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(As the Globe and Mail notes, the threat might be symbolic, since Massachusetts has rather strict limits on campaign donations and Markey was the Democratic front - runner anyway.

Most of the commission's recommendations have long been on the wish lists of good - government groups: lower limits on campaign donations, further disclosure of outside income and business clients, a $ 5,000 limit on LLCs, to reduce their power to amplify individuals» donating power, a $ 25,000 limit on donations to soft - money «housekeeping» accounts and, perhaps most controversially, the public campaign finance system.

He is on the record as an opponent of assisted suicide and restrictions on campaign donations, and as a supporter of states» rights.

James» spokeswoman said she does not make decisions based on campaign donations.

The state's notoriously high limits on campaign donations should be drastically reduced, he said, and rules about people with business before the state donating to campaigns should be tightened.

However, if elected officials had to recuse themselves based on campaign donations, there would not be a state or national elected official who could ever vote on anything.»

Dadey filed a complaint with elections board four days before the November 2011 elections, following the publication of an article in The Post-Standard that reported on campaign donations made by Miner's political action committee, Promise PAC.

Cuomo has sought restrictions on lawmakers» outside incomes and term limits, limits on campaign donations from those involved in the state contracting process and more review of potential conflicts of interest involving the outside incomes of lawmakers and the executive.

The «loan» was listed on campaign donation records that the committee filed with the Niagara County Board of Elections.

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The 11 a.m. ET speech, which will be streamed at press.org, comes on the heels of Thiel's $ 1.25 million donation to Trump's campaign.

It's a chance for us to prove how we're different from any campaign in politics: We rely on ordinary Americans giving what they can — one grassroots donation at a time.

While donations to presidential campaigns are heavily restricted and regulated, there are virtually no rules on inaugurations.

The drugmaker's political action committee spent $ 405,000 on federal campaign donations and other political outlays last year, more than in 2016 — an election year — and nearly double its allocation for 2015, data compiled by Kaiser Health News show.

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.

Google announced on its blog on Monday that it will match every dollar of donation with two dollars in a new public giving campaign against Ebola.

Politics today is more about crunching data — voter demographic information, tracking what individual voters care about, and campaign donation histories — and then acting on it.

This time, student survivors sparked a movement that's put Republicans, like Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, on the spot over campaign donations from the National Rifle Association.

Significantly, Mueller's probe has also turned its sights on a $ 150,000 donation from a Ukrainian billionaire made to Trump's charity, which previously admitted it violated tax law and helped Trump personally, during the campaign.

Trump wasn't pleased and made aggressive comments to the press on Monday evening, right as news broke that Mueller's team is looking at a donation to Trump's charity tied to a speech Trump gave during the campaign.

Now, Trump is on the hook for failing to disclose campaign donations and debts and for conspiring to evade detection with deliberately small reimbursements, as Giuliani said, «funneled through a law firm.»

The company points out that the donation form will get roughly two million more visitors before the campaign comes to an end on December 31st.

Recent news says that Mozilla released data collected from a statistical study on the impact of adding a bitcoin button on the main campaign donation page.

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.»

Americans for Financial Reform reported that the financial sector spent $ 2 billion on political activity in the 2016 election cycle, including $ 1.1 billion in campaign donations and the rest for lobbying.

The success of a donation - based crowdfunding campaign relies on the goodwill of others and the strength of the cause.

The donation details can be found on the cryptocurrency exchange's blog: «Join this campaign and help the efforts made by the RED CROSS in Mexico by using the hashtag #BitcoinAidMexico and make a donation to one of the following accounts: Bitcoin (BTC) 1DaHfXsoPfZ2jznJhB62vR3QEVFhhZ2tMREthereum (ETH) 0x88B6021aE4BB9830f2E9D5BB38B83427b9D7ffEcRipple (XRP) rEFMdiTbLmZq5ZiMGrWGoyP48DMFqXjNkM [No Destination Tag required]» The Red Cross thus far has been able to set up collection and relief centers in several areas affected by the earthquake, especially in the southern states of Oaxaca and Chiapas, benefiting around 24,000 people.

Voted YES on allowing some lobbyist gifts to Congress Voted NO on banning campaign donations from unions & corporations Voted NO on banning more types of Congressional gifts less

Someone may object that, given the current weakness of our political parties, politicians necessarily have to turn to interest groups for their ready - made mailing lists and rely on «fat cat» contributors for large campaign donations.

