Sentences with phrase «fund early campaign»

Obama woos big donors to help fund early campaign expansion.»

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Similarly, when Slava Menn, 32, launched a Kickstarter campaign earlier this year to fund the production of a theft - resistant bike light, his backers also helped him improve the product.

Less than a year after their Indiegogo campaign, Whirlscape has also nabbed $ 500,000 in seed funding from BDC Venture Capital (a Canadian venture capital fund), a U.S. - based fund, and California's renowned Y Combinator incubator, which took Whirlscape on as a participant in its accelerator program earlier this year.

The early smartwatch pioneers raised more money on Kickstarter than any prior campaign, then raised $ 59 million in venture funding, only to sell off assets to competitor Fitbit in 2016 in a deal reportedly valued between $ 34 million and $ 40 million.

When Don Mains, a former Tampa resident and Bush political appointee to the Department of Commerce, heard from a friend in early June about Odessa's plight, he flew to Tampa from Washington to spearhead a last - ditch fund - raising campaign.

A parliamentary inquiry into parenting and social mobility has called on the next government to do more to encourage the UK's early years services to engage with men — and to fund a national reading campaign for dads and children.

Fund - raising was an early way in which new media proved its worth to the rest of the campaign.

Despite the polling lead, de Blasio successfully argued to the city's campaign finance board earlier this month that his campaign should receive an additional $ 1.6 million in public matching funds, saying the race was indeed competitive.

Still, Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos earlier this month at the state Republican convention said he was open to a compromise on publicly financed political campaigns as long as it did not use direct taxpayer dollars, otherwise known as «off - budget funds.»

The early - bird posting of Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy's campaign - finance report shows the Cuomo administration's number two has used his fund to pay for what is described in the filing as «housing,» with payments going to a company owned by a major Republican contributor.

After a late fund - raising start, Democrat John Choe was awarded $ 101,966 in public funds from the city Campaign Finance Board after not qualifying for matching funds earlier this month.

ALBANY — In its early months, the congressional campaign of Assembly housing chair Keith Wright has been heavily funded by individuals from the real estate interests that are regulated by his committee.

If these seats are due for extra campaigning funds, then they ought to start receiving them soon to make the most of the early selections.

Mr. Espaillat's filing shows that he has yet to pay rent for the use of the Northern Manhattan Democrats for Change office his campaign is using as its headquarters, and that he owes $ 3,500 to consulting group Bedford Grove for holding a fund - raiser for him earlier this month.

But the packed fund - raising calendars, brisk political spending and trips to early primary states suggest that in fact a shadow campaign for the party's 2020 presidential nomination is already well underway.

Early on Wednesday the NYPost reported that «Queens Assemblyman William Scarborough was hit Wednesday morning with a 23 - count indictment charging him with using campaign funds for personal expenses, authorities said.Scarborough, a Democrat first elected in 1994 to represent the 29th Assembly District in southeast Queens, was arrested following a joint probe by the offices of state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.»

Some insiders are surprised that as Nixon has just begun her fund - raising efforts, Cuomo has yet to dip into his $ 30 million - plus campaign warchest for an early ad campaign promoting his record and looking to quickly define Nixon negatively.

Trump entered the homestretch of the campaign at a pronounced financial disadvantage to Clinton, according to figures his team released, and far below the self - funding goal he set for himself earlier in the race.

The sore loser — who finished a distant fourth in the September Democratic mayoral primary after eeking out a mere 7 percent of the vote — and his campaign committee filed the Manhattan federal court suit claiming his civil rights were violated a month earlier when the Board withheld the funds.

His campaign released a statement early this morning from spokeswoman Virginia Lam that sought to tie the Post nod into reports of former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi's imminent guilty plea in connection with Cuomo's pay - to - play pension fund probe.

Mayor Bill de Blasio addressed a closed - door crowd of roughly 600 in a Brooklyn bowling alley on Thursday night for a birthday party that doubled as a fund - raiser and an early rally for his 2017 re-election campaign.

In late 2004 or early 2005, Bloomberg gave the Independence Party of New York $ 250,000 to fund a phone bank seeking to recruit volunteers for his re-election campaign.

Rangel's campaign had told Capital its fund - raising in the final stretch of the campaign had picked up significantly, after it appeared to lag earlier in the race.

Earlier this year, six state lawmakers used campaign funds for a spring break trip to Cuba organized by a Capitol lobbyist.

