That has sparked federal investigation into
Russian political operations and policy debates about requiring the identification of sponsors of such ads.
This was the month Facebook finally admitted — under congressional questioning — that a Russian propaganda mill used the social - media giant's ad service
for political operation around the 2016 campaign.
Records show that he has worked in support of about one hundred campaigns, and has experience managing both campaigns and running
political operations in the second district.
Connie then goes on to tell the e-mail recipients, who identified themselves to Obama's
political operation as «seniors,» that «President Obama's plan for health insurance is good for seniors» and lists five major reasons to justify her claim.
De Blasio's experienced
political operation doesn't seem to matter much, either; organizing is great, but at the Capitol, the flow of legislation is tightly controlled by the majority leaders in each chamber.
As the Nov. 8 election draws closer, Cuomo has been awarding a slew of endorsements in local races (it should be noted that these are never announced by the administration, or even the governor's
own political operation, but rather by the candidates themselves).
Some critics said Facebook's actions on Friday were an insufficient response to a far - reaching data grab that had informed the decision - making of
multiple political operations.
WASHINGTON (Reuters)- House Speaker Paul Ryan's
political operation sent a cease - and - desist letter on Thursday to a group that is trying to draft him as a Republican presidential candidate, urging it to halt its activities and warning of legal risk.
«Freelancers Union is growing a
powerful political operation to give New York's freelancers a strong voice in Albany,» Sara Horowitz, executive director of Freelancers Union who founded it as Working Today in 1995, said in a statement.
The national union spent roughly $ 1 million in contributions to a labor - backed independent expenditure campaign — also supported by the public workers union AFSCME — and on its own
extensive political operation, a Democratic political consultant familiar with the details of the spending told POLITICO.
«The SNP is a
formidable political operation which I suspect has learned from the tactics of the leave campaign last year and is itching to get its own campaign bus into gear as we speak,» she said.
After days of revelations and allegations about the former defence secretary's
shadow political operation led by his unofficial adviser, Liam Fox's resignation was unavoidable.
The ongoing investigation of Cambridge Analytica and its connection to Facebook and election activities has spurred a maelstrom of criticism and potential legal implications over
how political operations can use and harvest consumer information.
I can't see
most political operations trying anything this, er, subtle, but it's still a good cautionary tale for anyone trying to do a clever viral campaign.
As Stalin said, «quantity has a quality all its own,» and the DSCC is assembling what has to be an
unprecedented political operation outside of a race for president.
Charter school leaders had built a formidable
political operation over the course of a decade, hiring top - flight lobbyists and consultants.
The server investigation put such political strain on the FBI in large part because of the environment of ethics stories that surrounded it — the business and philanthropic empire that arose out of and was hopelessly intertwined with the
Clinton political operation, the high - dollar paid speeches, the political aides who were somehow getting so rich off this enterprise that one of them just bought David Rockefeller's mansion.
For instance, Sessions has yet to publicly talk about how best to disrupt the pressing cyberthreats from overseas that are capable of siphoning American corporate secrets or hacking into
U.S. political operations.
For the past two decades, Rupert Murdoch allowed Fox News chief Roger Ailes to occupy one of the most unique — and powerful — perches in American politics and media: running a right -
wing political operation under the guise of a 24 - hour news network.
Cambridge Analytica also worked with the
British political operation that successfully campaigned for the UK to leave the European Union in the 2016 «Brexit» referendum.
On the call, though, I got to ask a question about the behind - the - scenes smear emails that circulated regularly throughout the campaign — what did the campaign do to respond that was most effective, and how should
future political operations reply to similar tactics?
According to an email that landed in the e.politics bunker moments ago, the Obama campaign is looking to hire tech geeks in a number of flavours: «programmer, database, voterfile, analytics, IT, etc.» Sounds like a great opportunity, both for progressives to Make A Difference and to learn from what appears to be a crack
online political operation.
«Cummings» decision to hire data experts instead of the usual politicos, combined with a cynical understanding that it did not matter if what the campaign said was factually correct, made Vote Leave unlike any
other political operation,» stated a review of the tome by the FT.
While Rospars was in charge of the
entire political operation, Malover helped build software and took care of integrating data and voter files.
Karl Rove and other prominent Republicans have so little faith in party chair Michael Steele's ability to run a
competent political operation that they've created competing fundraising committees, the «527s» that promised so much and delivered so little for Democrats in 2004.
was a constant refrain), but to me that was always one of the strengths of the movement — it was less an
organized political operation than it was an almost primal expression of political frustration.
The Koch brothers and their allies are pumping tens of millions of dollars into a data company that's developing detailed, state - of - the - art profiles of 250 million Americans, giving the brothers»
political operation all the earmarks of a national party.
Aligned with the growing Central
Brooklyn political operation of Congressman Hakeem Jeffries and former Councilwoman Una Clarke, Thompson made headlines by clearing a number of Hynes's questionable convictions for murder and other offenses, convictions that had earned his predecessor considerable ire from civil rights activists.
The RNC has been raising money at a record clip, enabling Chairman Reince Priebus to fulfill his goal of staffing an unprecedented
national political operation.
«No frickin» way am I retiring,» he told CQ Roll Call in an exclusive interview Thursday from his Capitol Hill office, following some speculation in local press over the senator's future and his
shifting political operation.»
The president's
political operation says the Internet push bought up numerous other relevant search terms and phrases and started days before the SEC action against Goldman.
Here at e.politics, we're happy to read things so you don't have to — though in this case you should, because David Plouffe's The Audacity to Win is well written and one hell of a glimpse into the strategy, tactics and execution of a remarkably
successful political operation.
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