Sentences with phrase «in campaign contributions for»

As of the most recent filing period ending on Jan. 11, the New York City comptroller has collected $ 1.37 million in campaign contributions for his 2017 re-election bid — more than de Blasio's haul of $ 1.13 million — public records show.

Kasirer, whose relationship with de Blasio goes back decades, bundled $ 56,030 in campaign contributions for the mayor's re-election campaign last year.

[20] Ball received over $ 110,000 in campaign contributions for the race.

Last year, she disclosed the hiring of her son, Ricardo Aguirre Jr., as a campaign consultant who earned $ 55,000 of the $ 102,000 she received in campaign contributions for a primary she ended up winning by a 2 - to - 1 margin.

Not exact matches

He has an interest in US prison reform because his father, Charles Kushner, served just over a year in federal prison after a conviction in 2005 for illegal campaign contributions and witness tampering.

Prosecutors failed to get a conviction against Democratic Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina on charges that he received illegal contributions and falsified documents to pay for the silence of his pregnant mistress as he campaigned for president in 2008.

Dogwood's criticism of B.C.'s lax donation system began in 2001 with the group's advocacy for public disclosure of campaign contributions.

He needs to sell this story so that Mr. Cohen's payment was not a campaign contribution (more about that below) and that Mr. Trump didn't really know about the arrangement in advance, and so has minimal responsibility for what is turning out to be a colossal mess with Stormy Daniels.

Disclose Company's Own Political Spending If a company chooses to use its own funds for direct campaign spending, the issue raised in many shareholder proposals is whether such corporations should — in addition to the governance procedures noted above — issue a comprehensive report which lists in one place all the recipients both of such direct spending and of contributions made from the company's employee PAC.

Her campaign raised $ 52 million while his brought in $ 37 million for the month, including a $ 2 million contribution from Trump himself.

Campaign contribution limits in effect during the 2016 election capped direct donations to candidates at $ 2,700 for a primary or general election.

We are all aware of the lobbying system in the U.S. and the persuasive power of campaign contributions, for example, and we can surmise that similar incentives exist in Europe.

Trump is already facing a complaint from the watchdog group Common Cause, which argues that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's payment of $ 130,000 to Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair with Trump may have been an illegal campaign contribution.

, then it may count as an in - kind campaign contribution by Cohen — one that apparently went unreported to the Federal Election Commission and exceeded the legal limit for individual donations under federal law.

If the money was connected to Trump's ongoing presidential campaign, then it may count as an in - kind campaign contribution by Cohen — one that apparently went unreported to the Federal Election Commission and exceeded the legal limit for individual donations under federal law.

Tim Carney had a remarkable piece in the Washington Examiner this week in which he looked for campaign contributions from the IRS Cincinnati office.

In some cases, evidence of past incorrect opinion is sufficient: The CEO of the software firm Mozilla, Brendan Eich, was hounded from his post in 2014 for a $ 1,000 contribution to a 2008 California referendum campaign against gay marriage, evidence of a position he shared at the time with Barack Obama and Hillary ClintoIn some cases, evidence of past incorrect opinion is sufficient: The CEO of the software firm Mozilla, Brendan Eich, was hounded from his post in 2014 for a $ 1,000 contribution to a 2008 California referendum campaign against gay marriage, evidence of a position he shared at the time with Barack Obama and Hillary Clintoin 2014 for a $ 1,000 contribution to a 2008 California referendum campaign against gay marriage, evidence of a position he shared at the time with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

This has been my experience for over 40 of my 67 years in a fellowship that has no buildings, is not organized, accepts no outside financial contributions, limits end of life personal contributions, has NO fund raising or capital campaigns, does not define stewardship in the level of financial «benevolence!»

An increasing number of news stories are centered on issues rather than personalities; for one thing, there seems to be a shift in the public's attention from personal scandal to issues of campaign financing and contributions.

Despite having not made a single appearance for Arsenal so far this season, I believe that Tomas can make a significant contribution to the team in the second half of the campaign.

He donated $ 3 million last month to the University of Texas where he played and matched Colin Kaepernick's $ 10,000 in the quarterback's «10 for 10» campaign, Durant's contributions helping a local organization doing community - based justice work.

Louis van Gaal has utilised his youth setup effectively this term with some youngsters making major contributions in the final stages of the campaign for United.

Ramsey, Wilshere and Cazorla are capable of making a contribution, fitness permitting, before the end of the campaign and should be involved in some capacity once they return, but they shouldn't be instantly restored to the starting line - up, with Elneny, Iwobi and Sanchez all vital for Arsenal's style of play at present.

Another contribution to MomsRising campaign, this cluttered photo shows a variety of supplies in a storage room with very little space for mom and her set of milk makers.

The political action committee for Abbott Laboratories, the maker of U.S. market leader Similac, spent more than $ 1.5 million in contributions to federal and congressional candidates during the last election cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington - based watchdog of campaign contributions.

