Sentences with phrase «on his campaign funds»

As for politicians, they have increasingly depended massively on campaign funds from interest groups to keep them in office.

One area they differed was on campaign funding.

And he wants to run soon because the public match on his campaign funds are due to expire after the 2013 election.

The Feerick Commission's investigation was not viewed positively by many lawmakers, including the legislative leaders (Senate Majority Leader Ralph Marino and Assembly Speaker Mel Miller), who declined to formally testify on campaign fund - raising efforts by their respective conferences, but did say they would meet in formally with commission members.

State lawmakers are living large on their campaign funds — with hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on such eye - popping items as tanning salons, casinos,...

But Nwoye said the minister was not in a position to make comments on the campaign funds as he was not a member of the party during the elections.

Her true test, however, will be former Clearwater Republican Rep. Ed Hooper, who has been in the race and piling on the campaign funds for nearly two years.

This effectively allows state legislators to use their offices to promote their image and build greater name recognition, enhancing the already - significant power of incumbency and giving them an additional leg up over their opponents who would have to rely on campaign funds to communicate with voters.

Not exact matches

The CTC halted funding for U.S. - targeted marketing in 2012 on the grounds that existing campaigns were ineffective, U.S. visitors to Canada spent less than overseas visitors and the Commission's limited funds were better allocated elsewhere.

There is, unfortunately, no getting around the fact that the government will need to spend even more money on farmers than it does today if it wants to save the industry, whether it's for developing a perennial wheat, funding a home - grown advertising campaign or investing more into making car parts from plants.

By comparison, presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who had yet to clinch her party's nomination, raised $ 28 million in May through the campaign and its «victory fund,» finishing the month with $ 42.5 million on hand.

Since Daly began working on crowdfunding campaigns in June 2012, she has consulted for everything from indie documentaries to journalism startups — funding all 26 campaigns to or past their goals.

Some look at the funds in the bank as rainy day reserves instead of looking for a return on investment from a formal campaign.

While cost may be an issue, if you are confident that your efforts will be successful, there are sources of funding available to get the ball rolling on your expansion campaign.

Rather than circulating reports among fund managers and investors behind closed doors, so - called activist short sellers are adept at deploying «shock and awe» campaigns by publicizing information and allegations on Twitter.

The fossil fuel divestment campaign began on university campuses in 2011 but the new report reveals that concerns over investments in coal, oil and gas have now entered the financial mainstream, with more than 80 % of the funds now committed to divest being managed by commercial investment and pension funds.

One of the hedge fund managers behind an activist campaign at United Airlines explained why he's bullish on the company, now officially called United Continental Holdings (ual).

The campaign is the company's second stab on the crowdfunding platform and has already exceeded its $ 80,000 funding goal, with 36 days to go.

Hammond's commitment to find the funds for Brexit preparations stands in sharp contrast to promises made by the Leave campaign before last year's referendum, which had assured Britons that leaving the EU would leave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health Service.

Bret Gould and serial inventor Christopher Hawker — the entrepreneur whose company, Trident Design, was behind the industrial design of The Coolest cooler, which went on to become the most - funded Kickstarter campaign — has made that dream an awesomely fun reality.

When I went through it, the «no» option was already checked on questions about whether I'm blind or whether I want to donate $ 3 to the presidential election campaign fund.

Crowdsourcing service GoFundMe is also listing all Harvey - related funding campaigns on its site.

It was later the recipient of nearly $ 1 million from sympathetic conservatives in a crowd - funding campaign on GoFundMe.

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.

The Federal Election Commission has previously ruled that candidates and federal office holders may spend campaign funds on legal fees that are part of legal actions that would not have been necessary if they were not a candidate.

Less than a year after their Indiegogo campaign, Whirlscape has also nabbed $ 500,000 in seed funding from BDC Venture Capital (a Canadian venture capital fund), a U.S. - based fund, and California's renowned Y Combinator incubator, which took Whirlscape on as a participant in its accelerator program earlier this year.

While most websites don't prohibit you from posting to more than one funding platform at a time, posting on multiple sites can hurt your campaign.

