Sentences with phrase «says campaign finance»

He says campaign finance reform, including public campaign financing, are measures that he supports, but says that they are «controversial» and «polarizing» issues in the legislature.

Tapia says Campaign Finance Board has all the documentation that is needed, but that the campaign is not about that but about issues.

While some say campaign finance reform is an appropriate response Ranzenhofer doesn't believe either alleged case of corruption can be blamed on the current campaign laws.

Gianaris said campaign finance disclosures set to be filed on Friday would show he has raised $ 350,000 in the statewide account, New Yorkers for Gianaris, that had its roots in his abortive run for attorney general in 2006, when Eliot Spitzer vacated the office to run (successfully) for governor.

In an e-mail sent out to supporters, Lebarty, a West African immigrant who went to Far Rockaway High School and currently works as the executive director for the University Student Senate for the City University of New York, said his campaign finances had prevented him from continuing in the race.

«It defies common sense that limits that work so well during the campaign should be set aside once the candidate has assumed elected office,» said Campaign Finance Board Chairwoman Rose Gil Hearn.

It's interesting Silver has chosen to be pro-active here, especially since Gov. Andrew Cuomo has said campaign finance reform will be a top priority for him next year, but has yet to put forward any proposals.

Bob Posner, the Electoral Commission's director of political finance, said campaign finance rules were put in place «to ensure transparency and public confidence in our democratic processes».

Cuomo has already said campaign finance reform is a top priority for the second part of the legislative session, and says now that his planned reform package could be widened.

Not exact matches

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the most revered figures of South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle and a key backer of the divestment campaign that helped end the system, was an early backer of fossil fuel divestment and said in 2014: «People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.»

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And, he has said, he used a home - equity loan to finance the payment to Daniels in the final days of the 2016 campaign and did so without Trump's knowledge.

Republican candidates have been looking to tap into Silicon Valley coffers for a while, says Colby College professor of government Anthony Corrado, who specializes in campaign finance.

The U.K.'s challenges are somewhat different from Canada's: as a result of the Conservative Party's austerity campaign, the U.K.'s economy has suffered more than Canada's, which has taken more of a Keynesian approach; and the City, as London's financial hub is known, has had a reputation for a much looser approach to regulation than that found in either Canada or the U.S. Tal says the U.K.'s finance sector has to change and he expects Carney will attempt to move it in the direction of greater regulation.

Major donors have been looking at people other than Jeb Bush,» said Anthony Corrado, a professor of government at Colby College who studies campaign finance.

During the primary, Trump said that he was financing his own campaign, so he didn't begin seriously raising money until he had already snagged the Republican nomination in June.

Steven Mnuchin, Trump's campaign finance chair, said the candidate won't be self - funding in the general election.

While on the campaign trail in 2015 at the age of 44, the presidential candidate spoke at Liberty University and alluded to his experience of having to finance his education: I, Cruz said, «took over $ 100,000 in school loans, loans I suspect a lot of y» all can relate to, loans that I'll point out I just paid off a few years ago.»

She said Sanders could not «break down the establishment,» and thought the super delegates and campaign finance were chief examples of that.

Donald Trump advisor and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani's television interview blitz over the past 18 hours suggests the US president may have violated laws about campaign finance or financial disclosures, watchdog groups say.

«The complaint alleges that I somehow violated campaign finance laws by facilitating an excess, in - kind contribution,» Mr. Cohen said in his statement.

He said the payment did not violate campaign finance laws because it was not drawn from Trump campaign funds.

«Any payment by a person such as Cohen on behalf of or in consultation with a candidate to influence an election is an in - kind «contribution'to the candidate under campaign finance law subject to a $ 2,700 limit and disclosure requirements,» he said.

The investigation into Cohen is tied to that payment, with legal experts saying he may have violated campaign finance law.

New comments by President Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani about a payment to Stormy Daniels place the president at the center of questions about possible campaign - finance violations, two former Federal Election Commission leaders said.

«The complaint alleges that I somehow violated campaign finance laws by facilitating an excess, in - kind contribution,» he said.

On Wednesday, Giuliani said Trump was aware of the payment arrangement and that it did not constitute a campaign finance violation.

Specialists in campaign finance law said they expected the decision to reshape the way elections were conducted.

Ryan, of Common Cause, said Giuliani's comments suggested a willful violation of campaign finance law.

Several experts in campaign finance law, who already had raised questions about the payment, said the case that the payment violated federal law had only grown stronger.

Further, if the payment were a loan from Cohen, Trump may have had a duty to report it in his June 2017 financial disclosure form to the Office of Government Ethics, said Trevor Potter, a former Republican FEC commissioner and founder of campaign finance advocacy group Campaign Legal Center, in a stcampaign finance advocacy group Campaign Legal Center, in a stCampaign Legal Center, in a statement.

Multiple campaign finance experts said that the Stormy Daniels payment very well could have violated campaign finance law.

The Mercers were keen to create a U.S. - based business to avoid bad optics and violating U.S. campaign finance rules, Wylie said.

Michael Avenatti, an attorney for Daniels, said Giuliani's comments were an indication of campaign finance violations and possibly bank fraud and money laundering.

He said they were all on payroll as of Aug. 1, meaning they won't show up in campaign finance reports until Sept. 20.

Paul Seamus Ryan, vice president for policy and litigation at Common Cause, said the latest explanation of the payment — that Mr. Trump reimbursed Mr. Cohen — does not eliminate the possibility that the payment violated campaign finance laws.

If the allegations are true, the payment should have been disclosed on Trump's federal campaign - finance reports, Ryan said.

The confidentiality settlement reportedly paid to an adult - film star who said she had an affair with Donald Trump years before he became president may have violated campaign finance laws, a watchdog group alleged Monday.

WASHINGTON — The lawsuit filed by adult film actress Stormy Daniels against President Trump bolsters claims that the $ 130,000 payment for her silence about an alleged affair likely violated federal election laws, campaign - finance watchdogs said Wednesday.

This settlement should have been considered a campaign expense «because the funds were paid for the purpose of influencing the 2016 presidential general election,» Paul S. Ryan, a campaign finance expert at the group, said in a letter addressed to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein.

Matthew Sanderson, who served as a campaign finance lawyer for the 2008 McCain - Palin campaign, said the timing of the payment «strongly suggests it was related to the election, and therefore is either a contribution, or at least a reportable expenditure by the campaign».

«They will offer a large amount of money to the candidate, to finance his campaign in exchange for land for instance,» Nix said.

«I feel like a few months from now, campaign finance violations are going to be the least of these guys» worries,» Professor Eliason said.

Trevor Potter, a campaign finance expert and former FEC chairman, said the president's statement left unanswered questions about when he first learned of the payment and whether Mr Cohen was reimbursed.

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.

After all, legal analysts said, charging Mr Trump's lawyer with a campaign finance or bank fraud violation seems far less weighty than Mr Mueller's pursuit of potential campaign coordination with Russia.

Campaign - finance experts say these cases are tricky to prove, and Washington politics — the Justice Department, the Federal Election Commission and Congress are all controlled by the president's party — seem likely to doom any probe into whether federal laws were violated.

After all, legal analysts said, charging Trump's lawyer with a campaign finance or bank fraud violation seems far less weighty than Mueller's pursuit of potential campaign coordination with Russia.

It's not campaign money, no campaign finance violation,» he said.

If the payment were wholly personal, said Richard L. Hasen, an expert in election law at the University of California, Irvine, there would be no campaign finance violations.