Sentences with phrase «money out of elections»

Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton, D - Ithaca: Yes «In my first few weeks of office, I signed onto the Assembly Public Election Financing bill as one of the most important reforms we could enact to help get the corrupting influence of big money out of our elections.

Kennedy, as did his opponent in 2014, signed a contract promising to limit campaign spending to a grant of about $ 95,000 in taxpayer money he received under the Citizen Election Program (CEP), the landmark Connecticut campaign finance reform that its supporters claim is a model for keeping special interest money out of elections.

Not exact matches

More out - of - town money than previous years is funding Corpus Christi city council elections.

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.

While other provinces, most recently Ontario, and the federal government have moved to take big money out of politics, the Christy Clark government has not only said no to banning union and corporate donations, and no to municipal election spending limits — it has moved to eliminate pre-election spending limits in the 60 days prior to an election.

Are you and your husband coordinating individual benefit elections to make sure you're not leaving money on the table, or worse, risking running out of money before you run out of life?

«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.

It's funny, I was chatting with god the other night, you know about girls and money and basically life in general, and then from out of no where god was like, «Yo, Chuckles, I have a job for you, it's very important that you do it, I need you to go and vote this upcoming election and I need you to vote for Rick Perry, he seems a little crazy, but don't worry, he's all good in my book».

The organization has also championed — endorsing and raising money for — the handful of Assembly Republicans who joined the Democrats in voting «yes» to pass the marriage bill on the other side of the Capitol, protecting these lawmakers on a potentially difficult issue (and one that, as it turned out, didn't lead to anyone's ouster, but did contribute to Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava getting pushed out of the NY - 23 special election by conservatives who argued she was too moderate).

A Senate campaign isn't going to «invest» money into the state party out of some altruistic sensibility because it has but a single mission: win that one election.

He attributes the Republicans» doubling of their normal share of the Ohio black vote in the 2004 election to the party's ability to reach out to the exact voters likely to respond to targeted messages and to not waste time and money on others.

Less than a month remains until the Nov. 2 election, and unless he really straightens out his act and spends a lot of money to convince New Yorkers he has done so, he really has no shot at victory.

But on November 28, 2016, it hammered out a new agreement to use the massive amounts of data that the firm had collected on Trump supporters in the run - up to the election, with an explicit eye towards raising money from the president's base.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a billionaire, opted out of the public campaign financing system in his election campaigns, and spent his own money instead.

The Obama / Democratic team not only crafted and threw a ton of money into making the election into a clearer choice between two very different people, but they had tons of people out knocking on doors, getting out the vote.

With only a few weeks to go before the Nov. 3rd election, more and more unanswered questions are being raised, and more dissatifaction is being expressed, about the candidate who squeeked out a narrow Primary election victory with a ton of money.

With EMILY's List endorsing Democrat Hiral Tipirneni and the Republican National Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee and Congressional Leadership Fund spending money to boost former state Sen. Debbie Lesko for the April 24 special election, I'm glad we moved the special election out of Solid Republican back in February.

In preparation for the launch of the Fair Elections for New York campaign, a series of events in Albany and across the state are being held to call attention to state legislators» reliance on out - of - district campaign contributions — further evidence of the need for a state public campaign finance system that relies on small donors and local money.

But public financing of elections, a system designed to take the big money out of politics, would be «key» to any ethical reforms of state government, he said Wednesday at a daylong symposium on ethics and government at Albany Law School.

His staff would employ a combination of both new and proven online technologies to organize volunteers, to find new supporters and put them to work, to turn out voters on election day and (of course) to raise unprecedented amounts of money — all contributing to a crucial edge in the primary and general elections.

Term limits and outside income bans for lawmakers are silly ideas, according to former LG Richard Ravitch, but public financing of elections, a system designed to take the big money out of politics, would be «key» to any ethical reforms of state government.

JAMESTOWN - The chairman of the Chautauqua County Democratic Committee is taking Sen. Catherine Young's (R - Olean) office to task for sending out campaign - style mailers using taxpayer money, less than a month before the General Election.

MIDTOWN — Mayor Bill de Blasio said he is being «singled out» by a federal probe into his efforts to raise money for upstate senate candidates in 2014 and that a «double standard» was being applied around election laws he's accused of violating.

