Sentences with phrase «raising campaign dollars»

REVIEW This site explores Washingtons powerful world of lobbying, the perks of life in Congress and the pressure of raising campaign dollars.

It's time to move on, find another fake crisis to hype to scare voters and raise campaign dollars.

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One of the most popular Kickstarter launches of the last several years was the Glowing Plant Kickstarter campaign, which raised nearly half a million dollars in 2013 to create a genetically - engineered plant that could glow in the dark.

By the time the campaign came to a close, Grayl had raised nearly a quarter - million dollars — more than 14 times what it'd earned through its first crowdfunding attempt.

Kickstarter charges 5 percent of the total dollars a campaign raises, for example.

Wheeler raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Obama's campaign and advised the president on his transition into the White House.

Together the alliance recorded over S$ 200 million dollars raised through crowdfunding campaigns in 2014, with growth expected to accelerate over 2015.

A few years ago, diehard fans of Veronica Mars raised $ 5.7 million dollars through a Kickstarter campaign to help get that movie made.

I'm also fully convinced that without the public goal we set, the campaign may have raised just a few hundred thousand dollars and been unable to raise the money we needed in the final days to win.

It's hard to imagine that campaigns that have raised tens of millions of dollars could be going broke, but that's apparently one consequence of this tight primary election schedule.

As now - President Obama's 2008 campaign showed, an online army can be a powerful source of funds — he raised close to over half a billion dollars online, two - thirds of it directly from someone clicking the «donate» button in a campaign email.

«King» Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Schumer works his mouth off asking for Campaign Cash he has raised 21 Million Dollars in a times of 10 @ unemployment, Trillion Dollar defects, and Billion Dollar bailouts.

Becker is trying to harness the power of the Internet to raise copious amounts of campaign cash, urging supporters to create a «chain connection» through social media and urge like - minded conservatives across the country to make a small dollar donation to his cause.

«After raising more than half - a-million dollars, Kathy Hochul has both the independent record and the resources to run a strong campaign this fall,» said Frank Thomas, Hochul's campaign manager.

But the governor, in making a refocused pitch for overhauling campaign finance laws with a system of public financing with matching dollars, told reporters earlier today in New York City he finds the process of raising money as it is now deeply unpleasant.

As a fundraising tool, for instance, Facebook has largely failed so far, with most Facebook «causes» raising a few dollars at most — even the successful campaigns have generally raised far less money than a well - tended email list would yield from the same number of members.

What we got this weekend was our first hint that it might be joined by an actual, intentional EFFORT to raise money from small - dollar donors and join the modern campaign - funding world.

Supporter - driven distributed financial outreach raised a few tens of millions of dollars directly for Obama's campaign, but perhaps more important is that it helped mine individual fundraisers» social connections for new donors, who would then find themselves on the main email list and subject to the kinds of «encouragements» described above.

And even though Gov. Andrew Cuomo is 1) sitting on $ 19.3 million worth of political cash as of mid-July; 2) fresh off hosting one of his biggest fund - raising events of the year — his 55th birthday bash at the Waldorf Astoria for which tickets ranged from $ 1,500 to $ 50,000 a pop; and 3) pushing for campaign finance reform; he's still interested in squeezing some additional dollars out of his donors before reporting his latest haul to the Board on Jan. 15.

I was reading that billions of dollars are raised / spent during US political campaigns (president, senate, etc).

► Campaign for One New York - The nonprofit group that Mayor Bill de Blasio used to raise millions of dollars to promote his political agenda.

Timothy Persico, Maloney's campaign manager, alleged Hayworth was raising her money through special interests - «PACS and corporate lobbyists have sent over a million dollars to Congresswoman Hayworth because she's worth every penny.»

Oliver Rosenberg's campaign says that days after he filed papers to run in the June 28 primary, he was contacted by a Nadler ally who offered to raise thousands of dollars in campaign funds if Rosenberg instead ran for a City Council seat.

Former president Bill Clinton was slated to join his wife and performer Sting at a high - dollar fundraiser Thursday in New York to raise money both for her campaign and Democratic Party committees that will help her in a general - election fight.

«We are doing very well,» she said, adding that money her campaign raises is being spent wisely — just as county tax dollars will be if she is elected.

