Sentences with phrase «local campaign spending»

Contrary to the accepted wisdom, local campaign spending can result in important shifts in the vote.

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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.

Perhaps not where anyone would expect him to be during the last weekend of the campaign, Liberal Party leader Raj Sherman was scheduled to spend today in the traditionally conservative voting Red Deer, where the Liberals nabbed prominent local historian Michael Dawe as their candidate in Red Deer - North.

You apply for a job in my community by running a campaign for a paid office that my local tax dollars pay for and you get elected then show up to your first scheduled meeting and decide to spend the first 5 minutes — eating donuts instead of working, speaking to the audience about your personal problems with your wife, telling the audience about an upcoming play your kid will be in, telling the captive audience about the benefits of being gay, speaking to them about God or praying aloud to your God regardless of which God the rest of the audience believes in.

Chartwells has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past few years on donations to local school food watchdog Healthy Schools Campaign, and it gives $ 20,000 annually to the late Maggie Daley's After School Matters charity, which counts Bloomer as a board member.

Every penny of spending will have to be tallied and reported — this would severely limit campaigns such as those run by Hope not Hate against BNP candidates or local grassroots campaigns such as those against hospital closures or roadbuilding.

The party committees (RNC, RSCC, etc) and outside organizations spent big on TV ads, particularly late in the campaign, which is also when ads on local news broadcasts (political consultants» favorite) are in heavy demand and hence expensive.

This meant looking at polling data on voting intentions in key marginal seats, votes in the most recent local elections and the resources each party is likely to have to spend on campaigning in the area.

Since winning election to the House in New York's 4th District in 2014, she has subsequently spent thousands of dollars from the DA campaign account on ads, consulting services, and donations to local Democratic groups that have actively worked on her elections to the House, according to a report by Crain's New York.

In addition, the Sanders campaign said TPC assumed state and local governments would stop spending on health care and just hand over their obligations to the federal government.

The Working Families Party spends millions of dollars on statewide and local campaigns through funds provided by labor unions and other left - leaning backers.

In 2011, the Conservatives accounted for 70 % of party campaign spending in the area, highlighting their ongoing strength and local organisation.

Beyond partisan point scoring, there is truly a case to uncover whether the disregard for reporting national and local spend is merely the done thing in the heat of a campaign.

The polarizing developer and former gubernatorial candidate spent the summer helping the Trump campaign in New York, but with students preparing to go back to school, it's back to politics at the local level.

«They're pouring money at it... They spend more in advertising in the local paper than I spend in campaigning in its entirety over the year.»

Channel 4 News claims to have uncovered thousands of pounds worth of spending on hotel rooms for Conservative activists during the Rochester and Strood, Clacton and Newark byelections that weren't declared as part of the local campaign activity.

A high profile $ 211 million local business and tourism advertising campaign championed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo lacks the performance measures needed to determine if the spending has been a wise decision, according to an audit released today by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

After one year of investigation, the Electoral Commission has found categorically that at least some of the spending the party claimed was national spending was spent on «candidate campaigning» and therefore should have been declared by candidates on their local returns.

In response to the recent corruption cases against public officials which continue to rock state and local offices, and perhaps in an effort to distance himself from the corruption which ensnared a member of his own small network of close colleagues, Senator David Carlucci (D - Rockland / Ossining) joined Executive Assistant District Attorney Itamar Yegeri to announce a comprehensive plan which aims to prevent campaign finance improprieties through new regulations on campaign spending and donations.

Spending on direct mailings and poster campaigns are being scaled back to focus resources on a string of local campaigns in key seats as well as targeting voters online.

Under the city's campaign finance system, outside groups can spend unlimited amounts of money on local races, as long as they don't coordinate directly with campaigns.

Throughout much of the state, the question received more attention than any local contests, due in part to a multimillion - dollar spending campaign in which organized labor urged its members to show up and vote «no.»

UPDATE: A source familiar with the former governor's effort says this ad is airing in New Hampshire to correspond with Pataki's visit there — he's appearing at Politics and Eggs tomorrow, and spent the weekend campaigning with local NH candidates.

A super PAC run by Suffolk County police unions has built a multimillion - dollar campaign operation, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to help elect local candidates and boost its clout on law enforcement issues.

