Sentences with phrase «money come election»

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The facts: Son told the Wall Street Journal that this money will come from a $ 100 billion technology investment fund that he announced in October 2016, before Trump's election.

If it sounds like Edwards still needed to apply FEC rules and limits, consider this: Scott Thomas, a former commissioner of the Federal Election Commission testified that he did not consider that the payments would have come under his agency's auspices — in part because they were not used directly for the campaign and did not free up any of Edwards» own money to be spent on the campaign.

The Liberals have introduced changes as they try to fulfil their 2015 election promise to improve Parliament's financial processes by bringing more consistency and clarity when it comes to government accounting of how it spends public money.

The money, which Mr. Cohen has said came from his own personal funds, is the subject of complaints lodged by the group Common Cause with the Federal Election Commission and the Justice Department.

By comparison, in the dying days of the fall election campaign then Conservative Leader Stephen Harper promised to extend an existing auto industry fund by $ 1 billion over 10 years, starting in 2017/18, with some of the money coming out as grants.

It notes that authority to spend money on both missions will come through supplementary appropriations before Parliament, but given that an election is expected this fall it will likely be a year, or more, before those figures are tabled.

With cryptocurrencies experiencing worth rises in periods of worldwide uncertainty equivalent to Brexit, the election of President Trump, and North Korea's missile checks, Pouncey says that this present detrimental digital foreign money cycle will finally come to an finish.

But due to the predictable nature of political campaign positions — win or lose, campaigns end after the election — every job came with an expiration date, he explained to Farnoosh Torabi on an episode of her So Money podcast.

«Imagine if [the Daniels affair] came out on October 15, 2016, in the middle of the last debate with Hillary Clinton,» he said, apparently under the impression that linking the story to its potential electoral consequences would make the money seem less connected to the election.

But when the heart of the act was tested (financing)... the government drew up a blank... No way Obama calls it a tax before an election year... but its quite evident that it is... Secondly, you think that adding another tax on people that cant even afford to pay it will help??? Where is the money coming from??? Yea I thought so...

then we violate the very teachings of our lord... If u do not understand... I wont blame u coz lot of people are being mislead by money hungry small Chritian communities who do not come from the apostals of the lord and it is only the Catholic church which does and pls read well about our church before u criticise the Holy father coz he is not self appointed NOR he has contested a currupt election to be in this place today

Wilson's currently attempting to capitalize on his new - found heroic status among some conservatives, but he's lagging far behind the Democratic blitzkrieg (of course, considering that most of the liberal money is coming from outside his district, he's set up for an anti-carpetbagger message during the general election, but I doubt that'll offset the value of Miller's actual cash).

In the past few election cycles, Democratic consultants have generally taken a percentage of television ad buys rather than a flat fee, creating an obvious conflict of interest when it comes to determining how a campaign should spend its money.

Please document where money came into Senate elections from Soros?

But the direct result of that decision is millions of pounds less money coming into Labour's future election campaigns.

I have a similar quibble with the article's section on fundraising, in which the authors note that less than 5 % of the money raised for the 2006 election will come from online sources.

Over the course of the four - year election cycle, only 0.71 percent of the governor's money has come from donors who contributed $ 1,000 or less.

Now, despite the skepticism many Republicans expressed as the election results came in Tuesday night — one Republican official told CNN the Republican party would be slow to give any money to O'Donnnell — she is enjoying an influx of support from prominent Republican leaders.

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

A second committee, which can't spend money directly on elections, has raised $ 50,541 over the past two years, $ 50,000 of which came from Rockefeller heiress Lucy Waletzky.

State - level candidates and parties reported receiving $ 25.4 million from L.L.C.s in the last election cycle; 38.4 percent of this money came from REBNY members.

Secondly we also need to recognise that whoever wins the leadership campaign needs to be someone able to draw the party back from bankruptcy, raise enough money to cover the party's existing debts, be able to hopefully convert the loans to donations, and to raise enough money to fight Lord Ashcroft's millions come the next election.

This comes as the council chief executive Jane Todd investigates whether Council Taxpayers money have been used to support the Labour election campaigns.

In fact, until Mike Bloomberg came along, the rule was you could spend — that super rich people could spend all the money they wanted and didn't have a very good chance of winning election, all other things being equal.

GR: You were recently quoted in the Syracuse paper that so far in your inquires in the Moreland Commission, you've often been surprised by some of the things that are actually legal when it comes to money and elections in the state.

In the 2016 presidential election, close to half the money raised by super PACs through the end of February came from only 50 mega-donors and their relatives.

An increasing amount of campaign contributions come from the wealthiest donors.As more big money floods into elections, we should...

The money comes as an independent expenditure committee aligned with the state's teachers union has sought to bolster Democrats running for the Senate over the last several weeks with TV ads and mailers in the final weeks of the general election.

