Sentences with phrase «said election spending»

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«And when a consumer is a little uncertain around their future and really trying to figure out what this election cycle really means to them, they're not as apt to spend as freely as they might have even just a couple of quarters ago,» said Penegor.

In a quarterly - earnings call on Wednesday, Penegor said that the presidential election is weighing on consumer sentiment and, in turn, people are spending less at restaurants like Wendy's.

Wendy's CEO Todd Penegor said in August that uncertainty about the election was leading customers to spend less freely.

WA Labor says it will spend $ 45.5 million to bring new services to Royal Perth Hospital if it wins the March state election, while the Liberals say they will use about $ 83 million from the partial sale of Western Power to build three new Tafe facilities.

Expanding on its allegations, WSJ said on Tuesday that hundreds of millions worth of unreported political spending flowed from public sources or programs intended for other purposes, including at least $ 140 million that was spent on charity projects to boost the party's election chances.

The Liberals, who are weeks away from an election, defended their spending, saying it has resulted in new jobs and increased investment from private partners.

This decision probably shouldn't have been a surprise, because it basically said that the court's 2010 decision in the Citizens United case, upholding the right of corporations to spend money in federal elections, applies to the states as well.

Spokesman James Davis said the network would spend between $ 300 million and $ 400 million ahead of the 2018 elections, much of it devoted to the organization's nationwide grassroots organization to help educate voters and hold elected officials accountable.

For sure, Mr. Moore would be on surer footing here if the Conservative Party of Canada hadn't pleaded guilty to violating election spending limits in 2008 and if the Harper government wasn't the only government in this country's history to have been found in contempt of Parliament and if the RCMP wasn't said to be presently investigating Mr. Harper's former chief of staff and and if two Conservative MPs weren't presently in court with Elections Canada and if the Prime Minister hadn't left for Peru without facing the House on the first day that Parliament was in session after the deal between Mr. Wright and Mr. Duffy was revealed and if the Prime Minister hadn't fail to show up in the House on the following Monday and if Mr. Duffy hadn't remained a Conservative senator for awhile despite having apparently claimed a housing allowance he shouldn't have.

Progressive Conservative legislator Lisa MacLeod said the government is spending wildly to win votes ahead of the spring election.

While other provinces, most recently Ontario, and the federal government have moved to take big money out of politics, the Christy Clark government has not only said no to banning union and corporate donations, and no to municipal election spending limits — it has moved to eliminate pre-election spending limits in the 60 days prior to an election.

That said, a new leaf seems to have been turned this year with hedge funds returning to positive flows in the first quarter of 2017.1 Renewed interest has been spurred by the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, which some industry experts are predicting should bring meaningful tax reform, deregulation and infrastructure spending that we think could prove a boon to hedge strategies.

We would still need major entitlement reform and related health care reforms (among a whole lot else), but the above policies would give Republicans something real to say about the concerns of many Americans who spent the election just hearing about how the Republicans plan to cut marginal tax rates for high earners.

«There is no good reason why our local governments should be asked to spend an extra $ 50 million to hold three primary elections in one year,» Silver said in a statement.

Twitter said RT spent $ 274,000 in 2016 on Twitter ads that may have been used to try to influence the US election.

At every election since it was established, Labour have said the Tories would cut the NHS - and every time we have spent more on it.

The report praises the Tories» fundraising strategy, saying the party received more money than it could spend and is well placed if another election is called and says one of David Cameron's greatest legacies will be a new generation of Conservative MPs, but it also says he will have difficult relations with his party.

However, Blunkett said that Labour needed to spend more time focusing on its own problems before thinking about the next election:

«We have spent the last week listening to Senator Espaillat and Councilman Rodriguez launch terrible attacks, malicious, vicious and false allegations against the hardworking men and women at the New York City Board of Elections,» he said.

Asked what would be different today had Labour won the last election, they say they would have carried on spending and borrowing, perhaps with disastrous consequences.

TOTENBERG: Prodded by Chief Justice John Roberts, Kagan said repeatedly that Congress was justified in banning corporate spending in candidate elections because corporate money is other people's money.

The group's political director Isabelle James said it plans to spend $ 5 million in elections this cycle.

«We just got through an election cycle where Democrats spent a lot of money trying to tie John McCain to Donald Trump and that failed pretty spectacularly,» said a Republican strategist who's worked in Arizona.

It also says the 2015 general election spending return «was not a complete statement of its campaign spending payments» and that payments were included «that were not party campaign spending» and that «omitted other party campaign payments».

«As we have been quite consistent after the general election this will be a matter for the next spending review,» he said.

