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A group of campaigning lawyers have, meanwhile, won the first stage of their High Court challenge over election spending in the run - up to the EU referendum.

Battle buses have been common parts of national election spending in recent years.

Tory election spending in Scotland has more than trebled in five years.

Before British politics got swept up in a whirlwind of Brexit, leadership challenges and a change of cabinet, one of the biggest stories was the allegations surrounding Conservative general election spending in 2015.

A group of campaigning lawyers have, meanwhile, won the first stage of their High Court challenge over election spending in the run - up to the EU referendum.

Such so - called super PACs, which are free to take in and spend all the U.S. money they want, have helped drive election spending in the U.S. to a record high.

Not exact matches

One is Joe Ricketts, the billionaire founder of TD Ameritrade, who spent $ 1.3 million in the 2010 elections to publicly shame earmarking «hooligans» in Congress and honor the «heroes» fighting to zero them out.

If it sounds like Edwards still needed to apply FEC rules and limits, consider this: Scott Thomas, a former commissioner of the Federal Election Commission testified that he did not consider that the payments would have come under his agency's auspices — in part because they were not used directly for the campaign and did not free up any of Edwards» own money to be spent on the campaign.

In her announcement, Gillibrand criticized the 2010 Supreme Court case, Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission, which ruled that the government should not regulate the amount of money corporations and unions can spend on campaigns.

Governments often cut spending and balance the books in time for an election.

The election of Donald Trump as president sparked an exodus from the US Treasury market in the final months of 2016 and early 2017 as investors prepared for the possibility that Trump's plans for a protectionist trade policy, tax cuts, deregulation, and massive infrastructure spending would bring inflation back to the US.

In the 2016 election cycle, the average winning Senate candidate had spent $ 10.4 million through October 19 of that year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

The election of Donald Trump as president sparked an exodus from the Treasury market in the final months of 2016 as investors began to price in the possibility that Trump's plans for a protectionist trade policy, tax cuts, and massive infrastructure spending would bring back inflation to the US.

Not only did President Trump defeat sixteen skilled and experienced primary opponents and win the presidency; he did so spending a fraction of what his opponent spent in the general election.

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.

Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan told CNBC that «some people are starting to spend in anticipation» of tax reform and repatriation resulting from Trump's election.

Rick Perry spent a ridiculous $ 6,035,705 in Iowa alone this election cycle — far more than any other candidate — only to come in a distant fifth place.

In a quarterly - earnings call on Wednesday, Penegor said that the presidential election is weighing on consumer sentiment and, in turn, people are spending less at restaurants like Wendy'In a quarterly - earnings call on Wednesday, Penegor said that the presidential election is weighing on consumer sentiment and, in turn, people are spending less at restaurants like Wendy'in turn, people are spending less at restaurants like Wendy's.

Wendy's CEO Todd Penegor said in August that uncertainty about the election was leading customers to spend less freely.

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

In the 2016 election, the NRA spent $ 11,438,118 to support Donald Trump — and another $ 19,756,346 to oppose Hillary Clinton.

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.

Federal Election Commission records show that these groups, as well as five other grant recipients of Crossroads GPS, spent money on political ads, directly or indirectly, in the 2010 electioElection Commission records show that these groups, as well as five other grant recipients of Crossroads GPS, spent money on political ads, directly or indirectly, in the 2010 electionelection cycle.

Although similar nonprofits engaged in politics in past elections, their use exploded in 2010, particularly in tandem with super PACs, taking advantage of federal court rulings that paved the way for a new role for outside - spending groups in elections.

An election - year boost in education spending helped push the Beehive State to the top last year.

The top 10 lists for both parties reveal that in the 2012 election season, Democrats spent a total of $ 3.1 million at their favorite spots.

Abzug's push for Women's Equality Day was, in fact, far more symbolic than many of the more concrete policies she made a reality in her six years in Congress, not to mention in the two decades prior to her election, which she spent as a lawyer fighting for human rights and civil rights.

His room was attached to my office, and we spent hours talking about what might happen in the 2004 election.

Within hours of the presidential election, Washington politicians turned to the most urgent issue facing them: the fiscal cliff looming on Jan. 1, when more than $ 100 billion in automatic spending cuts and $ 500 billion of tax increases will be triggered.

Sanders, who has spent the last four days campaigning in Minnesota, is hoping to win the State in the Super Tuesday primary election on March 1st, 2016.

Even compared to SuperPAC spending in the 2012 election, that's huge.

The Liberals, who are weeks away from an election, defended their spending, saying it has resulted in new jobs and increased investment from private partners.

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

The network's spending plans going forward mark an increase from the amount spent in the two years before the 2016 election, which was roughly $ 250 million.

This decision probably shouldn't have been a surprise, because it basically said that the court's 2010 decision in the Citizens United case, upholding the right of corporations to spend money in federal elections, applies to the states as well.

A version of this article appears in print on November 28, 2009, on Page A14 of the New York edition with the headline: With Late Rush, Mayor Spent $ 102 Million on Election.

In the 2016 election cycle alone, the NRA and its partners spent a record $ 54 million to support Republicans in CongresIn the 2016 election cycle alone, the NRA and its partners spent a record $ 54 million to support Republicans in Congresin Congress.

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.

Apart from the occasional sound - bite on military spending, the Iraq war, and missile defence, Canada's role in the world was not part of the mainstream election debate.

«Our elections are very heavily regulated, and income or monies from other countries can't be spent in our elections in any way shape or form,» she continued.

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.

The Trump campaign spent nearly $ 700,000 in legal consulting fees — or about 15.5 % of its total expenses between April 1 and June 30, according to the latest Federal Election Commission report.

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 report argues that the current lack of rules around third parties creates a huge loophole in financing limits — essentially, anyone who wants to spend a ton of money to influence an election can simply channel it away from parties, corporations and unions and instead pour it into an interest group.

«Today's budget delivered on the government's election promise to boost spending for social programs and stimulate growth in key sectors of our economy.

He spent more than $ 60 million to win election in 2000 to the United States Senate from New Jersey on a liberal platform.

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.

In other words, over the next five years, this government is planning to spend more money on income splitting for a small number of well off families, a promise made during the 2011 election, than on supporting economic growth and job creation through new spending on research and infrastructure and lowering taxes on investment.

Back in Fall 2016, during the run up to the American election, Ms. Clark spent a lot of time talking down Trump's misogyny — all the while taking money from the developers of Trump Tower in Vancouver.

As part of its 2006 election platform, the Conservative Party promised to «create an Independent Budget Authority to provide objective analysis directly to Parliament about the state of the nation's finances and trends in the national economy; require government departments and agencies to provide timely information to the Parliamentary Budget Authority to ensure it has the information it needs to provide accurate analyses to Parliament; and ensure that government fiscal forecasts are updated quarterly and that they provide complete data for both revenue and spending forecasts».