Sentences with phrase «election war chest»

Former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos spent another $ 427,000 from his election war chest on criminal - defense lawyers who helped get his corruption conviction overturned, according to campaign - finance filings.

He took over from Jonathan (now Lord) Marland as Party Treasurer and was tasked with raising an election war chest.

Not exact matches

As this federal election unfolds, Harper has all the advantages of incumbency, a huge war chest of election funds and polls that show Canadians would much prefer him to Mr. Dion as prime minister.

The campaign to take on Cuomo this year is considered in uphill one, given Democratic advantages at the polls in a midterm election and the governor's $ 30 million campaign war chest.

The New York Gaming Association — a consortium of casino and gambling interests — spread $ 226,250 in campaign contributions to a broad mix of state lawmakers and campaign war chests, their Board of Elections filing today shows.

The two major national party committees and the four Congressional campaign committees had healthy fundraising efforts during May, leaving them with substantial war chests for the upcoming elections.

Sen. Stephen Saland still has most of his robust campaign war chest still intact, according to his 32 - day pre-general campaign filing with the state Board of Elections.

In that email, Ball asks supporters to donate in hopes of reaching a $ 30,000 goal by January 1 due to exhausting his $ 1 million war chest leading up to the November election.

She now has more than $ 5 million cash in her campaign war chest — which, when combined with public matching funds, is more than the $ 6.4 million candidates are allowed to spend during the primary — leaving her with $ 2.4 million for the general election or a potential run - off with a fellow Democrat.

They also build war chests to bombard voters with advertisements at election time.

De Blasio, though beleaguered by scandals and anemic approval ratings, would prove a daunting opponent in a general election thanks to his sizable war chest, Rolodex of union endorsements and an overwhelmingly Democratic electorate.

He now heads into the general election campaign with a nearly $ 5 million war chest, compared with Malliotakis, a Staten Island assemblywoman who entered the race in April, with $ 220,000 on hand.

«This election is not a referendum on the size of Chuck Schumer's war chest; it is a referendum on his record,» Mr. Townsend said in a telephone interview.

Republican candidate for governor Rob Astorino has $ 1.2 million in cash on hand with about a month to go before Election Day in November — a sum that is vastly smaller than Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $ 25 million war chest, campaign - finance filings posted today show.

But during that time, she has managed to quietly amass a campaign war chest of more than $ 500,000 — $ 519,327, to be exact, according to the July 15 report on file with the state Board of Elections.

The Conservative reported almost $ 148,000 to the state Board of Elections — a staggering war chest for a county legislator.

The GOP Senate election committee reported this week that they have $ 5.4 million dollars in their campaign war chest, compared to the Democrats» mere $ 750,000.

And while Cuomo, after much prodding, finally did campaign for Senate Democrats in the 2016 election, non-IDC Democrats have complained that he rarely dips into his massive war chest to dedicate actual funds to helping them.

The next citywide election is three years away, but in the first campaign filing of the 2017 election cycle, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. is sitting on the largest campaign war chest of any politician in the city.

Almost # 14.4 m was donated to political parties» war chests during the general election campaign - with the Conservatives and Labour almost neck and neck, official declarations show.

The state board of elections shows Hein had over $ 500,000 in his campaign war chest; he isn't up for reelection until 2015.

They're both stalwart incumbents with high name recognition, and their campaigns were fueled by war chests that, on the scale of elections in these upstate communities, should have been big enough to make them invincible.

Jones entered the election year with $ 127,000 in cash on hand — a meager war chest when compared to the might of the super PAC's capabilities.

The Nassau County District Attorney raised nearly $ 620,000 over the past month, pushing her war chest total to $ 4.4 million, according to campaign finance disclosure reports filed with the State Board of Elections Friday.

Nearly half of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's campaign war chest this election cycle have come from just 331 donors, according to an analysis from Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Republicans also face the likelihood that the Skelos - seat battle will be a multimillion - dollar drain on their campaign war chest that will, should the Democrat win, leave them with reduced prospects of raising large sums for the November elections.

Hein's war chest — he's up for election in 2015 — showed a balance of just under $ 100,000 prior to last week's cash infusion.

StudentsFirstNY is already building a war chest for the 2016 legislative elections.

Gillibrand, who was appointed by former Governor David Paterson to replace Hillary Clinton, has already won an election for her job, in 2010, and she's fairly popular and has a significant campaign war chest.

As a consequence, in 1997 the Chancellor was determined to control public spending and to increase taxes, enabling him to have a war chest available for the next General Election.

«City law places clear restrictions on post-election spending and does not allow candidates to use public matching funds to build a war chest for future elections,» CFB spokesman Matt Sollars told the Daily News Monday.

Cuomo is running for re election this year, and so far he has no announced opponent and $ 33 million dollars in a campaign war chest.

«The Tory plan is clear: use inflated fears of a debt and monetary crisis to justify massive public spending cuts and an increase in VAT now; blame it all on Labour's management of the economy; and use the resulting war - chest to cut income tax before the next election,» wrote Mr Balls.

According to the Olusola Oke Campaign Committee, the contract sum was perfected and released without going through due process and the money has now been earmarked as part of the war chest to be used by the APC to rig the election later this month.

Even with large campaign war - chests, as reformers had in the recent Tennessee elections, the unions and their allies will tend to prevail because they have a larger number of concentrated beneficiaries who campaign and vote.