Sentences with phrase «spend campaign dollars»

«Unfortunately, it's all too common for elected officials who find themselves in these types of situations to spend campaign dollars on criminal defense attorneys, but it's appropriate,» Goldfeder said.

Among its recommendations, the Commission called for legislation more clearly defining what candidates can not spend campaign dollars on, which would bring the state in line with stricter federal rules.

«While the rest of the country was debating the issues of domestic violence, child abuse and the NFL, Cuomo spent his campaign dollars photoshopping Astorino's son out of a sport attack ad,» Hawkins noted.

When it comes to raising and spending campaign dollars and living large nobody does it better than Jeff Klein...

Not exact matches

As BuzzFeed points out, rather than spend marketing money on a traditional online ad campaign — which would involve paying someone to create an ad and then paying to place it on Facebook, or another social website, or even with the publishers who so desperately need the ad dollars — businesses are sending more of that money to Facebook to promote content created for free by publishers.

The rising trend for taxes on sweetened drinks has prompted beverage industry giants like PepsiCo and Coca - Cola to spend billions of dollars on advertising and lobbying campaigns against the measures.

A campaign created by American Express is aimed at getting holiday shoppers out in numbers to our local small businesses spending their gifting dollars.

And the mere tens of millions of dollars tobacco companies will have to spend on the campaigns pale in comparison to their billions in annual sales.

Instead of spending thousands of dollars on a television ad campaign, by launching smaller digital campaigns, Quiznos can check what's bringing customers in the door — and what isn't.

With millions of dollars spent each year on marketing and brand activation strategies and campaigns, it is imperative that you have the right execution team in place.

They aren't spending millions of dollars on AdWords campaigns and they don't have call centers or send out mass spam mail to sucker business owners in.

Starting off his career at Saatchi & Saatchi in Los Angeles working on Toyota, Lexus and T - Mobile, he then moved to San Francisco where he spent four and a half years leading a sales development team at publishing firm, Future US — ideating and producing integrated marketing campaigns to compliment tens of millions of dollars of media buys for clients such as Google, UBISOFT, Hyundai, The Walking Dead, NVIDIA, Bethesda and dozens more in the video game, music and tech industry.

From the time a campaign starts, We focus on maximizing results to squeeze ever marketing dollar spent.

Do you really think a congressman will spend millions of dollars on a campaign for a job that only pays 200K a year?

You apply for a job in my community by running a campaign for a paid office that my local tax dollars pay for and you get elected then show up to your first scheduled meeting and decide to spend the first 5 minutes — eating donuts instead of working, speaking to the audience about your personal problems with your wife, telling the audience about an upcoming play your kid will be in, telling the captive audience about the benefits of being gay, speaking to them about God or praying aloud to your God regardless of which God the rest of the audience believes in.

The dairy industry has spent millions of dollars on advertising and media campaigns promoting dairy products as healthy and nutritious.

AN ALLIANCE of some of the nation's biggest industry organisations is preparing to spend millions of dollars on a campaign to destroy the Gillard government's plans to put a price on carbon.

Coca - Cola, Nike, and even McDonald's spend millions of dollars sponsoring athletes and creating ad campaigns to do so.

This board would then spend 20 billion dollars over the next decade marketing the health benefits of real food with tv and magazine adds, and a massive PR campaign to report on studies that link real food consumption to wellness, vitality and disease treatment.

Chartwells has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past few years on donations to local school food watchdog Healthy Schools Campaign, and it gives $ 20,000 annually to the late Maggie Daley's After School Matters charity, which counts Bloomer as a board member.

«Not only are those ads relatively inexpensive; they've allowed often cash - strapped campaigns to determine whether their dollars were well spent, before voters went to the polls.»

Astronomical sums are spent in political campaigns — often to the detriment of voters, who find taxpayer dollars being used to repay campaign donors.

Tony the Million Dollar phony, he is running because the Democratic Senate «Crazy» Committee promised to spent a Million dollars on his campaign.

The veteran legislator first hired Hodgson Russ in 2014 after his name appeared in a report from the now - defunct Moreland Commission, detailing $ 80,000 in unspecified campaign expenditures and alleging hundreds of dollars spent on cigars, tanning, and at casinos.

