Sentences with phrase «said a campaign aide»

That sum, collected in the first three months of this year, is about $ 1 million more than her previous best quarter, said a campaign aide for Gillibrand, a Democrat and the junior senator from New York.

Lally later said a campaign aide «jumped the gun» in sending the e-mail.

Not exact matches

And so far, I don't see a lot of fight,» said Barry Bennett, a former Trump campaign aide.

Aides do point to Carson's experience on corporate boards (which he says he will resign from now that he's running for president) and the business experience of members of his inner circle, such as Jeff Reeter, Carson's national finance chairman, a managing partner at Northwestern Mutual, as guideposts for his philosophy: the campaign's economic policy will be business - friendly.

A former political aide says he was duped into being the fall guy when Missouri Gov. Eric Grietens» campaign was looking for some way to explain how it got a charity donor list.

We already know he's been hard at work on the campaign trail, Sundays included — though the senior aide we spoke to said he makes efforts to get to church when he can.

President Obama has long said he opposes them... but now has pledged that his campaign aides will help a Super PAC supporting the Obama campaign.

The average online donation was $ 80, and the average Obama donor gave more than once... Obama also raised millions from traditional campaign bundlers — rich, well - connected fundraisers — but the bulk of the more than $ 600 million that Obama raised throughout the campaign was through the Internet, aides said.

A former aide who had spoken to Spitzer during the campaign said the former governor was surprised by the ferocity of the editorials that urged voters to not give him another shot, but had also acknowledged he faced an uphill fight given the more tangible institutional opposition.

Under pressure from Trump, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee plan to redact a memo defending the FBI's surveillance of a former Trump campaign aide to resolve the president's complaint that the document disclosed highly sensitive information, a Democrat on the committee said Saturday.

Sam Nunberg, a former Trump campaign aide, spent much of the day yesterday promising to defy a subpoena from special counsel Robert Mueller, even throwing down the challenge to «arrest me,» then backed off his defiance by saying he would probably cooperate in the end.

In his first public appearance after the corruption conviction of a former top aide, Joe Percoco, Cuomo acknowledged he had known that Percoco was using government offices while working for the governor's 2014 campaign team, but said he believed the work was not political and related to the transition.

President Barack Obama and his aides plan to keep their campaign machine running to support his second - term agenda and will relaunch it in the coming days as a tax - exempt nonprofit group, a Democratic official said.

As a political neophyte, Khojasteh says he recognizes what he doesn't know, and therefore hired some recognizable names to assist him in his Senate quest, including Mollie Fullington, a former Pataki administration spokeswoman, who is handling media; and Mike Lawler, an Astorino administration aide who ran the former county executive's failed 2014 run for governor, as campaign manager.

Halpin said Curran must be prepared to say no to some aides who were part of her campaign and leaders of the Nassau Democratic Party who may come seeking jobs.

«There were two TV screens — one on Sky, one on the BBC,» a senior campaign aide said.

State Sen. John DeFrancisco, a GOP candidate for governor, said testimony and evidence in the trial showed that when Percoco was off the state payroll for most of 2014, and managing Cuomo's re-election campaign, he continued to use his state offices and privileges, making 837 phone calls and meeting with other Cuomo aides.

Federal prosecutors say this was part of de Blasio's and his aides» effort to help Singh in exchange for campaign contributions.

In a statement sent after publication of this story, the campaign said that, «Corey is a loyal aide and trusted advisor to Mr. Trump, and is otherwise a private citizen who does not deserve anonymous, disparaging and false accusations and will fight back.»

The city's Department of Investigation is conducting a review of the firing of a senior official who says he resisted the efforts of de Blasio and his aides to help a campaign donor in a multimillion - dollar lease dispute with a city agency.

He's reached down to the bottom of the barrel,» Paladino said of Cuomo, whose LG running mate, Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy, issued a press release questioning his selection of campaign aides.

Two former Trump campaign aides, Michael Caputo and Sam Nunberg, have said they were asked about Stone during their interviews with the special counsel's team.

The fraud convictions of two former campaign aides to city Comptroller John Liu has not helped his run for higher office, but the jury's decision may influence whether the Queens Democratic Party will endorse the lawmaker's mayoral bid, borough political observers said.

