Sentences with phrase «over campaign donations»

Davis, who is challenging Sheriff Steve Bernal in a June primary, is also under scrutiny over corruption allegations over campaign donations from a union president.

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.

Not exact matches

Trump has said he's donated $ 102 million over the past five years, but a partial list of donations that his campaign provided appeared to correspond to gifts from the foundation — not necessarily from Trump's own pocket.

Over the last five years, the organization has worked with some of the most well - known international relief efforts, such as Medic Mobile and Save the Children, helping them to add Bitcoin to their donation streams and running fundraising campaigns aimed at people in the Bitcoin community.

When it was all over, the tally of alleged wrongdoing cited here today, assigned to one party or another, included unpaid taxes (NDP), abusing election laws (Conservatives), improperly taking money from charities (Liberals), improperly claimed expenses (Liberals), illegal campaign debts (Liberals), illegal political donations (NDP), flouting Hill security (NDP), a potentially illegal cheque (Conservatives), secrecy (Conservatives) and sabotaging the committee to select the parliamentary budget officer (Conservatives).

Affiliating your company with a charity and building campaigns around it goes a long way to winning people over with your altruistic nature — but you have to go the whole way to be convincing, which mean not just making a donation once or twice a year — for real impact make yourself the true champion of a cause instead.

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.

Big Lots announced that its 2016 «Give Big for Kids» campaign raised $ 3.6 million for pediatric research and care at Nationwide Children's Hospital, a $ 1.4 million increase over last year's campaign donation to the hospital.

The National Rifle Association has doled out more campaign donations in New York — $ 217,400 — over the last nine years than in any other in state in the nation.

[The Left seems to have jumped ahead in the race for packaged, scalable campaign software over the past few years in part because of the example of the Dean and Kerry campaigns in 2004, but also because of the work of individual activists, like the founders of ActBlue and the prominent bloggers who've helped channel online donations to chosen candidates.

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.

Within 30 hours of launching the campaign, the Red Cross had already raised over $ 3 million and set a record for donations via SMS.

Common Cause / NY revealed original research which showed that Senators Valesky (D - 49) and DeFrancisco (R - 50) each received over 80 % of their campaign donations from outside of their district.

Normally, campaigns can not accept donations over $ 400 for those with business before the city.

Over the internet — making digital donations key to the Obama campaign, just as they were in 2008.

23:48 - Have some Lib Dem stats: Over the course of the campaign Liberal Democrats: averaged 250 volunteers a day with more than 700 people campaigning on the last weekend, made more than 135,000 phone calls, that's more than 3,000 hours of calling, knocked on more than 70,000 doors, received more than 2,000 individual donations, delivered hundreds of thousands of leaflets and received more than 100 kg of cake from volunteers at the campaign HQ.

Obama's fundraising over the same period relied on plenty of big - dollar donors as well, but even then his campaign noted the advantage that a much larger base of small - dollar donors gave them: «Obama spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki repeated the campaign's emphasis on the 98 percent of its donations that were $ 250 or less — meaning that those donors are under the limit and can continue to contribute.»

Gillibrand, who is holding a fundraising event today for Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, has been a fundraising juggernaut, even if her campaign activity over the summer amounted to a handful of emails asking for donations.

Having been cleared by prosecutors over donations to his deputy leadership campaign, Mr Hain hinted that he wanted a return to government.

She then called on President Trump to resign over similar claims and got even more attention when he attacked her on Twitter as a «lightweight» who «would do anything» for campaign donations.

Sierra Club representative Robert Ciesielski cited a study by Common Cause that the governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, had received over $ 1.6 million in political donations from the industry — a figure that, given the current state of New York's campaign finance laws, lobbyists in Albany could well surpass.

GOP consultant Ed Rollins quipped that «it's the Bernie Sanders campaign all over again,» referring to the socialist 2016 presidential also - ran, who raked in small - time donations but couldn't get the Democratic nomination.

The 1,300 small donations to Cuomo's campaign total just under $ 94,500 — a fraction of the $ 76.6 million he's raked in over the seven - year period, filings show.

A month after Baker took over the role, the group accepted a donation of # 6,500 from the Constitutional Research Council — the same secretive organisation which had previously funnelled a controversial # 435,000 to the DUP for their Brexit campaign, and which has repeatedly refused to disclose the source of this cash.

The donation, which was made Monday and appeared in Oregon's campaign finance database Wednesday, propelled Buehler's total campaign funding to just over $ 700,000.

