Sentences with phrase «paid campaign operatives»

The positions once occupied by paid campaign operatives known as field marshals, who previously managed volunteers across the state, are now held by volunteers because the party can not afford to pay the workers.

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The timing of the RNC's decision to start paying these campaign costs for Trump raised a number of eyebrows among experts and political operatives.

«It's standard operating procedure» to pay bloggers for favorable coverage, says one Republican campaign operative.

Pigeon held secret meetings at his elderly mother's house and had a campaign worker paid with grocery bags stuffed with cash, according to the operative's longtime nemesis, former Erie County prosecutor Mark Sacha.

Sources familiar with his campaign say that Alvarez needed to show support of Democrats because his campaign finance disclosures show that he paying Republican Party operatives, such Fred Brown and Ernest Kebreau, to direct his City Council bid.

The Spitzer campaign paid Mike Nieves — a campaign operative with deep ties to the city's Latino communities — $ 111,000 over the past week.

Mike Boland, the operative who left the party to run Teachout's campaign, and Bertha Lewis, who nominated Teachout from the floor of the W.F.P. convention, have both gone on record urging Teachout voters to hold their noses and vote W.F.P. as a way of keeping liberal pressure on Cuomo, reminding them of the party's successful pushes on items like paid sick days and the minimum wage.

ALBANY — Like a scene from «The Sopranos,» a political operative busted by the state Attorney General's Office held secret meetings at his elderly mother's house and had a campaign worker paid with grocery bags stuffed with cash, a former upstate prosecutor told The Post.