Sentences with phrase «of campaign contributions made»

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The CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX made two separate contributions, together totaling $ 5,000, to the Clinton campaign May 1, according to the FEC.

Levie made a contribution of $ 2,700 to the Clinton campaign last month, according to FEC filings.

Governments have made efforts to improve accountability by requiring lobbyists to register their activity and making campaign contributions public, predicated on the idea that transparency will reduce the risk of undue influence.

That would appear to make Cohen's payments an excessive contribution to Trump's campaign, as well as an unreported campaign expenditure, both violations of federal election law.

And that's just another way of saying, «This joint runs great for those who can hire armies of lobbyists and lawyers and have them make big campaign contributions, but not here for real people.»»

«If this is true then it looks like Cohen may have made an unreported loan to the campaign rather than a contribution,» said Richard L. Hasen, an expert in election law at the University of California, Irvine.

To make matters worse, tax rates are being cut for the rentiers who receive this interest, while their array of special exemptions and tax breaks are widened as they gain control of the political process through campaign contributions and ownership of the media.

Walmart Canada's annual campaign for disaster relief and preparedness raised a total of $ 3.27 million for the Canadian Red Cross this year, including an $ 818,000 contribution from Walmart which makes us the largest corporate donor to the Canadian Red Cross.

Trump, Noble said, could make contributions of any size to his own campaign.

Disclose Company's Own Political Spending If a company chooses to use its own funds for direct campaign spending, the issue raised in many shareholder proposals is whether such corporations should — in addition to the governance procedures noted above — issue a comprehensive report which lists in one place all the recipients both of such direct spending and of contributions made from the company's employee PAC.

January 22, 2018: The campaign finance and anti-corruption watchdog group Common Cause filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission and Department of Justice asking them to «determine whether the payment was made by the Trump Organization or some other corporation or individual, which would additionally make it an illegal in - kind contribution to the campaign.»

As for Westcoast's $ 20,500 donation to Ms. Clark's campaign on March 1, Weilinger stated that's «something we can't really comment on other than to say we try to take a non-partisan view of our contributions and donations and we like to make sure the democratic system is working and effective.»

Then on the day of campaign it makes contribution.

Mike Whitlam, former director general of the British Red Cross who worked with Princess Diana on charity campaigns including her landmine trip to Bosnia, also makes contributions to the programme.

Kraft Heinz and the Kraft Heinz PAC do not support Presidential campaigns, judicial candidates, super PACs or make contributions to independent expenditure committees, which is defined as money spent to support a political candidate, but not at the suggestion or request of the candidate, the candidate's authorized committee or a political party.

Depay — as has been his way for much of the campaign to date — made little impact, with a touchline altercation with Kyle Walker his key contribution.

Despite having not made a single appearance for Arsenal so far this season, I believe that Tomas can make a significant contribution to the team in the second half of the campaign.

Louis van Gaal has utilised his youth setup effectively this term with some youngsters making major contributions in the final stages of the campaign for United.

Chelsea have just 14 Premier League matches left to play this season, but speaking at a news conference ahead of Sunday's clash with Manchester United, Hiddink said he remains confident Pato will reach full fitness in time to make a meaningful contribution to the Blues» domestic and European campaigns.

The midfielder helped Chelsea to win the Premier League title last season but has struggled at times this campaign, although he did make a notable contribution in the 2 - 2 draw with West Ham United last weekend as he scored both of his side's goals.

Ramsey, Wilshere and Cazorla are capable of making a contribution, fitness permitting, before the end of the campaign and should be involved in some capacity once they return, but they shouldn't be instantly restored to the starting line - up, with Elneny, Iwobi and Sanchez all vital for Arsenal's style of play at present.

Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Foundation has bought the artistic piece and has made a contribution to Five Acres Permanency Campaign, in the amount of $ 10,000.00.

They clearly adopted the Trump government shutdown strategy and have begun the DeFrancisco campaign with the taxpayers of New York stuck making the first contributions.»

The article would have been much more informative had you included numbers for Romney, Guiliani, et al.; or, posted numbers for past campaigns; or, statitics on what percentage of voters typically make contributions in contested primary races.

As presidential candidates make the high - visibility pilgrimage to the «Googleplex» in Mountain View, contributions from Google employees quietly help boost the campaigns of congressional candidates.

I hope that the book makes a contribution to our understanding of networked campaigning, and showcases the work of many of the progressive campaigners here over the last decade.

