Sentences with phrase «giving campaign donations»

In addition, corporations are prohibited from giving campaign donations to congressional and presidential candidates.

One solution, he said, would be to pass a law in New York to require those that give campaign donations disclose their true, human identities.

Instead of saying, «Well, geez, I'm just going to think about people who give campaign donations because that's going to help me appeal to this very small select group of people that already vote,» we would be widening that, in essence doing what I believe our founding fathers through this process wanted us to do.»

Still, because lawmakers» grants are only listed as coming from the Senate or Assembly, it's difficult for the public to trace whether a grant recipient has, for instance, given campaign donations to their benefactor.

Big donors play a big role in controlling lawmakers» priorities, and the fossil fuel industry is known to overwhelmingly give campaign donations to Republicans rather than Democrats.

Not exact matches

GoFundMe, which allows users to raise money for any cause, immediately gives donations to the funder, without campaign deadlines or minimum amounts.

It's a chance for us to prove how we're different from any campaign in politics: We rely on ordinary Americans giving what they can — one grassroots donation at a time.

Like most big corporations, Novo Nordisk runs a political action committee, or PAC, which solicits employee donations and gives the proceeds to political candidates» campaigns.

While corporations are prohibited from contributing to federal political campaigns, in 2013 46 of the top 60 TSX companies still gave money to candidates at the provincial level (where in many cases corporate donations are still allowed).

Google announced on its blog on Monday that it will match every dollar of donation with two dollars in a new public giving campaign against Ebola.

We covered it during the 2016 presidential campaign, when Donald Trump falsely accused former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of giving away U.S. uranium rights to the Russians and claimed — without evidence — that it was done in exchange for donations to the Clinton Foundation.

Trump wasn't pleased and made aggressive comments to the press on Monday evening, right as news broke that Mueller's team is looking at a donation to Trump's charity tied to a speech Trump gave during the campaign.

As a candidate, Trump could give unlimited sums to his campaign, but any such donations or expenditures are required to be disclosed.

We are excited to help Global Impact support giving campaigns with a powerful donation method and are looking forward to helping many more charitable organizations accept bitcoin donations.

But there's a big difference: Money given to a company through a Kickstarter campaign is a donation often rewarded with a company's product; money given through an SEC - approved portal buys an ownership stake.

Pope Francis has called organ donation a «testimony of love for our neighbour» as part of a new campaign encouraging churchgoers to sign onto the Donor Register and give blood.

Someone may object that, given the current weakness of our political parties, politicians necessarily have to turn to interest groups for their ready - made mailing lists and rely on «fat cat» contributors for large campaign donations.

Basically, if you have a birthday in September and give up any gifts and instead send donations to the September campaign, you'll be helping the entire population of the Bayaka people group of Central African Republic get access to clean water.

This all started because some whacko from Texas was trying to justify the candidacy of a corrupt governor from Texas, one who gave millions and millions of taxpayer money to his friends in exchange for personal campaign donations.

Locally, the company also gives generous donations to the United Way annual fundraising campaign, Lombardo says.

Chartwells has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past few years on donations to local school food watchdog Healthy Schools Campaign, and it gives $ 20,000 annually to the late Maggie Daley's After School Matters charity, which counts Bloomer as a board member.

Big Lots announced that its 2016 «Give Big for Kids» campaign raised $ 3.6 million for pediatric research and care at Nationwide Children's Hospital, a $ 1.4 million increase over last year's campaign donation to the hospital.

The average online donation was $ 80, and the average Obama donor gave more than once... Obama also raised millions from traditional campaign bundlers — rich, well - connected fundraisers — but the bulk of the more than $ 600 million that Obama raised throughout the campaign was through the Internet, aides said.

The technology is a boon for canvassers and other field staff — potentially saving the campaign hundreds of hours of time processing donations, and giving field staff enormous flexibility.

Investigators looking into de Blasio's fundraising practices are now scrutinizing his 2013 campaign for possible straw donors, checking to see if they were either reimbursed for their contributions or given cash to pass along to the campaign in order to skirt the city's donation limits.

