Sentences with phrase «independence campaign»

As both sides of the Scottish independence campaign use the day before the referendum to push for votes, churches across the country will open their doors for prayers.

The Scottish independence campaign will have wanted a far smaller gap in the polls by this stage in the campaign.

The third donation received by the new Senate Independence Campaign Committee after its creation was a $ 2,000 check from the landlord - backed Neighborhood Preservation PAC in August.

The Sept. 9 donation to the Senate Independence Campaign Committee comes from Thomas McInerney, a regular donor to Republican guru Karl Rove's Super PAC and the New York Republican State committee.

Sturgeon has faced the embarrassment of «the 56» becoming «the 55» and then «the 54» as first Michelle Thomson and then Natalie McGarry were suspended by the party over, respectively, allegations surrounding property deals and claims of missing funds from the Women for Independence campaign group's Paypal account.

Prior to Pishevar's tweetstorm, organization Yes California Independence Campaign started laying groundwork in hopes of putting a referendum on the ballot in 2019.

This potentially outsized influence could hasten the Catalan independence campaign.

Basque separatist group ETA has announced it is fully disbanding, marking the definitive end to its deadly independence campaign and to western Europe's last armed insurgency.

As both sides of the Scottish independence campaign use the day before the referendum to push for votes,... More

The National also reports that the Scottish National Party's Westminster leader Angus Robertson is accusing Gordon Brown of abandoning his promise to ensure the three main UK parties» pre-referendum «vow» is delivered; and that the Radical Independence Campaign is to launch a new fight against NHS privatisation.

The summit will see Alex Salmond try to marshal the troops ahead of a two - year independence campaign and attempt to overturn party policy on Nato.

(Similiarly, while some people say devolution has threatened the Union, I think refusing it would have probably brought the Union to an end: the history of Irish home rule then independence campaigns is another example).

Its officials include Blair McDougall, former campaign director of the cross-party anti-Scottish independence campaign Better Together.

Sugarman's lawsuit charges that because the officers of the new Senate Independence Campaign Committee, the IDC's political arm, are members of the Democratic Party — not the Independence Party — their joint fundraising arrangement isn't legal.

That includes $ 1.95 million in the campaign committee of IDC Leader Jeff Klein, a Bronx lawmaker, and $ 1 million in the bank for the conference's campaign committee, the Senate Independence Campaign Committee.

LONDON — In a blow to the Scottish independence campaign, top financial groups including the Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group say they will move their headquarters to England if Scots vote to break away from the United Kingdom.

The latest polls suggest that an independent Scotland — until recently dismissed as a highly unlikely outcome — could become a possibility as the independence campaign gains momentum.

He may not have been in government, but it was Murphy's task to first stem the flow of votes from Labour to the SNP and then start clawing back the popularity lost in last year's independence campaign.

Another colleague agrees: «He's got to be careful not to get too bogged down in politics north of the border, but when the independence campaign is out of the way he's got the opportunity to become a real force.»

At the same time, the Senate Independence Campaign Committee, the IDC's campaign committee, will report $ 962,712 in its fundraising account and $ 412,339 in a field account — also dwarfing the other conferences» cash on hand.

Despite an expected turnout of 80 % or more, Marius Ostrowski is dissatisfied with the quality of the independence campaign.

Many wealthy right - wingers behind the Scottish independence campaign have a very different view of Scotland to the one being promoted by SNP's official literature.

Torrance thinks the two have been unfairly linked by the independence campaign.

Support for the Tories north of the border is at historic lows, with fears about a future Conservative government playing a large part in the latter stages of the independence campaign.

The independence campaign is playing on those fears in a very cynical way.»

But even so, it is clear that victory for the independence campaign would leave British national unity — terminally battered and bruised — as little more than a wishful façade.

In May 2017, Ecuadorean President Lenín Moreno asked Mr Assange to refrain from expressing his public support for the independence campaign in Spain's Catalonia region after he tweeted that Madrid was guilty of «repression».

She later reached out to say she was speaking on behalf of the Senate Independence Campaign Committee, which is the fundraising arm for senators who until last week were part of the IDC.

Loeb has also given $ 50,000 to the Senate Independence Campaign Committee, which supports the Independent Democratic Conference in the chamber.

When Nick Clegg elbowed aside Scottish secretary Michael Moore, whose self - effacing, sweet reason out - smarted Alex Salmond in the Edinburgh Agreement negotiations, it was because he reckoned his replacement, the genially feisty Alistair Carmichael, would be a better match for the SNP leader in next year's Independence campaign.

Risa Sugarman, the board's enforcement officer, charged in a suit earlier this month that the Independent Democratic Conference violated the law by teaming up with the Independence Party to establish the Senate Independence Campaign Committee and a related housekeeping account.

Richard Fife, spokesman for Robert Jackson, said in December that the IDC threw $ 539,558.37 in campaign support behind Alcantara's last race through a Senate Independence Campaign Committee that was set up by the ground to help their candidates.

Dennis Canavan, former Labour MP and chair of the Yes to independence campaign, has suggested that...

It is not the first time the independence campaign has butted heads with the BBC.

The Queen appears to have given in to calls to intervene in the Scottish independence campaign, urging Scots to «think very carefully» about their vote on Thursday.

However, while the independence campaign has clearly caused a collapse in Labour's support north of the border, the rot actually took much longer to set in.

Dennis Canavan, former Labour MP and chair of the Yes to independence campaign, has suggested that an independent Scotland would lead to a «renaissance» in Labour.

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[54] The funds went to the Senate Independence Campaign Committee, the fundraising arm of the former IDC members.

But Neighborhood Preservation also gave $ 10,000 to Klein's Senate Independence Campaign Committee, which supports IDC candidates, and made smaller direct contributions to Klein and other IDC members.

Richard Fife, spokesman for Robert Jackson, said Alcantara received $ 539,558.37 from a Senate Independence Campaign Committee that was set up by IDC to help their candidates, and at least $ 28,000 directly from IDC members.

Donors are being urged to write checks to the Senate Independence Campaign Committee, which was created by IDC founder Senator Jeff Klein to aid the IDC's fundraising efforts in 2016.

Klein also controls the Senate Independence Campaign Committee, which was set up last year to raise funds for IDC members.

The group's party campaign committee, the Independence Campaign Committee, spent heavily to fund Alcantara.

The IDC, founded in 2012, heavily bankrolled Alcantara's campaign through its party campaign committee, the Independence Campaign Committee.

As of earlier this month, the IDC's Independence Campaign Committee spent nearly $ 100,000 to help Alcantara.