Sentences with phrase «touching on campaign finance»

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So it would have been a characteristically bravura, publicity - grabbing touch if the U.S. Attorney had chosen the end of last week to unveil a federal indictment of Mayor Bill de Blasio on campaign - finance - related charges — while de Blasio was out of town, jetting to Chicago and Fort Lauderdale and Beverly Hills raising money for his reelection campaign.

The three - year - long investigation into Comptroller John C. Liu's campaign finances has brought down two of his former staffers, but it has never touched him, and at a mayoral candidates» forum on Thursday he let everyone know how tired he was of being investigated: «Three years of investigating.

On Wednesday, a spokesman for the mayor, Eric Phillips, said that Mr. de Blasio had been a «lifelong advocate» of campaign finance reform, though he did not touch on the specifics of the legislation the Campaign Finance Board and watchdogs have suggesteOn Wednesday, a spokesman for the mayor, Eric Phillips, said that Mr. de Blasio had been a «lifelong advocate» of campaign finance reform, though he did not touch on the specifics of the legislation the Campaign Finance Board and watchdogs have sucampaign finance reform, though he did not touch on the specifics of the legislation the Campaign Finance Board and watchdogs have sugfinance reform, though he did not touch on the specifics of the legislation the Campaign Finance Board and watchdogs have suggesteon the specifics of the legislation the Campaign Finance Board and watchdogs have suCampaign Finance Board and watchdogs have sugFinance Board and watchdogs have suggested.

Sanders touched on many of the issues that have marked his campaign for president: wealth inequality, tuition - free public colleges, campaign finance reform and raising the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour.