Democratic NYC mayoral frontrunner Bill de Blasio, who has pledged to reduce the gap between the rich and poor, has collected more than 40
percent of his campaign contributions from big - ticket donors.
Roughly 86
percent of its campaign contributions have come from individuals in New York State, while conversely 75 percent of Teachout's contributors live outside New York State.
Morse, who has taken 40
percent of his campaign contributions from the breakaway senate group the Independent Democratic Committee and told the Times Union earlier this month he did not recall some of his downstate donors, said he won't take contributions from those who lobby committees he oversees.
Brandon was a recipient of a significant amount of campaign money from the school choice movement during his 2012 run for office — 25
percent of his campaign contributions came from pro-voucher investors.
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Not exact matches
In first quarter
of 2018, 61
percent of the direct
contributions to his
campaign committee came from donations
of $ 200 or less.
An analysis
of political
contributions from the left - leaning Center for Working Families found corporate donations to sitting state senators accounted for 45
percent of their
campaign cash.
Gibson's
campaign makes
of point
of saying that since his 2010 retirement from the Army, the GOP lawmaker has received more than 7,200 individual
contributions, with 74
percent coming from individuals in the current NY - 20.
Maffei's
campaign said it has seen a rising level
of grassroots support for the congressman, with 64
percent of his
contributions between April 1 and June 30 coming from individual supporters who gave less than $ 200.
By most ways
of measuring, New York City developers are the largest source
of campaign funds in the state — they accounted for 10
percent of total
contributions in the last election cycle.
ALBANY — Members
of the Real Estate Board
of New York and their firms gave $ 21.7 million in
campaign contributions to state - level elections in the last cycle, accounting for more than 10
percent of the money that entered the
campaign finance system.
The Assembly voted to close the LLC loophole in
campaign finance laws, cap
contributions by limited liability corporations at $ 5,000 and require them to identify the individuals who make the donations in the LLC's name, and limit lawmakers» outside income to 40
percent of the annual salary
of state Supreme Court justices.
A Rice spokesman said the DA did interview with the Post, but also took issue with the 20
percent figure, saying that even with the most «liberal» interpretation
of firms associated with Weitz & Luxenberg, those
contributions account for just 8
percent of more her
campaign cash.
The group's Karen Scharff says a search through
campaign contribution records finds opponents
of the measure gave $ 400,000 to state Senate
campaigns, and 71
percent of the money went to GOP candidate's coffers.
According to Katko's
campaign, 278 individual donors contributed to the
campaign, with 96
percent of contributions coming from individuals who either live or work in the 24th Congressional District.
Cuomo's prescriptions in his 2016 State
of the State speech included closing a legal loophole that lets
campaign donors funnel unlimited sums to candidates through limited - liability companies; requiring office holders to report
campaign contributions every 60 days instead
of twice a year; allowing lawmakers to earn no more than 15
percent of their legislative salaries in private - sector work; and adopting a system
of voluntary public
campaign financing similar to what New York City has.
De Blasio's total real estate
contributions come to only about 6
percent of his entire
campaign income
of $ 3.9 million.
The big - spending political donor in last year's election cycle, Litwin's
campaign contributions following the Silver arrest dipped to just 6
percent of donations in prior years.
Katko said his latest
campaign contributions came from 572 individual donors,
of which about 96
percent were from New York state.
He made the New York City
Campaign Finance Board's list
of Top Ten Candidates Ranked by Small
Contributions Raised from NYC Residents for having 144 donors who gave $ 175 or less raising $ 7,595 from small donors, which made up 55.7 percent of his overall c
Contributions Raised from NYC Residents for having 144 donors who gave $ 175 or less raising $ 7,595 from small donors, which made up 55.7
percent of his overall
contributionscontributions.
In the 2012 election, 0.01
percent of the population — a mere 31,385 people — were responsible for 28
percent of all disclosed political
contributions to federal candidates, party committees, congressional
campaign committees» PACs and super PACs, according to an analysis by the Sunlight Foundation.
Other surveys, such as this one by the Committee on Economic Development demonstrate support for reform is also strong in the business community; 72
percent are in favor
of creating a public financing system that would match low - dollar
contributions and give average citizens more incentives to contribute to
campaigns.
For the 2010
campaign cycle, he has received $ 759,000 from PACs, or 66
percent of his total
contributions, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
By the end
of the 2014
campaign, Maffei had received 54
percent ($ 1,430,676)
of his total
campaign donations from PACs, while Katko took only 18
percent ($ 179,675)
of his
contributions from PACs.
The percentage
of physicians making
campaign contributions in federal elections increased to 9.4
percent in 2012 from 2.6
percent in 1991, and during that time physician contributors shifted away from Republicans toward Democrats, especially in specialties dominated by women or those that are traditionally lower paying such as pediatrics, according to a new study by Adam Bonica, Ph.D.,
of Stanford University, California, and colleagues.
This means that the school choice movement's dollars comprised just shy
of 25
percent of all
of Brandon's 2012
campaign contributions.
The private donations were less than 20
percent of Rodriguez's total
campaign contributions.
Democratic state superintendent candidate Glenda Ritz owes nearly 90
percent of her
campaign fundraising total to more than $ 100,000 in
contributions from the ISTA and the Indiana Federation
of Teachers.
The observable, measurable outcome
of this
campaign is to achieve that 90
percent level
of family participation, meaning active, informative
contribution that produces actionable feedback resulting in much greater student achievement than ever before.
According to a 2011 survey conducted by Justice at Stake, a non-partisan organization whose mission is to ensure an impartial court system, 83
percent of the public believe that judicial
campaign contributions influence judges» decisions to some degree (National Registered Voters Frequency Questionnaire, October 2011).