Sentences with phrase «last election they spent»

In the last election they spent Millions to elect a «FRIENDLY» Democ» RAT» ic State Senate, they already have the Assembly in there pocket.

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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was offered $ 60 million by Congress from Defense Department funds last year to fight Russian election interference efforts — but after Tillerson waited for seven months trying to decide whether he wanted to spend it or not, the offer was withdrawn, and none of the money was used, according to The New York Times.

The drugmaker's political action committee spent $ 405,000 on federal campaign donations and other political outlays last year, more than in 2016 — an election year — and nearly double its allocation for 2015, data compiled by Kaiser Health News show.

An election - year boost in education spending helped push the Beehive State to the top last year.

As of last week, SuperPACs had spent $ 228,363,178 on the 2012 elections.

Sanders, who has spent the last four days campaigning in Minnesota, is hoping to win the State in the Super Tuesday primary election on March 1st, 2016.

Going into the 2014 civic elections, the last until 2018, how open are local governments around southwestern British Columbia when it comes to the spending and meetings of their mayors?

And other big potential Republican priorities for 2018 — including potential bills to boost infrastructure spending and cut back on entitlement programs — are now in limbo as every last vote comes under the election - year spotlight.

Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft spent a combined $ 14.2 million lobbying the U.S. government last quarter, as some in the tech industry began to weather an investigation into Russia's election meddling and others tried to battle a host of new regulations targeting their platforms.

Manafort's last consulting assignment in Ukraine ended less than six months before he started working for the Trump campaign: He spent at least a month in Ukraine advising the Opposition Bloc ahead of local elections in October 2015... In [July], Manafort made a previously reported effort to patch his soured relationship with [Russian oligarch] Oleg Deripaska,... [and] offered to give private briefings about the campaign to Deripaska.

During the last midterm election in 2014, digital advertising accounted for less than 1 % of political spending in federal, states and local elections, according to advertising tracking firm Borrell Associates.

Before The Bell - Wall Street sprinted into the latest week hoping to extend the powerful rally in place since the November election, an upsurge that intensified mightily last week, when the major large - cap indexes all surged to all - time highs in a buying frenzy unleashed by expectations that the President - elect and his incoming Administration would push hard for a massive infrastructure spending program, reduced regulations, and popular tax cuts.

The Liberals have also attempted to counter the image of Prime Minister Stephen Harper put forth by the Conservative Party, instead portraying him as a controlling and secretive leader with a hidden agenda, and attacking his judgment by tying him to past Conservative scandals, such as the Cadman affair, alleged spending misconduct in the last election, and the conduct of Maxime Bernier, the former Conservative minister of foreign affairs.

The spending legislation, which was viewed as the last opportunity this year for Congress to enact major new gun restrictions before the midterm elections in November, included only some school safety measures and modest improvements to the background check system.

«She is living in poverty because the B.C. Liberal government is taking the money her dad pays to support her, and using it to pay for their misguided priorities, like spending more than a million dollars hiring failed B.C. Liberal candidates and giving insiders cushy appointments after the last election.»

The level of spending by some candidates in the last municipal election was described as «insane» by Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, after some Calgary city council candidates raised more than $ 270,000 largely through corporate donations.

The report includes facts about lobbying spending that hit $ 2 billion in the last election cycle, and continues unabated, Wall Street executives in the Trump administration and regulatory agencies, tax cut windfalls for the finance industry, and a deregulatory free - for - all.

In the last US election over $ 100 million was spent on private polling for the various parties.

During the last midterm election in 2014, digital advertising accounted for less than 1 % of political spending in federal, state and local elections, according to advertising tracking firm Borrell Associates.

Until last week, I was under the impression that anyone who identifies himself or herself as a Calvinist would interpret «election» to refer to individual salvation from hell — that God chooses some before the foundation of the world to encounter Jesus and spend eternity in heaven while choosing others for irreversible damnation in hell, with no hope or possibility of salvation.

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.

The legislative leaders quietly introduced a campaign finance bill last night that is designed to strengthen enforcement at the state Board of Elections and also address the US Supreme Court's January decision that overturned a 20 - year - old ruling barring corporations from spending freely to support or oppose candidates.

The last Labour government was able to plan its 1997 manifesto on the basis of rising departmental spending in the first years after the election.

