Sentences with phrase «terms of campaign contributions»

I think it goes without saying we're going to see a lot more of this in terms of campaign contributions and campaign financing — Austin is personally a fan of competition in the marketplace, even when it comes to our currency — With the rise of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, it was a no - brainer.

«One contributor, one person, one entity can contribute a multiple in terms of campaign contributions,» Horner said.

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Louis van Gaal has utilised his youth setup effectively this term with some youngsters making major contributions in the final stages of the campaign for United.

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«Given the enormity of the campaign, I'm not going to handcuff myself» in terms of accepting contributions, he said.

Flanagan joins a field of Republicans testing their polling power and ability to raise campaign contributions for what would be an expensive run against Cuomo, a Democrat who remains popular after two terms and has more than $ 20 million in his campaign account.

There has been no shortage of broad ideas for disrupting the system: Banning outside incomes for lawmakers, enacting term limits, creating a truly independent ethics watchdog, closing a loophole that allows companies to skirt campaign - contribution limits, requiring more signoffs for expenditures of more than $ 1 million, to name a few.

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.

Irwin's campaign disclosure form reads like a «who's who» of big union players, including max - out contributions from AFSCME, the California School Employees Association, the California State Council of Laborer's PAC, the California Teachers Association, Los Angeles County Firefighters Local 1014, SEIU United Long Term Care Workers Local 6434, Service Employees International Union Local 1000, the State Building & Construction Trades Council of California and the United Nurses Association

Coffey also suggested that Howe and Percoco's use of «ziti» as a euphemism for the allegedly illicit payments — a term that Percoco picked up from the HBO crime drama «The Sopranos,» according to Howe — could have referred to the campaign contributions the men sought to benefit Cuomo's re-election efforts.

Last summer, it was reported that in the first three years of his first term, the Governor raised over $ 6 million in LLC contributions, which at that point amounted to about 19 % of his total campaign fundraising.

This is usually how it goes: politician wannabe gets campaign contributions from private sector guy, gets into office, legislates in favor of private sector guy, private sector guy contributes more, politician guy takes vacation in Italy (or goes for a hike on the Appalachian trail)... gets re-elected, the word gets out that he «plays,» more private sector guys contribute to his campaign, voters are pleased to see the name of their representative in print, like the new wardrobe, the new hairstyle, believe all change is good and re-elect the politician again... politician feels the power, creates agency to watch over private sector guy, agency takes fact - finding trip to France... raises taxes on private sector guy, writes legislation that taxes private sector guy if his plant emits CO2 while producing widgets... voters are in awe and re-elect the politician... private sector guy whines, politician makes him ambassador to Taiwan, limits how much the new private guy taking his place can earn, and taxes all widgets so new private guy will make more environmentally friendly ones... voters swoon, pay more for widgets, lose job in widget factory, hate private guy, re-elect their pol... politician buries $ 5 billion aid to Taiwan in next appropriation bill...... kind of makes a case for term limits, doesn't it.

As I pointed out in the post linked above, James Hansen, Al Gore & Co. are to skeptics in terms of funding as is Hillary Clinton is to Mike Gravel in campaign contributions.