In 2014, Facebook started pitching
political campaigns on its power to connect candidates with constituents, a place where voter data overlapped with real world insights and allowed potential lawmakers to connect with voters on a personal level.
With so much attention paid during
political campaigns on money, it's easy for citizens to ignore the power of email.
The aforementioned credit - reporting companies, for instance, regularly contribute to
political campaigns on both sides of the aisle.
DFER is used as a political action committee and a «dark - money» bundling group that has poured millions of dollars into
political campaigns on behalf of candidates who support the Common Core, the Common Core testing scam and the privatization of public educations through the massive expansion of charter schools.
No substantial part of the activities of said corporation shall be the carrying on of propaganda or otherwise attempting to influence legislation, and said corporation shall not participate or intervene in, including the publication or distribution of statements,
political campaigns on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office, whether by publishing or distributing statements or otherwise.
They are forbidden from intervening in
political campaigns on penalty of being disqualified as a charity.
Advocates for the public financing of
political campaigns on Tuesday released letters sent to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the top legislative leaders in the Assembly and senate urging them to include a public financing program in the state budget.
That gave the Senate GOP, which has blocked public financing of
political campaigns on the grounds that it costs too much money, an opening to attack, citing the recent Q - poll that found New York voters oppose the system 51 percent to 39 percent.
If Care2 and Change are any indication, creating a platform for advocacy and political groups to pay to run petitions is a good business model — petition - signers can opt - in to the sponsoring organization's list, and many advocacy groups and
political campaigns on the Left have found Care2 and Change to be extremely cost - effective ways to recruit supporters.
But as the Analyst Institute's Gina Schwartz pointed out, «scientifically minded, data - driven techniques are getting baked in» to
political campaigns on the Left far more than on the Right (so far).
DDC Public Affairs and NextWave are bipartisan advocacy groups that launch grassroots
political campaigns on issues ranging from energy, healthcare, taxes, and defense.
It was one of the largest and most aggressive advertising campaigns ever undertaken by
a political campaign on those social platforms.
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Currently, IRS laws prohibits political campaign activity by charities and churches by defining a 501 (c)(3) organization as one «which does not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements),
any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office.»
Internal Revenue Code 1.50 (c)(3)-1 prohibits any supposed religious organization from» (ii) Directly or indirectly to participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements),
any political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office.»
Johnson's anti-Obama sermonizing likely violated the so - called Johnson Amendment, an Internal Revenue Service rule that forbids churches that receive tax - exempt status from the federal government to intervene in «
any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office.»
Mr. Bosomtwe Amoah expressed disappointment that the leader of the PPP, Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom had taken interest in centering
his political campaign on the death of President Mills.
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any political campaign on behalf of any candidate for public office.
YTCAF will in no way become involved in legislation or participate in, or intervene (including the publishing or distribution of statements), in
any political campaign on behalf of any candidate for public office.
A political campaign on climate that focuses its anger and claims of responsibility only on the role of the fossil fuel industries and their political surrogates is naïve: their power is sustained by the number of paying customers available for their products, as well as their accumulated wealth from a 225 - year history of fueling industrial growth via fossil energy.
«participating in, or intervening in (including the publishing or distributing of statements),
any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office,»
But Grimes elaborated and explained he spent the substantial sum of money on a Canadian political consultancy called AggregateIQ, who are «data and social media experts» and ran a sophisticated online
political campaign on his behalf.
Not exact matches
A federal jury acquitted him in 2012 of accepting illegal
political contributions and deadlocked
on five other
campaign finance charges, allowing him to retain his law license.
«Fox's plan for Henry does not include any reporting
on the presidential
campaign or any
political reporting in general,» The Hill added, citing the network's confirmation.
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.
A longer election period has the effect of allowing
political parties to spend more
on their
campaigns — the spending maximum is pro-rated, so that as the official election period grows, the spending limit rises proportionally.
«I'd be surprised if it wasn't,» said Terry Sullivan, a Republican
political strategist who managed Marco Rubio's presidential
campaign in 2016 and subsequently worked
on his Senate race that year.
