Sentences with phrase «spent against the candidates»

Of the $ 6.4 in independent expenditures reported to the Federal Election Commission, almost 90 % ($ 5.7 million) has been spent against the candidates.

Not exact matches

We realized that the candidates who didn't grow up in the U.S. spent up to 20 minutes just to understand how to play the game, which introduced new challenges as they competed for positions against candidates who grew up playing the game.

Think about the fact that your candidates have spent millions of dollars for the right to run against President Barack Obama.

Every penny of spending will have to be tallied and reported — this would severely limit campaigns such as those run by Hope not Hate against BNP candidates or local grassroots campaigns such as those against hospital closures or roadbuilding.

Expenditure is «controlled» if it is spending on election activities which «can reasonably be regarded as intended to influence voters to vote for or against political parties or categories of candidates including those parties and categories of candidates who support or do not support particular policies or issues».

, the independent expenditure arm of EMILY's List, has spent more than $ 700,000 in three primaries in Pennsylvania, boosting its candidates and spending against anti-abortion Democrat John Morganelli in the 7th District primary.

Democrats close to both New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy had also worried that Trump - allied self - funding candidates would jump in against them, forcing them to spend serious campaign cash to defend their otherwise safe seats.

For now, Maffei, D - DeWitt, has no Republican candidate to spend the money against in his bid for a third term representing the Syracuse area.

Cynthia Nixon, the Working Families Party candidate for governor of New York, recently spoke out against the state's 2 percent cap on annual spending.

The business lobby is serious about crushing «the little party that could» (a Newsday headline of a few years ago), spending millions of dollars on television and mail against WFP candidates, and even trying to hire well - known progressive public relations firms to wage a PR battle against them.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Wendy Long has $ 68,212 heading in to the final 20 days of the general election, going up against the behemoth $ 13.5 million spent so far by her Democratic rival, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

But the governor has spent the past six months speaking out against Trump in ways that make many political observers note the obvious: that he could be a credible candidate for president in 2020.

De Blasio and McCray will spend the rest of the day campaigning, both together and separately, with various current elected officials and / or candidates (including Assemblyman Francisco Moya, who is running against ex-Senator — and former felon — Hiram Monserrate for a NYC Council seat in Queens).

A Senate race in Michigan against Stabenow — who has won three terms including beating an incumbent Republican in 2000 — wouldn't be easy and would require any candidate trying to replace her to spend a lot of time courting voters at town halls, rallies and debates, as well as developing a media strategy.

One angle is that he did not expect a close race against Di Carlo, an underfunded candidate whose primary issue was Saland's «yes» vote for same - sex marriage and his spending, as a result, was meager.

She was the only candidate to have that kind of money spent directly against her.

Even with the ever - increasing threat of independent expenditures, almost all candidates participated in the public financing program, likely because the amplification of grassroots support through public matching funds is an effective way to defend against independent spending.

Asked how he could possibly ask Labour voters to vote for him when he spent most of the last week encouraging a Labour candidate to stand against him, Mr Davis replied: «I'm asking everybody and we've had support from Tories, of course, Liberal activists, people who say «I've voted Labour all my life» and - most interestingly of all - people who said I've never taken an interest in politics all my life but this has galvanised my interest.»

The Crown Prosecution Service has ruled that no charges will be brought against Conservative Party candidates following an investigation into how 2015 campaign spending was reported.

It restrains them only from a certain form of expressive activity closely tied to the voting process — providing money for a candidate or political party or spending money in order to expressly advocate for or against the election of a candidate.»

Earlier today, Romney appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe, where he continued to hammer away at Newt Gingrich, calling him a career politician and suggesting that he would be a better candidate against President Obama because he spent much of his professional life in the private sector.

If so, the CFB could count those against the $ 182,000 spending cap for the Democratic primary, should Abbate participate in the city's public matching funds program, a program which effectively lets candidates multiply sevenfold every donation under $ 175 they receive from a resident of the five boroughs.

Giffords, who was widely discussed as a potential 2012 candidate against Sen. Jon Kyl (R), ultimately spent nearly $ 3.9 million on the race while Kelly dropped $ 1.6 million.

Outside spending groups like Rove's American Crossroads super PAC are the progeny of the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision, which allowed corporations and unions to spend unlimited sums for and against individual candidates.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Scott Milne positioned himself as an outsider against Patrick Leahy, Vermont's Democrat senior senator who has spent more than four decades in office.

