Sentences with phrase «small donors»

We estimate the cost to be between $ 40 million and $ 79 million for a gubernatorial election year, depending upon the number of small donors who participate.

About 4 percent of his fundraising came from small donors giving less than $ 200 at a time, a much smaller share than most of his competitors.

But, online fundraising brings in millions of small donors who'd previously been excluded from the political process.

``... We did a really good job of fundraising,» she said, referring to the number of small donors in the community who gave to the campaign.

The proposed rule would eliminate this protective bubble for small donors.

This tends not to be a popular approach for maintaining an environmental organization these days, because there is a much smaller donor base in the more remote areas.

But they will be targeting small donors as campaign goes forward.

But the governor still struggled to attract small donors, and began to mail invitations to people who had never previously given to him.

Also, as online donations bring a larger group of small donors into the process, they're going to demand that their money be well spent if campaigns want more of it.

The quantity of small donors willing to volunteer their time on multiple occasions and sometimes even in multiple states.

In fact, small donors remain the gift that keeps on giving — literally.

Consequently small donors would be able to compete with big donors.

That effort brought in more than $ 700 million partly by finding new ways of maximizing small donors.

The SNP said that a large proportion of their general funding came from party members, many of whom make regular monthly donations well above their annual membership fees, and other small donors.

Now, more disclosure is required of smaller donors after nonprofits spend smaller amounts of total money on lobbying.

Of course, a sizable small donor base does count for something.

His campaign said those donations included many loyal small donors, including one man who contributes $ 10 per week.

Its aim is to facilitate the funding of public interest litigation by enabling small donors to give via its website.

When he won re-election in 1984, he received 60 percent of his funding from small donors, a record high.

The quantity of small donors willing to give repeatedly.

In any case, if today there are a higher number of small donors, it doesn't look like they are making those donations online to any significant extent.

Several MoveOn and Occupy members braved a chill wind and snow to demonstrate outside the State Capitol in favor of the state's adopting a public small donor matching fund to finance political campaigns.

SarahPAC, a so - called leadership political action committee, relied largely on small donors for its fundraising haul between the beginning of April and the end of last month, according to the report, which shows more than $ 1 million in the bank at the end of the quarter.

Cuomo could still wrap up Saturday's nomination if he were to convince Republicans in the state Senate to go along with a matching small donor public campaign finance system.

For instance, 24 times more small donors from Bedford - Stuyvesant, a poor and predominantly African - American neighborhood, contributed to City Council races than to State Assembly ones.

At noon, as part of a statewide campaign to educate New Yorkers about fighting public corruption with small donor matching funds, the Fair Elections Campaign is holding «A Penny a Day Keeps Corruption Away» event, Capital Park, Albany.

The committee received $ 860,707 from small donors giving $ 200 or less, a reduction from the $ 1.2 million received in March.

«I expect to see more contributions among small donors who are activated by Tea Party networks or Sarah Palin's endorsements,» Malbin said.

The Journal News put forth an excellent editorial this week in favor of comprehensive campaign finance reform, including small donor matching funds.

That's far more than the $ 148 million all those 2.5 million small donors contributed through the end of June, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission data by POLITICO and the Campaign Finance Institute.

Hamilton told Babin that his campaign has raised roughly $ 170,000, and said he took «no money from charter schools,» adding, «We have extensive small donor list.»

The irony in all of this is that Trump very easily could have raised all the money he needed for the primary (and a significant share for the general) from small donors through the Internet.

All dynamics driven by the Obama campaign's ability to tap small donors again and again — and Romney's lack of the same.

We believe the best campaigns are those that engage and empower small donors.

Flynn's campaign said he had added 361 new small donors in the second quarter, with a median contribution of $ 50 per individual.

Sifry focuses on the years 2003 to 2012: from the Dean for President campaign's innovative use of the Internet to scale small donor fundraising, through the period during which online advocacy projects proliferated, and concluding with the 2012 Obama presidential campaign's enormous investment in precision - targeted voter «activation.»

In the last five years, major pushes for the creation of a statewide small donor matching program like New York City's and for a less politicized -LSB-...]

De Blasio, who pivoted to raising money from smaller donors over the last six months, criticized Massey's fundraising on Monday in a television interview on NY1.

Campaign finance filings for Democrats for Education Reform Small Donor Committee indicate a significant number of its contributions actually came from DFER staff from around the country including DFER»S out - going executive director Joe Williams.

For Immediate Release — The Reform Party of the United States of America is a centrist party supported by small donors.

Larry Norden, senior counsel at the Brennan Center lauded the benefits of campaign finance reform, presenting original research that indicates how small donor matching and public funding of elections has increased political participation and competition in New York City elections.

He subsequently called Fink to explain that he will focus on small donors as the campaign progresses.

The GOP has long maintained that a matching small donor plan using public funds is a waste of the taxpayers» money, and would only lead to more annoying robo - calls.

«They myth is that money from small donors dominated Barack Obama's finances,» said Michael J. Malbin, the institute's executive director in a statement.

«The 6th District and America need to stop big corporate money from privatizing our democracy, which means public funding for public elections as we have in NYC and a DISCLOSE act so anonymous money from billionaires doesn't buy our government,» said Green, who is the author of Who Runs Congressand Losing Our Democracy, as well as the author of the multiple matching funds for small donors part of the City's campaign finance law.

Small donors go where they're needed.

Clinton's campaign re-launched their AdWords campaign when the primaries were already underway... They had already dug themselves into a huge hole in terms of how many small donors they could count on.

The large donors, the bundlers, etc are making contributions for access while small donors are giving for some emotional reason whether that's believing in the cause hating the other person, whatever.