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.
He is also looking into whether anyone
on the Trump
campaign colluded with Moscow to tilt the election in his favor, and his decision to file charges likely indicates that the probe is moving from a
political fight to a legal one.
The FTC is probing how data from 50 million Facebook users was obtained by Cambridge Analytica, a British
political consulting firm that consulted
on President Donald Trump's
campaign, and whether the transfer violated pledges the company made to settle an earlier privacy case.
It has been at the heart of
political revolutions, such as the Arab Spring, it has given a voice to individuals who have been wronged and those socially disenfranchised, such as the impact it has had
on raising awareness of the #metoo movement, or the GoFundMe
campaign that raised over $ 200,000 for a homeless veteran.
Trump, during the primary
campaign, as he took
on 16 Republican rivals, had called Yellen's tenure «highly
political» and said the Fed should raise interest rates but would not do so for «
political reasons.»
Given the additional
political scrutiny
on the Pentagon in the aftermath of the Oct. 4 ambush in Niger that killed four Army Special Forces personnel, classifying vital metrics of progress in our 16 - year - old Afghanistan
campaign doesn't cast the US military in the best light.
He may have a fledgling new company, not to mention a full - scale
political campaign,
on the go, but O'Leary can't entirely move
on from his former Canadian venture.
The New York Times reported Dec. 30 that the investigation began after a Trump
campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos, revealed to an Australian diplomat in London that Russia had
political dirt
on Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Facebook said it will make sure
political ads
on its platform will be vetted and transparent in time for England and Northern Ireland's 2019 local elections, that only verified accounts will be allowed to pay for
political ads, and users will be able to view all promotions paid for by a
campaign — not just those targeted to them based
on their demographic or «likes.»
Another challenge is to strike the appropriate tone at a time when the initial shock over the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history has quickly given way to a vicious
political brawl in Washington and
on the
campaign trail.
Political action committees, or PACs, face different contribution regulations and file records of contributions with the FEC
on a different schedule than presidential
campaigns.
Peter Holmes is president and creative director at Toronto's Reason Partners, an advertising and marketing firm that has worked
on everything from consumer goods and financial services to
political campaigns, including the Conservative Party's 2008 election
campaign.
All this explains why big
political campaigns are increasingly focusing
on their own partisans, instead of trying to win over undecideds.
The drugmaker's
political action committee spent $ 405,000
on federal
campaign donations and other
political outlays last year, more than in 2016 — an election year — and nearly double its allocation for 2015, data compiled by Kaiser Health News show.
If your
campaigns and content are closely tied to the Olympics, pay attention to what is going
on at the events — both the games themselves, as well as
political and geographic events that may impact audience sentiment.
As an individual, Agrawal has been outspoken about her politics (she posted publicly about her support for Secretary Clinton during the
campaign and she walked in last month's Women's March
on Washington), but her brand also keeps a regular
political dialogue with its followers.
It blames most of the positive coverage
on the tendency to cover
political campaigns like a horse race, rather than focusing
on the issues.
Trump latched onto the revelations, accusing McCabe of corruption and anti-Trump bias based
on his wife's
political campaign.
Schultz was
on the President's mind because the business icon had suddenly become a
political activist, announcing that because he was disgusted with Washington's dysfunction, he would cease making
campaign contributions to incumbents in either party.
Trump fired Comey
on May 9, prompting a
political firestorm and accusations by critics that he was improperly seeking to hinder an FBI probe into Russia's role in the election and potential collusion by Trump's
campaign.
Turkey told the Netherlands
on Sunday that it would retaliate in the «harshest ways» after Turkish ministers were barred from speaking in Rotterdam, as a row over Ankara's
political campaigning among Turkish immigrants escalated.
In a legal filing
on Monday, ETP asked a judge to grant the permit, saying that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in its decision, responded to «
political pressure and an escalating
campaign of violence and disorder waged by protesters» against the project.
In addition to launching her
political campaign, Manning is writing a book and working
on a documentary about her life.