Sentences with phrase «spend on the campaign»

If it sounds like Edwards still needed to apply FEC rules and limits, consider this: Scott Thomas, a former commissioner of the Federal Election Commission testified that he did not consider that the payments would have come under his agency's auspices — in part because they were not used directly for the campaign and did not free up any of Edwards» own money to be spent on the campaign.

In her announcement, Gillibrand criticized the 2010 Supreme Court case, Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission, which ruled that the government should not regulate the amount of money corporations and unions can spend on campaigns.

Not including time spent on this campaign, we were in it for $ 774.

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.

And just as importantly, how much money and resources are you spending on your campaign?

And if we save time in how we package our news, we have more time to spend on campaigning.

We know little if any of this money will actually get spent on a campaign.

Reel in all donations and limit the total amount that can be spent on a campaign and then we can talk.

I thought he had a lot of [tax payer] money to spend on his campaign.

This meant looking at polling data on voting intentions in key marginal seats, votes in the most recent local elections and the resources each party is likely to have to spend on campaigning in the area.

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.

The funds are technically for his re-election bid — Andrew Cuomo 2014 — but don't expect the money to be spent on campaign buttons, according to the invite.

Campaign funds are called campaign funds because they are supposed to be spent on campaigns — hence campaign funds.

But he has played his cards very close to the vest when it comes to how much of his own cash he might be willing to spend on his campaign.

«My concern is that when we're dealing with deficits, you'd have potentially $ 200 million in taxpayer dollars going to be spent on campaign financing,» Skelos said.

However, his former Tory colleagues are furious that Reckless and his election agent, Chris Irvine, who has also defected to Ukip, were approving spending on his campaign in the weeks before he left the party.

However, the commission was said to have questioned his claim that N785m of the N4.7 bn traced to Silva McNamara, was spent on the campaign against Boko Haram in Lagos and other parts of the South - West.

For all the millions of pounds spent on campaigning in support of the Hunting Act, not one penny has been spent by any anti-hunting group to assess the effect this law has had on wildlife.

Think of all the money that is spent on campaigns.

It aimed to limit spending on campaign activity in the year ahead of a general election and redefined electoral activity as anything which could affect the outcome of an election.

«You have one candidate (Abele) with $ 1 million to spend on his campaign and then you have the Repubican party's money machine to contend with,» said Czarnezki.

ProPublica reports that Crossroads GPS claimed in an application filed two years ago with the IRS that its spending on campaigns would be «limited.»

Of the $ 3.4 million, $ 2.3 million was spent on television and radio advertising ($ 1.9 million for Killian and $ 450,000 for Mayer) and about $ 400,000 was spent on campaign mailers ($ 205,000 for Killian and $ 190,000 for Mayer).

In 1992 for the first time it exceeded the sum total of what all the constituency candidates put together spent on their campaigns.

He declined to be nailed down to how much he might spend on his campaign — should he run — though he did say he would work for 99 cents, one cent less than Bloomberg accepts, joking: «I'm a grocer.

Incumbent highway superintendent Brian Stiscia petitioned the Gardiner Town Board for the change in term, arguing that the present system requires too much of the superintendent's time to be spent on campaigning during the limited months when weather conditions are favorable for road repairs.

«There is significant public interest in being satisfied that the facts are known about Vote Leave's spending on the campaign, particularly as it was a lead campaigner with a greater spending limit than any other campaigners on the leave side.»

Independent expenditure groups can receive unlimited donations from individuals, but can only use this money to spend on the campaigns of candidates with whom they are not coordinating.

GPS claimed in an application filed two years ago with the IRS that its spending on campaigns would be «limited.»

The amendments also required financial disclosure by candidates for the first time and established limits on the amount of money that candidates were allowed to spend on their campaigns.

A summer spent on the campaign trail also put Meyer, who has admitted that the job can be isolating, in contact with many of those whose lives he has changed during his decade on the bench.

A very good source tells ConHome that the unions have as much as # 25m to spend on campaigns to oppose cuts in the public sector workforce and in public sector pay.

Investigators, according to sources familiar with the probe, are specifically looking into money Pigeon's campaign committee, WNY Progressive Caucus, spent on campaign literature created by Grant and Casey.

The PAC, called Jobs for New York, represented the trade group's first foray into independent expenditure in city races — money spent on a campaign without any involvement of the candidate.

And the most obvious reason that a relatively small party had so much to spend on this campaign?

Once things were sorted out (and our camera in place), Spitzer answered questions on topics such as Scott Stringer's attacks, how much money Spitzer actually plans to spend on the campaign and criticism from Crain's.

And, New York City voters are indifferent about the amount of money the mayor plans to spend on his campaign.

The idea of local primaries, as in Totnes, is clearly tempting but advocates here should consider the fact that the run - off system in the states has been largely responsible for the escalating amounts spent on campaigning and TV commercials.

The group said it has not decided how much money it will spend on the campaign.

Considering Lazio has about $ 600,000 to spend on his campaign compared to Cuomo's... $ 23 million, it seems understandable that the guy would try something.

According to campaign finance reports for the first half of 2013, the former state Senator had raised $ 314,222, of which 60 percent had been spent on campaign consultants.

The proposal also bars a series of backroom funds which are spent on campaigns with no accounting for what comes in and what goes out.

His positions on Obamacare and immigration reform notably shifted in the brief few months he spent on the campaign trail.

Similarly, a nudge - based mailing that prompted employees to write down when and how they planned on getting their flu shot led to about 13 additional people getting vaccinated per $ 100 spent on the mailing; by contrast, an education campaign on the benefits of the flu vaccine led to only about 9 additional employees at a health care facility getting vaccinated per every $ 100 spent on the campaign.

Unspent money is carried over, leaving the national union with considerable sums to spend on campaigns in general election years.

Rather than just look at the percentage of teachers who belong to a union — the proxy most analysts have used for union strength for pretty much forever — we also examined measures like the dollars spent on campaign advertising, the degree to which unions have won major policy battles in recent years, and the lock the unions have on a given state capital.

Why didn't the $ 10 million spent on the campaign lead to better results?

At the same time, Zimmer decries the millions of dollars spent on the campaign, arguing that the money could have been better used for programs benefitting students.

Every cent that you spend on this campaign will be put towards the e-reader and making the best device possible.

It stands for «Advertising Cost of Sale,» and it's a ratio that measures the amount you spent on the campaign relative to the sales you earned directly related to that campaign.