Kaminsky's filing is yet to make it online as of mid-morning, but his campaign provided a report on contributions and expenses.

The Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA), passed by Congress in the early 1970s, had made it a federal offense for PACs to accept money from corporations, and Viacom — the corporate owner of Colbert's network — feared that it would face accusations of making illegal in - kind contributions should ColbertPAC become a fully functioning money - raising PAC.

Although both LaValle and Ed Cox have denied any collusion, Maggie Haberman's piece today on Cox family members making close to $ 80,000 worth of contributions to local GOP committees and campaigns in NY - 1 is sure to add fuel to the fires of speculation.

The state Board of Elections has declined to investigate Onondaga County Republican Chairman Tom Dadey's allegation that Democratic Mayor Stephanie Miner made illegal campaign contributions to local political candidates in the 2011 elections.

The practice often makes the source of the contributions difficult to track and has enriched campaigns in an era of free spending in politics ushered in by the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.

Supporters of the Governor say the last contributions made by the Jacobs family and their associates to the Cuomo campaign came no later than 2014, around the time Delaware North and ICE signed leases to occupy the same building.

The group, which has pushed for an overhaul of campaign - finance laws in the past year, found that corporate and large - dollar donations made up nearly three - fourths of the contributions to Senate lawmakers.

Gibson's campaign makes of point of saying that since his 2010 retirement from the Army, the GOP lawmaker has received more than 7,200 individual contributions, with 74 percent coming from individuals in the current NY - 20.

«We're going to make a real push to match her spending in the final weeks of the campaign,» his email promised, along with a request for contributions as low as $ 5.

Strikingly, the lion's share of campaign spending made by Glenwood and its affiliates are made through LLC contributions.

Longtime League of Women Voters lobbyist Barbara Bartoletti expressed frustration at the lack of action on items including closing a giant campaign finance loophole that allows big money donors to make unlimited contributions to candidates by setting up multiple Limited Liability Companies.

The contributions make up a sizeable chunk of the $ 33 million Cuomo has reported raising for his re-election campaign.

«The new revelations in this case demonstrate: (1) that prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York had both ample evidence and authority to charge Mayor de Blasio; and (2) that they nevertheless made a choice not to pursue such charges,» Keating wrote — that each quid, or campaign contribution, required a specific quo, or corrupt action by the politician.

A former college president and conservative filmmaker has pleaded guilty to one count of making illegal campaign contributions in a federal election.

This ongoing corruption is made possible because Glenwood, through its aggressive use of its LLCs, is effectively not subject to any campaign contribution limits.

The payment Cohen made to her is now the subject of complaints to the Justice Department and the Federal Election Commission, alleging that it was an illegal campaign contribution.

Along with vigilant enforcement of the law, disclosure of contributions, and lower contribution limits, public financing of elections can «end the mad chase for campaign cash that starts some elected officials down the road to corruption and... make candidates dependent on ordinary voters rather than special interests.»

On the subject of whether those who have befitted from campaign contributions from hedge fund manager Dan Loeb, who was forced to apologize after making remarks on Facebook that compared Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who, like Heastie, is African American, to the KKK, the speaker said that is an individual decision that should be made by the recipients — whoever they may be.

According to the controversial agreement, TextGenesys was to make available to the NPP shortcodes through which party members, sympathizers and supporters of the party were to subscribe to daily, weekly and monthly contributions / donations towards their party's revenue generation campaign.

In the district's two previous elections, in 2012 and 2010, GOP businessman Randy Altschuler lost twice, after making $ 451,000 in contributions and eating $ 1.7 million of the loans he made to his campaigns.

Campaign cash from limited liability corporations — Arwin 88th Street LLC, Columbus 60th Realty LLC and Briar Hill Realty LLC are but a few connected to Glenwood — is now the subject of intense scrutiny as good - government groups demand lawmakers close loopholes that have allowed LLCs to make political contributions with so few constraints.

Their contributions make up nearly half of Lavine's campaign funds so far.

«We urge the Elections Committee to pass Senator Squadron's legislation, and the full Senate and Assembly to pass this critical reform that would improve our campaign finance and ethics laws by reducing the influence of big contributions on the decisions made by our elected officials.»

Naparstek, who also founded the influential Streetsblog.org, will remain on Reinvent Albany's board where he will continue pushing for reforms like an end to outside income for state legislators, restrictions on the use of campaign contributions for personal use, and closing loopholes which foster corruption by allowing people who do business with the state to make enormous campaign contributions.