Pelosi's strength comes from several sources, the first among equals being
her fundraising on behalf of candidates and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Not exact matches
For de Blasio, the appearance in Albany came with pitfalls: He'd be testifying before Senate Republicans, a conference that has held deep antipathy for him and his policies, which has only increased in the wake
of an investigation into his
fundraising efforts
on behalf of Democratic
candidates in 2014.
The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee emailed a
fundraising appeal this afternoon
on behalf of the Democratic
candidate, NYC Councilman Lew Fidler, calling this race «the front line in the battle to retake one
of the most important legislative chambers in the country» and «one
of the most important elections for progressives anywhere in the country between now and the Wisconsin recalls.»
In a techPresident column posted yesterday evening, Nancy Scola raised some excellent questions about MySpace's plans to offer political campaigns new
fundraising tools, including ones designed to allow supporters to raise money
on behalf of a
candidate.
So far this week, endorsements and
fundraising appeals have been sent out
on behalf of GOP US Senate
candidate Wendy Long from surrogates who hold sway with certain elements
of the primary electorate — Grover Norquist, Steve Forbes, state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long, and the latest: Former Assembly Minority Leader / 2006 GOP gubernatorial
candidate John Faso.
That was three days after the date which, according to the Daily News, the board's enforcement counsel, Risa Sugarman, sent a memo to the board's commissioners recommending a criminal referral over New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's organization
of fundraising on behalf of Senate
candidates through county committees in Ulster and Putnam.
Another involves de Blasio's
fundraising on behalf of Democratic state Senate
candidates in 2014, and whether individual donations de Blasio's team solicited were channeled to county committees before being sent to individual
candidates as part
of a coordinated effort to evade donation limits.
The former presidential
candidate sent out several
fundraising appeals
on her
behalf to his sizable list
of supporters.