Sentences with phrase «political mailer»

Dozens of civic activists, religious leaders and elected Democratic officials rallied Wednesday in Mineola to criticize GOP County Executive candidate Jack Martins for a political mailer that contends his Democratic opponent, Laura Curran, «will roll out the welcome mat» for violent street gangs.

Marc Herman, the Democratic candidate for supervisor, said Monday the document was a «blatant political mailer,» paid for by taxpayers.

A mailer sent by the office of the Oyster Bay town supervisor is being criticized for appearing too much like a political mailer usually seen around election time.

On her recent political mailer where she talked about saving schools she also mentioned saving firehouses.

Campaign experts all over the country were left holding a handful of yard signs and expensive political mailers, wondering how in the world this could have happened.

As the campaign has intensified over the past month, with both candidates trading attacks in TV ads and political mailers, Singas has gained ground among both major parties — 27 percent of Republicans polled said they would vote for Singas, an 11 - point increase from September.

The suit resulted from a 2012 political campaign during which the New Windsor Republican Committee, then chaired by Dubaldi, used a mug shot of Brennan in political mailers and ads appearing in The Sentinel newspaper.

Lafazan called for limits on campaign contributions by county contractors; term limits for elected officials; an end to taxpayer - funded political mailers; affordable housing for recent college graduates and increased funding to fight heroin abuse.

Not exact matches

Make no mistake, Norman Mailer's latest is neither a great retelling of the gospel nor Mailer anywhere near the peaks that he reached with his political writing that culminated in the compulsively readable account of the 1967 march on the Pentagon, The Armies of the Night, or even Executioner's Song, his story of the ending of the Supreme Court's ban on the death penalty with the 1977 execution of Gary Gilmore.

The Mailer who can write a sentence like «his eyes were blue like the faded blue of the sky when the sky is white» is about as far as is humanly possible from the Mailer whose political reporting in the early 1960s remains irresistible long after its subjects have faded» and reestablished his literary reputation that had begun to fade with the critical and popular questioning of the novels that followed The Naked and the Dead.

The political messaging was a departure for nenastnyj, and for the Reactor Mailer network, which is normally hired out by scammers offering fake watches, work at home opportunity and male enlargement products.

He wants taxpayer - funded political campaigns, allowing politicians to campaign exclusively on the public dime and forcing you, the taxpayer, to cover the cost of their negative TV ads, mailers and robocalls.

Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer, one of two women in the ever - shifting field of contenders for a vacant Hudson Valley state Senate seat, has a new mailer out that stresses her long - standing political history and family ties to the Yonkers area.

The finance chairman and a finance committee member of Gene Locke's mayoral campaign helped bankroll the conservative political action committee that sent out an anti-gay mailer targeting City Controller Annise Parker and other municipal candidates earlier this month, according to Texas Ethics Commission documents.

In addition, United for the Future, the political committee of the United Federation of Teachers, spent $ 100,000 on online advertising in support of Thompson, though the majority of the $ 3.3 million it spent to support him and other candidates went to traditional mailers.

BuzzFeed later reported that the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund Maryland Political Action Committee, whose treasurer was listed on the mailer and with the state as Bradley Carlson, actually was registered with the state as an independent expenditure entity.

«This mailer represents the most abhorrent and hateful attack that has no place in political discourse in New York state politics,» said Mayor Stephanie A. Miner.

The mailer, which criticizes Republican Sen. Mark Grisanti for his vote in favor of same - sex marriage legalization, is prett graphic; depicting two men in the midst of a sex act and refers to the Buffalo lawmaker as a «political whore.»

Aside from the fight for the senator's own seat, there's also Rep. Charlie Rangel's fight for his political life, which is expected to energize black voters in the 15th CD; the Rep. Carolyn Maloney - Reshma Saujani primary in the 14th CD (which explains why Maloney endorsed Schneiderman yesterday — there's a 32BJ mailer for them, too); and the Sen. Bill Perkins - Basil Smikle battle in the 30th SD.

An anti-gay marriage mailer from western New York has been circulating around state political circles for the last few months, but received some new oxygen yesterday thanks to BuzzFeed.