I had foolishly assumed that whether I liked them or not, people in government were there because they knew how to do their job but the last 12 months alone have included the decision to hold a snap election that then lost them more seats than a bad IKEA intern, Brexit talks that have mimicked that track Paula Abdul did with a cartoon cat, an offensive defence secretary, an international development secretary who had to resign in order to spend less time on holiday, Boris Johnson sadly continuing to be Boris Johnson and all of that and more culminating in an assurance that everything is fine because now our passports will be blue to match the depression everyone will have in 2018.

The post special election reports will tell a fuller story of the last - minute spending on both sides, which, unlike the last - minute giving, isn't required to be reported to the BofE.

The Democratic Senate Campaign Committee reported $ 191,283 in cash on hand after spending heavily in the special election, which ended with Democrat Todd Kaminsky defeating Republican candidate Chris McGrath last month.

McGrath's campaign, not surprisingly, has also spent heavily in the last 21 days as well, $ 451,486 for the competitive special election.

«We have spent the last week listening to Senator Espaillat and Councilman Rodriguez launch terrible attacks, malicious, vicious and false allegations against the hardworking men and women at the New York City Board of Elections,» he said.

The end - of - campaign financial disclosure reports filed last week with the state Board of Elections show half of the spending in the county clerk and county sheriff campaigns occurred in the last two weeks leading up to the election.

During the last three election cycles, 30 % or more of the outside spending on federal elections came from dark money groups.

Asked what would be different today had Labour won the last election, they say they would have carried on spending and borrowing, perhaps with disastrous consequences.

The largest direct contributor among REBNY's members — and of every donor in the state — was Leonard Litwin's Glenwood Management, which spent $ 3.8 million on last year's election.

21 March 2011 — UGANDA Question: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will reduce budget support for Uganda in the light of the increase in government spending prior to the last general election.

26 April 2011 — UGANDA Question: To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Verma on 21 March (WA 126 - 7), what assessment they have made of the allocation of the budget support for Uganda from the United Kingdom, in particular in relation to the increase in spending by the Government of Uganda prior to the last general election in that country.

«Last Tuesday's bipartisan election of Bob Turner, proved that democrats and republicans agree, we can no longer afford President Obama's agenda of reckless government spending, higher taxes, and the largest expansion of government in a generation.

Cable was forced to issue two statements in as many days reaffirming his support for Clegg, who spent the morning attempting to recover from last week's European elections wipeout with a well - received speech on international development.

Loeb's financial support of the Senate Republicans has been widely reported, as has his contribution to the IDC and his donations to a pro-charter school independent expenditure that spent heavily on behalf of members of both conferences in the last election cycle and helped keep them in power.

Last week I had the privilege of going on Karen Jagoda's Digital Politics Radio show, where we talked at length about the DSCC and other Democratic groups» grassroots outreach and media spending to try to salvage the 2014 elections, largely funded by small - dollar online donors.

This infographic displays the party share of spending in your Police Area in the last election, as compiled by the Electoral Commission.

It spent much of the last parliament trying to pass a bill guaranteeing an EU referendum this parliament, even though anyone with the tiniest glimmer of understanding about how politics works would tell you that the way to guarantee that is to win an election.

«All they talked about - spent $ 2 million on - were guns and abortion in (his last election) in Westchester.»

For Ed Balls, even the spending reduction path set out before the last election by Alistair Darling was too aggressive.

Between April and September 2016, ahead of last year's Assembly and Senate elections, the Legislature spent $ 7 million just on bulk postage for mailings to constituents, according to a recent report by the fiscally conservative Empire Center for Public Policy.

I spent time in both Crewe & Nantwich and Norwich North during those by - elections and the atmosphere in Oldham for the two days I was there last week was, I'm afraid, just not comparable.

The Liberal Democrats spent more than # 1.5 m, # 400,000 more than in the last European election, but managed to get just one MEP elected and lost 11 seats.

The startling evidence, first unearthed by Channel 4 News and confirmed in a condemnatory report released last week by the Electoral Commission — the independent body that oversees election law and regulates political finance in the UK — suggests that the Conservative party gained an advantage by breaching election spending laws during the 2015 election.

Last election cycle, the amount of money spent on the race for the 40th Senate District in the Hudson Valley shattered previously known records.

Last week, Jacobs filed amended campaign spending documents with the state Board of Elections.

HARTFORD — Connecticut's largest business advocacy group, galvanized by the last year's battle over higher taxes, is spending money for the first time in election - year legislative races to try to force state government to change course.

«When we started last January our plan was to spend the off - year on debt retirement and then spend the election year raising for the campaigns.»