He had spent Election Day in Montauk, he said.

«The Board of Elections was just ensuring that everyone that spends money on our elections, whether it's a super PAC, a 501 (c) 4 or a wealthy individual, discloses information about its donors to public,» said David Earley of N.Y.U.'s Brennan Center forElections was just ensuring that everyone that spends money on our elections, whether it's a super PAC, a 501 (c) 4 or a wealthy individual, discloses information about its donors to public,» said David Earley of N.Y.U.'s Brennan Center forelections, whether it's a super PAC, a 501 (c) 4 or a wealthy individual, discloses information about its donors to public,» said David Earley of N.Y.U.'s Brennan Center for Justice.

its a pretty appalling bill, but Yvette Coopers just said, that we should have money spent on state schools, in areas where there's no free schools, is this a concession that there'll be here to stay under her if she wins and we win the election?

Hall spokesman Patrick McGarrity said: «Our democracy is weakened by candidates who spend millions of their own dollars trying to buy elections and then force their radical ideas on people like letting corporate polluters like BP off the hook — sticking taxpayers with the bill.»

«Even in an election year when the temptation is to open the spending gate, our spending is on track,» he said.

Her fraudulent attack on Republicans is absurd in light of her close and longstanding ties to the billionaire Soros family, who have spent millions of dollars trying to influence elections and advance a liberal agenda,» said Amelia Chassé, the press secretary for the American Rising PAC.

More of his colleagues joined the movement after Trump fired back at the congressman on Twitter, saying he should spend more time fixing his «crime - infested district» than «falsely complaining» about the election results.

Now some people say: let's get through the recession, let's get through the election we can keep on spending more, keep on borrowing more, and deal with the debt crisis later.

As for Citizens Union, Executive Director Dick Dadey said the Education Fund's money supported two reports: one examining the undisclosed spending of New York political clubs, the other pushing publicly funded elections and campaign finance reform.

Stringer, a frequent critic of de Blasio and a potential Democratic primary challenger in this year's mayoral election, said the city should be seeing better results based on the drastic increase in spending on homeless - related services.

«We have all seen the disturbing increase in spending by outside groups in federal, state and even local elections in recent years,» said Rose Gill Hearn, a CFB board member.

Washington (CNN)-- Florida gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott captured the GOP nomination at considerable personal expense, spending $ 38 million of his own money on his primary bid, and when asked Wednesday if there is any limit to the funds he will invest to win the general election, Scott said «no.»

(CNN)- Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan will spend Election Day on the road in Ohio and Virginia, his campaign said Monday night.

The spending has become an issue in this year's election campaign, with Republicans including gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino saying they are little more than a taxpayer - funded political boost for Cuomo, a Democrat who is campaigning in part on his work to revive the state economy, particularly upstate.

Miliband said the manifesto would have more in common with the 1997 election agenda, which was cautious on spending, rather than those proposed in 2001 and 2005.

Jon Krosnick has spent 30 years studying how voters choose one candidate rather than another, and says that «at least two» US presidents won their elections because their names were listed first on the ballot, in states where the margin of victory was narrow.

The Democatic official, meanwhile, said that he thinks Republicans will start spending money as Election Day gets closer.

«I expect that the FEC will conclude that it must allow both candidates to treat contributions raised and spent between the district court and circuit court decisions as being for a second primary election and that both candidates will have to report them accordingly,» he said.

WASHINGTON — Republican Jack Martins said he raised more than $ 150,000 and spent in excess of $ 250,000 on mailers for the now - scrapped Oct. 6 primary in Long Island's 3rd Congressional District, according to a recent letter he sent to the Federal Election Commission.

The New York City police commissioner said the department had spent $ 300,000 a day protecting Trump Tower between Election Day and Inauguration Day.

Sugarman said in a memo to Board of Elections Commissioners, reported by the Daily News, that she tailored her investigation to complaints referred to her office specifically about de Blasio's fundraising and spending by the Ulster and Putnam County Democratic Committees.

When Michael Howard had his one to one interview befre the election on BBC1, he said that we'd been wrong to say that public spending should be less than 42 % of GDP, beat his breasts about the evils of Section 28, and pledged increases in public spending.

And he says oddly enough, in the past election cycles, the party that's ended up spending the most money, has ended up in the minority in the Senate.

it was left futures who said that new labours first election was 1987 after kicking out militant and look what happened due to 2015, Momentum the new militant re-joined Ed miliband spent the last 5 years denouncing new labour, so new labour were around in 1987, but Ed miliband wasn't new labour

We thought we would put the health policy issue in a box on the shelf at the general election, and just say that we were going to spend more.