Sentences with phrase «issue campaign funds»

Many other districts have used the same loophole to avoid competitive bidding on contracts and also solicited bond issue campaign funds from financial houses.

Not exact matches

While cost may be an issue, if you are confident that your efforts will be successful, there are sources of funding available to get the ball rolling on your expansion campaign.

Throughout the call he returns to the issue of the border wall, pressuring Peña Nieto to publicly acquiesce to some sort of payment even as he admits that Mexico will not, in the end, fund his campaign promise.

Shareholders are also taking notice of issues related to socioeconomic and political equity, access and opportunity — such as public disclosure of corporate funding for political action committees (PACs), campaigns and lobbyists.

We recognize that our Company offers a brief policy on corporate political spending on its website that states that the company does not contribute corporate funds directly to candidates or ballot issue campaigns.

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.

Some of the topics discussed were: what types of companies have been funded within the current guidelines; what is the success rate of funding campaigns, and range of proceeds; what are the primary points of debate regarding the new legislation, and to what degree are the new regulations expected to simplify the process of issuing equity for startups.

Allowed public funding of campaigning groups who use health and bullying issues to promote their vision of sexual relationships and the acceptance of homosexuality.

Fortunately, media attention to the issue revived the campaign, and the proposed new state budget funds the proposal.

However, in the end, the dominant influences in this campaign were anonymous: they were the people who decided to fund and promote the «equality» agenda wherever and however possible; the editors and sub-editors of influential publications who carefully manipulated the presentation of the issues so that reasoned argument always looked cold and uncaring, and above all, the educators who decided to teach social inclusion by means of a series of examinable clichés rather than do the hard work of equipping people to think for themselves (but that is for another long article...).

Tim ran campaigns around food access, school funding reform, ex-offender issues, and youth homelessness.

That law barred dedicated political - advocacy groups from soliciting and spending soft money — funds that aren't subject to tight federal campaign - contribution limits and are used for issue advocacy and party - building...

This article from a local Boulder, CO paper discusses the newly - launched fundraising campaign, and points up the very issue we've been talking about so much in recent weeks here on TLT: namely, can a district offer the kind of healthful food that Chef Ann champions without extra funding (over and above what the USDA reimburses schools)?

In the late 1980s, Margaret Brodkin of Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth led a campaign that established the Children's Fund to ensure permanent funding for vital services for kids, and the city's Department of Children Youth and their Families was created, to make sure that children's issues were handled by a department focused solely on their unique needs.

Other issues that will receive the same treatment include legislation that would allow NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio to raise income taxes on the rich to fund pre-K, the public campaign finance bill and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Women's Equality Act (assuming that it includes the abortion - rights plank, which is the piece the right finds most offensive).

Cuomo highlighted the issue in his campaign policy book on government reform, wrting, «Like New York City, New York State needs a system of public campaign financing to set limits on campaign spending and to increase participation by qualified candidates who lack the means or the connections to raise significant campaign funds.»

«You might not support all of these issues, but it is important to know where you stand and where all Democrats stand on a woman's right to choose, GENDA, single payer health care, contraceptive coverage, family planning funding, campaign finance reform and the DREAM Act.»

HTC, a small but influential labor union that has played pivotal rolls at the Capitol in recent years on issues like the legalization of casino gaming, worked with the Real Estate Board of New York to counter a well - funded campaign backed by Airbnb.

Then, as it is for this current House campaign, Democrats are pushing the Medicare funding issue and Rep. Paul Ryan budget hard.

The spigot of outside funding of super PACs and Senate races is challenging the maxim that all politics is local in many of these state legislative campaigns, which in some cases have become proxy wars for state - level issues.

Some of these proposals have come and gone over the years, and they are a reminder that budgets, school funding, ethics and campaign finance reform aren't the only issues politicians deal with.

«UJA - Federation of New York applauds Governor Cuomo for being the first governor in the nation to issue an executive order directing state entities to divest all public funds supporting the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel,» said UJA Federation of New York CEO Eric S. Goldstein in a statement.

In its preliminary report issued to the public in December, the Moreland Commission concluded there were «few rules limiting the personal use of campaign funds and even less enforcement.»

The report, issued Monday and made public Thursday, came a week after Thomas was charged by the state Attorney General's Office with stealing nearly $ 13,000 in campaign funds and failing to report on his city financial disclosure forms more than $ 75,000 he received from individuals, companies and his inaugural committee.