The tax cap campaign appears to be an effort by the governor to counteract criticism from local officials that the cap doesn't provide enough wiggle room when it comes to onerous state mandated spending.

Campaigning in Nottingham on Wednesday, May initially insisted that the Conservatives have «always reported expenses according to the rules» and maintained that «local spending had been properly reported».

At issue was whether the costs of a Conservative campaign battlebus should have been accounted for by local campaigns where the legal spending limits are tighter at between about # 11,000 and # 16,000, depending on the size of the constituency

More important, the groups have an independent expenditure arm, the Long Island Law Enforcement Foundation, which has spent more than $ 2.8 million on local political campaigns in the five years since its formation in 2011.

Perusing campaign spending reports, which are public record and readily available on - line, the local daily reported that County Executive Mike Hein had received some $ 12,500 in campaign donations between 2012 and 2014 from different parties seeking to establish medicinal marijuana farms in the county.

Cuomo has said in his campaign that he would take on special interests including public worker unions to cap local property taxes and reduce state spending and other measures that the labor - backed Working Families Party has fought since 1998.

The super PAC — campaign committees that can received unlimited donations and spend unlimited amounts of money — has arrived on the local elections level, with one group spending heavily in a suburban county executive race.

SEIU Local 32BJ, which represents 145,000 service industry employees, is spending «a robust five figures» on a weeklong digital ad campaign targeting DeFrancisco, union officials said.

A review of the Julio Pabon disclosure filing showed it spent $ 4,000 (and owes another $ 6K) on top gun election lawyer Martin Connor; $ 318 on MTA MetroCards; and $ 670 on food for his campaign staff and volunteers at local eateries (Court Deli, Giovanni's Grand Concourse, Little Caesar's Pizza, McDonald's, Mexicozina Taqueria, Parilla Latina Steakhouse, South of France, and Walton Food Service).

Members in seats like Pendle may well be concerned that they will have foisted on them a displaced sitting MP with no local connection rather than a local figure who has spent the previous few years campaigning in the area.

After favorite local sons Assemblyman Michael Cusick and former Congressman Michael McMahon declined to seek the seat, the Staten Island Democratic Party spent weeks mulling who to pick as its candidate in the quixotic campaign against the popular prosecutor, before finally looking to the longtime councilman and former state senator.

In addition to this issue with the national campaign, an analysis of the local, constituency - based campaigns at the 2010 election was carried out by the Electoral Reform Society in 2013, finding that the difference in expenditure was 22 times as high in the constituency with the highest campaign spend per vote as it was in the lowest.

The idea of local primaries, as in Totnes, is clearly tempting but advocates here should consider the fact that the run - off system in the states has been largely responsible for the escalating amounts spent on campaigning and TV commercials.

But it emerged that the activists had been campaigning on behalf of specific Conservative MPs, rather than the party generally, leading to claims that the spending should have been record as local expenditure.

The spending limits on local campaigns are much tighter — between about # 11,000 and # 16,000, depending on the size of the constituency.

The Conservatives admitted under - declaring spending on their national campaign but insist all local spending was properly declared and May has backed all MPs facing investigations.

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The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

In the Wall Street Journal, Stephanie Banchero notes that, while significantly outspent by teachers unions, Democrats for Education Reform and Stand for Children have spent about $ 3.5 million on local campaigns in an effort to challenge the power of unions.

According to the BBC, head teachers in West Sussex, who are campaigning against spending cuts, wrote last week to all their local MPs asking what had happened to the extra # 500m for schools announced last year by the former Chancellor George Osborne.

These dynamics provide schools and school spending with local advocates who are politically sophisticated and well resourced for campaign purposes.

While protecting charter schools, who proved to be among his largest campaign donors, Malloy's new spending plan actually includes a variety of significant cuts to public education programs including a $ 15 million cut in the school transportation grant which will simply shift the burden for those costs onto local property taxpayers.

Head teachers in West Sussex, who are campaigning against spending cuts, wrote last week to all their local MPs asking what had happened to the extra # 500m for schools announced last year by the former Chancellor George Osborne.

The report authors argue charters have come to represent a force that «preempts traditional local control of public schools» and spends «hundreds of millions of dollars to promote itself... finance electoral campaigns up and down the political ladder and hire publicists who spread misinformation, aggressively lobby, and paint charter opponents as part of the problem they are solving.»