Sentences with phrase «own campaign war chest»

(1) will have a billion dollar campaign war chest from Super PACs.

Some observers had thought that Lipinski's decision to sit on his campaign war chest rather than unload it on Newman was a sign of either stupidity or surrender.

The campaign to take on Cuomo this year is considered in uphill one, given Democratic advantages at the polls in a midterm election and the governor's $ 30 million campaign war chest.

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

Particularly if Nixon is going to compete with Andrew Cuomo's formidable $ 30 million campaign war chest.

«We are confident that Eric Schneiderman will be prosecuted for his horrific crimes against women, but in the meantime anyone who has benefited from his massive campaign war chest should do the right thing and step up to help victims of domestic violence,» they said in the statement.

The New York Gaming Association — a consortium of casino and gambling interests — spread $ 226,250 in campaign contributions to a broad mix of state lawmakers and campaign war chests, their Board of Elections filing today shows.

With more than a million dollars in his campaign war chest, and a 7 to 1 Democratic enrollment advantage, Brown and his supporters have to be feeling confident.

Gillibrand is also sitting on a $ 9.6 million campaign war chest.

The money John siphoned from the Mayor's campaign war chest was used as a payoff to his brother Bart Haggerty for a fancy house on a hill where they presumably ate the fruit from the poisoned tree.

Cuomo has a $ 30 million campaign war chest, and Nixon and Molinaro have far less.

Since 2011, Mr. Germanotta has donated $ 350 to Mr. Stringer's campaign war chest.

DeFrancisco, a Republican from Syracuse who opposes most campaign finance reforms proposed this month by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, has more money in his Senate campaign war chest than any of the 61 other sitting senators.

Then, earlier this month, Carl Kruger of Brooklyn was indicted for bribery, putting an instant freeze on his $ 2 million campaign war chest, which Gianaris had hoped to tap to pay off nearly $ 3 million in Senate Democratic debts.

As of the close of the reporting period on October 15, Ryan had $ 521,656 in his campaign war chest.

Gambling Industry Donates Millions to New York Politicians As Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature discuss the process of amending the State Constitution to allow up to seven new full - scale, privately owned casinos in New York, the gambling industry is funneling millions of dollars into lobbying efforts and campaign war chests.

Cuomo is far ahead in early public polls, and has a $ 30 million campaign war chest and the support of some key labor unions.

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

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.

He has over one million dollars in his campaign war chest, much of it from other congresspersons in «safe» districts (like Pelosi and Hoyer) and big labor unions.

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.

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

Even with this latest investment, he's still a far sight short of the $ 10 million he pledged to spend and a heck of a long way from matching Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Andrew Cuomo's bulging $ 25.6 million campaign war chest, which, as the Buffalo News reported today, is stuffed full of special interest cash.

There's one bank account that Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara can't get his asset - freezing fingers on as he plans a likely multimillion - dollar restitution order against Sheldon Silver: the pol's campaign war chest, which Silver can continue to use to pay legal fees.

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

He can dump a fortune into your campaign war chest and optimize the use of media to sway the hearts and minds of the electorate.

As of January, Gillibrand had $ 9.6 million in her campaign war chest.

She now has more than $ 5 million cash in her campaign war chest — which, when combined with public matching funds, is more than the $ 6.4 million candidates are allowed to spend during the primary — leaving her with $ 2.4 million for the general election or a potential run - off with a fellow Democrat.

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

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, armed with a $ 4.9 million campaign war chest and a double - digit polling lead over his nearest Democratic primary rival, is expected to cruise to victory on Tuesday, but not without a fight from four long - shot candidates.

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?

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

The younger Cuomo has about $ 30 million in his campaign war chest, and registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by a 2 - 1 margin in New York state.

Garodnick raised more than $ 280,000 over the past six months, according to campaign filings released Wednesday, bringing his campaign war chest to more than $ 1 million so far.

Quinn rival Anthony Weiner, who entered the race for mayor with a hefty campaign war chest to begin with, plans to hold two fundraisers next week.

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.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is using money from his $ 35 million campaign war chest to pay for a criminal defense lawyer in a federal probe of his office.

But during that time, she has managed to quietly amass a campaign war chest of more than $ 500,000 — $ 519,327, to be exact, according to the July 15 report on file with the state Board of Elections.

In mid-January campaign filings, Cuomo reported raising more than $ 33 million for his campaign war chest, most of it from large donations.

The union ads that strafed the weaker Governor Paterson during his brief tenure won't be as effective on a popularly elected governor in his first year, particularly one who saved millions from his campaign war chest — and is therefore able to finance his own ads in response.

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

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

Cuomo had recently reported having $ 35 million in his campaign war chest, compared to Astorino's comparatively tiny sum of $ 2.4 million.

as for the campaign war chest issue, it is unfortunate that many elected officials of both major partiese use campaign war chests for legal fees and even to subsidize their lifestyle (i.e. car payments, meals)

He already has $ 4.8 million in his campaign war chest and his participation in the mayoral race makes a runoff more likely.

Rep. Dan Maffei outraises Republican challenger John Katko, has $ 1.45 million in his campaign war chest

Cuomo has more than $ 30 million in his campaign war chest.

When the first quarter filings were released in April, Maffei, D - Syracuse, had $ 1.1 million in his campaign war chest — $ 1 million more than Republican challenger John Katko had in the bank.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is dipping into his multi-million dollar campaign war chest to run ads promoting his state budget priorities.

Katko has $ 101,532.67 in his campaign war chest, but didn't start to aggressively raise money until after March 1, when he won the Republican party designation to challenge Maffei.