Originally launched with a focus on film, Indiegogo pivoted to include funding for literally anything and is becoming known for financing personal and cause - related campaigns such as that for the bullied bus monitor, which raised over $ 700,000.

While donation - based crowdfunding has blossomed on the public stage for getting arts and music projects funded, the majority of crowdfunding campaigns back social causes or startups.

While handling these details might not be as thrilling as raising funds part of the campaign, they have a direct impact on an entrepreneur's ability to execute his or her vision, fulfill orders and make the transition from a campaign into a fully sustainable business.

In April 2012 he launched a Kickstarter campaign that became the platform's best - funded fashion initiative, with more than 5,500 backers pledging nearly $ 300,000 (on an initial goal of just $ 30,000).

Through its sister organization — the Better World Campaign — the UN Foundation works to support a fully funded United Nations so that it can continue to be an effective voice for international cooperation on behalf of peace, development, human rights and the environment.

And Elliott has lately sought to clone its winning strategy: It's on track to launch about 50 % more activist campaigns this year than in 2016 — nearly three times as many as any other major activist fund — including, in October, two in a single day.

The early smartwatch pioneers raised more money on Kickstarter than any prior campaign, then raised $ 59 million in venture funding, only to sell off assets to competitor Fitbit in 2016 in a deal reportedly valued between $ 34 million and $ 40 million.

Just one day after Inc. covered the formal launch of Mosaic, a clean energy crowdfunding platform based in Oakland that connects investors with solar energy projects, the start - up has made good on its promise: In less than 24 hours, it hasalready funded four sustainable energy campaigns in California.

If you're launching your campaign on Kickstarter, be aware that it has an all - or - nothing funding model.

«With seed - crowdfunding, it is clear to the crowd who they are funding based on the video and written pitches that promote each campaign.

And while other Indiegogo campaigns allow their creators to keep the funds raised and continue to work on the product, the team behind the Ubuntu Edge decided to make it an all - or - nothing deal.

«We'd review our AdWords campaign and pull the funding on the bottom 10 to 15 percent of keywords.

That campaign produced a move to eliminate the funding for the IRS crackdown — one of multiple fronts on which a legislative battle is being waged.

«When it comes to the success of female - led campaigns (success is measured by way of them meeting their funding target) we see Denmark, Ireland and New Zealand come out jointly on top with female success rates of 33 % Sweden and the UK come next with a success rate of 26 %, while for the US and France female - led campaigns rank joint third for success with 24 % of female - led campaigns achieving success compared with 20 % of male - led campaigns in the US.

On Thursday, Trump confirmed that Cohen had paid $ 130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about her allegations of an affair with Trump, although the president stressed that the payment was from his personal funds, rather than from the campaign's coffers.

But political strategists and privacy advocates agreed that Mercer's parallel funding channels, combined with concerns over the surreptitious, commodified Facebook data — reported here for the first time — represented an intensified collision of billionaire financing and digital targeting on the campaign trail.

However, he says those platforms are more based on giving funders rewards for backing a campaign, which may not suit startups that don't create physical gadgets or products.

As the founder of Bobsled Marketing, she has helped dozens of crowdfunding campaigns on - board to Amazon after their funding...

«Liquid Story used its technology and strategic insight to guide Jamstack to connect with our target consumer to our first Crowd Funding Campaign on Kickstarter resulting in achieving over 300 % of our fund raising goal.

It may seem strange to focus marketing efforts on people who have already received your product as a reward for funding you, however in most cases, this isn't the case for every campaign.

On February 13, Cohen, who facilitated the transaction using a trumporg.com email address, told The New York Times in a statement, «I used my own personal funds to facilitate a payment of $ 130,000... Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly.»

Another document is a confidential memorandum prepared for Rebekah Mercer (the daughter of US billionaire Robert Mercer; Wylie has said Mercer provided the funding to set up CA), former Trump advisor Steve Bannon and the (now suspended) CA CEO Alexander Nix advising them on the legality of a foreign corporation (i.e. CA), and foreign nationals (such as Nix and others), carrying out work on US political campaigns.

This case has shed light on the risks to independent journalism of secretive revenge campaigns funded by Silicon Valley billions.