Sentences with phrase «one's campaign war chest»

But he said the governor has a large campaign war chest, and assistance with fundraising would be very helpful.

The governor has a $ 33 million campaign war chest at his disposal, should any potential challengers gain traction in the coming months.

In fact, his entire campaign war chest has only about $ 8,000 of on - Island money.

His fundraising consists largely of smaller - sized donations from individuals inside the district, with no union or campaign war chest grants.

However, he said the governor has a large campaign war chest and assistance with fundraising would be very helpful.

Sen. Tony Avella says the city should force his primary opponent, former NYC Councilman John Liu, to pay $ 525,000 in fines against his prior campaign, which have languished for 18 months as he sits on a new campaign war chest of $ 444,000.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is spending some of his $ 33 million dollar campaign war chest on ads to promote his state budget priorities.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is spending some of his multi million dollar campaign war chest on ads to promote his state budget priorities.

Xing Wu Pan, who allegedly funneled $ 16,000 into the mayoral campaign war chest for Comptroller John Liu, was arrested Wednesday.

Other elected Republicans balked at running for county executive against Bellone, who a year ago had been sitting on a $ 2 million campaign war chest with a well - organized Suffolk County Democratic Committee and politically influential police unions firmly in his corner.

No matter how the ticket is composed, both would face a daunting task in unseating Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is expected to once again bring a hefty campaign war chest as he seeks a third term next year.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is unsurprisingly bringing a massive campaign war chest to her re-election effort.

(McDonald reportedly had just $ 40,000 in his once - full campaign war chest as of Sept. 20).

Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, landed his helicopter in Nissequogue and flew back with a heavier campaign war chest after a cocktail party fundraiser Thursday night.

Major labor unions are likely to back Cuomo, whose campaign war chest already tops $ 25.7 million.

The Senate today is expected to vote on a measure that would address so - called «ghost» campaign war chests by allowing the pre-deceased to determine who should be in charge of their coffers when they die or become incapacitated.

The Wildrose Party still exists with a significant campaign war chest and a membership role of 23,000.

After his landslide victory in November, he kept a substantial campaign war chest on reserve to run his own ads to counter any union - backed television campaigns and is now deploying outside advisers to organize business interests into what he hopes will become a counterweight to labor: a new group known as the Committee to Save New York.

32BJ officials say DeFrancisco - who has the biggest Senate campaign war chest among the 62 sitting state senators - has accepted $ 34,185 in political contributions from companies and trade organizations, like the National Restaurant Association, who are actively opposing the higher minimum wage.

Sen. Stephen Saland still has most of his robust campaign war chest still intact, according to his 32 - day pre-general campaign filing with the state Board of Elections.

The main reason Cuomo has such a huge campaign war chest: He doesn't have to spend money to promote his budget and policy agenda because the business community — through the Committee to Save NY, which dropped $ 12 million last year — does it for him.

But as the former congressman still has a full campaign war chest and strong name recognition — and the fact that electoral politics is a zero - sum game — the question rises: which of his hypothetical rivals would be most impacted by his decision?

Trump landed his helicopter in Nissequogue, Long Island last night and flew back with a heavier campaign war chest after a cocktail party fundraiser.

City Councilman Dan Garodnick, who is term - limited out of the council in 2017, has raised a considerable campaign war chest split among three different accounts for a potential statewide run.

«You've got to concentrate on the seats you can win,» said DeFrancisco, R - Syracuse, a member of the Senate leadership who has his own campaign war chest of about $ 1 million.

Ex-city Comptroller John Liu has let his legal challenge of $ 525,000 in fines against his prior campaign languish for at least 18 months — as he sits on a new campaign war chest of $ 444,000, his opponent charged Tuesday.

McDonald's once formidable campaign war chest now has $ 7,045 following one of the most expensive Senate primaries in the state's history.

So perhaps it is no surprise that he is also vying with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver for the Legislature's biggest campaign war chest.

This time, Cox and Skelos, who is backing Ulrich, didn't manage to quell the latest round in the Queens GOP's internal world war, which is good news for Addabbo, since it gives him time to replenish his woefully low campaign war chest.

He also has a readily available campaign war chest, which he began raising years ago when he was mulling a run.

The rules explicitly seek to stop financial companies from circumventing those strictures: They prohibit firms from channeling contributions to bond overseers through PACs, which are giant pools of money distributed to multiple campaign war chests.

Republican challenger Rob Astorino says those people being probed were the sources for the governor's vast campaign war chest.

Brown's large campaign war chest became an obstacle for Tolbert's own fundraising, the primary challenger said.

Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos threatened to order a probe of Cuomo's own $ 20 million campaign war chest if the governor's anti-corruption panel investigation turns into a «witch hunt» against state lawmakers.

And worse yet, they go gangster, «You try investigating me for my finances, we'll take a look at how you raised a 30 million dollar campaign war chest Governor.»

That the Governor who raised 33 million dollars from real - estate donors and corporate entities before the gubernatorial campaign even started may have allowed undue influence for these entities to lobby and pass legislation they desired as a result of their donations to the Cuomo campaign war chest.

As of Tuesday evening, the mayor's campaign war chest appears to exceed that of any potential Democratic primary challenger who could seek to unseat de Blasio.

MIDTOWN — Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice has raised nearly $ 3 million in the past six months to fund her bid to become state attorney general, bringing her total campaign war chest to $ 4.14 million, her campaign announced.

Farley is competing against Gillibrand's greater name recognition in the state and her sizable campaign war chest.

Cuomo, who has a large campaign war chest reported to be $ 33.3 million and is seeking to receive a historically large victory this year, received 146,576 votes in 2010 when he ran on the Independence Party's line.

In an age where campaign war chests measure in the hundreds of millions and digital media rules, direct contact with presidential hopefuls seems unattainable.

McDonald is expected to have a healthy campaign war chest heading into the September primary.

In «Submarine Politics,» the New Times wrote: «Despite a $ 1.8 million campaign war chest financed by county contractors and various special interest groups like the Florida International University Foundation, and an army of heavy - hitting political strategists such as Keith Fredericks, voters flatly rejected the tax increase because of their mistrust of county government.

Hawkins blasted Cuomo's big money contributors, saying that less than 1 percent of the governor's multimillion dollar campaign war chest actually comes from donations of less than $ 1,000.

The object apparently is to «bloody» Hein, to force him to defend his record and to spend down a six - figure campaign war chest in order to discourage or make exceedingly more difficult Hein's potential run for Chris Gibson's seat in Congress next year.

The ex-legislator said he was upset that his opponent, U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D - Flushing), had amassed a large campaign war chest while he struggled to raise money for his 2012 congressional run.

«Corrupt elected officials who are caught defrauding the public should not be allowed to add insult to injury by utilizing campaign war chests to pay their legal fees,» O'Brien said in a statement in May this year.

Whereas other groups typically rely on grants and donations, unions collect a steady stream of income from member dues and are flush with discretionary funds, which can be used to build campaign war chests and contribute to lobbying efforts (see «The Long Reach of Teachers Unions,» features).

The governor has benefitted from the current campaign finance laws in New York, amassing a $ 14 million campaign war chest for his re-election bid that doesn't come until 2014.