Sentences with phrase «top campaign adviser»

Howe said he was subsequently asked by Percoco — Cuomo's top campaign adviser — to arrange a CPV - provided private jet for Cuomo's use in the closing days of the 2010 campaign.

His speech will be delivered in Ames, Iowa, and is aimed at «reinforcing the big choice in November,» a top campaign adviser told CNN.

Flynn, who was Trump's national security adviser for 24 days and was also a top campaign adviser, has admitted to lying to the FBI about two of his conversations with former Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in December 2016.

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White House chief of staff Reince Priebus asked a top FBI official to dispute media reports that President Donald Trump's campaign advisers were frequently in touch with Russian intelligence agents during the election, a White House official said late Thursday.

He sent at least six emails to top Trump advisers during the campaign offering to set up meetings with Russian officials, The Washington Post reported in August.

First off, when Clovis first brought him on as a campaign adviser, he directed him that one of the campaign's top priorities would be improving ties to Russia, the document claims.

During a night of heavy drinking at an upscale London bar in May 2016, George Papadopoulos, a young foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, made a startling revelation to Australia's top diplomat in Britain: Russia had political dirt on Hillary Clinton.

Michele Cadario, a top Paul Martin Liberal adviser, is Clark's deputy campaign director.

A top Romney adviser disavowed remarks and a position reported this past week that appeared to be a reversal of the campaign's support of the Federal Marriage Amendment, which would bar states from allowing same - sex couples to marry.

The Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption had begun an investigation into tax breaks like these and their connections to campaign contributions, but canceled a planned subpoena of REBNY's records after Cuomo's top adviser called one of the commission's chairs «in a fury,» according to the New York Times.

Michael Caputo, a WNY GOP consultant and former top Trump campaign adviser with strong ties to Russia, told CNN he «never once» discussed nor heard anyone else mention Russian involvement during the 2016 campaign.

«If Secretary Clinton runs, she'll be the nominee — the first female nominee of either party,» said Stephanie Cutter, a former top adviser to the Obama White House and campaign.

NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio defended himself and his top advisers a day after his office confirmed that top aides were subpoenaed by federal and state prosecutors amid an investigation into the mayor's campaign fundraising operation.

She is the former chairperson of the Council's health committee, and one of her campaign advisers is Jennifer Cunningham, is a former top operative with 1199 SEIU.

After Joseph Percoco resigned as Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's top adviser to run his boss» re-election campaign, he continued to use his office in the executive chamber suites in Manhattan dozens of times in 2014, court records show.

The long delay in getting Trump's nominee for agriculture secretary, former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue (R), confirmed means that Sam Clovis, who was a Trump campaign adviser, and transition team leader Brian Klippenstein continue to serve as the agency's top political appointees.

Gingrich's campaign was left for dead by many in May and June, after a number of controversies spurred some of his top advisers and staffers to quit, leaving the campaign coffers in the red.

A top adviser to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, a former Iowa governor, is leaving the Obama administration to manage Clinton's likely presidential campaign in Iowa, four Democrats familiar with the move said.

Trump's campaign has picked up another top adviser as it seeks to professionalize its day - to - day operations, this one coming most recently from Gov. Chris Christie's presidential campaign.

Donald Trump has shaken up his presidential campaign for the second time in two months, hiring a top executive from the conservative website Breitbart News, Stephen Bannon, and promoting a senior adviser in an effort to right his faltering campaign.

Davis also lost his top special adviser, the former Daily Mail political editor James Chapman, while the general election campaign was under way.

Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, another Trump foe who has already hit the trail for congressional candidates, plans to campaign soon for Senator John McCain in Arizona and for Joe Heck, the party's Senate nominee in Nevada, according to John Weaver, Mr. Kasich's top political adviser.

A top adviser to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, a former Iowa governor, is leaving the Obama administration to manage Hillary Rodham Clinton's likely presidential campaign in Iowa, four Democrats familiar with the move said Wednesday.

A campaign adviser to his close friend Eliot Spitzer, Mulrow has a polished resume and is widely considered by politicos to be the Spitz's top choice to replace Hevesi, especially because of Mulrow's private - sector experience.

The top investigator at the state's Board of Elections asked prosecutors in January to investigate whether the mayor's advisers broke the law by channeling campaign contributions to Democratic state Senate candidates through a committee not subject to donation limits, so as to evade them.

«It's also no surprise that one of her top advisers is now steering my opponent's flailing campaign... just further proof that he's completely out - of - touch with the people of this district and that he'll be just another puppet for Mayor de Blasio, Speaker [Mark]- Viverito, and the rest of the City's left - wing establishment,» Mr. Grimm stated.

«Shelley Mayer must disassociate her campaign from this top adviser, publicly condemn the horrific vulgarities directed at police, and formally apologize to law enforcement and their families,» she added.

Two former top advisers to Mr. de Blasio, Bill Hyers and Rebecca Katz, have been in talks with Ms. Nixon, and both are known for running campaigns that mobilize the Democratic left, the portion of the party that has been most vocal in its criticism of Mr. Cuomo.

Fitzpatrick, 28, is campaign manager for the Republican mayoral candidate in Syracuse, Laura Lavine; an adviser for about a dozen Republican county legislators; and a top consultant for a handful of judicial candidates, including one who works for his father.

Huma Abedin, a key adviser to Hillary Clinton, is Weiner's top fundraiser and hit the campaign trail with the mayoral front - runner.

De Blasio, his top aides and political advisers are being investigated for «willful and flagrant» violations of campaign - finance law by steering unions and corporate donors to funnel nearly $ 1 million to three upstate Democrats running for Senate seats in 2014.

ALBANY — A top former union official has been hired as a senior adviser to Gov. Cuomo's 2018 reelection campaign and the state Democratic Party, the Daily News has learned.

The executive director, Jason Grumet, was a top energy adviser to President Obama's campaign.

A top adviser to the Obama campaign and international expert on energy and climate, Holdren would bolster Obama's team in those areas.

As most Dropout Nation readers already know, the President - Elect, who won his office on a campaign of race - baiting as well as rank demagoguery against both documented and undocumented emigres, named Bannon, his former campaign manager and the former boss of media outlet Breitbart News Network, to serve as his senior counselor and top strategic adviser.

This flood of legislation, along with new rules in many states allowing for more charter schools, pioneering union contracts in several cities and a state - led effort to rewrite the nation's academic standards, have made this spring a watershed period, said Jon Schnur, an education adviser to the Obama campaign who helped design Race to the Top.

One of Success» top donors, John Paulson, was an adviser to Trump during the campaign.

Plouffe, the top campaign policy adviser for President Barack Obama in both 2008 and 2012, says efforts to improve the federal government's financial picture don't have to come at the expense of home ownership.