It's easy to post appeals to the campaign's social channels at the same time that they're sent over email, and even if the amounts raised aren't likely to be high, a dollar is a dollar regardless of where it comes from.

Seeing more dollar signs, the McCain campaign and the RNC decided to jump at the chance to take advantage of the distraction they had created to raise money.

Even in the United States, where presidential candidates must raise a war chest amounting to many millions of dollars before they can even consider running for the presidency, campaigns are still dependent on an army of activists.

«Between in or around 2010 and in and around September 2015, I gave and raised tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to an elected New York City official in exchange for efforts by that official... and other City officials to obtain action from a New York City agency that would benefit myself and restaurants I owned.»

WORKED Small - dollar Democratic email fundraising As of late September, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had raised $ 41 million more in donations under $ 200 than the National Republican Congressional Committee, per National Journal.

But it's going to be difficult to make a dent in the flood of TV ads — both positive and negative — that the Cuomo campaign and the state Democratic Party have been running, since they are both flush with many more millions of dollars worth of campaign cash than Astorino has managed to raise.

Suppose candidate X raises, through whatever legal means, a million dollars for their campaign.

His supporters raised $ 7.50 for every dollar in Democrat Tom Barrett's campaign coffers and outspent Barrett's supporters in advertising.

«Donations to [Cuomo's] campaign committee and to the housekeeping account of the New York State Democrats — which spent millions of dollars running television advertisements featuring the governor selling New Yorkers on his agenda — accounted for 40 percent of the total money raised from this list of mega-donors,» NYPIRG's Bill Mahoney said.

City Comptroller John Liu, meanwhile, reported Sunday that his campaign raised just over half a million dollars during the same period, despite being in the midst of a federal investigation.

They say he's raised tens of millions of campaign dollars from real - estate developers and the super rich, failed on a promise to clean up political corruption and, worse, gone back on his word to end Republican control of the state Senate.

DeFrancisco is now being called the «Six Million Dollar Man» in a digital campaign that pastes his face and estimated worth in banner ads across Facebook and other websites, and claims that a vote to raise the minimum wage would help nearly 100,000 central New Yorkers.

In his latest campaign filing, released Tuesday, Liu reported raising more than half a million dollars over the past six months — not far behind Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, among other contenders — leaving him with $ 1.6 million in cash.

«Every door knocked, voter reached and dollar raised makes a difference,» the campaign said in the email.

The Campaign for One New York has raised and spent millions of dollars since early 2014 to help advance his plans for universal pre-kindergarten and has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees to political consulting firms run by some of his closest allies.

When it comes to raising and spending campaign dollars and living large nobody does it better than Jeff Klein...

Cuomo is the state's biggest beneficiary of the so - called LLC loophole, raising millions of dollars through a campaign finance fluke he has pledged repeatedly to close.

And according to her campaign, she raised more small - dollar donations — meaning less than $ 200 — in her first day as a candidate than Cuomo had raised since 2011.

Dd Blasio will shut down the «Campaign for One New York» — a controversial non-profit group that raised and spent millions of dollars pushing his agenda.

That the Governor who raised 33 million dollars from real - estate donors and corporate entities before the gubernatorial campaign even started may have allowed undue influence for these entities to lobby and pass legislation they desired as a result of their donations to the Cuomo campaign war chest.

Buffalo Sen. Marc Panepinto has raised tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from lawyers who were arguing cases before his wife.

Now, some of these same senators are raising tens of thousands of dollars in campaign cash from gay marriage activists all around the country.

Though he was tainted by a fund - raising scandal last year that led to the convictions of campaign staffers, Mr. Liu dwarfed Mr. Avella's fund - raising haul: relying on a combination of local corporations and small donors from around the nation, Mr. Liu pulled in more than a half million dollars for his eastern Queens bid.

De Blasio — who dispatched his top campaign aide, Emma Wolfe, to assist Democratic Senate candidates and personally raised thousands of dollars for the effort — takes a hit too.

A political dynamo who brags of raising millions of dollars for his state party and traveling to 30 states to campaign for Democrats over the last two years, Ellison announced his candidacy shortly after November's election.