We see these stories about the ROI achieved by Brown and Obama, but these campaigns had hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend on multiple channels, and also had professional firms managing the tweaking and bidding of the online ad campaigns for them.

What explains the spending of half a trillion dollars on a military campaign that was avoidable in the first place and has in the end ripped apart Afghanistan's intricate ethno - political fabric?

Because just as they couldn't control spending when it involved the public's dollars, they also overspent their own campaign budgets.

Cochran's campaign dove in hard over the last three weeks — spending more than a half - million dollars on a data - driven get - out - the - vote effort.

Nevertheless, the declaration of the billion dollar election ignored the fact that the quadrennial general election in America has been a billion dollar event for decades — election campaigns at the federal level alone have achieved an aggregate spent in excess of a billion dollars since the 1990s.

As such, millions of dollars are being spent in the race from both the campaigns, party campaign committees and independent expenditure groups.

Where campaign dollars used to be spent on direct mail and television ad buys, their thinking goes, modern political infrastructures should be spending money on YouTube pre-roll video ads, search engine optimization, promoted Tweets and Facebook posts.

Also 30M for a campaign isn't much, she likely spent hundreds of millions in 2008, her campaign fund for this election is over a billion dollars.

Honestly, when a campaign has months to prepare and is spending millions of dollars, it has absolulely no excuse for a sloppy or poorly planned website.

The same will be true in the struggle for control of Congress next year, as state parties, individual campaigns and outside groups spend tens of millions of dollars targeting their voters and working to get them to the polls.

«We're not surprised that the Senate Democrats, who nearly bankrupted this state, would want to force New Yorkers to spend $ 200 million in taxpayer money to fund political campaigns rather than investing those dollars in our schools or providing incentives to help businesses create jobs,» said the spokesman, Scott Reif.

Golden defeated Gentile in 2002 with the help of nearly $ 4 million from the Senate GOP, and Gentile, who spent about half a million dollars on his Senate campaign, subsequently won a special election for the NYC Council seat Golden vacated to move up to the Senate.

I was reading that billions of dollars are raised / spent during US political campaigns (president, senate, etc).

Since winning election to the House in New York's 4th District in 2014, she has subsequently spent thousands of dollars from the DA campaign account on ads, consulting services, and donations to local Democratic groups that have actively worked on her elections to the House, according to a report by Crain's New York.

The Campaign Finance Institute estimates the state would need to spend $ 140 million dollars over a four year election cycle.

State Sen. Patrick Gallivan was found to have about $ 80,000 in unreported campaign credit card expenses, including hundreds of dollars spent on cigars, tanning, and at salons and casinos.

«We are doing very well,» she said, adding that money her campaign raises is being spent wisely — just as county tax dollars will be if she is elected.

The Commission's inquiry into personal use tracked campaign dollars spent by the current members of the state Legislature from July 2007 through June 2013 (as reflected in filings from 2008 - 13).

Additionally, the Democrats and the Committee to Save New York spent tens of millions of dollars on television ads designed to support Cuomo's agenda before campaign season began in earnest.

The Working Families Party spends millions of dollars on statewide and local campaigns through funds provided by labor unions and other left - leaning backers.

Field organizing takes TIME, and an expensive primary season didn't leave the Mitt resources for luxuries like millions of dollars in staff fees in January — he was spending money as it came in, mostly on TV and the basic logistics of keeping a campaign on the move.

Take the 7th Annual Survey of Political and Advocacy Communications Leaders and help E-Voter Institute better understand how campaign dollars are being spent.

How much more (or — my guess — LESS) effective will a dollar of outside «independent» spending be compared with a dollar spent by a campaign?

I welcome conservative PACS and other groups wasting their money on the Long campaign — every dollar sunk into this hopeless effort is a dollar not spent on a campaign in which it might make a difference.

Unshackle Upstate's Brian Sampson says in a TU OpEd that state taxpayer dollars slated for a public campaign finance system would be better spent on repairing aging infrastructure, expediting ongoing storm recovery efforts, restoring the Gap Elimination Adjustment, or providing tax relief for struggling middle - class families.

A campaign has kicked off this June to encourage more people to spend food dollars on items grown in Onondaga County.