The reason why so much money can be dumped in to the system is because the election cycles drag out months and months, with all of that TV advertising time available to be bought.

«It is the reason that money belonging to our commonwealth will be brazenly stolen by the same public officials to whom they were entrusted; it is the reason why motorist drive through red traffic lights; it is the reason that many will engage in thuggery and vote - stealing during elections; it is part of what has driven our economy into deep problem out of which we are now working hard to extricate ourselves.»

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.

Mr. Amidu ahead of the 2016 general elections asked Ghanaians to vote out the then Mahama administration, arguing that it would take off the shield preventing Mr. Woyome from refunding the money.

Indeed, in his efforts to raise a billion dollars of private money, Obama became the first presidential candidate in the general election in over 30 years to back out of public financing, an idea which is now more or less kaput.

«This daisy chain of out - of - state corporations and «ghost companies» appears to exist for one reason: to hide the source of money used to fund negative advertising and influence our local elections.

If there's one takeaway from this election, it is that we need real campaign finance reform in this country, and we need to elect leaders who have dedicated themselves to getting corporate money out of our electoral process.»

In this case, the citizens and taxpayers of Connecticut were defrauded out of $ 6.5 million of taxpayer money in a deliberate attempt to circumvent and ignore clean election laws.»

John Haggerty Jr. has been indicted in the theft of $ 1.1 million of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's personal money for Election Day operations that the Manhattan district attorney said were not carried out.

In the prior reporting period, Rangel's campaign had raised $ 162,000 specifically for the general election, but had only $ 150,000 in overall cash - on - hand, suggesting the campaign might run out of money to spend on the primary.

The aforementioned suit over a candidate's use of LLC money was settled out of court, so there hasn't yet been a clear test of what might be called the Sugarman Doctrine, which assumes underutilized power in the sections of election law prohibiting attempts to circumvent contribution limits and obfuscate the true source of campaign money.

Political parties and politicians, during election years, dole out huge amounts of money on billboards across the country as part of election campaign methods.

In May, shortly before the Crewe and Nantwich by - election, Alistair Darling forked out # 2.7 billion of public money - paid for by borrowing - to cobble together a rescue package for the 10p tax debacle.

Chief among those clean - election laws was a ban on state contractors» money in state election campaigns, which was supposed to keep special - interest money out of state elections.

Although European elections are generally seen as second - order elections across all member states, the turn - out of 20.84 % in Croatia was especially low, but the often - heard explanation that parties did not invest much time or money in getting the vote out for a one - year term simply does not hold water.

Federal law allows leeway for money from a party's «federal account» — which is regulated by the FEC and intended to promote election of federal candidates for Congress — to be spent on «federal election activity» such as «get - out - the - vote» activities on behalf of congressional candidates that also could benefit a candidate for state office.

To get a sense of where candidates raised their money, POLITICO New York plotted out the itemized individual donations they've received since January, excluding those from family members, based on filings submitted to the state Board of Elections.

Brian S. Brown (pictured), the president of the National Organization for Marriage, said in a telephone interview that the group planned to spend more money, about $ 30,000, on automated phone calls, additional mailings and get - out - the - vote efforts before the election, scheduled for Tuesday.

But the SEEC argued that the get - out - the - vote message on the proposed mailer — taking up less than 1 percent of its surface area — is «incidental» to the vote - for - Malloy message and is not enough to justify massive spending of money from the party's «federal account» on the state election.

Those clean - election laws included a ban on state contractors» money in election campaigns, which was supposed to keep special - interest money out of state elections.

«As we think back to elections, and the ads, and tremendous amounts of money that are being poured in to candidates, to committees, from out of the area, from out of the state, independent expenditures, all this sort of thing.

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.

«They said the money was given to them out of the N500m that was disbursed to Bauchi State before the 2015 general elections.

«It makes sense for a candidate who is serious about running statewide to get out there early, to raise money early because one of the keys in any election, unfortunately, is money,» Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg told the Times Union Sunday.

In Texas, DeLay's money - laundering case was not, despite his deepest wishes, thrown out of court and is now expanding into an election spending scandal involving the National Republican Congressional Committee and linked to the Abramoff case.

The low - budgeted thriller The Purge: Election Year started out strong but both The Legend of Tarzan and The B.F.G had unremarkable opening weekends considering how much money was spent to bring these stories to the big screen.

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