The millionaire Buffalo businessman, who last week became his party's candidate for governor, has shaped much of his Tea Party message by railing against government spending and vowing Draconian bureaucratic bloodletting.

«It's clear the Republicans knew that something was percolating, or else they never would have spent as much as they did down the stretch against a candidate who even many political experts knew nothing about,» Levy said.

Tea Party candidate Carl Paladino, running for governor of New York, has railed against government spending.

«I don't see how [city Comptroller] Bill Thompson, whom I respect, or I could have come out of a hard fought primary and still be able to win against the mayor, who's on his way to spending more money than any other municipal candidate in history.»

The laws include provisions against bribery, a new enforcement unit at the state Board of Elections and requirements including spending and contributor reports from groups issuing public communications for or against candidates or ballot propositions.

Today, even those who spent years fighting against Lopez - led County operation and its candidates today expressed a certain sadness at his passing.

Our candidates and our officials work tirelessly to defend the rights of every taxpayer against the uncontrolled government spending that is weighing down the promise of our great state.

Last year, the country ran controlled experiments in 435 different places, putting a number of candidates up against one another and tracking how much each raised and spent.

Super PACs may raise and spend unlimited amounts of money to advocate for or against political candidates.

Jobs for New York spent $ 8 million on New York City's 2013 elections, and recently registered a new state - level campaign committee to benefit three GOP Senate candidates: Amedore; Yorktown Councilman Terrence Murphy, who is running against Democrat Justin Wagner for the seat vacated by retiring GOP Sen. Greg Ball; and Dutchess County Legislator Susan Serino, who is trying to unseat freshman Democratic Sen. Terry Gipson.

Filings with the state Board of Elections show REBNY spent $ 20,277 in mailers on behalf of Republican Senate candidate Tom Croci, who is running against Democratic candidate Adrienne Esposito in an open Senate seat in Suffolk County.

Islip Town Board member Steve Flotteron, the GOP's designated candidate in the 11th Legislative District, has raised $ 48,466 and has $ 21,713 to spend in the last week against challenger Michael McElwee, a Bay Shore businessman and son - in - law of Suffolk Legis.

He added his spending would only do something to redress the spending imbalance saying that many Lib Dem and Labour candidates had told him that the Tories have «spent over # 100,000 campaigning against them, even before the official election campaign — and spending limits — started in December».

In Westchester County, incumbent Rob Astorino spent $ 579,929 on TV as he competes against Democratic candidate Noam Bramson.

During the period, the PAC spent $ 401,021 against Senate candidate Thom Tillis, R-S.C.

While unions and their allies spent most of their campaign funds on Democratic legislative candidates and the groups they battled against favored Senate Republicans and Cuomo, both sides often gave to the same candidates.

The DSCC's unusually heavy spending against Sestak can be attributed in part to the belief among some party leaders that he would make a weak general election candidate against Republican incumbent Sen. Patrick J. Toomey.

After favorite local sons Assemblyman Michael Cusick and former Congressman Michael McMahon declined to seek the seat, the Staten Island Democratic Party spent weeks mulling who to pick as its candidate in the quixotic campaign against the popular prosecutor, before finally looking to the longtime councilman and former state senator.

(CNN)- Florida Senate candidate Jeff Greene is a billionaire real estate investor who has spent millions to fund his primary campaign against fellow Democrat, Rep. Kendrick Meek.

When voters head to the polls this November, they will have a clear choice between someone who abetted the reckless spending in Washington and a candidate willing to stand up against it.»

But he has spent the past six months speaking out against Trump in ways that make many political observers note the obvious: that New York's governor could be a credible candidate for president in 2020.

That group has spent nearly a year searching for a high - profile candidate to run against Republican John Katko in the 24th.

Its goal is to pass a constitutional amendment overturning the 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision, which deregulated corporate and union spending for or against specific candidates, and the 2014 decision in McCutcheon vs. FEC, which struck down two - year aggregate limits on how much individuals can donate to candidates, parties and PACs.

Despite garnering widespread media attention last cycle, Mayday PAC, a super PAC that spent money to elect candidates in favor of ending super PACs (and money against those who didn't), achieved few electoral results for the $ 10 million it spent.

The poll, which measured the favorability of both candidates among 498 likely Republican voters, was conducted last weekend after Doheny spent much of the month facing a barrage of negative advertising from American Crossroads, the super PAC co-founded by Karl Rove that dropped $ 770,000 on a flurry of attack ads against Doheny across the region's largest media markets.