Sentences with phrase «political campaign money»

The commission will inevitably find that the crucial computer systems used to track political campaign money are falling apart and plagued with problems.

Not exact matches

New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand will no longer accept money from political action committees linked with corporations for her reelection campaign, she announced on Tuesday, citing the «corrosive» effect of corporate money in politics.

So it was «big political money» - not the industry, not the Koch brothers» campaign, not an all - out effort to shift public opinion, just «political money».

Other political money flows through trade associations in the U.S. such as the American Chamber of Commerce, which has already spent more than $ 21 million in campaign advertising this year, including $ 1.5 million on ads accusing Democratic Senator Mark Udall of driving up energy costs, largely in response to his refusal to support Republican demands for immediate approval of the Keystone pipeline.

While corporations are prohibited from contributing to federal political campaigns, in 2013 46 of the top 60 TSX companies still gave money to candidates at the provincial level (where in many cases corporate donations are still allowed).

Dogwood's success in 2006 in getting the province to make political donations disclosures available online laid the groundwork for our Ban Big Money campaign.

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).

A hush money payment just days before his presidential election can be viewed under campaign finance law as a payment to protect his campaign from political damage.

Faced with a political climate unlikely to prioritize election reform, cities might lead the way in breaking the grip of rich donors and dark money in national campaigns.

But due to the predictable nature of political campaign positions — win or lose, campaigns end after the election — every job came with an expiration date, he explained to Farnoosh Torabi on an episode of her So Money podcast.

It was well - known in Alberta political circles that the PC Party had the goal of always having enough money in their bank account to run two back - to - back election campaigns at any time.

Donors who want to shape the political environment would do more good running these kinds of advertizing campaigns than giving Karl Rove money to intervene against the ghost of Christine O'Donnell and run ineffective general election ads.

Subsequent studies have borne out this view (Abramson et al. 1988, Herman and Chomsky 1988, Entman 1989, Chomsky 1991, Dahlgren and Sparks 1991, Greider 1992, Barnet and Cavanagh 1994, Krugman 1994), From 1972 to 1992 there has been a steeply rising curve of money and time spent on political campaign media, especially television, and it has directly matched a descending curve of actual political participation (Phelan 1992).

Then ask yourself why churches spend money on billboards and political campaigns, rather than following the example of Jesus to help those in need.

There are a few main explanations: 1) long term failure in leadership by the Irish Catholic church, and connected with this, the awful Jansenist culture; 2) Europe — or rather, political interference from European Community institutions; 3) American money; 4) the claim of the «Yes» campaign that the Referendum was won by «the stories,» that is, the constant appeal to emotion and the complete refusal actually to think about the legal consequences of passing such a change not merely into law, but also into the Irish Constitution, the foundation of that law.

Christians for whom the divine purpose requires a political community that fashions and draws out our common humanity are summoned to join in the search for appropriate ways to regulate the role of money in political campaigns.

Is the freedom to contribute money to a political campaign part of our guarantee of freedom of speech?

Despite the dramatic inequality in wealth and income, a substantial number of our fellow citizens do not think that financially unregulated campaigns betray political equality, since they believe that the division of money in our society is socially just.

He urged charities to steer clear of political campaigning, arguing that is not what the public gives them money for.

That law barred dedicated political - advocacy groups from soliciting and spending soft money — funds that aren't subject to tight federal campaign - contribution limits and are used for issue advocacy and party - building...

Kraft Heinz and the Kraft Heinz PAC do not support Presidential campaigns, judicial candidates, super PACs or make contributions to independent expenditure committees, which is defined as money spent to support a political candidate, but not at the suggestion or request of the candidate, the candidate's authorized committee or a political party.

These campaigns represent the next big wave of digital political money, but some will need help from experts like you when it comes to getting support from their campaign managers, etc..

And when I talk with professional political fundraisers at groups like the Democratic National Committee or the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, they say that they CA N'T send too many emails — any message they DO N'T send leaves money on the floor.

Will political and advocacy communicators catch up, or will campaigns in particular continue to dump their money into poorly targeted TV ads?

Political campaigns operate on this system as well, and as politician or candidate, your job is to move people from knowing who you are (stage 1) to following you on Twitter (stage 2) to posting a yard sign (stage 3) to donating money (stage 4) to submitting an entry to your Facebook photo contest (stage 5) to organizing the masses on Election Day (stage 6).

This discussion will look at how candidates and interest groups in in the U.S. are using Facebook advertising, Twitter, Google Ads, mobile phones, location - based services and older technologies like email and blogs to raise money, mobilize support and get voters to the polls in an important election year, with an emphasis on practical results and the implications for future political campaigns around the world.

To demonstrate the seriousness of his campaign, Coffey, a political newcomer, said last month that he would invest $ 2 million of his own money in his statewide bid.

