Sentences with phrase «set for campaign contributions»

The legal defense fund would allow people to contribute more than the limits set for campaign contributions, the San Diego - Union Tribune reported.

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Another contribution to MomsRising campaign, this cluttered photo shows a variety of supplies in a storage room with very little space for mom and her set of milk makers.

Policy agendas for important issues like the 421a tax abatement and New York City rent laws are being set by publicly elected leaders who have become dependent on the real estate industry's onslaught of millions of dollars in campaign contributions.

The June 25 event to raise funds for Mr. Cuomo's 2014 re-election campaign includes a host committee reception, dinner and musical performance, and is set to occur five days after the scheduled end of the legislative session in Albany, by which time the governor has pledged to attain legislative action on campaign - finance reform, including lowering contribution limits.

Azrack said the cases were different for three reasons: The de Blasio case involved only «campaign contributions» and not personal gifts, a fact that would increase the government's burden of proof for bribery; the defendants failed to demonstrate they are «similarly situated» to de Blasio; and, critically, the de Blasio matter was already reviewed by a different set of federal prosecutors, who declined to move forward with a case against him.

The only reference to a potential constitutional convention I could find in the proposed budget legislation is language setting contribution limits for delegate campaigns.

«Given the serious nature of the allegations made last week, the campaign contributions given by the defendants will be set aside in a separate account to be made available for any forfeiture recoveries pursued by law enforcement, rather than returning the funds to the defendants,» Democratic Party Executive Director Basil Smikle said.

«Given the serious nature of the allegations made last week, the campaign contributions given by the defendants will be set aside in a separate account to be made available for any forfeiture recoveries pursued by law enforcement upon case disposition, rather than returning the funds to the defendants,» said Basil Smikle, the executive director of the state Democratic Committee in an email statement.

Beyond that I hope that we can take advantage of this key moment to take actions to limit contributions (bribes) and set up a rational system for financing campaigns that limits the power of the very wealthy.

Orange County Democratic Chairman Brett Broge is asking a state attorney to investigate Sen. William Larkin Jr.'s failure to report his campaign contributions and expenditures from January to July, an accounting that he was supposed to file by July 15 and is now more than a month overdue.In a letter on Thursday to Risa Sugarman, chief enforcement counsel for the state Board of Elections, Broge noted that Larkin set up a new campaign account on July 8 and transferred his money there, but never submitted a semi-annual report itemizing the transactions that occurred before then.

After both the state and federal complaints were filed in September, Cuomo's re-election campaign set aside contributions from Nicolla and Columbia Development, as it did for the other people charged in those cases.

Rossi filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission in Washington this week, and set up the Jane Rossi for Congress Exploratory Committee to begin accepting contributions for her campaign.

However, in 1999, the FEC reversed its position and decided that LLCs should be treated either as a corporation or a partnership for the purposes of campaign contribution limits — but not the limits set for human beings.

In the wake of the Watergate scandal, Kennedy pushed campaign finance reform; he was a leading force behind passage of the Federal Election Campaign Act Amendments of 1974, which set contribution limits and established public financing for presidential elcampaign finance reform; he was a leading force behind passage of the Federal Election Campaign Act Amendments of 1974, which set contribution limits and established public financing for presidential elCampaign Act Amendments of 1974, which set contribution limits and established public financing for presidential elections.

«Given the serious nature of the allegations made last week, the campaign contributions given by the defendants will be set aside in a separate account to be made available for any forfeiture recoveries pursued by law enforcement upon case disposition, rather than returning the funds to the defendants,» Smikle said in the statement.

Even if your local or state Green Party is not set up or prepared to make a donation to your campaign, ask if they will solicit their membership for individual contributions.

Rose's contribution claimed «for the past 15 years, global warming has stopped», drawing on an analysis handed to him by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, the club for climate change «sceptics» that was set up by Lord Lawson in November 2009 to campaign against policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.