She said the state could have tackled a range of issues, from fully funding public schools to fixing the beleaguered subway system and enacting campaign finance reform.

Those who support a convention say dramatic action is required to address corruption charges that have forced more than 30 officials out of office in a decade as well as issues such as New York's high taxes, unequal funding of schools, and the influence of big - money donors in campaigns.

And then there's the constant politicking and fund - raising for their initial campaign, second campaign, for others in the party... and now they're going to go through that miserable, degrading experience of begging for cash and rubbing up against the masses and issuing lame platitudes (though on a lesser scale)....

Good government groups have said this week's video is a questionable use of city funds that came off more like a campaign ad than your standard issue press release.

ALBANY — Sean Eldridge is a self - funder, a good Democrat on the issues, has the blessing of party bosses for his run for Congress against Chris Gibson, can talk about creating jobs with an investment fund and, again, as the husband of Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, has more than enough money to self - fund an aggressive campaign.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

It's past time to allocate the necessary funds to bring the signal system up to date and I thank Councilmember Lander, our colleagues in government, and the transit advocates who are working to bring this issue to the forefront through the #SignalFail campaign.»

Last week, Cuomo officials designated the three banks that contributed the campaign funds — JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America — as the dealers for a $ 33 million bond issue, enabling the firms to reap lucrative fees.

The current concerns regarding funding of the 2016 referendum campaigns may see the issues of regulation and public funding re-opened.

Update: An additional source on Friday evening added that the situation remains fluid, and Cuomo will must convince the WFP's state committee he is firmly behind a variety of issues, including fully funding the Campaign of Fiscal Equity agreement as well as other measures such as decriminalizing certain amounts of marijuana and backing the women's agenda, a package of bills the governor first introduced in 2013.

Nixon would likely run a campaign centered around education funding issues.

On another occasion he gathered some fake documents and sought for people who can lie on oath that I killed students and sucked their blood; with all manner of fictions on sundry issues and got these published in various online news medium that I stole campaign funds!!!

The spending has become an issue in this year's election campaign, with Republicans including gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino saying they are little more than a taxpayer - funded political boost for Cuomo, a Democrat who is campaigning in part on his work to revive the state economy, particularly upstate.

Out of office for eight years, he has modest name recognition, little campaign funding in the bank and a Republican primary electorate that's significantly to his right on social issues.

The election campaign was dominated by the issue of European Objective 1 funding.

Despite ethics issues — stemming from a ski trip to New York, the exchange of legislative assistance for campaign contributions, and the hiring of his wife as a campaign fund - raiser — Sweeney enjoys a double - digit lead.

The city Campaign Finance Board Wednesday found Mayor de Blasio broke no contribution limitation rules by raising unlimited donations through an outside fund — then immediately issued a de facto rebuke of the tactic.

«We're going to be out there campaigning on economic justice issues and we will take the fight to the Tories because there is a choice to be made: do we want to live in a society based on individualism and private provision, or do we want to defend the principles of the national health service and properly fund social care?»

Now the state Democratic Party is taking the issue a step further with Reiff's request for the FEC opinion on the legality of using the party's federal account - or a combination of funds from its state and federal campaign accounts - to pay for the proposed mailing.

Counteracting President Trump; bolstering the Affordable Care Act; and publicly funding campaigns are the issues at stake for the Independent Democratic Conference in a video released Monday as the lawmakers in the breakaway bloc seek to re-affirm their support for liberal causes they believe has been lost in the pitched battle being waged by progressive advocacy groups to pressure them into forming a coalition with mainline Democrats.

Challenging Mohammed to explain the sources of APC's 2015 campaign funding, the PDP also demanded the APC - led federal government to come clean on the issue of the $ 1bn Excess Crude money.

The idea is to require citizens to fund politics with mandatory 50 $ contributions to any candidate (s) or issue campaign (s).

Baron is campaigning for Cameron to make a statement to parliament acknowledging the issue and an ex gratia payment of # 25 million into a benevolent fund for veterans and their descendants.

«While we challenge this Government to come clean on the issue of the $ 1bn Excess Crude money, we also challenge the minister of information to comment on allegations that the APC funded its 2015 presidential campaign with stolen public funds, particularly from Lagos and Rivers states.

And, in a statement released Monday night, the Campaign 4 NY / NY said the supportive housing funding backed by the Legislature puts the onus on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to reach an agreement on the issue.

Instead, the mail piece is coming from the independent expenditure campaign being funded by the New York League of Conservation Voters is actually a focus on environmental issues.