Sentences with phrase «race on campaign spending»

However, local media lavished most of its coverage of the race on campaign spending and the charter school controversy.

Not exact matches

In a year with a bad map and low presidential approval, Democratic campaigns desperately need the money, and as we've seen, they're spending it on the kinds of activities that might make a difference in close races.

The campaign arm of the Senate Democrats have spent $ 1 million to bolster Mayer in the race, mostly on TV and mail efforts, lead by Loren Amor, the DSCC's political director.

The National Republican Congressional Committee spent over $ 700,000 on the race, while the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Minnesota Democratic - Farmer - Labor Party spent a total of $ 577,000 on the race.

Congress hadn't even left town when political campaigns in some of the most competitive House and Senate races zeroed in on Friday's vote on a massive government spending bill.

Mr. Recchia's brutal loss — despite the unprecedented amount of money he and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spent on the race — left some Democrats convinced a Brooklynite can not win the district.

Democrat Andy Thorburn spent the most personal money on his campaign of any of the candidates in competitive races.

As Bully Pulpit staff Danielle Butterfield, Madeline Twomey and Lauren Miller discussed in a RootsCamp 2013 presentation on Democratic data and advertising in last year's Virginia governor's race, Democrat Terry McAuliffe's campaign spent time and money to build his Facebook following as early as possible.

Then there's the ludicrous assertion that one ad (on top of all the outside spending going on in this race that dwarfs the campaign AND the DSCC spending) could possibly move the numbers like this, and what do we have??

Vallone spent at least $ 1.1 million on the race, according to recent filings with the NYC Campaign Finance Board.

New Roosevelt Initiative will spend $ 250,000 on this race, but they can't coordinate with the Rivera campaign.

Cuomo in the final weeks of the race, spent from his hefty campaign war chest at the rate of nearly half a million dollars a week on television advertising, some featuring his daughters and partner Sandra Lee, but much of it negative against his Republican opponent Rob Astorino.

Under the city's campaign finance system, outside groups can spend unlimited amounts of money on local races, as long as they don't coordinate directly with campaigns.

The governor did not publicly campaign for several candidates in swing districts, and the State Democratic Committee spent far less on the Senate Democrats» races than it did on Cuomo's own re-election campaign.

Bloomberg reported that he directly contributed the maximum $ 3,900 to the campaign of educator Brian Johnson in the 46th Assembly District race, and on the same day gave $ 75,000 to a group that spent heavily on an independent campaign in favor of Johnson.

The UK has very tight regulations for spending on election campaigns, with maximum spending limits on both individual races and the overall campaign.

He spent $ 869,165 on his landslide re-election campaign against Philip A. Fedele, a Rochester - area Democrat who put no money or effort into the race, according to the BN.

Massive spending by independent expenditure campaigns came to dominate the conclusion of the race for the state Senate, almost entirely on behalf of Republican candidates.

At the end of September, she had more than $ 730,000 sitting in a campaign account to spend on the race.

The committee's filing showed how it broke down the expenses: $ 818,231.27 was spent in support of Cuomo's reelection campaign, while the committee spent $ 35,422 on Hochul's race for lieutenant governor.

He has spent most of his career as a political operative, working on Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign in Pennsylvania and leading Syracuse Common Councilor Joe Carni's successful race last year.

At the end of August, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had $ 54 million left to spend on races across the country, $ 40 million more than the National Republican Congressional Committee.

For the first time in recent memory, the Democratic Party's House and Senate campaign committees currently have more money to spend on races than their Republican counterparts — a milestone reached just five months before the critical midterm elections.

The 27 - day postelection filings show that Curran, who defeated Martins by three percentage points, spent just under $ 2.8 million on the race — including during her Democratic primary campaign against County Comptroller George Maragos.

Because Stringer is participating in the city's campaign finance program, his spending is capped at $ 6 million — up from the previous $ 4 million limit, which was increased when it became clear that Spitzer planned to spend at least $ 2 million on the race.

In the Nassau County special election, Jacobs, the Nassau Democratic chairman, estimated that about a «quarter» of the roughly $ 930,000 his party has raised this year was transferred directly to the Kaminsky campaign; funds were also spent on the race by the party directly.

Coffey has significantly outspent his Democratic challengers in the race so far, shelling out $ 824,000 on campaign items including TV ads and various political consulting firms in both New York and Washington, D.C.. That's four times more than the average spent by the other candidates.

The super PAC — campaign committees that can received unlimited donations and spend unlimited amounts of money — has arrived on the local elections level, with one group spending heavily in a suburban county executive race.

Ross Offinger, Gillibrand's finance manager, sent out an email this morning with «urgent news» of Maragos» nascent campaign and his pledge to spent between $ 4 million and $ 5 million of his own cash on the race.

Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, who reported $ 621,000 in cash on hand heading into the final week of the campaign, has spent $ 846,828 on TV spots in his race against former county executive Tom Suozzi, a Democrat.

Astorino's campaign in the final days of the race spent $ 1.4 million, mostly on last - minute TV ads, according to the filing.

As their races near an end, Republican county executive candidates in the New York City suburbs are spending heavily on TV ads, campaign filings released today show.

One of the most unusual primaries in Illinois history comes to an end Tuesday, when voters get their say after active presidential campaigns on both sides, millions of dollars spent on individual legislative races and the White House making an endorsement...

* Through April, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had $ 45 million left to spend on races, compared with just $ 6.7 million in the bank for the National Republican Congressional Committee.

Asked about his dismal fundraising earlier this week and whether he'll be able to be competitive against Cuomo, who has $ 23.6 million on hand; and Carl Paladino, who has pledged to spend up to $ 10 million of his own money on the campaign; Lazio insisted that he'll have sufficient funds to remain in the race — and even win — reminding New Yorkers that this is «an election, not an auction.»

Massey's campaign spending has been so profligate that he enters the summer with just $ 607,963 on hand at the end of the filing period, as he faces a potentially tough primary contest, with Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis recently joining the race.

Republicans spent nearly $ 40 million on House races in campaign's final days.

The candidate has also been vocal in denouncing «dark money,» or the campaign donations given to LLCs and non-profits which are then able to spend money on races without disclosing their donors.

The PAC, called Jobs for New York, represented the trade group's first foray into independent expenditure in city races — money spent on a campaign without any involvement of the candidate.

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.

Through two of its affiliated political action committees, the RSA has $ 1.98 million on hand to spend on state political races, according to recent campaign finance filings with the state Board of Elections.

But campaign committees — controlled by Silver and Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb — can spend money directly on the candidates» races without making cash contributions.

Stringer, who had been running unopposed for the Democratic nomination until Spitzer joined the race, spent the day on Friday campaigning in Brooklyn.

He can spend a portion of his massive campaign war chest, now approaching $ 22 million, on senate Democratic races next year.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has spent better than $ 3 million on that seat — its largest single race expenditure in the country.

In the race, Kennedy spent about $ 400,000 on his campaign and Grant, $ 20,000.

He seeks his sixth two - year term and had $ 390,750 to spend on a race this year, according to campaign finance reports filed in January.

Over the last two years, the industry spent $ 3.2 million on campaign contributions, targeting the governor and leaders of each house and the chairs of the racing and wagering committees.

In the final weeks of the race, the governor has spent from his hefty campaign war chest at the rate of nearly $ 500,000 a week on television advertising, some featuring his daughters and partner Sandra Lee, but much of it negative against his Republican opponent Rob Astorino.

The Hotel Trades Council, which took out the largest independent expenditure of the primary campaign, saw wins in all 26 of the races in which it endorsed, including the six candidates it spent on behalf of.