Sentences with phrase «national election spending»

Battle buses have been common parts of national election spending in recent years.

The Broxbourne MP wrote to the Electoral Commission chairwoman, Jenny Watson, saying she should examine other parties» declarations «with a view to clarifying the guidance on local and national election spending».

Alexander's claim that Labour will be outspent by three to one is based on estimates of how much party candidates will spend locally as well as national election spending.

Not exact matches

As part of its 2006 election platform, the Conservative Party promised to «create an Independent Budget Authority to provide objective analysis directly to Parliament about the state of the nation's finances and trends in the national economy; require government departments and agencies to provide timely information to the Parliamentary Budget Authority to ensure it has the information it needs to provide accurate analyses to Parliament; and ensure that government fiscal forecasts are updated quarterly and that they provide complete data for both revenue and spending forecasts».

Instead, about half of the campaign's $ 18.5 million in spending was vacuumed up by Giles - Parscale, a web design and marketing firm new to national politics, Federal Election Commission filings show.

Public Citizen reports that only the National Rifle Association spent more than the Chamber of Commerce's $ 30 million during the 2016 federal election.

National data pointed to continued strength in the Spanish economy but a loss of momentum in France, as French consumers reined in their spending, probably due to political uncertainty in the run - up to the country's presidential election.

Juncker spent the months since the European elections in May 2014 negotiating with national governments, political parties, and candidates until in September the Brussels rumour - mill ground to a halt with the announcement of the proposed Juncker Commission.

Moreover, ahead of the 2001 general election, it was widely reported that the Chancellor was planning to raise National Insurance contribution rates shortly after the election, in preference to raising Income Tax in order to fund increased NHS spending.

Indeed, academic work analysing the 2015 election suggests that national campaign spending is now a highly targeted effort which largely supported constituency campaigns.

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.

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Democrat Alex Sink and Republican David Jolly have spent over $ 2 million for their March 11th special election, but national outside groups have spent three times as much trying to impact on the Florida 13th Congressional District election.

Despite spending four years in statewide office, and even after his strong performance in this election against a plausible Republican challenger, Schneiderman remains unknown to much of the electorate and hasn't managed to score the sort of national headlines that were routine for his predecessors.

The choice at this election must be presented clearly: Brown doubled the national debt by wastefully spending too much taxpayers» money.

The National Democratic Redistricting Committee spent big in the Virginia gubernatorial election.

Conservative spending at the election remains under intense scrutiny after a Channel 4 investigation alleged some local spending was allocated to the national account to avoid tight limits for each constituency.

(CNN)- As the race in New York's 20th congressional district continues to tighten, the Republican National Committee is sending another $ 100,000 to the state party in New York - the second time in less than a week it's spent that sum on the special election contest there.

Democrats and Republicans have identified the 22nd Congressional District race as one of their top priorities in the 2018 mid-term election, and the national parties and special - interest groups are expected to spend millions on the race.

And so the Tories will spend the final week of their election campaign on Brexit - trying to talk it up, making it out to be the great national project of the next five years rather than the enormous looming omnishambles it actually is.

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) today released the following joint statement from House Republican Leader John Boehner, House Republican Whip Eric Cantor, and NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions regarding the the special election in New York's 23rd Congressional District: «As the House stands on the cusp of the forthcoming vote on a trillion - dollar healthcare reform measure, it is vital that we unify behind a candidate that will support reining in massive government spending and work with Republicans in Congress to restore fiscal sanity and propose thoughtful measures to get our nation's economy on the right track.

Former Rep. Tom Reynolds, who held the 26th from 1998 to 2008 and spent two elections as the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, is supporting her.

This is the first big step by Bloomberg — who has committed to spending $ 50 million of his personal fortune this year to build a national grass - roots movement that will pressure lawmakers to pass more restrictive gun laws — to devise a political strategy heading into the November 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.

Chime and his former aides are currently being interrogated over the spending of N450 million sent to Enugu for last year's national elections, the former governor of the state.

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.

Prosecutors have to decide whether to charge the MPs or their agents, after a 10 - month investigation into whether party spending on an election battlebus that brought activists to marginal seats was wrongly recorded as national spending.

A separate Electoral Commission inquiry into whether the national party broke election spending limits is also under way and is expected to come to a head soon, potentially within days.

The Scottish National party called on the Conservatives to «come clean» about who authorised spending decisions at the 2015 election and suggested the party may have «fraudulently won with a coordinated breach of electoral legislation».

However, the commission found that a proportion of the party's national spending actually related to the effort to secure the election of the local candidate, Mackinlay, and should have been declared in his election return.

President Trump is spending cash donated to his reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee to pay for his lawyers in the criminal probe of Russian interference in the election, a new report said Tuesday.

Even taking this into account, the Conservative party still considerably underspent the statutory national spending limits for the 2015 general election.»

«CCHQ accepted in March 2016 that it had made an administrative error by not declaring a small amount constituting 0.6 % of our national spending in the 2015 election campaign.

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.

«This investigation and these fines relate to national spending by CCHQ [Conservative Campaign Headquarters], and the Conservative party's national spending return for the 2015 general election.

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In even - numbered years, when state and national elections are held, the share of the uninformed members of the public who favor higher spending is roughly 5 percentage points higher than it is in odd - numbered years, when most states do not hold elections.

For Republicans, as they made clear in the 2010 midterm elections, it constitutes a massive spending program that contributes to a national debt of historic proportions, with few results to show for it.

Cambridge, MA — A first - ever national analysis of state spending per teacher on political advocacy by the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) released today found that the national teachers unions and their state affiliates spent more than $ 100 per teacher in five states, with Oregon at the top of the list at $ 360 per teacher during the 2007 - 08 electionational analysis of state spending per teacher on political advocacy by the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) released today found that the national teachers unions and their state affiliates spent more than $ 100 per teacher in five states, with Oregon at the top of the list at $ 360 per teacher during the 2007 - 08 electioNational Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) released today found that the national teachers unions and their state affiliates spent more than $ 100 per teacher in five states, with Oregon at the top of the list at $ 360 per teacher during the 2007 - 08 electionational teachers unions and their state affiliates spent more than $ 100 per teacher in five states, with Oregon at the top of the list at $ 360 per teacher during the 2007 - 08 election cycle.

Unspent money is carried over, leaving the national union with considerable sums to spend on campaigns in general election years.

In 2015, a massive recall election marked by massive spending and deliberate deception by the teachers union and its allies in Jefferson County generated national headlines.

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.

The National Education Association spent $ 23 million during the last election cycle alone to elect politicians to keep low - income Americans right where they are.

But the National Education Association, which plans to spend about $ 40 million during this election cycle, is aiming to direct a record - setting 70 percent of that amount — or $ 28 million — to state and local races.

Politico points out that The National Education Association, the largest teachers union, spent $ 40 million on the 2010 elections.

In fact, the report says that the average shopper plans to spend less than last year I guess this should come as no surprise; prevailing wisdom tells us that consumer spending is often depressed after particularly contentious national elections.

More than 25 percent of consumers said that the election would impact their spending plans for the holidays this year, according to a poll conducted by the National Retail Federation (NRF).

In the last election cycle, they spent about a half - million dollars on national political party committee efforts.