Each year, Assembly members are given a budget of about $ 39,000 for legislative postage and printing — much of which goes to sending direct mailers that look similar to political campaign advertisements to thousands of constituents in each of the 150 Assembly Districts.

The call features the voice of Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long, who surprised political observers last week by declaring his strong support for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget plans and announced a campaign of callers, mailers and, if money allows, even TV ads to support the Democratic governor's agenda.

By the rules of both the Assembly and Senate, mailers can not be sent to voters based on their political party affiliation.

But generally speaking, in determining where to send the mailers a number of lawmakers use the type of micro-targeting of constituents that has become a hallmark of political campaigns.

«If they are gaming it to the advantage of one political party over another, then that's a problem, because that's not how these mailers are supposed to be used.»

While the taxpayer - funded mailers can not officially be used for political purposes, incumbent legislators like Felder — who spent $ 67,177.50 on mail expenses between April 1, 2017 to September 30, 2017 — use the funds to promote their office's activities which helps stave off challengers.

Francis and his wife — who are of different political parties — would get differently themed mailers from Marchione, he said.

An authority on political communication said the mailer hearkens back to the 1988 presidential campaign.

But in the final days of the primary, Taddeo was the target of mailers from a political committee tied to Rivas Logan.

Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Warren Redlich is the target of one of the most extreme smear campaigns I've seen in 15 years of political reporting via a mailer that falsely labels him a «sexual predator.»

Grisanti is one of a handful of Republicans in hotly contested districts targeted by a mailer paid for by NYSUT's political arm that features a graphic image of a domestic violence victim.

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz deemed a domestic violence - themed mailer sent out by NYSUT's political arm in opposition to GOP Sen. Mark Grisanti «disgusting» and said he has urged Grisanti's Democratic opponent, Marc Panepinto, to disavow it.

Meanwhile, the political arm of the New York State United Teachers union, has spent more than $ 41,000 on mailers on behalf of Democratic Sen. Ted O'Brien.

The mailers are being funded by Friends of Democracy, a political action committee funded in part by Soros, the son of liberal billionaire financier George Soros.

The Buffalo News recently reported that the political arm of NYSUT, which has endorsed Panepinto in his primary battle with former Buffalo Councilman and state Senator Al Coppola, has been running attack ads and sending out mailers that depict Grisanti as not sufficiently conservative to represent the 60th Senate District.

Tkaczyk benefited in the race from an infusion of ads and mailers from groups that backed the public financing of political campaigns.

State party committees routinely send mailers on behalf of local political candidates because they can save several cents per copy in postage due to their nonprofit status.

Later, when asked about the role of outside, political action committees spending money on mailers and ads to influence voters in the race, Espaillat said, «I don't need anybody to win this race.

Many of these mailers, they say, are thinly veiled political ads, as many are facing reelection this November.

The filing shows $ 29,677 was paid to political consulting firm Red Horse Strategies in Brooklyn used for mailers supporting Pellegrino and another $ 27,000 which NYSUT spent on a «visibility survey.»

It's not political at all; the mailer content is all about urging action on policy.»

My opponent also has independent expenditures (referencing a mailer paid for by a political club, Downtown Independent Democrats)... My opponent keeps saying I get all this money from developers and I am in the pocket of millionaires.

Portect Our Democracy PAC, a political action committee founded over the summer by investor / activist Sean Eldridge, husband of Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, to work in coordination with the Cuomo administration on campaign finance reform, is out with its first mailers of the election cycle in support of Democratic state Senate candidate Cecilia Tkacyzk.

In the final days leading to the primary, the New York State United Teachers, a powerful teachers» union with ties to the left - leaning Working Families party, used its independent expenditure political action committee to fund $ 178,000 in mailers and ads claiming Grisanti wasn't conservative enough for the district.

In response, CommUNITY candidate Krista Holtzmann called the union issue a distraction and held up mailers from the conservative Americans for Prosperity and a Republican - aligned political committee.

It is rare to read an NEA or AFT mailer or attend any teachers» union event that does not rebroadcast the union leaders» political messages.

Sturman's opponent in Fort Lauderdale's District 4, Ben Sorensen, alerted voters on Facebook and in text messages, accusing Sturman's political action committee of using the shooting to raise money for «campaign attack mailers.»