Sentences with phrase «donations from voters»

However, instead of taking political donations from voters, they give political donations to the parties that can appoint them.

Not exact matches

When the nation's leading business group can form an explicit alliance with one of our two major parties and solicit unlimited donations from anonymous donors, individual voters and small businesses should be worried that their voices will be shut out.

Funneling money through party committees is a common and legal way to sidestep campaign finance rules that limit the amount of donations from PACs, individuals and corporations, said Barbara Bartoletti, legislative director of the League of Women Voters.

Disclosure of campaign donations above $ 500 within 48 hours received even greater approval from voters, with 79 percent behind it and merely 18 percent against.

In fundraising, Obama followed in the footsteps of Howard Dean's 2004 bid by regularly soliciting small donations from a wide swath of voters, raising record amounts online by federal filing deadlines.

New York State caps individual donations to candidates running for local office using a formula based on the number of registered voters in a given district, which varies slightly from year to year — but leaves the single donor ceiling around $ 16,000 in a Republican primary for Nassau County executive, and $ 48,000 for the general election.

Voters should also be wary of the fact that campaign coffers of the few people who run the show in Albany have been well stuffed with millions in donations from the gambling industry.

«If he did, he'd have to give the voters a direct answer on where he stands on fracking, since he has accepted campaign donations from pro-fracking companies and has not passed a ban on hydrofracking in New York State.

Teachout says she's focused on listening to NY - 19 voters and accepting small - dollar donations, even as she will benefit from a fundraiser headlined by House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, opening herself up to criticism from the NRCC due to Hoyer's fondness for PAC cash.

The program, meant to help candidates compete without raising money just from wealthy donors, matches donations under $ 175 from New York City voters six - to - one, so that a $ 10 contribution is matched with $ 60.

ALBANY — In the crowded race for the upcoming Democratic primary in the sprawling 31st Senate district that comprises much of Manhattan's west side, candidates have largely fielded campaign donations from their geographic bases, despite attempts to court voters from all portions of the demographically diverse district.

The role of large donations in this dash for cash is almost inevitable, but it would be wrong to assume that the public are happy with it; voters are far from unmoved by the relationship between big money and politics.

The mayor is attending the annual spring meeting of the Democracy Alliance, a group that seeks to harvest campaign donations from some of the party's major liberal donors and put it to use building party infrastructure, voter registration and organizing campaigns.

But the $ 20,000 donation from Bloomberg is only the tip of a much bigger iceberg and Residents for a Better Bridgeport is only one of a series of corporate funded political groups spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to make sure Bridgeport's parents and other voters don't get a direct role in selecting who sets education policy in Bridgeport.

If the donation was matched, Jeremy promised to change his voter registration from Democrat to Libertarian, and vote for Gary Johnson in the...