Sentences with phrase «state political parties»

An amendment to state campaign finance law months before the 2014 campaign season began allowed state political parties to make unlimited payments on behalf of most candidates for organizational expenses.

In that event, leaders of state political parties would submit a list of potential successors for each seat and legislative leaders would get to pick.

It is most often implemented by state political parties with the intent of marginalizing districts of voters who represent the minority party.

All major political parties in the United States also adopt a separate state political party platform at a state convention every two or four years.

In the United States political parties operate at various levels including local, state, and federal.

Total Democratic and Republican state political party revenue per capita in the United States, 2011 - 2016

Fox urged House Democrats to oppose GOP amendments aimed at closing that loophole, but made no attempt to directly refute Republican arguments about the flood of «back door» money flowing through state political parties to candidates.

A new state political party created by failed Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino received only one contribution this year — a giant check from a phantom donor.

The manoeuvring is well under way as both state political parties evaluate their future leadership teams.

Where permitted by law, Kraft Heinz also makes corporate contributions to political committees, state candidates and state political parties.

This type of back and forth between the state political parties has been pretty rare in the past two years.

State political parties would typically have no involvement other than producing a single statewide party slate to list on a website and perhaps one piece of literature, except in very critical local races and as part of a general, statewide GOTV (get out the vote) effort shared by the state and local parties and all the major campaigns with the resources to do so.

However, the 1910 Act only covered single - state political parties and election committees, carried few penalties and was rarely enforced.

«The duly constituted authorities of the state political party shall have the right to determine the method by which a party nomination for a member of the United States Senate or for any statewide office shall be made.

One such change in 2013 doubled the amounts that contributors could give to state political parties, and permitted the parties to spend as much as they want on candidates receiving public funding for their campaigns.

Another GOP objection to the Democratic bill was that it did nothing to close a loophole in state law that allows large amounts of money to be contributed to state political parties, which can then funnel those funds back to candidates in unlimited amounts.

In the case of local governments with partisan elections in the U.S. those political parties are almost always integrated into the state political party structure.

There is one committee attached to each state political party, including the minor parties and some local parties, including those in Onondaga County.

However, it covered only single - state political parties and election committees, carried few penalties, and was rarely enforced.

The county and state political parties are embodied in committees whose members are elected by Assembly district.

A state political party challenged a provision of Montana law which made it a criminal offense for any political party to endorse, contribute to, or make an expenditure in support or opposition of a candidate for judicial office.

«Several leading universities, labor unions, state political parties, church groups and non-profits have already piloted this voting platform successfully for their internal elections, convention voting, and other voting functions.