Unfortunately freedom of speech is contingent to how much money you have given that the media is itself a business that has to make profits as well, so a «lobbyist» like this comes to this program without any ethics, without any remorse but with a lot of money as well to openly acknowledge that: yes, we put money in this governor's elections, we are expecting he pay us back and will stand on our side of the equation, and yes, we have collected (very fast) the private necessary money to run a public relations campaign (of lies if necessary) to guarantee that our privileges are well kept; and he finds a free stand to speak out freely and without appropriate response As far as Liz, I'm not sure if it is only a being naïve issue.

The election commission's now - settled lawsuit against the state Democratic Party, and lawsuits by the party against the SEEC, came after the state Republican Party chairman filed a complaint that the Democrats funneled state contractors» money into the 2014 gubernatorial race through a back door.

«This kind of money coming down from a source like this tells me that they want to influence an election where they really don't care about the public policy of the election, they just care about Rob Astorino winning.

Under the state's Citizens» Election Program, gubernatorial candidates need to raise a quarter of a million dollars in donations of $ 100 or less with 90 percent of the money coming from Connecticut residents to receive millions in taxpayer - financed electionElection Program, gubernatorial candidates need to raise a quarter of a million dollars in donations of $ 100 or less with 90 percent of the money coming from Connecticut residents to receive millions in taxpayer - financed electionelection grants.

A spokesman for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver says he «looks forward to working with the commission» to come up with reforms to reduce the influence of money in elections.

While nobody knows for certain who will win the 2010 elections, the western Queens races for state Senate are marked by clear leads of the incumbents over their challengers when it comes to raising and spending money.

Not sure, if this is undetAnd, labour spent more than the Tories in 2005 75 % of labours spending in 1997 came from the private side, and recall 1979 when the closed shop meant everyone had to joina Union, that union had to give money to the labour party, we knew the next election would be the most vicious since 1992 ′ we win the campaign, lost the election that time, The Tory press isn't as strong as it was then, the tories haven't got lost of «extremist» stories about labour they had thrn to smear us now, They're a smaller party not just cos of Ukip, But labour has a lot of keen strong members, and it'll come doen to 70 or so marginal seats what happens, while not losing our working class votes in Newcastle, birmingham Luton Rotherham, Scotland, and if they're not abstaining, or voting Ukip, we have to ask why they're voting tory

McDonnell raked in $ 1.6 million during the most recent six - month reporting period, which lasted from June to December, and most of his money came in after election day, when Barack Obama turned Virginia blue on the presidential level for the first time in 44 years.

With this announcement, the overwhelming role that will be played by big money in the upcoming 2008 election came even more clearly into focus.

«But for candidates who are participating in the clean elections program this is a large amount of money, and it would have been helpful to know that this request was going to come months ago rather than just hearing about it over the weekend.»

Not only did he continue to throw money into races that were LONG gone, but he put the Dems in a terrible cash / organizational position should a special election come up (extremely likely).

By raising and spending money in avoidance of the cap and the CFB system, the Mayor has not only created an unequal playing field but used the system to attempt to boost his standing with the voters and deter potential challengers in the coming election.»

Asked about the attempt to destabilise his leadership, Clegg said: «I think it's odd, to put it very mildly, that any fellow Liberal Democrat should spend time and good money, while the rest of us were out campaigning for these tough elections, instead surreptitiously trying to come up with specious claims on the basis of polls, which were in any case entirely confounded by the election results.

But he said it would be better if any and all campaign money spending came later in the election cycle.

«Like the president had promised when he was a candidate and campaigning for election, he said all money that came into the treasury will be used for the good of Nigerians and that is what is happening.

The warnings about the money available for counter-terrorism come as ministers discuss a Spending Review that is likely to impose more cuts on the Home Office budget after the next general election.

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But when more money is spent on the recall elections than on the entire state legislative campaign last year, most of it coming from public - sector unions opposed to Gov. Scott Walker's successful effort to abolish collective bargaining, the politics are clearly national.

Shred this bill, and spend your time and the taxpayers money more wisely, or I believe you will be looking for another line of work come the next election.

The biggest issue is that these agencies — the IRS and the Federal Election Commission and the like — aren't very effective when it comes to overseeing dark money groups.

As billionaires, like Richard Mercer and Charles and David Koch, come under fire for heavily influencing campaigns and elections with undisclosed dark money, ALEC has a new «Center to Protect Free Speech» and a model bill that would allow dark money donors to keep their funders a secret.

The House of Assembly, in the exercise of its historic right to expel a member in appropriate circumstances, hereby expels from the Assembly the member last elected before the coming into force of this Act for the electoral district of Inverness South by reason of his conviction on four counts of using forged documents in respect of money received by him in his capacity as a member, and the seat of that member is and is deemed to be vacant until an election is held in that electoral district according to law.