Sentences with phrase «election spending by»

Back in January, the United States Supreme Court released its judgment in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission 558 U.S. 50 (2010)[PDF], a challenge by a «non-profit corporation» to § 441b of the U.S. Code limiting election spending by corporations.

His spending limit was also increased from $ 6.42 million to $ 9.63 million reflecting heavy election spending by his primary competitor John Catsimatidis, who is self - financing his campaign.

One thing, however, is very different about this season's presidential campaign: an explosion of election spending by groups known as super PACs.

Not exact matches

Spending by these «outside organizations» is at record levels, easily topping $ 300 million this election, with an expected $ 200 million in «dark money» — funds which can't be traced to their original source.

Premier Clark spent the election campaign expounding her dream of a debt - free B.C. fueled by resource - driven economic growth.

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— but after Tillerson waited for seven months trying to decide whether he wanted to spend it or not, the offer was withdrawn, and none of the money was used, according to The New York Times.

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.

But even without outside money, U.S. presidential election spending has dwarfed Canadian spending by increasing margins over the past 12 years.

Attempts by Monti's government to cut spending caused widespread public anger, boosting the support of populist parties in the election.

And, of the approximately $ 1 billion spent on the election by both parties, around $ 54 million has been spent on digital advertising, including mobile.

The Liberals have introduced changes as they try to fulfil their 2015 election promise to improve Parliament's financial processes by bringing more consistency and clarity when it comes to government accounting of how it spends public money.

«By contrast, federal tax law permits 501 (c)(4) organizations to spend money advocating the election or defeat of candidates, so long as such activity isn't the 501 (c)(4) organization's «primary» activity.

Further, according to BofA - Merrill's analyst team at a midyear press conference on Wednesday in New York, any positive budgetary effect of the tax increases would be overshadowed by the growing burden of the U.S. debt ceiling as spending and hiring decisions are put on hold and the election heightens partisanship.

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.

However in another exchange the Facebook exec appeared not to be aware of a basic tenet of UK election law — which prohibits campaign spending by foreign entities.

The Conservatives are playing up low - cost initiatives such as action on cross-border price differences because they've restricted spending to balance the books by 2015, expected to be an election year, and don't have the cash right now for major tax cuts or lavish program spending.

The ruling, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, No. 08 - 205, overruled two precedents: Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, a 1990 decision that upheld restrictions on corporate spending to support or oppose political candidates, and McConnell v. Federal Election Commission, a 2003 decision that upheld the part of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 that restricted campaign spending by corporations and unions.

WASHINGTON — Overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections.

Instead, about half of the campaign's $ 18.5 million in spending was vacuumed up by Giles - Parscale, a web design and marketing firm new to national politics, Federal Election Commission filings show.

Before The Bell - Wall Street sprinted into the latest week hoping to extend the powerful rally in place since the November election, an upsurge that intensified mightily last week, when the major large - cap indexes all surged to all - time highs in a buying frenzy unleashed by expectations that the President - elect and his incoming Administration would push hard for a massive infrastructure spending program, reduced regulations, and popular tax cuts.

The Liberals have also attempted to counter the image of Prime Minister Stephen Harper put forth by the Conservative Party, instead portraying him as a controlling and secretive leader with a hidden agenda, and attacking his judgment by tying him to past Conservative scandals, such as the Cadman affair, alleged spending misconduct in the last election, and the conduct of Maxime Bernier, the former Conservative minister of foreign affairs.

The money spent by candidates and political parties in Alberta elections are nowhere near the truckloads being spent south of the border in advance of November's presidential and senate elections, but some of these numbers demonstrate how pitched some electoral battles were in the recent provincial election.

The government's 2015 election platform originally proposed three years of deficit spending followed by a balanced budget in 2019 - 20.

That said, a new leaf seems to have been turned this year with hedge funds returning to positive flows in the first quarter of 2017.1 Renewed interest has been spurred by the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, which some industry experts are predicting should bring meaningful tax reform, deregulation and infrastructure spending that we think could prove a boon to hedge strategies.

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.

Two months before the presidential election of 2000, the PNAC unipolarists issued a position paper titled «Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century» that spelled out the particulars of a global empire strategy: repudiate the ABM treaty, build a global missile defense system, increase defense spending by $ 20 billion per year to 3.8 percent of gross domestic product, and reinvent the U.S. military to meet expanded obligations throughout the world.

