A publicly - financed Fair Elections system would reduce the impact of large campaign contributions in our political system and boost voters» voices in elections by allowing candidates to run for office with small, in - district donations.

Dadey filed a complaint with elections board four days before the November 2011 elections, following the publication of an article in The Post-Standard that reported on campaign donations made by Miner's political action committee, Promise PAC.

State Senate candidates north of the city who were favored by — and received campaign donations from — the Real Estate Board of New York - backed political action committee Jobs for New York, all secured a seat in the state senate.

A publicly - financed Fair Elections system would reduce the impact of large campaign contributions in New York's political system and boost voters» voices in elections by allowing candidates to run for office with small, in - district donations.

But since its inception in 2005, Democrats for Education Reform, a political action committee based in New York City, has sought to use campaign donations to smooth the way for policies such as expanding charter schools and differential pay for teachers that are sometimes opposed by traditional Democratic constituencies.

But thanks to a loop - hole in Connecticut law, the Malloy campaign has already diverted nearly $ 2.2 million in individual and political action committee donations into an account controlled by the Democratic State Central Committee.

Finally embraced by museums that long considered him a pariah for his critiques of institutional power, Hans Haacke's critical eye remains unchanged: his new exhibition at Paula Cooper includes a new work about the Met's acceptance of donations from David H. Koch, the billionaire philanthropist who's financially supported conservative political campaigns.

But how does one know which products and companies are questionable, given that the marketing and advertising campaigns are carefully groomed and scripted to make us buy stuff, and not to make us think about supply chains and environmental and social responsibility, or about the political affiliation and financial donations made by the CEO or company directors.