Sentences with phrase «election spending much»

They reached the run - off election spending much less on publicity than some of the losing candidates, a sign of people's discontent with business - as - usual politics.

Yes they are Parliamentary systems but when they call an election they spend much less and the election is over within 30 to 60 days of it being called.

Covering the election I spent much of the time feeling as if there had been a death in the family.

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Spokesman James Davis said the network would spend between $ 300 million and $ 400 million ahead of the 2018 elections, much of it devoted to the organization's nationwide grassroots organization to help educate voters and hold elected officials accountable.

The politics of the coming November midterm elections will consume the Capitol for much of the rest of 2018, as lawmakers debate a farm bill, possible new disclosures for social media companies and federal spending beyond Sept. 30.

Within a few years of his election, Peter Hebblethwaite was writing, de haut en bas, that he «would like to think that John Paul continues to learn from his stay in the West... and that he might spend as much time trying to understand the rest of us as we have spent trying to understand him».

All elections should have limits on how much money can be spent.

In the board elections in April that unseated incumbents Gladys Fox and Reno Caneva, some of the challengers complained that too much money was being spent on Lockport and not enough elsewhere.

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.

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.

Sen. Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who has been conferencing with the Republicans since his election in 2012, providing an additional cushion to the majority in the closely - divided chamber, spent much of the final two weeks leading up to the budget deal either in his office, at the gym or hanging around — alone — outside the chamber.

Also 30M for a campaign isn't much, she likely spent hundreds of millions in 2008, her campaign fund for this election is over a billion dollars.

Flanagan told reporters at the Capitol that while he's unsure how much money will be spent on the special election slated for April 19, he plans a sustained push.

The rise of Super PACs in this election cycle has caused a lot of buzz and consternation, in part because they allow donors to avoid restrictions like contribution limits and reporting requirements while spending as much as they'd like to support their preferred candidates.

This is good news for political parties, who spend much of their resources on printing and distributing these flyers at every election.

Television ad slots have been scarce in contested states during election seasons before, but the combination of big - money super-PACs and the expectation that both presidential campaigns will spend heavily seems to be driving political actors to reserve time much earlier than usual.

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.

How much should political parties, candidates and other interested bodies be allowed to spend, both generally and during election campaigns?

Alexander's claim that Labour will be outspent by three to one is based on estimates of how much party candidates will spend locally as well as national election spending.

In it, he followed the typical State of the State game - plan for incumbent governors: he delivered his priorities for the 2014 legislative session, spending much of the time describing past accomplishments and bolstering an image for the election campaign.

But as it happens they did win the election, and George Osborne is spending much of this parliament talking about his so - called fiscal charter, which has replaced the referendum bill on the Mickey Mouse shelf.

It spent much of the last parliament trying to pass a bill guaranteeing an EU referendum this parliament, even though anyone with the tiniest glimmer of understanding about how politics works would tell you that the way to guarantee that is to win an election.

As such, corporations can spend as much as they want on elections, as long as such spending is not coordinated with a candidate.

Tom Watson spent so much time on the road ahead before general election, he joked that he could not sleep unless he was in a Premier Inn bed.

Labour is expecting to spend less than half as much as the Tories on the general election campaign amid a drive for money donations from its 500,000 members.

Former Councilman Robert Jackson beat out State Senator Adriano Espaillat in fund - raising by $ 22,000 in the first filing period — but spent more than five times as much as the incumbent, leaving the two neck - and - neck in cash on hand with two months until Election Day.

Republicans and Gov. Scott Walker spent more than twice as much as his recall election challenger Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and Democratic supporters.

New Yorkers have learned much about Mayor de Blasio since Daily News Albany Bureau Chief Ken Lovett revealed that the state Board of Elections» enforcement counsel had accused the mayor of heading a criminal scheme to evade campaign spending limits.

Democrat Alex Sink and Republican David Jolly have spent over $ 2 million for their March 11th special election, but national outside groups have spent three times as much trying to impact on the Florida 13th Congressional District election.

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 Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Aishah Ahmad, has cautioned politicians against too much spending as 2019 elections approaches.

The choice at this election must be presented clearly: Brown doubled the national debt by wastefully spending too much taxpayers» money.

The Conservatives will have up to three times as much money as Labour to spend in the run - up to the next election, senior party figures have warned.

Say there was a law that limited how much a presidential candidate could spend during the election process per month all / most of the campaign money isn't used (According to this article there isn't...

Although Romney spent much of his grueling primary campaign convincing the right that he was one of them, he's avoided almost all talk of marriage during the general election campaign save for a question at the Univision forum in September.

Cruz - linked groups spent nearly as much money into Cambridge Analytica as Trump backers, show data from the 2016 election cycle.

Voters also turned away from Labour at the last election because of a fear that «a Labour government would spend and borrow too much» and a sense that the country had been moving in the «right direction» under David Cameron.

In the last election cycle, the money raised in direct contributions by Cuomo's campaign committee was almost three times as much as the total Super PACs spent on every gubernatorial, attorney general, comptroller, Senate, and Assembly candidate combined.

After all, the party's election manifesto declared: «If spending is cut too soon, it would undermine the much - needed recovery and cost jobs».

«This one was a little difficult,» said Ulster County Board of Elections Commissioner Tom Turco, who spent much of last Tuesday, April 19 fielding phone calls and traveling between polling sites trying to sort out the confusion.

«And imagine what the reaction would've been if the city had to spend millions of dollars to hold a runoff election for one of the small parties, where they might've been spending as much as $ 30,000 per vote in order to administer a runoff election for one of the smaller parties.

Florida's 2nd district (D): Rep. Allen Boyd has spent heavily — $ 2.3 million — during his primary against state Sen. Al Lawson, but much of that money is actually targeted toward the general election.

A Brooklyn mom who'd spent much of her time since the 2016 election working for Planned Parenthood, Katz tells me she had been «deeply affected» by the resolve she saw in women in particular and how that energy might be channeled toward a candidate like Nixon.

Donors can give as much money as they want to a group supporting Republican NYC mayoral nominee Joe Lhota, following a ruling by a federal appeals court that could pave the way for increased outside spending in New York elections.

Because there are limits on how much this type of coordinated money can be spent in a state, spending it in a primary means there will be less available in a general election.

Of course, Pedicini spent much of the day on the phone, working on the special election in House District 72.

In addition, Espaillat spent tens of thousands of dollars and enjoyed widespread press coverage during and after the election, including during his much - covered challenge to the Board of Elections results.

«StudentsFirstNY might as well be called «hedge funders first,» because there is no doubt that 13 hedge fund managers spent as much as 600,000 NYSUT members in this last election,» Korn said.

«If you go back to 2005, I think it was, I think I spent $ 7 million of my own money trying to convince everybody that we should have nonpartisan elections,» said Bloomberg (who has very much played the partisan game when he's needed to, and contributed millions of dollars to the controversial Independence Party, which provided him a crucial non-major-party line to run on).

Doug understands the federal government needs to quit spending so much, will vote against tax increases, and protect key values like the right to vote in private in union elections.»