Hawkins is an advocate for campaign finance reform and said the recent trial of Joe Percoco, a former aide to Cuomo and a longtime friend who was convicted on corruption charges earlier this month, displays issues apparent in the state's campaign finance structure.

«He's not firing on all cylinders in terms of the campaign that is around him,» one New York Democratic aide said.

«It's an easier issue to talk about because it seems so obvious and logical,» a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee aide said on Dec. 4.

Another Republican, David Gurfein, a retired U.S. Marine from Manhasset, formed an exploratory committee last year and campaign aides say he has raised $ 250,000.

Asked about City & State «s report that a top aide to Ms. Meng's campaign encouraged an additional Jewish candidate to get into the race, Mr. Crowley said, «I have absolutely no information on that.»

A number of current and former senior aides to Cuomo have been caught up in an investigation by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara into possible contract bid - rigging and kickbacks, while Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D - Bronx) has said his use of campaign funds is also being looked at by the FBI.

«Even if he took his own private plane, he has the responsibility to report the expenses as an in - kind contribution,» said Carolyn Ehrlich, a campaign aide to Arcuri.

His spokeswoman, Karen Hinton, said subpoenas were sent to de Blasio's top aide, Emma Wolfe, his campaign fundraiser, Ross Offinger, a consulting firm and a nonprofit group that advanced de Blasio's political agenda.

Aides to de Blasio have been subpoenaed by state and federal prosecutors amid investigations into his campaign fundraising operation, his administration said.

Also on Tuesday, aides to Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said he is returning $ 23,000 in campaign contributions from Ciminelli and Aiello.

In separate statements, prosecutors said they concluded investigations without charges into whether the mayor or his aides had acted illegally in soliciting donations and providing special access to donors who gave to de Blasio or his nonprofit group, the Campaign for One New York.

He also said his wife, former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, will have a role to play in his campaign.

A campaign aide said Thursday this is Edwards» «strongest» quarter since she was elected to Congress in 2008.

Singh said in court he brought in campaign cash «in exchange for efforts» toward a more favorable lease, and emails show de Blasio aides making such efforts.

But one former senior Clinton aide said she won't just be handing out contracts based off who knows whom — a lesson she learned from her last campaign.

Republican gubernatorial hopeful Rob Astorino, struggling for traction in his uphill fight against Gov. Cuomo, will deliver what some campaign aides see as a make - or - break speech next month outlining his vision for New York, aides said Sunday.

The former longtime and closest aide to Cuomo (whom the late Gov. Mario Cuomo considered a «third son,» Andrew Cuomo once said) now stands accused of using his influence to rig lucrative state construction contracts for campaign contributors who, in turn, paid him bribes.

He said the trial of Cuomo's former aide, Joe Percoco, going on inside the courthouse, is revealing that Cuomo presided over a pay - to - play culture in his office, where large donors to his campaign were rewarded with special favors.

Laufer said Friday in the letter to JCOPE's executive director, former top Cuomo aide Seth Agata, that the Campaign for One New York would «no longer cooperate with what has obviously become a blatantly political exercise by an agency whose very independence is deeply in question.»

Log Cabin Republicans, which supported the Bush - Cheney ticket in 2000, has warned that it will break with the campaign if President Bush formally endorses the proposed amendment, as White House aides have said he intends to do.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday that he knew his former top aide Joe Percoco might be consulting for private firms while he was running the Cuomo re-election campaign in 2014.

Obama aides say he raised $ 47 million for his re-election campaign in the three - month period that ended June 30, far outpacing the Republican candidates who hope to replace him.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had a «record - smashing month» for an off - year election in January, says one aide, pulling in $ 4.1 million via digital fundraising alone.

Cuomo said he doesn't regret failing to ask his former top aide Joe Percoco to identify the private consulting clients he worked for during the seven months he was away from the Executive Chamber in 2014 — the same period in which Percoco was serving as the campaign manager of the governor's re-election effort.

Donald Trump's national spokeswoman, said that embattled top aide Corey Lewandowski would stay with the campaign even if he's convicted of a criminal battery charge in Florida.

Pataki was said to be considering a run for president himself and aides even went as far as creating a mock website for his campaign.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo defended his former aide's acceptance of fees from entities with business before the state, saying it was «totally allowable» for Joe Percoco to have done so while serving as the governor's campaign manager.