Sentences with phrase «own pac»

Singletary said she did fundraising for the PAC.

On Monday afternoon, two more Breitbart staffers announced their resignations: National security correspondent Jordan Schachtel said that the site is «no longer a journalistic enterprise but instead, in my opinion, something resembling an unaffiliated media Super PAC for the Trump campaign.»

Burkle, co-founder of investment firm Yucaipa Cos. and a part owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins, donated to a pro-Kasich super PAC in 2016.

«You could sort of see it happening in slow motion, notwithstanding efforts by leadership to try to deflect it or push it back,» says Steven Law, a former McConnell chief of staff who became a top U.S. Chamber of Commerce official before landing at American Crossroads, the Karl Rove - founded Super PAC, which now aims to usher more moderate Republican nominees into the midterms.

The Miami Herald reports Saturday that state records show that Frank Artiles» PAC, Veterans for Conservative Principals, had paid former Hooters model Heather Thomas $ 2,000 and former Playboy model Brittney Singletary $ 1,500.

Sixty - five percent of those donations — more than $ 4.9 million — were from PACs associated with businesses.

PACs, meanwhile, are limited to donating $ 5000 to a candidate per election, according to the Federal Election Commission.

ECU noted that they have endorsed 17 additional candidates this cycle — including Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren — who have said they are rejecting corporate PAC money.

U.S. Senator Dean Heller from Nevada, New York Representative Tom Reed and North Carolina U.S. Senator Richard Burr — all vocal proponents of renewables — together accounted for more than 40 % of the Solar Energy Industries Association PAC's total federal campaign donations.

This decision resulted in a flurry of organizations called «Super PACs,» which enable individuals and corporations to donate unlimited funds as long as there is no direct coordination with the candidate.

May 19 - The Malaysian Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) begins an investigation into 1MDB, according to reports.

The industry has stepped up its political contributions, snatched up some of Washington's finest consultants and lobbyists and just launched the first tech super PAC — or political action committee — led by none other than that hoodie - wearing, 28 - year old social media whiz Mark Zuckerberg.

The day after the election in November, a «Draft Franken» super PAC filed its first notice to the Federal Election Commission, though it hasn't raised any money for the Minnesota senator.

Later in the afternoon, speaking at a Miami event sponsored by the U.S. - Cuba Democracy PAC, Romney said that if he becomes president, «it is my expectation that Fidel Castro will finally be taken off this planet.»

And during the presidential campaign, Boeing - affiliated individuals and PACs contributed largely to then - Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, during the 2016 campaign season, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

But one top figure at the PAC did tell CNBC that he believed Cohen was not guilty.

Following the 2010 elections, Brock founded the Super PAC American Bridge, which does opposition research to help elect Democrats to office.

Political action committees, or PACs, face different contribution regulations and file records of contributions with the FEC on a different schedule than presidential campaigns.

«This is a brutal reminder that candidate quality matters regardless of where you are running,» Steven Law, the president of the McConnell - aligned Senate Leadership Fund PAC, said in a statement.

Then in 2012, Boehner received $ 50,000 from Swisher International - related PACs and campaign committees, as well as $ 30,500 from Altria - related committees.

WikiLeaks first contacted Trump Jr. via Twitter direct message on September 20, 2016 to tell him about a PAC - run anti-Trump website, called putintrump.org, and asked him if he had «any comments» on who was behind it.

Out of the thousands of accounts interacting with Trump's post, some of the most valuable include loyal supporters @DiamondandSilk, host of Diamond and Silk Chit Chat Live; Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec), a former U.S. Navy intelligence officer; and America First (@AmericaFirstPAC), a PAC dedicated to electing federal candidates who support the Trump administration's agenda.

One thing, however, is very different about this season's presidential campaign: an explosion of election spending by groups known as super PACs.

