Sentences with phrase «in public campaign»

[/ b] In 54 per cent of all board - related contests, dissidents were successful in their public campaign for board change.

In my view, I think many critics of the Blaine amendments have gone too far in their public campaign against the Blaine amendments.

Among Ganim's reported expenses in the last three months were $ 10,000 for the Simsbury law firm that unsuccessfully represented him in his effort to overturn a state law that barred him from participating in the public campaign financing system because of his felony conviction and more than $ 3,400 to reimburse the city of Bridgeport for the mileage driven by the city police detective who chauffeurs him to political events as well as events in his official capacity as mayor.

When asked if he planned to register with the NYC Campaign Finance Board, Duran wrote that he was undecided about participating in the public campaign finance program (where donations up to $ 175 from city residents are matched 6 - 1 with taxpayer dollars).

He believes in public campaign financing, term limits, banning outside income, and closing the LLC loophole that allows interest groups to avoid contribution limits.

The incumbent state comptroller, Tom DiNapoli, has said he won't participate in the public campaign finance option because the program is badly flawed.

Meanwhile, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's press secretary is accusing the comptroller of just not wanting to participate in public campaign financing.

Last Friday, the NYC Campaign Finance Board published the names of candidates who have registered to participate in the public campaign finance program in their runs for City Council.

State officials say $ 33 million in public campaign financing handed out for 2014 elections - a record amount.

Bill Mahoney, with the New York Public Interest Research Group, says it's disappointing that the governor, who he says is «the most prodigious fundraiser» in New York, will not be included in the public campaign finance system.

Nearly assured re-election, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio argued for $ 2.6 million in public campaign funds.

Now maybe he didn't actively participate in the public campaign, like Gazidis, to deceive fans into believing that the move to the Emirates would ultimately allow us to compete financially with the best of the best, but he clearly played a prominent role in the «shell game» being perpetrated by this club.

Not exact matches

After a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2015 based around the ADED Pant, Public Rec is now a full - fledged apparel brand ready to bring its product to a much wider audience.

The National Association of Manufacturers and the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBEC), in partnership with the International Franchise Association and Women Impacting Public Policy, recently launched a coalition and advocacy campaign called Rethink Red Tape.

No matter who your target audience is, be sure to narrowly define them in this section, because it will be your guide as you plan your media and public relations campaigns.

Political instability and dangerous conditions in Syria have made it difficult to wage a large - scale public health campaign against infectious diseases like polio.

Trump's campaign manager sent a threatening email aimed at Kelly, and Fox made a public statement saying it refused to «give in to terrorizations toward any of our employees.»

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Fortune's analysis of public documents found that, of the 28 teams that played Sunday in the heat of the controversy, at least 5 are owned by people who have donated to either Trump's campaign or inauguration committee, with some providing checks as large as $ 1 million.

Hawley's inquiry comes amid withering public and political backlash against Facebook for its role in allowing Cambridge Analytica to access information about its users and to possibly influence the 2016 presidential election campaign.

The #DeleteUber campaign on Facebook and Twitter erupted when Uber was accused of breaking a taxi strike in New York, right around the time Kalanick was taking heat for sitting on the president's business - advisory council in the midst of public outcry regarding Trump's travel ban.

«However, Zenefits chose to embark on a public campaign of false statements and outright defamation aimed at discrediting ADP in the marketplace.

Truth About Tech (the name of the campaign that the Center is embarking on) is targeting 55,000 public schools (in the US) and already has $ 57 million in capital and donated media outreach.

The state government has invited the public to have a say on red tape reform through its #ShredTheRed campaign, while highlighting a number of efficiency improvements in the transport sector.

Last fall the company worked with National Public Radio to predict which political controversies would hit in the final month of the U.S. presidential campaign.

This strategy asks the customer to take an active role in the giving process, and requires a more aggressive public relations and advertising campaign.

And in a turn that is likely to be most significant for his campaign, in 2014 he was indicted for corruption, on charges stemming from his veto of a $ 7.5 million appropriation for a public integrity unit, seen as a bid to pressure a district attorney to step down.