Rep. John Katko stands out among House members elected to Congress in 2014 for his reliance on campaign contributions from special interest groups, according to an analysis by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

Those detailed pieces in turn link to more details and to primary sources if you have them (the polling data that your piece on public opinion is based on, for instance, or a spreadsheet of your opponent's campaign contributions from well - known evildoers).

But he's finding that the senator — while likely harder to dislodge with more years on the job and a base of support in his district — is a more attractive target when it comes to generating campaign contributions, particularly for LGBT donors.

The ad calls Carl Paladino «a landlord and developer» who traded $ 452,000 worth of campaign contributions for sweetheart inside deals in the form of a $ 1.4 million Empire Zone tax break for which he created only one job.

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 article would have been much more informative had you included numbers for Romney, Guiliani, et al.; or, posted numbers for past campaigns; or, statitics on what percentage of voters typically make contributions in contested primary races.

Some polling station agents of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Kintampo North Constituency of the Brong Ahafo Region, have accused their executives of diverting about GHc 37,100.00 meant for them as allowance for their contribution towards the party's campaign ahead of the 2016 general elections.

The National Organiztion for Marriage has filed a lawsuit in federal court that seeks to circumvent the state's campaign contributions limits, arguing that the caps violate its right to free speech.

Sanders raises the vast majority of his money online in small increments, which gives the campaign the ability to return to donors to ask for additional contributions.

Allies of the mayor are under investigation in part for channeling millions of dollars in campaign donations to county committees, which allowed them to seemingly avoid contribution limits when those dollars wound up in the coffers of individual candidates.

The two campaigns have traded barbs in recent weeks over a controversial amortization plan that Wilson characterizes as borrowing from the pension fund and DiNapoli's camp insists is merely «smoothing» to provide predictability for local governments and the state when it comes to contributions.

In return, the president tweeted earlier this week that Gillibrand used to beg him for campaign contributions and «would do anything for them.»

As the jury unanimously found, Daniel Halloran played a key role in two distinct political corruption schemes: first, for $ 20,000, Halloran was willing and able to serve as a go - between to deliver bribes to political party officials, and second he also took nearly $ 25,000 in cash and illegal campaign contributions to steer $ 80,000 in City Council money to other bribe payers.»

The Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA), passed by Congress in the early 1970s, had made it a federal offense for PACs to accept money from corporations, and Viacom — the corporate owner of Colbert's network — feared that it would face accusations of making illegal in - kind contributions should ColbertPAC become a fully functioning money - raising PAC.

«For most offices, New York State's contribution «limits» are substantially higher than those of any other state that imposes limits, and they are so high as to ensure that large donors dominate major political campaigns and candidates spend as much time as possible raising money from donors rather than talking with voters about issues,» Cuomo said in the written version of the SoS.

Take a look at what elected officials do in exchange for those campaign contributions,» he said.

In a session before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael J. Roemer, a newly unsealed FBI complaint alleges Pigeon conspired to solicit a $ 25,000 contribution to the Cuomo campaign from a Montreal - based internet gambling company for whom his Papi Holdings LLC earned $ 388,000 in lobbying fees from 2010 to 201In a session before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael J. Roemer, a newly unsealed FBI complaint alleges Pigeon conspired to solicit a $ 25,000 contribution to the Cuomo campaign from a Montreal - based internet gambling company for whom his Papi Holdings LLC earned $ 388,000 in lobbying fees from 2010 to 201in lobbying fees from 2010 to 2015.

Adams, a possible candidate for Brooklyn borough president, said he was surprised by the differences in the city campaign finance system — which includes a public financing component — and the state's system, which is widely derided by good - government groups for its loopholes and sky - high contribution limits.

The case stems from the contribution from the New Yorkers for a Brighter Future to the Fund for Great Public Schools, the latter of which has been heavily involved in state legislative campaigns on behalf of Democratic candidates, primarily for the state Senate.

«Over the last few months we've seen a surge in low - dollar contributions, as more and more of my neighbors here in the Hudson Valley and Catskills join us for stops along our 163 town Rhodes Trip and want to chip in to help keep fueling the Winnebago and support our growing grassroots campaign,» Rhodes said.

The group, which has pushed for an overhaul of campaign - finance laws in the past year, found that corporate and large - dollar donations made up nearly three - fourths of the contributions to Senate lawmakers.

It rejected the suggestion that savings made from Britain's budgetary contribution to the EU - made famous by the # 350 million pledge on the Leave campaign bus - would compensate for the reduction in income from leaving the trading block.

Jacobs, much of his extended family, and a number of Limited Liability Companies or LLC's have given Cuomo nearly $ 125,000 in campaign contributions since he first ran for Governor in 2010.

While Governor Cuomo is criticizing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents for stepped up enforcement against undocumented immigrants, an immigrant rights group is calling him a hypocrite for keeping campaign contributions from a billionaire who's company is headquartered in the same Buffalo building as ICE.

«We're going to make a real push to match her spending in the final weeks of the campaign,» his email promised, along with a request for contributions as low as $ 5.