Sentences with phrase «election spending after»

Not exact matches

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was offered $ 60 million by Congress from Defense Department funds last year to fight Russian election interference efforts — but after Tillerson waited for seven months trying to decide whether he wanted to spend it or not, the offer was withdrawn, and none of the money was used, according to The New York Times.

After the U.S. elections, prices for copper and iron ore, used in building and construction projects, surged amid hopes for increased infrastructure spending.

Morgan is a close friend of Trump's — Trump spent more time talking to Morgan on the phone after the election than he did with British Prime Minister Theresa May.

Not too long after that, Cuban turned on the Republican candidate and spent the rest of the election cycle as one of his most outspoken critics.

Collins pointed out that a big part of UK (and indeed US) election law relates to «declaration of spent», before making the conjoined point that if someone is «hiding that spend» — i.e. by placing dark ads that only the recipient sees, and which can be taken offline immediately after the campaign — it smells like a major risk to the democratic process.

For sure, Mr. Moore would be on surer footing here if the Conservative Party of Canada hadn't pleaded guilty to violating election spending limits in 2008 and if the Harper government wasn't the only government in this country's history to have been found in contempt of Parliament and if the RCMP wasn't said to be presently investigating Mr. Harper's former chief of staff and and if two Conservative MPs weren't presently in court with Elections Canada and if the Prime Minister hadn't left for Peru without facing the House on the first day that Parliament was in session after the deal between Mr. Wright and Mr. Duffy was revealed and if the Prime Minister hadn't fail to show up in the House on the following Monday and if Mr. Duffy hadn't remained a Conservative senator for awhile despite having apparently claimed a housing allowance he shouldn't have.

«She is living in poverty because the B.C. Liberal government is taking the money her dad pays to support her, and using it to pay for their misguided priorities, like spending more than a million dollars hiring failed B.C. Liberal candidates and giving insiders cushy appointments after the last election.»

The level of spending by some candidates in the last municipal election was described as «insane» by Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, after some Calgary city council candidates raised more than $ 270,000 largely through corporate donations.

He cavalierly promises to cut close to $ 6 billion in government spending if he becomes premier after the June 7 provincial election.

Zuckerberg first dismissed the idea that Russia exploited the social media platform, then apologized after discovering that Kremlin - linked companies spent $ 100,000 on 3,000 ads before, during and after the 2016 election.

Opposition Social Democrats won Lithuania's parliamentary election on Sunday after campaigning on promises to reverse unpopular austerity policies and boost social spending in the recession - scarred Baltic state.

The organization aimed to bring evangelicals back into the political fold, after millions of them had spent decades sitting out elections, convinced that politics were a dirty, ungodly business.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS — After spending nearly four weeks in a coma, Charles Tiedje awoke Nov. 7 to find himself in a hospital intensive - care unit with Election Day news coverage blaring on a suspended TV set.

The last Labour government was able to plan its 1997 manifesto on the basis of rising departmental spending in the first years after the election.

Now that I have had a few days to unwind after Virginia's election, I thought I would spend a couple of minutes highlighting what we at VoterCircle learned about friend - to - friend outreach.

The Democratic Senate Campaign Committee reported $ 191,283 in cash on hand after spending heavily in the special election, which ended with Democrat Todd Kaminsky defeating Republican candidate Chris McGrath last month.

Liberal advocates had been upset with the timing of the special election, namely holding it after the state budget is expected to be approved, thus giving Republicans in the Senate a chance to negotiate the spending plan.

Those spending time with Theresa May report she is finally finding her feet after the General Election disaster.

After years of review in the case of former Niagara Falls Sen. George Maziarz, and no charges brought, a question remains: What happened to hundreds of thousands of dollars of questionable spending flagged by the state Board of Elections for prosecutors to review?

But the speech focused its spending initiatives almost exclusively on the Buffalo area, a region Cuomo has focused on since taking office in 2011 and after losing much of the region in the 2010 gubernatorial election.

If the state Senate is controlled by Democrats after the election, taxing and spending policies could see some differences.

Pollsters telephoned voters Jan. 12 - 16, days after Cuomo sketched out an election - year agenda that included tax relief and higher education spending in his annual State of the State address.

Moreover, ahead of the 2001 general election, it was widely reported that the Chancellor was planning to raise National Insurance contribution rates shortly after the election, in preference to raising Income Tax in order to fund increased NHS spending.