His reported close ties to US presidential candidate Hilary Clinton are not popular in certain corners of the French press, while there are also allegations he used public funds to finance his own presidential campaign.

TREB will continue its public - relations campaign as the case heads to the Competition Tribunal in the fall.

But J. Gerald Hebert, director of the Voting Rights and Redistricting Program at the public - interest Campaign Legal Center in Washington, said the states drew districts with more black voters than necessary to «dilute their voting strength in order to achieve a partisan gain.»

The Washington Post reported Thursday that PropOrNot and the nonpartisan Foreign Policy Research Institute both attribute the flood of so - called fake news, or hoax and misleading headlines, during the 2016 election to an elaborate Russian propaganda campaign aimed at sowing distrust in the American political system and undermining public consensus.

During a televised debate, or a press conference at the Oval Office, or on a trip to visit a fast food restaurant during a campaign, it would be almost inconceivable for a single person to have enough access or clout to be able to make a comment about a public figure — say, calling him a moron — in a way that could be viewed and archived forever.

At the height of the Clayoquot standoff, MacMillan Bloedel employed public relations campaigns, marshalled exhaustive research from its foresters and scientists, and fought its opponents in court — and none of it was working.

During CES, Goetgeluk says Virtuix is conducting a «testing - the - waters» campaign on SeedInvest under the new mini-IPO rules of Regulation A of the JOBS Act, which allow the general public for the first time to potentially invest in tech startups.

Though several states tightened their gun laws in response, years of impassioned public campaigning by Sandy Hook victims» families have not brought any expansion of federal gun control laws.

If the money is still required at that time, McFadyen says it will be used for a public campaign and other lawful preparations in Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto and elsewhere.

The full - service public relations firms with the most experience and success in promoting crowdfunding campaigns charge about $ 5,000 a month for their services and many require at minimum a three - month engagement.

Backers of the campaign were able to pick up their very own Smarty Ring for only $ 175, though the retail price will be somewhere in the range of $ 275 when it makes its public debut sometime around April, 2014.

As the American Journal of Public Health put it in 2009: «Purdue pursued an «aggressive» campaign to promote the use of opioids in general and OxyContin in particular.»

«What the president is pointing out is that, all the while — and Sarah said this from the podium too, read a statement from Rob Porter — that he is denying these «vile allegations,» but that he doesn't want to further engage in this orchestrated public smear campaign,» she said.

For the record, the stories we are referencing in this campaign are the unsubstantiated ones (i.e. fake / false) like «Pope Endorses Trump» which move quickly across social media and result in an ill - informed public,» reads the memo.

That aspect of him bubbled into public view with Compuware, the Detroit - based business software maker that eventually sold to private equity firm Thoma Bravo for $ 2.4 billion in 2014 as a result of Elliott's campaign.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, meanwhile, has been on the vanguard of no - holds - barred public health campaigns in malaria and HIV — efforts that, to some extent, have helped rewrite the rules of engagement.

In keeping with the American public, I'm supporting Engine Advocacy's Keep Us Here campaign.

Emma Boorboor, election reform campaign director at U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG), told me that in October 2015, she sent a letter to Vanguard CEO Bill McNabb and two other Vanguard employees outlining her concerns with the mutual fund company's voting policies with respect to corporate political disclosure.

Some other labour organizations have followed suit, including Toronto CUPE locals which, in the wake of a privatization drive by Mayor Rob Ford, have run several hearts - and - minds campaigns depicting individual city employees talking about the public services they deliver.

on the campaign trail, we're back where we started — with our trust in public officials undermined, and a media that lacks creativity in naming scandals.

In addition to their public campaigns, private providers have worked to prevent government competition by seeking state - level legislation that takes away cities» right to build their own services.

Since November, Xi, the son of a reformist vice premier, has embarked on a campaign to end corruption in response to public anger that Communist Party members are above the law.

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.