The senator said the campaign gave all of his donations this week to a not - for - profit that deals with sexual violence.

The bus tycoon made good on his promise to match small donations to the SNP, giving a significant boost to the «yes» campaign's funding which had trailed the «no» camp.

The caucus pointed to the $ 153,000 in donations received by the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, as well as the $ 12,520 in donations given to Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

With your donation campaigns, you can analyze which ads performed best and which gave yielded the highest about of donations, but can't do much tracking on the individual donor level.

Plus, online donations help campaigns capitalize on bursts of attention and on changing conditions, since money given electronically is available for use immediately.

The Obama campaign for instance found that they yielded a three - or four-fold Return On Investment (occasionally as high as ten - or fifteen-fold) when measured in terms of donations received from a given signup.

Individual donors can give no more than $ 5000 per campaign under the current rules, for example, while direct donations from corporations and labor unions are banned altogether.

Thursday's filings lay bare those donations and other jaw - dropping financial details of the first modern presidential campaign in which donors could give unlimited contributions for political ads and in which both major party candidates declined to participate in a Watergate - era public financing system designed to limit fundraising.

When Jeb Bush's campaign filed its first financial disclosure, some people focused on how a mere 3 percent of his donations — just $ 368,000 of the $ 11.4 million he collected in his first 15 days of campaigning — came from donors who gave $ 200 or less.

Cuomo indicated, though, that he does not plan to give his donations back, and he said he's not influenced by campaign donors.

Brooklyn Downtown Star article on BP Adams supporting the Give Local NYC campaign that encourages donations to local nonprofit organizations.

The donors are either reimbursed for their contributions or given cash to pass along to the campaign in order to skirt the city's donation limits.

The Republicans noted that some of the same unions that worked with de Blasio in 2014 gave large donations to Nassau Democrats during the Kaminsky campaign, many for much higher amounts than they had ever given the committee before.

In the 2014 State of State handbook which accompanied the speech, the governor detailed these as well as other reform initiatives, emphasizing that matching small donations with public funds would give «voice to small donors» and «help enable a diverse pool of candidates with substantial grassroots support, but little access to large donors, to run competitive campaigns.»

Campaign staff MUST weigh the risks and rewards of any given tactic, since they are painfully aware that wasted time equals lost opportunities (lost votes and lost donations).

Giving supporters the tools to evangelize is a good start, from web widgets to rally - your - friends personal donations campaigns to simple talking points for water - cooler conversations.

Obama's fundraising over the same period relied on plenty of big - dollar donors as well, but even then his campaign noted the advantage that a much larger base of small - dollar donors gave them: «Obama spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki repeated the campaign's emphasis on the 98 percent of its donations that were $ 250 or less — meaning that those donors are under the limit and can continue to contribute.»

It's been reported that in that same year, donors with LLC in their names gave more than $ 20 million to state and local campaigns — $ 15 million of which came from donations exceeding the $ 5,000 corporate donor limit.

A Mangano administration official who asked for anonymity said campaign donations listed in the state system for certain dates close to contract signings may have been given earlier, but were only deposited on the date indicated in records.

In effect, the ruling has allowed each LLC to give $ 150,000 annually to New York campaigns, and developers to give multiple maximum donations to the same candidate.

But a loophole allows companies to create unlimited amounts of limited liability corporations known as LLCs that can each give up to $ 150,000 in campaign donations.

The bulk of the donations, which will be disclosed Monday in the state party's campaign filing, came from major unions like the ones representing health care and hotel and motel workers, which gave $ 250,000 each, and the American Federation of Teachers, which gave $ 100,000.

Far fewer campaign donations at the state level come directly from corporations, which are already prohibited, under state law, from giving more than $ 5,000 to any state candidate or committee in a single calendar year.

The campaign raised funds from more than 727 donations given by 624 donors.

People and entities associated with a company that's reportedly part of a federal investigation into a close associate of Gov. Andrew Cuomo have given at least a quarter million dollars in donations to Cuomo's campaign fund, records show.