Most importantly, the money's been spread among candidates up and down the political ladder, meaning that online fundraising and the small - donor revolution aren't just for presidential campaigns.

Watch for Kate to keep an eye on how they use that money to support a Trump campaign that's openly disparaged political data and digital outreach.

But, political campaigns have generally lagged behind the commercial advertising world in the percentage of money spent online, and removing consultants» bias toward TV ads should help bring more balance to the system.

As the jury unanimously found, Daniel Halloran played a key role in two distinct political corruption schemes: first, for $ 20,000, Halloran was willing and able to serve as a go - between to deliver bribes to political party officials, and second he also took nearly $ 25,000 in cash and illegal campaign contributions to steer $ 80,000 in City Council money to other bribe payers.»

His public image will shape the American political environment, of course, but plenty of politicians and political professionals on all sides will also look to his ground - breaking online campaign as an inspiration, seeking to replicate his success at using the internet to raise money, find supporters and put people to work in the real world.

For a look at one of the real stories of the 2008 campaign, check out this NY Times article about attempts by the top Democratic presidential campaigns to cut back on the amount of money siphoned off by political consultants, bringing them more in line with their Republican opposites.

Large political entities — Super PACs, Joint Fundraising Committees, national and state - level campaigns — have money; small entities like state parties, state legislative and local campaigns do not.

Batra, a controversial appointee of Senate Minority Leader John Sampson, D - Brooklyn, at one point asked if there was a problem with political campaigns that «launder» money through 501 (c) 4 groups, a line of questioning that was cut off by JCOPE Chairwoman Janet DiFiore, an appointee of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Where campaign dollars used to be spent on direct mail and television ad buys, their thinking goes, modern political infrastructures should be spending money on YouTube pre-roll video ads, search engine optimization, promoted Tweets and Facebook posts.

If you're a nonprofit organization or a political campaign, you almost certainly need to raise money.

But a candidate being hit by outside attack ads and other soft - money campaigns already has a countermeasure at hand, since the natural answer to big political money is to pile up large amounts of small money.

Bush's campaign clearly demonstrated the limits of BIG political money.

If political support ultimate comes down to emotion — how a potential donor or volunteer feels about a candidate or a race — each contact people have with a campaign influences their propensity to give time or money.

«For most offices, New York State's contribution «limits» are substantially higher than those of any other state that imposes limits, and they are so high as to ensure that large donors dominate major political campaigns and candidates spend as much time as possible raising money from donors rather than talking with voters about issues,» Cuomo said in the written version of the SoS.

But while the voting process itself has been described as fair by most international observers, the political campaign and the actual counting of the votes — no doubt the most important part of the democratic election process — has been characterized by the abuse of power, the excessive role of money, extraordinary events such as power cuts in the polling stations, fights between party representatives, accusations of fraud and scandals in denying observers access to polling stations.

The 2004 election cycle saw a dramatic rise in the number and size of nonprofit organizations that bought TV ads, organized voter turnout drives and conducted political «education» campaigns that were effectively working on behalf of (or against) one candidate or party, and because they used «soft money» in the process, their donors weren't limited in how much they could give and didn't fall under the strict disclosure rules required when trying to influence an election.

In a techPresident column posted yesterday evening, Nancy Scola raised some excellent questions about MySpace's plans to offer political campaigns new fundraising tools, including ones designed to allow supporters to raise money on behalf of a candidate.

Political campaigns and advocacy groups typically recruit people through a relatively low - commitment action (signing a petition, for instance) and move them up the ladder to higher levels of involvement by offering them opportunities to donate time, money and energy in greater and greater amounts.

«We're not surprised that the Senate Democrats, who nearly bankrupted this state, would want to force New Yorkers to spend $ 200 million in taxpayer money to fund political campaigns rather than investing those dollars in our schools or providing incentives to help businesses create jobs,» said the spokesman, Scott Reif.

Television ad slots have been scarce in contested states during election seasons before, but the combination of big - money super-PACs and the expectation that both presidential campaigns will spend heavily seems to be driving political actors to reserve time much earlier than usual.

Democratic mayoral candidate Bill Thompson slammed Mayor Michael Bloomberg for spending about $ 85 million of his own money on his re-election campaign at a rally the Southeast Queens Clergy for Political Awareness held in St. Albans Saturday.

Our campaign finance laws need to be reformed to reduce the influence of money on our political system.

Susan Lerner, Executive Director of Common Cause / NY, noted that «Hydraulic fracturing has been one of the most polarizing issues in recent history, with no shortage of political money invested by pro-fracking interests to achieve a favorable outcome... New York State needs comprehensive campaign finance and lobbying reform to assure New Yorkers that public policy is based on their interest, not the special interests.»