Sentences with phrase «fundraiser last»

As I noted in that speech I gave at a breast cancer fundraiser last year: Before my husband walked out, I was going through the motions.

Just spoke at a fundraiser last night for Blood: Water Mission, which is an organization that builds wells in Sub-Saharan Africa.

We debuted the Bag Monster at the Atlanta Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation Fundraiser last year and we haven't stopped since.

I was at the Wigglebutts Uncorked fundraiser last night and was horrified what people are capable of.

We trust the folks at OBG and they were the benefactors of our Wigglebutts Go Hollywoof fundraiser last year.

Meanwhile, the press release quoted the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now (ConnCAN), which was founded by Achievement First's Jonathan Sackler [the same Jonathan Sackler who held a $ 40,000 fundraiser last May for the political action committee affiliated with Governor Malloy] as saying, «We welcome [the New York charter school association] and look forward to working with the Network to further ensure that the voices of communities, families and students who demand more quality public school choices are heard loud and clear in Connecticut.»

Wilde, who is engaged to Jason Sudeikis, walked the red carpet at the annual Big Slick fundraiser last summer in Kansas City while she was pregnant with the couple's second child, Daisy, who is now 8 months old.

The Capital District GOP Women's Council PAC held its first fundraiser last week as it positions itself as a network to support conservative female candidates not just in Albany County but in 11 counties in and around the Capital Region.

Funds for the marker were raised in part by a fundraiser last Fall that Asemblywoman Donna Lupardo helped to organize.

The Progressive Caucus held a fundraiser last year for State Senate Democratic candidates.

Attendees at a fundraiser last night for would - be Democratic gubernatorial candidate Zephyr Teachout included tech and media entrepreneurs like Digg CEO Matt Williams, and employees of Tumblr, Foursquare and Google.

Republican 2016 contender and Florida Senator Marco Rubio left Buffalo with about $ 250,000 following a fundraiser last night at the Snyder home of Amy Habib.

While acknowledging past squabbles behind closed doors, Mondello and D'Amato told attendees at the fundraiser last month that the party always should present a united front in public.

«I've been able to work well with the administration in terms of getting an audience,» said Balboni, who co-hosted a «Republicans for Cuomo» fundraiser last week at The Pierre hotel in Manhattan for which tickets went as high as $ 50,000 a head.

The DN's Bob (Kappy) Kappstatter said mayoral hopefuls packed the Bronx Democratic Party fundraiser last week.

In the spirit of Richard Nixon, who once said, «I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant,» I offer the following: Ulster County Exec Hein advised my boss he did not introduce Assemblyman Vito Lopez as Peter Lopez at a birthday fundraiser last month as reported here.

Balter held a campaign fundraiser last week.

Democratic email fundraising may not quite have reached the level of a Global Catastrophe yesterday, but it sure as hell got talked about: I heard an earful at a NARAL fundraiser last night, and various back - channel email...

The assemblywoman has been a favorite with the Log Cabin Republicans ever since, and she was in Manhattan to attend the organization's fundraiser last night, along with Paladino's running mate, Chautauqua County Executive Greg Edwards.

Just today, the state GOP put out a press release slamming Addabbo for holding a fundraiser last night at a restaurant at the Aqueduct casino, dredging up the Democratic senator's mention in a 2010 IG report about the AEG debacle.

Democratic email fundraising may not quite have reached the level of a Global Catastrophe yesterday, but it sure as hell got talked about: I heard an earful at a NARAL fundraiser last night, and various back - channel email lists and Facebook groups buzzed with people sick and tired of repetitive fundraising messages sent by campaigns, PACs and the party committees.

Mehta set up the online fundraiser last week, he said.

Our elementary school had a fundraiser last Friday night.

Not exact matches

The fundraiser tool for users is the latest product from Facebook's social good team, which launched last year and is responsible for the social network's safety check technology that's switched on after natural disasters or emergencies and lets users notify friends that they're okay.

You might have heard last month about the Box CEO's plans to throw a fundraiser for Clinton, a candidate Reuters reported was courting a number of young Silicon Valley executives.

