Sentences with phrase «expenditures on behalf of both candidates»

The Louisiana Federation for Children Action Fund conducted independent expenditures on behalf of both candidates.

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These activities include direct and indirect political contributions to candidates, political parties or political organizations; independent expenditures; or electioneering communications on behalf of a federal, state or local candidate.

These include activities considered intervention under the Internal Revenue Code in any political campaign, such as direct and indirect political contributions to candidates, political parties, or political organizations; independent expenditures; or electioneering communications on behalf of federal, state, or local candidates.

Under federal campaign finance law, any expenditures by a candidate or someone working on behalf of a candidate must be reported to the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

The call for disclosure of 501 (c) 4 groups comes after a campaign season of outside independent expenditure groups spending heavily on behalf of candidates with little to no idea of who is funding the efforts.

According to the complaint, the independent expenditure committee raised and spent money on behalf of candidates in order to circumvent contribution limits and also falsified its report to the state Board of Elections.

The CFB fined NYCLASS $ 16,054 for illegally coordinating independent expenditures on behalf of two 2013 City Council candidates and $ 10,000 for misrepresenting those expenditures as independent when, in the determination of the CFB, they were not.

City Action has made expenditures in the Bronx race on behalf of a candidate who does not even live in the district ---- something that is allowed in redistricting years ---- but enjoys one key strength in the race: his name is Joel Rivera, the same as the 12 - year incumbent he is hoping to replace.

This includes any activity considered intervention in a political campaign under the Internal Revenue Code, such as direct and indirect contributions to political candidates, parties, or organizations, and independent expenditures or electioneering communications on behalf of federal, state, or local candidates.

NYSUT's spending on behalf of mainly Democratic Senate candidates in swing districts comes as supporters of charter schools have spent heavily in independent expenditure efforts of their own.

Massive spending by independent expenditure campaigns came to dominate the conclusion of the race for the state Senate, almost entirely on behalf of Republican candidates.

According to the indictment, they used an independent expenditure committee, the WNY Progressive Caucus, to raise money on behalf of candidates and circumvent campaign contribution limits.

The vast majority of spending by these committees now comes in the form of independent expenditures (IEs), which can be made in unlimited amounts on behalf of campaigns with the lone caveat being that the IE staff can not have any contact with candidates or their campaigns.

Flags would be raised, according to David, if a candidate forms or raises money «on behalf of an entity that later makes expenditures» backing them in an election.

In 2014, Bolton's super PAC ran independent expenditure campaigns on behalf of GOP candidates Tom Cotton in Arkansas, Thom Tillis in North Carolina and Scott Brown in New Hampshire.

The Advance Group, the political consultancy that coordinated NYCLASS's independent expenditures against Christine Quinn and on behalf of some Council candidates, was also helping run the campaigns of those candidates.

The party committee has not made organizational expenditures on behalf of any other General Assembly candidates.

The money it spent on behalf of these candidates represented only a small percentage of the contributions it had received at the time, it had a history of getting involved in Senate races, and it helped Senate hopefuls through independent expenditures, rather than direct transfers.

ALBANY — The state Board of Elections has rejected the Independent Democratic Conference's efforts to convert its political action committee into an independent expenditure committee, raising at least a procedural question about the $ 329,000 it spent on behalf of several candidates for last month's primary.

While independent expenditure committees can not contribute directly to a candidate, they can spend on things like mailers and advertisements on behalf of a candidate who has not authorized the committee to do so.

The support for Cumbo and other candidates from REBNY, through its Jobs for New York super PAC, became a point of controversy in 2013, with Cumbo eventually asking the PAC to stop its independent expenditure efforts on her behalf.

The candidate or his or her treasurer must keep detailed and accurate accounts of all contributions turned over to and expenditures made by the candidate or his treasurer on behalf of the candidate or his campaign committee, or reported to any candidate or his treasurer.

The Hotel Trades Council, which took out the largest independent expenditure of the primary campaign, saw wins in all 26 of the races in which it endorsed, including the six candidates it spent on behalf of.

In 2014, Bolton's super PAC ran independent expenditure campaigns on behalf of GOP candidates Tom Cotton in Arkansas, Thom Tillis in North Carolina and Scott Brown in New Hampshire.