Furthermore, the bill, which was passed in a state budget agreement in early April, fails to lower sky - high campaign contribution limits, close campaign funding loopholes, or mandate greater disclosure of independent expenditures by special interest groups.

But the Obama campaign — which was building its own fund - raising behemoth, even at the expense of the candidate's earlier pledge to accept public financing and the spending cap that came with it — didn't want outside interference.

After serving time in prison on bribery and other corruption charges, Mr. Newton was rearrested in early 2013 for falsifying information so that he could get public funding for what he hoped would be his comeback campaign.

Asked about his dismal fundraising earlier this week and whether he'll be able to be competitive against Cuomo, who has $ 23.6 million on hand; and Carl Paladino, who has pledged to spend up to $ 10 million of his own money on the campaign; Lazio insisted that he'll have sufficient funds to remain in the race — and even win — reminding New Yorkers that this is «an election, not an auction.»

Lopez, who can use campaign funds to pay the fine, had just over $ 1 million in his campaign account earlier this year, some of which he can transfer to his new campaign for City Council.

«Mr. Trump held a fundraiser down in New York City a few weeks back and did raise some money, but they have — I would use the word — «struggled» to raise the private funds needed to pay these individuals who are working on behalf of the taxpayers but not being paid by the government,» said Congressman Chris Collins, who has been an advocate for Trump since early in his presidential campaign.

The speaker won early endorsements from the Empire State Pride Agenda, the Human Rights Campaign, and the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, a Washington - based group that works to elect out LGBT candidates.

New York City mayor Bill de Blasio campaigned on the promise of raising taxes on the city's wealthiest residents to fund universal pre-K and after - school programs for middle schoolers, and de Blasio said earlier Tuesday that he intends to continue pushing for that tax, calling it a «mission» from voters.

Klein, who is 54, has not responded to Gay City News» requests for comment — either during the legislative session or now as the primary campaign is winding up — but in a recent debate on NY1 defended his progressive credentials by pointing to his key role in enacting the governor's new gun control law early last year and in funding pre-K education this year.

An early January 2011 report showed Stanley raised $ 64,875 in campaign funds.

As I wrote earlier, Rangel's remarks were intended as shots as State Sen. Adriano Espaillat — who Rangel has accused of playing racial politics — and Clyde Williams, a Harlem resident since 2001 who is funding his campaign, in part, with support from people he met while working in Washington.

Early on Wednesday the NYPost reported that «Queens Assemblyman William Scarborough was hit Wednesday morning with a 23 - count indictment charging him with using campaign funds for personal expenses,... Continue reading →

In an attempt to deliver on a key campaign promise early on, De Blasio has spent the last few weeks drumming up support in Albany for a small tax on the wealthy to fund universal pre-K.

Thanks to relentless campaigning by the UFT, the City Council and early childhood advocates, the mayor retreated from his initial proposal to eliminate 16,500 child care slots, restoring $ 40 million of the $ 91 million in child care funding that he intended to cut.

«Bill de Blasio is now seen as the flagship for a potential urban - policy enlightenment,» says Adam Green, a co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, the million - member group that was a key early fund - raiser for Warren.

Rising from a Kickstarter funding campaign, developer and publisher Magic and Mirrors has come a long way in moving Nelo along towards Early Release.

To fight against the funding cuts and enhance children's active learning, BESA launched the Resource Our Schools campaign in early summer.

As the first Black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, Miss.; worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as counsel for his Poor People's Campaign; and dedicated her early career to defending the civil liberties of people struggling to overcome poverty and discrimination.

campaign, calling on the government to invest funding into early support services for children.

Mr. Unz, who earlier said he would not fund a ballot campaign here unless there was significant local support, said he is now prepared to give money to the effort, though he expects local contributions.

Twice during the presidential - campaign debates, Barack Obama termed early - childhood education one of his highest priorities, and even before serious planning got under way for an antirecession «stimulus» package, he had pledged to this priority an additional $ 10 billion in annual federal funding.

Though the campaign was defeated at the ballot box earlier this month, it has still created a strong grassroots movement that will continue to fight for fair school funding.

NYSUT launched an advertising campaign earlier this month advocating boosts in funding for SUNY and CUNY.

The campaign, launched earlier this month, draws attention to the more than 1 million student names on charter school waitlists across the country and asks Congress to continue making funding for charter schools a priority.

Patterson stated early last September that he was personally providing one million dollars in funding to eligible bookstores who applied for and received a grant through the campaign.

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