Sentences with phrase «money out of the campaign»

«I think his message is extremely important for regular people in the U.S. — getting money out of the campaign finance system will be important so that candidates aren't beholden to big money, but actually listening to the demands of the people,» said Asiya Tschannerl.

Republicans charged that the fundraising skirted laws intended to keep state contractors» money out of campaigns.

«This is a way to have small donors have the matching funds so that we can help level the playing field and get the special interest money out of campaign,» he said.

Not exact matches

As BuzzFeed points out, rather than spend marketing money on a traditional online ad campaign — which would involve paying someone to create an ad and then paying to place it on Facebook, or another social website, or even with the publishers who so desperately need the ad dollars — businesses are sending more of that money to Facebook to promote content created for free by publishers.

Boulder, Colo. - based Ubooly has raised $ 2.5 million in venture capital money and just recently blown its second Kickstarter campaign out of the water.

This meant that a single promotional campaign for the mRelief app (which was supported by all the concerned agencies and city services) could get the word out at a fraction of the cost that each organization or department would have to spend — assuming they had the money to do so.

Prior to that deal most of his campaign spending had come out of his own pocket, but now Trump's money makes up just a small fraction of those funds.

While the Stop had started out raising money through conventional means such as grants, foundations and direct - mail campaigns, and continues to rely on these methods for the bulk of its funding, it saw opportunity in the wealthier constituency that lived near the Green Barn.

A flood of money from outside groups - a result of the 2010 Supreme Court ruling Citizens United - created a «huge cacophony of television» in the final months of the campaign, making it harder for any one message to stand out.

For instance, I love to use our blog to test out big campaigns on the cheap — before we invest a lot of money and time into their creation.

And they'd taken care of themselves but the fact is that the individual Congressmen knew not only that they weren't promised any cash on the table for themselves to sell out their voters to Wall Street but they thought that even if the Democratic National Committee or the Republication Congressional Committee contributed money to their campaigns, no amount of television or media advertising could persuade the voters that they were not crooks.

Last fall I sat down and wrote out a timeline of goals for the Ban Big Money campaign.

Six Investigates found all but one council member accepted money this past year from out - of - town campaign donors.

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.

Subsequent studies have borne out this view (Abramson et al. 1988, Herman and Chomsky 1988, Entman 1989, Chomsky 1991, Dahlgren and Sparks 1991, Greider 1992, Barnet and Cavanagh 1994, Krugman 1994), From 1972 to 1992 there has been a steeply rising curve of money and time spent on political campaign media, especially television, and it has directly matched a descending curve of actual political participation (Phelan 1992).

At first blush, he's looking to find his spiritual center, but then you see that little smile and Coke ad, and the implication is that he's found yet another healing moment to spin an ad campaign out of (kudos to Vox's Todd VanDerWerff, whose prediction was on the money.)

Christians for whom the divine purpose requires a political community that fashions and draws out our common humanity are summoned to join in the search for appropriate ways to regulate the role of money in political campaigns.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

And while issue - oriented analysis by TV's journalists rather than a daily «story» handed out by the campaign managers might cost a network more money, it would begin to meet the ethical norms of good journalism as well as the needs of the electorate.

in the case of our club the powers that be sees us as a necessary evil... believe me if they could figure out a way to take our money without ever having to deal with us they would... instead they simply gauge our concerns then manufacture an aggressive PR campaign addressing said concerns so as to sell season tickets and the like... so whether it's about Sanchez staying, transfer budgets, lengthy player injuries, club expectations etc... this team has treated us like a petulant teenager that should be seen and not heard, which is a completely disrespectful way to treat incredibly loyal fans who pay some of the highest ticket prices in the world... this is why this team doesn't get the benefit of the doubt, this is why they don't get a pass when they screw up and this is why they don't deserve our respect when it comes time to show them the door... that time is NOW

Arnold is concerned with all - things money and he will be unable to maximise the club's commercial value if they are underperforming and being derided by the press, with their current campaign at risk of seeing them lose out on Champions League football for the second time in three years.

Everton, who have the added distraction of a Europa League campaign (provided they are not outwitted by eastern European opposition in the third qualifying round) have already invested heavily and can thank a «buy low sell high «transfer policy in the past which has seen big money roll in when selling players such as Fellaini and Stones, in addition to this year's probable transfers - out income.

Parents make the critically necessary sacrifice without which society would collapse like Jeb Bush's presidential campaign: We shell out vast sums of money on everything from diapers to chess camp to prepare the next generation of taxpayers, who will be funding the retirement of people like the childless / childish Meghann Foye, whose pay - me - even - if - I - didn't - do - anything attitude says not «imaginative social thinker,» but «squeegee man.»

After all, even last - minute TV and radio ads should be bought by now, the office rent paid and the last round of direct mail out the door, so what can campaigns still spend money on that might actually make a difference?