At 6:35 p.m. on November 8, when most pollsters and pundits believed Clinton would carry the election, WikiLeaks messaged Trump Jr. and suggested Trump contest the results because it would help him mount an opposition media brand, and that it would expose «media corruption, primary corruption, PAC corruption, etc..»

Nowadays, the top donor to Ryan's leadership PAC is Elliot Management, a hedge fund run by billionaire Paul Singer.

Super PACs legally can't co-ordinate their messages with candidates» campaigns, but they can spend unlimited funds pushing their own messages.

U.S. Tobacco and Brown & Williamson's campaign and PAC committees ranked 11th and 13th among Boehner's campaign contributors between 1997 and 1998, giving him a combined $ 21,000 that year, OpenSecrets reports.

By September, super PACs had spent more than US$ 211 million.

Three years after her speech, her campaign and pro-Clinton super PACs have raised nearly $ 59 million from financial investors, according to data collected by the Center for Responsive Politics.

Together with its affiliated super PAC, American Crossroads, Crossroads GPS hopes to raise $ 300 million, primarily to help defeat President Barack Obama and to elect Republicans to Congress.

Murray, who has been the more conciliatory of the two Democratic leaders on the medical innovation bill, received $ 198,000 from pharmaceutical industry PACs so far this cycle.

«Through both corporate and PAC contributions, where permissible, AstraZeneca supports candidates in both parties who share the company's perspective on the public policies that impact our business and the patients we serve,» she said.

Only workers who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents are allowed to support the PAC.

Like most big corporations, Novo Nordisk runs a political action committee, or PAC, which solicits employee donations and gives the proceeds to political candidates» campaigns.

Like many PACs, Novo Nordisk spreads money to both parties, concentrating on powerful committee members and other leaders.

For a searchable database of members of Congress who received campaign donations from pharma PACs in 2017, click here.

Although similar nonprofits engaged in politics in past elections, their use exploded in 2010, particularly in tandem with super PACs, taking advantage of federal court rulings that paved the way for a new role for outside - spending groups in elections.

Sally Susman, a Pfizer executive who oversees the drug company's PAC, is also in the group promising at least $ 100,000.

But those figures don't include personal donations from industry executives to the super PACs that can collect unlimited amounts of money and spend it independently of a candidate's official campaign.

He gave $ 6 million to Priorities USA Action, a pro-Clinton super PAC.

«Some in the media have suggested the PAC's formation has other motives,» Nick Ayers, who helped launch the PAC, told Business Insider in May.

Pence will use the money the PAC collects to cover travel and campaign costs, and he can also channel money to Republican candidates in the 2018 midterm elections.

The securities and investment industry led all sectors with about $ 90 million in donations to candidate committees and the PACs supporting them, the Center for Responsive Politics said.

Pence raised eyebrows in May when he launched the Great America Committee PAC, a move some observers suspected could be aimed at promoting a future presidential bid while President Donald Trump is mired in controversy.

Contributors to campaign committees have spending limits, so mega-donors like Singer and Griffin have increasingly used PACs to shell out millions.

Right to Rise, a pro-Bush PAC, saw contributions fall to about $ 15 million in the second half of the year, down from more than $ 100 million in the first half.

Conservative Solutions, the pro-Rubio super PAC, raised more than $ 14 million in the second half of 2015, about as much as Rubio's campaign committee did in the fourth quarter.

Billionaire hedge fund managers Paul Singer and Ken Griffin gave $ 2.5 million each to the Conservative Solutions PAC, an outside organization that supports Rubio, as 2015 drew to a close, according to Federal Election Commission data released this week.

NextGen Climate, which has a well - funded super PAC dedicated to electing lawmakers dedicated to halting climate change, launched a «text - banking» voter - turnout program late last year that attempted to motivate potential voters to show up to vote by sending personalized texts from actual organizers encouraging recipients to respond and start a dialogue.

According to OpenSecrets, all of the money flowing from Morgan & Morgan comes from individual donations, not a PAC.