The campaigns for and against a constitutional convention may be only every 20 years, but spending by supporters and foes this year is on par with expenditures in a hotly contested election.

For instance, how many California ballot initiatives have been «bought» by some concentrated wealthy interest that spent tons of money to swing a low - turnout election?

The suit, which appears below, makes reference to the Citizens United case decided by the US Supreme Court earlier this year that enabled corporations and labor unions to spend much more freely to influence elections.

Labour lost the election, and power passed to the strongly Thatcherite administration led by Sir Horace Cutler who in turn moved to cut public spending and encourage those living in council houses to buy their own homes.

The GOP has been affected much more than the Democratic Party by the change in the election finance laws, allowing Super PACs to spend arbitrarily large amounts of advertising money to support their preferred candidates.

Is there any law which prohibits foreigners (non-US citizens) from spending billions of dollars to sway U.S. elections by deliberately placing attack ads against certain political parties?

Republican NY - 23 congressional hopeful Matt Doheney is scheduled to meet privately this Monday in Washington, D.C. with leaders of the Club for Growth — the conservative organization that played a key role in the 2009 campaign of Doheny's primary opponent, Doug Hoffman, spending and / or bundling more than $ 1 million for his special election bid for the seat vacated by ex-Rep.

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?

To put that in context, in this one month he pulled in almost double the $ 84 million (supplemented by RNC funds) that McCain can spend for his entire general election campaign.

An analysis of Andrew Cuomo's 27 - day post-general election filing by NYPIRG's Bill Mahoney found that while the Democratic governor - elect spent less overall on his successful campaign than previous gubernatorial contenders, he spent more in the final days of his bid than all but self - funding candidate Tom Golisano.

Two independent expenditure groups that have been raising and spending money on behalf of freshman Democratic Sen. Todd Kaminsky in the 9th SD on Long Island have been banned by an eleventh hour legal decision from doing any further activity in this election cycle.

Guidance published by the Electoral Commission for non-party campaigners in relation to the UK general election states: «We are unlikely to consider enforcement action against non-party campaigners that have taken prompt steps to register, even if their regulated spending is already in excess of the registration threshold».

If Russia can allegedly influence the American Presidential Election by spending $ 100,000 on facebook adverts, one must ask what influence the $ 18,000,000,000 given by George Soros to Open Society buys.

The Lobbying Act amended legislation to restrict spending by «non-party campaigners» during election periods (there are different thresholds for registered (# 20,000) and non-registered (# 320,000) campaigners; the threshold for registered campaigners is higher but also attracts onerous reporting requirements on spending and donations.

The filing posted by the Board of Elections on Monday shows the money is being spent by New Yorkers For A Balanced Albany, a group linked to StudentsFirstNew York.

The Moreland Commission's December subpoena to Strategic Advantage International sought to shed light on the donations to and expenditures by Common Sense Principles, which spent more dark money in the 2010 and 2012 elections than any other entity in the state.

Since winning election to the House in New York's 4th District in 2014, she has subsequently spent thousands of dollars from the DA campaign account on ads, consulting services, and donations to local Democratic groups that have actively worked on her elections to the House, according to a report by Crain's New York.

By contrast, the state Democratic Committee spent $ 13.54 million this year on behalf of the campaigns of Cuomo and his running mate, Kathy Hochul, 86.49 percent of its total election - related spending.

● Require that any future tax increases under this new system be approved by the people in the next federal election, in order to impose discipline on spending.

In the mayor's race, Brown's $ 1.17 million was $ 335,000 less than his campaign spent in 2013 when he was challenged in the Democratic primary by Tolbert and then by Republican Sergio Rodriguez in the general election.

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

TOTENBERG: Prodded by Chief Justice John Roberts, Kagan said repeatedly that Congress was justified in banning corporate spending in candidate elections because corporate money is other people's money.

26 April 2011 — UGANDA Question: To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Verma on 21 March (WA 126 - 7), what assessment they have made of the allocation of the budget support for Uganda from the United Kingdom, in particular in relation to the increase in spending by the Government of Uganda prior to the last general election in that country.

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.