The major presidential campaigns have put tons of effort into creating websites, building their own social networks, creating online videos and reaching out to voters through Facebook and MySpace, but they're so far mostly ignoring a simple and effective tool to help their supporters find volunteers, raise money and spread messages: web widgets.

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.

For a look at one of the real stories of the 2008 campaign, check out this NY Times article about attempts by the top Democratic presidential campaigns to cut back on the amount of money siphoned off by political consultants, bringing them more in line with their Republican opposites.

Check out their campaign with Move Your Money and Sum of Us.

-- candidates will get a clue and start buying Adwords with their name, but also the name of their opponents (hint: the latter won't like and will take it out on Google)-- everytime there'll be big news (hurricane, breaking news, Paris Hilton's latest...) which tends to draw lots of eyeballs to Google, expect the whatever - happened - today keyword to point to the page of a candidate's site with his / her position on the topic du jour — opponents will urge their supporters to engage in whack - an - adword games (also known as click fraud) to cost as much money per click as possible to the other campaign and drive up cost of acquisition of a new visitor to the advertiser's site.

Nathan McMurray, the Grand Island town supervisor and party - anointed Democratic challenger to Republican Rep. Chris Collins in NY - 27, has raised far less campaign money so far than did four of the Democratic candidates who have dropped out of the race.

An effective CRM is crucial for any campaign trying to get the most value — in time, money or both — out of its supporters.

«We have a grass roots campaign, not money from out of state and New York City,» said Perini.

The only significant money transfers from Ellison's campaign went to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), which has come under fire from progressives for meddling in a number of Democratic primaries in attempts to push out the more liberal cancampaign went to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), which has come under fire from progressives for meddling in a number of Democratic primaries in attempts to push out the more liberal canCampaign Committee (DCCC), which has come under fire from progressives for meddling in a number of Democratic primaries in attempts to push out the more liberal candidates.

The Professor's out - of - state — much less out - of - district — fundraising doesn't begin or end with California: the ardent Iranian Nuclear Deal and taxpayer - paid campaign proponent has also raised more money out of New England than out of New York.

● Enact meaningful campaign finance reform to get big money out of our state and local politics.

Malbin, with the Campaign Finance Institute, says constitutionally, no one can stop a candidate from opting out, and admits that's more likely to happen for a statewide office like governor or US Senate post, where candidates perceive that massive amounts of money can give them an advantage.

As Gerald Benjamin, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at SUNY New Paltz, points out in aJournal News op - ed; Forty - nine out of 63 New York State Senators received most of their campaign contributions from corporations or big money donors.Millions are wasted and misdirected each year because of sweetheart deals for the special interests.

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.

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.

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox suffered a bit of a memory lapse earlier today while pressuring Senate Democrats to return what he called «dirty money» in the form of campaign contributions doled out by scandal - scarred Sen. Carl Kruger.

Gillibrand's campaign last week sent out a fundraising appeal asking to hit $ 155,000 so the commercial could air this month (it was something of a spurious claim that Gillibrand needed the money, considering she last reported more than $ 10 million in cash on hand).

After all, even last - minute TV and radio ads should be bought by now, the office rent paid and the last round of direct mail out the door, so what can campaigns still spend money on that might actually make a...

They will be making TONS OF MONEY due to the Campaign Stimulus of 2012, and what out 1 % you may have a few Red Horse members in your rankOF MONEY due to the Campaign Stimulus of 2012, and what out 1 % you may have a few Red Horse members in your rankof 2012, and what out 1 % you may have a few Red Horse members in your ranks.

It vastly oversimplifies the issue; it chooses an out - of - date political target; it casts an annoying white guy as a savior for hopeless Africa; the organization gets money from the radical right and has a militaristic slant; and, lastly, the naiveté of the campaign makes your average 6 - year - old look cynical.

Running 50 - odd separate campaigns is obviously not as effecient as running one integrated national campaign, and many of the states in turn farmed their OWN work out to contractors, wasting money and losing efficiency at every step.

One of the facts that is going to come out soon is how much money NYC real estate interests funnel to upstate Senators to fund their campaigns.

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.

According to public filings and bank records subpoenaed by the Moreland Commission, the Maziarz campaign failed to report more than $ 325,000 in expenditures since 2008, including more than 300 checks made out to «cash» with no indication of who ultimately received the money.

Fortunately, they don't have to look far to find out how: the Obama campaign provides a perfect example of internet's ability to help campaigns find supporters, establish connections with them and convert their money and volunteer time into votes.

Bruno announced in a press release sent out by his longtime spokesman John McArdle that he would close out the remainder of his campaign account as well as a legal defense fund formed to help him fight federal corruption charges, with most of the money going to help the GOP maintain control of the chamber.