Sentences with phrase «political party committee»

In the last election cycle, they spent about a half - million dollars on national political party committee efforts.

One of the local laws, in part, requires that all elected officials in Erie County disclose family members who are government employees, serving on governmental boards, political party leaders, or officers of a political party committee.

Following an investigation, the Commission concluded that Swiftvets did not unlawfully coordinate its activities with, or make excessive in - kind contributions to, any federal candidate or political party committee.

The political party committee that last held the vacant seat has 15 days after the vacancy to submit a list of three recommended candidates to the Governor.

Special interest groups can give money to support candidates in two ways: to candidates directly or to a political party committee.

Curran has pledged to ban her government appointees from holding active leadership positions in a political party committee or club, and from contributing to her campaign.

As a result, wealthy donors and the political action committees of unions and corporate interests often give to political party committees that are backing candidates they favor — in addition to, or rather than, the candidates themselves.

More than half the money given to the candidates in last month's special election to replace former state Sen. Dean Skelos was transferred by political party committees, a long - standing practice that is under new scrutiny following criminal investigations into New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's fundraising operation.

The race, which Roll Call rates as Leans Democratic, has drawn in both national political party committees and outside groups.

The Democrats» bill would for the first time cover contributions to political party committees and local clubs, which often have close ties to county leaders.

The ad notes Curran's ethics plan, which calls for an independent office to monitor county contracts and banning county executive appointees from holding leadership positions in political party committees or clubs.

The individual aggregate two - year contribution limit had been $ 48,600 for giving to federal candidates, and $ 74,600 for giving to political party committees.

A number of campaigns have developed large mailing lists of donors and rent out their lists to other like - minded candidates, PACs and political party committees.

The two major national political party committees reported similar fundraising receipts during April, but the House Republican committee reported lower fundraising results than the Democrats.

The PAC gave $ 419,500 to candidates, leadership PACs, and political party committees.

The clean - elections system, legislated in 2005 and refined in later years, bans executives of firms that have contracts with the state government from contributing to state election campaigns and political party committees that provide money to those campaigns.

More than half the money given to candidates in last month's special election to replace former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was transferred by political party committees, a long - standing practice that is under new scrutiny.

But in a reversal from its original contract - review plan, NIFA will not require an accounting of vendors» donations to political party committees and local clubs.

The court's conservative majority gave a skeptical reception to one of the least known features of campaign - finance law: caps the federal government imposes on the total amount of money any individual donor can give to federal candidates, national political party committees and federal political action committees.

But in a reversal from its original contract - review plan, the Nassau Interim Finance Authority will not require an accounting of vendors» donations to political party committees and local clubs, which often have close ties to county leaders.

The men who chair Erie County's two major political party committees typically clash on the issues.

Siena pollster Steve Greenberg said one reason for the shift is the amount of money spent on the race by not only the campaigns, but by political party committees and outside groups, which spend millions to try and influence voters.

He counsels on campaign finance issues for political committees and issue advocacy organizations, as well as for elected officials and political party committees.

(Individuals still can donate up to $ 25,000 to the national political party committees, up from $ 20,000 under the old rules.

Not exact matches

Point Bridge Capital, a financial firm in Fort Worth, Texas combed through election filings to identify 150 corporations whose employees, management and political action committees have donated the most money to Republican candidates for office and any party - affiliated federal committees or groups.

In testimony before a parliamentary committee, Jeff Silvester of B.C. - based AggregateIQ also insisted his company's services, which he said include digital ads, website creation and software development, are already widely used by Canada's major political parties.

In a news conference that followed the committee meeting, Silvester told reporters his company creates software for clients that's similar to tools designed for and used by Canada's three major political parties.

The first was General Tian Xiusi, a former political commissar of the People's Liberation Army Air Force and a member of the party's elite Central Committee.

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES His Excellency Wang Yang Vice Premier, State Council and Member, Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee

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).

The Democratic National Committee is trying to help Democrats regain the pole position as the tech - savviest political party in the U.S..

The Finance Committee's consultation report is primarily a political document, reflecting the priorities of their respective parties, loosely using the hearings to support their respective policy paradigm.

Presidents of both U.S. parties rely on Wall Street for major political campaign contributions, as do heads of the key Senate and Congressional banking and finance committees.

Now, there were two aspects to the night life of Shady Hill; there were the parties, of course, and then there was another side — a regular Santa Claus's workshop of madrigal singers, political discussion groups, recorder groups, dancing schools, confirmation classes, committee meetings, and lectures on literature, philosophy, city planning, and pest control.

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

The main problem is that most of the bishops and too many of the priests have become merely a political action committee for the Republican Party.

Furthermore, no one individual (and certainly no politburo or congressional committee or political party) can design rules that would treat each person according to his merit or even his need.

Where permitted by law, Kraft Heinz also makes corporate contributions to political committees, state candidates and state political parties.

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.

The Usual Suspects moved quickly as news spread of Eric Cantor's sudden fall in Tuesday's primary election: my inbox filled fast with fundraising messages from the Democratic party committees, outside political funding groups, individual candidates and more.

And New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is under investigation for his role in aiding Senate Democrats in 2014, when his political allies sought to funnel money through county party committees in an apparent effort to help individual candidates.

Kennedy was the endorsed democrat two years ago but fell out of favor with leadership when it was revealed he donated money to a Political Action Committee that funded challenges to party endorsed candidates.

They also accused Kennedy of creating division within the party by donating money to a Political Action Committee that funded progressive challenges to party endorsed candidates last fall.

Former Party Chair Steve Pigeon formed a political action committee that funded candidates who mounted marginally successful Democratic Primary challenges.

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.

«Registration with the Charities Bureau is one existing mechanism that can help shed light on 501c4 organizations engaging in this political activity, though campaign communications and expenditures by veiled third - party entities and individuals should be disclosed in a manner similar to candidate campaign committees.»

An independent expenditure committee shall not contribute to any candidate, constituted committee, political committee, or party committee.

Murphy's political allies had initially complained over the Democratic fundraising tactics in 2014, when donors at de Blasio's urging gave heavily to county party committees, which in turn supported candidates running in key battleground races.

Making any contribution or donation to any committee or organization of any national, state, district, or local political party (including donations to a party nonfederal account or office building account);

MoveOn.org, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and the Tea Parties are just a few of the political entities funded and organized online that devote their time to stirring up the masses.