I guess the CF bulb industry must be a poor
source of campaign contributions.
(06/26/2013)
Sources of campaign contributions to members of Senate suggest Congress will be unlikely to take action on comprehensive climate legislation, indicates data collected by MapLight, a group that tracks money's influence on politics.
Not exact matches
Further, depending on the
source of the $ 130,000 paid to Clifford, Mr. Trump and his
campaign may have received an illegal
campaign contribution.
Those detailed pieces in turn link to more details and to primary
sources if you have them (the polling data that your piece on public opinion is based on, for instance, or a spreadsheet
of your opponent's
campaign contributions from well - known evildoers).
The practice often makes the
source of the
contributions difficult to track and has enriched
campaigns in an era
of free spending in politics ushered in by the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.
By most ways
of measuring, New York City developers are the largest
source of campaign funds in the state — they accounted for 10 percent
of total
contributions in the last election cycle.
A Cuomo
campaign source pointed out that none
of the charges against the defendants alleges that
campaign contributions amounted to bribes.
According to public records,
campaign documents and
sources, Howe helped steer
contributions to Cuomo's re-election effort from several development and energy companies he was advising, all
of whom had business before the state.
«The LLC loophole allows big special interests to virtually by pass the
campaign contribution limits that apply to most New Yorkers, and give politicians vast sums
of money, often without clearly identifying the
source,» said Kavanagh, the bill's sponsor.
It renewed rent regulations for over a million apartments in New York City, authorized property tax rebates for 2.5 million homeowners on Long Island and upstate, restructured and extended a tax subsidy for the real estate industry — the biggest
source of state
campaign contributions — and authorized New York City mayor Bill de Blasio's control
of city schools for another year.
While the full scope
of the new probe is unclear at this early stage,
sources say that one
of the focuses
of FBI and federal prosecutors has been the central issue in the recently concluded SEEC investigation: the Democrats» 2014 spending on behalf
of Malloy from a federally regulated
campaign account fed by heavy
contributions from state contractors.
The aforementioned suit over a candidate's use
of LLC money was settled out
of court, so there hasn't yet been a clear test
of what might be called the Sugarman Doctrine, which assumes underutilized power in the sections
of election law prohibiting attempts to circumvent
contribution limits and obfuscate the true
source of campaign money.
Where the rescue money came from is unclear — but as the Electoral Commission probes the
sources of the Leave donor's
campaign contributions, a group
of accountants who specialise in offshore «wealth preservation» may hold the key.
In real terms, these rules which exist in virtually every jurisdiction, include laws and regulations which forbid the unauthorized use
of state resources for political purposes,
contributions from dubious
sources, violation
of campaign funding limits as prescribed by enabling laws, the use
of money to influence voters and election outcomes, non-disclosure
of campaign spending, abuse
of media, broadcasting and political advertising rules, and rules on declaration
of assets, academic qualifications, health and other disclosures and internal party guidelines and rules.
Cut off from some
of his familiar
sources by federal and state inquiries into his fund - raising practices, Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, and his
campaign have been pounding the pavement for such
contributions, and have leaned on some
of the mayor's celebrity backers like the actors Cynthia Nixon, Mark Ruffalo and Steve Buscemi.
New York County (better known as the borough
of Manhattan) was the
source of $ 200.9 million in federal
contributions during the 2008
campaign cycle, the highest total for any county in the United States, according to Federal Election Commission data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.
And State Senator Rubén Díaz has proposed a bill that would mandate elected officials to post their
campaign contributions on their websites, including the
source and amount
of each major donation.
Several years ago Schneiderman donated over $ 100,000.00 from his
campaign finance account to charity after Moses Stern, who defrauded Citibank out
of millions
of dollars, alleged that he was the
source of funding for
contributions to Schneiderman through the use
of straw donors, which is a felony on the federal level.
AFT's dark (and illegal) money groups got dinged to the tune
of $ 30,000 for «failure to organize as a PAC, failure to disclose finance activity accurately,
contributions made in a manner intended to disguise the true
source of the
contributions, receipt
of contributions not raised in accordance with
campaign law, and use
of wire transfers.»
According to the ICIT report, members
of the Senate Commerce Committee received $ 369,000 in
campaign contributions from Facebook employees and from a Facebook political action committee, while members
of the Senate Judiciary Committee received $ 235,000 from the same
source.