De Blasio's political activities are being investigated in part over the practice of funneling donations to county committees, which in turn aided Democratic candidates running in key swing districts and potentially purposely circumvented campaign donations.

Zeldin, a state senator from Suffolk County, is running to unseat Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop, who has been hammered by the National Republican Campaign Committee, including an ad this week that reignites the controversy over his office securing a permit for a fireworks display and then campaign seeking a political dCampaign Committee, including an ad this week that reignites the controversy over his office securing a permit for a fireworks display and then campaign seeking a political dcampaign seeking a political donation.

The air of scandal - combined with Peter Hain's apology to MPs over undeclared donations to his deputy party leadership campaign - was nothing compared to the trouble to come.

But at just under $ 24,000 in political donations, according to the city's Campaign Finance Board, Garodnick spent less than half what Weprin did over the same time period.

Donations to the several Republican campaign committees added up to about $ 55,000, raising their total income to a bit over $ 150,000.

In the race to collect donations, Syracuse mayoral candidate Ben Walsh has a comfortable lead over competitor Juanita Perez Williams as their campaigns enter the final weeks before November's general election.

The commission said candidates had reported a total of # 1.7 m in donations over # 50 towards their campaign spending: «This suggests that just over a fifth of all campaign spending was either funded by donations under # 50, candidates» own money or loans.»

Paul «Effy» Raps and Yaron Turgeman each forked over the maximum $ 4,950 in donations bundled by businessman Jona Rechnitz, who is at the center of a federal probe into NYPD corruption and shady de Blasio campaign finances.

Political Fallout Over Contribution Refund «Michael Blake is dead to Senator Diaz,» reports a Bronx Democratic party operative after the Morrisania assemblyman and DNC vice chair rescinded a $ 1000 donation to Diaz's city council campaign committee.

Peter Hain has been cleared of breaching the ministerial code over donations to his deputy Labour leadership campaign.

The gubernatorial campaign of Cynthia Nixon is touting her success in the first week of fundraising from small - dollar donors, saying she has raised more money in modest donations than Gov. Andrew Cuomo has over the last seven years.

Harriet Harman has avoided a police investigation over her late reporting of donations for her Labour deputy leadership campaign last year.

Seems like a pretty ambiguous law, any foreign national that discusses politics with a US citizen is going to have an influence over the person they are talking to, I don't see why campaign donations should be some sort of separate category in this regard, seems absurd to me.

Vote Leave is under investigation by the Electoral Commission over whether it breached the # 7m EU referendum spending limit, with allegations being made that it channelled funds for a social Brexit media campaign via # 625,000 in donations to a student.

All the way, the company gave more than ten million dollars in campaign donations over about the last decade.

The spreadsheet of registered donations on the Electoral Commission website only records six donations, made over 2013 and 2014, by two donors, all to the same Association, the Conservative donors the Trevelyan Campaign Fund.

Revelations that Ulster County Executive Mike Hein received $ 11,500 in campaign donations over the last two years from the developers of the proposed Park Point student housing project in New Paltz, with an additional $ 5,000 in contributions from their Albany - based, county - connected law firm, have further roiled the muddy waters gurgling around this controversial project.

ALBANY — The National Rifle Association has taken aim at New York, doling out more campaign donations in the Empire State over the last nine years than in any other in state in the nation.

Miner said neither she nor the candidates did anything improper, but the donations «cast a cloud» over the candidates that has detracted from their campaigns.

This week, the Times Union's Chris Bragg reported that Board of Elections enforcement counsel Risa Sugarman had sued the Patterson campaign last month in an Albany court, arguing that some $ 5,000 donations were clearly over the legal limit and seeking both civic penalties and $ 10,000 fines.

Wells and Tenney have traded multiple barbs over past campaign donations and debates.

But his campaign, which does not accept corporate donations, engaged in a last - minute push on social media, including Facebook, where the candidate's campaign page has over 4,900 followers.

so here's the question for you as a candidate... point blank: if a landlord or developer would make a donation to your campaign, maybe even a sizable one, and also get others to do so... donations that could give you a distinct advantage over your competition... would you still go after him and insist that he improve his properties to the point of even taking him to court, etc.?

Over the years, CPV has spent more than $ 220,000 on lobbying and donations to Cuomo's campaign or to those of state lawmakers.

Campaigning journalism from openDemocracy has pushed the UK government to change the law in Northern Ireland over anonymous political donations.