Using these social outlets, ORGANIZE and their network of partners mobilized the army of organ donation advocates to come together on one day for a huge digital donor drive and awareness campaign.

Published lists of donors, the announcement of pledges to the church building fund campaign, the insistence on a tax write - off for a donation - all these would seem to belong to the kind of public display that Jesus decried.

Sustain receives no funding, advertising or sponsorship to run the Real Bread Campaign, relying instead on donations and annual contributions from people like YOU.

As part of the #StaplesForStudents campaign, today Staples announced that every Boston and Metrowest project posted on DonorsChoose.org received full funding as part of Staples» $ 1 million donation to DonorsChoose.org, a charity that has funded more than 700,000 classroom projects for teachers and has positively affected more than 18 million U.S. students.

Chartwells has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past few years on donations to local school food watchdog Healthy Schools Campaign, and it gives $ 20,000 annually to the late Maggie Daley's After School Matters charity, which counts Bloomer as a board member.

But Nestlé has no shame — the following year, when the Guardian newspaper reported that Breakthrough Breast Cancer had refused a # 1 million donation from Nestlé on ethical grounds, Nestlé sent a letter to the newspaper dismissing criticism of its baby food marketing and claimed it was a force for good in the world, citing the donation made to Ethiopia — of course, it did not mention that that the donation came about not because of Nestlé altruism, but because of campaign protest.

From now through October 16, DownEast Basics is running its annual LIVE for Pink donation event — read the inspiring stories of DownEast's special LIVE for Pink photo shoot with everyday women impacted by breast cancer, and more info on the campaign here.

Breastmilk donation came in my mind again when I wrote the blog about Salma Hayek breastfeeding an infant in Sierra Leone while on a vaccination (tetanus) campaign.

In contrast, just as it did for Obama, it took Brown months of tireless campaigning with little result (both on and offline) to create the inertia needed to generate $ 12 million in donations, over 100,000 Facebook supporters, over 10,000 people enrolled in our «Call from Home» program, over 215,000 email subscribers and 7,529 text message subscribers.

Next, the fact that mobile fundraising will be available through volunteers is a big deal — with tens / hundreds of thousands of people canvassing their neighborhoods for the campaign in the upcoming year, the ability to take donations on the spot should expand the universe of donors significantly.

Cuomo had reportedly pledged to support Fiala's campaign by raking in $ 100,000 in donations for her bid to flip a long - held Republican seat following the forced ouster of Tom Libous, who was convicted on a charge of lying to the FBI in July.

Once someone's donated, campaigns will often tailor future asks based on donation amounts.

Reel in all donations and limit the total amount that can be spent on a campaign and then we can talk.

Scrutiny has been placed in particular on the funneling of campaign donations from donors to county Democratic committees that ended up backing individual candidates.

Wow, here's a sign that online political fundraising has gone full - on mainstream: Democratic campaign finance website ActBlue announced today that it's reached the impressive total of 1,000,000 individual donations (an excuse for a celebratory fundraising pitch, natch).

An aspiring Queens pol, would - be NYC Councilwoman Celia Dosamantes, who was accused of faking donations in order to get matching taxpayer funds for her losing 2015 campaign, went on trial yesterday.

The cash on hand total for the conference puts the Senate GOP at virtually the same point where they were at in May 2014, when the conference had a combined $ 3.2 million both of their campaign accounts (funds from the housekeeping account have restrictions on where they can be spent, but there is no limit on the donations to the committee).

The bus tycoon made good on his promise to match small donations to the SNP, giving a significant boost to the «yes» campaign's funding which had trailed the «no» camp.

With your donation campaigns, you can analyze which ads performed best and which gave yielded the highest about of donations, but can't do much tracking on the individual donor level.

The campaign of Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Cynthia Nixon on Friday announced it has raised 10,000 individual donations in the last six weeks, the vast majority of which are less than $ 200.

«In today's current political climate, when the average wealth of a member of Congress is $ 1 million, we are showing that a grassroots campaign focused on low - dollar and local support, can keep the doors to the halls of government open to those who can't write them selves a large check or rely on large corporate donations.»

First up on the target list were Sens. Dave Valesky, John DeFrancisco and Steve Saland, all of whom rely on big dollar donations, many of which come from outside their respective districts, to feather their campaign nests.