The political insider has friends from coast to coast, and organized a major fundraiser for British Columbia Christy Clark during last year's provincial election.

Last Thursday, the Tezos blockchain project set a record for the coin sales by raising the equivalent of more than $ 200 million over the 13 days of its fundraiser.

Last month, he held a fundraiser for Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan.

Mike never liked being put in a box so he spent the last 20 years as an entrepreneur, investment banker, author, professor, speaker, angel investor and fundraiser for various charities.

Could it be that like Wendell Berry in Sex, Freedom, Economy, and Community she's weary of all the «shock art» tactics employed over the last several decades, modeled after such Classic (PBS - fundraiser - worthy) Boomer Moments like Bob's «Masters» one?

Due to several last - minute TV interviews added to his schedule on Wednesday morning, Santorum arrived at the chapel nearly an hour late, which shrunk the amount of time his campaign set aside for midday fundraisers in this wealthy, predominantly Republican state.

Big shout out to all the runners in the Run for the 96 5k race in Liverpool last weekend, there was some top fundraisers and amazing determination there.

(See, e.g., last week's post: «Arizona, Gutting Federal Rules, Says ALL School Fundraisers Can Sell Junk Food.

My concern is that in this era of draconian state education budget cuts (here in Texas, we rank second to last in per - student spending), state agencies, under pressure from cash - strapped districts, might be far too liberal in allowing these exempt — but often quite lucrative — fundraisers.

Alluding to the recent TDA fines imposed in Houston, Republican House Representative Ken King introduced in the last legislative session HB1781 which «ensure [s] that Texas high schools have the freedom» to continue junk food fundraisers and which expressly forbids the TDA from fining those schools based on the food's nutritional content.

The ruling was a victory for Edgewater residents Robert and Mildred Tong, who sued the district last summer over its refusal to engrave the religious statement on a brick for which they had paid $ 50 in a Senn Park fundraiser.

Last year, Olaf was an AMP co-coordinator and this year she is ecstatic to help put on our biggest fundraiser of the year.

Cuomo was in Buffalo last week for a $ 1,000 - a-head fundraiser.

She attended a fundraiser with Cuomo last year and serves on his Moreland Commission on Public Corruption.

Here's Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos telling reporters at the Log Cabin Republicans fundraiser in Manhattan last night that he would «recommend» to his conference that the same - sex marriage bill return to the floor for a vote next year if the GOP manages to regain control of the chamber.

Tonight, he heads to Onondaga County, where the GOP county executive, Joanie Mahoney, who crossed party lines to endorse him last year, will host a fundraiser for him.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo made a pitch for down - ballot Democratic candidates at a local fundraiser in Suffolk County last night, singling out state Senate hopeful Jim Gaughran as being particularly needed in Albany.

Long said he met Maragos for the first time at a cocktail party / fundraiser hosted last week by his brother, Queens Conservative Party Chairman Tom Long.

Erie County Republican Chairman Nick Langworthy was at the Rubio fundraiser with his wife, but he also made the trip to Wisconsin when Gov. Scott Walker announced his presidential bid last month.

Gillibrand was among the Democratic elected officials who spoke last night at Rangel's big birthday fundraiser.

Cattaraugus County Democrats expecting to meet LG Kathy Hochul at a fundraiser in Ellicottville Monday instead got Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz as a last - minute guest speaker.

Opposition to changes to the state's Scaffold Law remains a heated issue in Albany, as evidence by the criticism from some advocates of the Lawsuit Reform Alliance's BBQ fundraiser held last night.

He told me he has hired a fundraiser (he wouldn't reveal this person's name), and started holding events — the first of which was last night, with five more planned for the coming weeks.

Including with a major fundraiser they threw for him at the same Delaware North building last year.

Originally Walker, a Republican who has ignited a flashpoint for liberals and union advocates, was scheduled to appear at the New York City event on Nov. 1 last year, but the fundraiser was cancelled in the wake of the devastation of Hurricane Sandy.