It also compares those eight historical episodes with the plans announced by Osborne for further spending cuts before and after the UK general election scheduled for 2015, based on the assumptions (a) that those plans would be fully implemented as announced and (b) that the OBR forecasts of GDP up to 2017 proved to be broadly correct.

After all, Conservative governments went into both the 1992 and 1997 general elections by announcing sharp expenditure restraint for the following Parliament, thus forcing the Labour opposition to either reject or accept those overall spending targets.

The coalition is struggling to find savings as it puts forward spending plans for 2015/6, after the Lib Dems and Tories agreed to commit to joint spending plans for a period of around ten months after the next election.

By 1997, although still at the Daily Express, I was well into moonlighting for TV companies and spent the morning after election night in Downing Street — working for a broadcaster - covering the grand entrance of Tony and Cherie Blair, cheered on by all those adoring Labour activists.

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox, who spent a lot of time after the November elections crowing about how the GOP has gained more House seats in New York (6) than any other state in the nation, just released the following statement in response to former Rep. Chris Lee's resignation yesterday:

We have to wait for the spending review, after the conclusion of Labour's leadership election, to find out about the 80 per cent spending cuts.

«As we have been quite consistent after the general election this will be a matter for the next spending review,» he said.

In 2001 when a shadow Treasury minister he had to go into hiding during that year's election campaign after claiming the Tories wanted to cut public spending by # 20 billion rather than the # 8 billion they had publicly stated.

The decision to remain on the sidelines for now comes after pro-public financing organizations spent heavily through independent expenditure committees in the state Senate elections over the past two cycles.

More of his colleagues joined the movement after Trump fired back at the congressman on Twitter, saying he should spend more time fixing his «crime - infested district» than «falsely complaining» about the election results.

The fiction that government can delay the hard decisions on spending until after the general election.

He began his career as chief of staff to former Assemblywoman Nettie Mayersohn more than two decades ago and later replaced her following a special election after she resigned to reportedly spend more time with her family.

One point eight million television views tune in to watch the three men vying to be chancellor after the next election clash over the public deficit, taxation policy and spending cuts.

The damning condemnation of the parties comes on the day that Labour campaign chief, Lord Mandelson, clashed with journalists who tried to pin him down on which spending programmes will be reigned in or scrapped if the party is still in power after the 6 May general election.

And so after the election Francis Maude was determined to get on with the difficult and complicated work of cutting out the wasteful spending that spiralled out of control under Labour.

Mr Ashdown will step down as party leader after the June European elections, and retire as MP for Yeovil at the next general election, but his restless energy is unlikely to be satisfied solely by more time spent at his house in France and with his baby grandson.

Despite spending four years in statewide office, and even after his strong performance in this election against a plausible Republican challenger, Schneiderman remains unknown to much of the electorate and hasn't managed to score the sort of national headlines that were routine for his predecessors.

The Erie County Board of Elections has spent the week counting absentee and affidavit ballots after a machine count showed Kennedy with a lead of less than 100 votes.

it was left futures who said that new labours first election was 1987 after kicking out militant and look what happened due to 2015, Momentum the new militant re-joined Ed miliband spent the last 5 years denouncing new labour, so new labour were around in 1987, but Ed miliband wasn't new labour

It was a vision far removed from the massive cuts Osborne once proposed for after the election, all of which were due to take place without any tax rises to offset the impact on public spending.

Shortly after last year's election, he spent nearly a week based out of a state emergency operations center in Cheektowaga after the region was hit by a November blizzard.

He spent two years at the agency before joining Gove's team shortly after the 2010 general election.

Just because I don't like their symbiotic relationship at the expense of everybody else — a relationship that gave us Tom DiNapoli's re election (where we didn't find out until after the vote that he's spent 270K on lawyers)-- doesn't mean I want REBNY running anything.

After winning their respective elections in 1982, the trio spent time together during orientation for new members of the Assembly Republican Conference.

Meanwhile, NY - 21 Democratic candidate Aaron Woolf is fundraising, concerned about outside spending in the general election campaign — especially after seeing the SuperPAC influence in the GOP primary.

After the general election Andy Burnham, fresh out of his office in the Department of Health, said it would be «irresponsible» to increase NHS spending in real terms.

With Mr. Grimm planning to step down, the Staten Island and southern Brooklyn district will have to hold a new election just a few months after the last one — on which both parties spent more than $ 5 million.