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While there are a number of expenditures that raise questions, several experts consulted by City & State made the point that the legal definition of what constitutes a legitimate use of campaign funds in New York State is extremely broad, and that even expenses that seemed like personal use on their face could actually be allowable based on the letter of the law.

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One of the major attractions of using these crowdfunding portals in the first place is the promotional element: Create a buzzworthy campaign and you can reach your funding goal in a matter of days or weeks, not to mention garner a loyal base of fans.

The RNC is using campaign funds to pay Trump's company more than $ 37,000 a month in rent, and to pay thousands of dollars in monthly salary to Vice President Mike Pence's nephew, John Pence, party officials confirmed this week.

His reported close ties to US presidential candidate Hilary Clinton are not popular in certain corners of the French press, while there are also allegations he used public funds to finance his own presidential campaign.

In addition to funding expanded marketing, sales and customer service efforts, Kindler says the $ 10 million investment will be used to develop deeper analytics and more features, including tools to detect malicious fake sites that often are created as part of cyberbullying campaigns.

But in another post written under Luckey's Reddit pseudonym, there are echoes of a similar tech billionaire, Peter Thiel, who used his deep pockets to secretly fund a campaign against Gawker.

«Liquid Story used its technology and strategic insight to guide Jamstack to connect with our target consumer to our first Crowd Funding Campaign on Kickstarter resulting in achieving over 300 % of our fund raising goal.

On February 13, Cohen, who facilitated the transaction using a trumporg.com email address, told The New York Times in a statement, «I used my own personal funds to facilitate a payment of $ 130,000... Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly.»

Disclose Company's Own Political Spending If a company chooses to use its own funds for direct campaign spending, the issue raised in many shareholder proposals is whether such corporations should — in addition to the governance procedures noted above — issue a comprehensive report which lists in one place all the recipients both of such direct spending and of contributions made from the company's employee PAC.

The entry cost to try a crowd funding campaign might be minimal, but unless you are committed to investing in a marketing campaign this may not be the best use of your time.

For an in - depth step - by - step game plan on how a few successful campaigns have used crowdfunding, and even the pre-launch phase, to validate their products using Lean Startup methods, Seven Figure Funding: the Ultimate Kickstarter Success Guide is worth the price of entry for solid how - to on Kickstarter domination.

A company called Glowforge used crowdfunding to find funding for its 3D laser printer — and has now made the crowdfunding hall of fame as the biggest 30 - day campaign in history.

In the envisaged revamping of the Arsenal first team squad during the in - coming summer transfer window for next season's campaign during which at least 2 world class players are expected to be signed by Arsenal in addition to keeping Ozil and Sanchez, and some underperforming Gunners for 3 consecutive seasons allowed to leave on the expiration of their contract deals this season or be sold if their deals are still active to recoup some funds used in signing the 2 world class players in addition to the signing of 3 other top quality new players making them 5 in numbers of: a LB, a DM, an AMD, a versatile world class Winger & a world class Striker whom Arsenal should sign during the summer imhIn the envisaged revamping of the Arsenal first team squad during the in - coming summer transfer window for next season's campaign during which at least 2 world class players are expected to be signed by Arsenal in addition to keeping Ozil and Sanchez, and some underperforming Gunners for 3 consecutive seasons allowed to leave on the expiration of their contract deals this season or be sold if their deals are still active to recoup some funds used in signing the 2 world class players in addition to the signing of 3 other top quality new players making them 5 in numbers of: a LB, a DM, an AMD, a versatile world class Winger & a world class Striker whom Arsenal should sign during the summer imhin - coming summer transfer window for next season's campaign during which at least 2 world class players are expected to be signed by Arsenal in addition to keeping Ozil and Sanchez, and some underperforming Gunners for 3 consecutive seasons allowed to leave on the expiration of their contract deals this season or be sold if their deals are still active to recoup some funds used in signing the 2 world class players in addition to the signing of 3 other top quality new players making them 5 in numbers of: a LB, a DM, an AMD, a versatile world class Winger & a world class Striker whom Arsenal should sign during the summer imhin addition to keeping Ozil and Sanchez, and some underperforming Gunners for 3 consecutive seasons allowed to leave on the expiration of their contract deals this season or be sold if their deals are still active to recoup some funds used in signing the 2 world class players in addition to the signing of 3 other top quality new players making them 5 in numbers of: a LB, a DM, an AMD, a versatile world class Winger & a world class Striker whom Arsenal should sign during the summer imhin signing the 2 world class players in addition to the signing of 3 other top quality new players making them 5 in numbers of: a LB, a DM, an AMD, a versatile world class Winger & a world class Striker whom Arsenal should sign during the summer imhin addition to the signing of 3 other top quality new players making them 5 in numbers of: a LB, a DM, an AMD, a versatile world class Winger & a world class Striker whom Arsenal should sign during the summer imhin numbers of: a LB, a DM, an AMD, a versatile world class Winger & a world class Striker whom Arsenal should sign during the summer imho.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

Hillary Clinton is supporting a Democratic congressional candidate's use of campaign funds on child care, writing a letter in support to the Federal Elections Commission that also highlights the number of women who are running for office in the 2018 midterm elections.

This was the case with the Save Darfur Campaign, as well (although in this case the trend was to wear shirts that read «Save Darfur»), where the implication was that awareness of a conflict would lead to change (note that the Save Darfur has likewise been criticised for using faulty statistics and for misuse of funds).

He accused the Cuomo campaign of using «threats and intimidation» to prevent rabbis from meeting with Paladino — even going so far as to make veiled suggestions that public funding might be in jeopardy, although no proof of this claim was provided.

It is insult added to injury when an official succeeds in defending themselves and then has the state reimburse their campaign fund, which can then be used for anything they want,» said Blair Horner, director of New York State Public Interest Research Group.

The FEC ruled in favor of Liuba Grechen Shirley, who is running in New York's 2nd District and requested an advisory opinion last month on her request to use her campaign funds to pay for child care for her young children while she was involved in campaign activities.

In its preliminary report issued to the public in December, the Moreland Commission concluded there were «few rules limiting the personal use of campaign funds and even less enforcement.&raquIn its preliminary report issued to the public in December, the Moreland Commission concluded there were «few rules limiting the personal use of campaign funds and even less enforcement.&raquin December, the Moreland Commission concluded there were «few rules limiting the personal use of campaign funds and even less enforcement.»

-- MOUNT VERNON MAYOR ARRESTED — Journal News» Jonathan Bandler and Jorge Fitz - Gibbons: «Mayor Richard Thomas was arrested Monday, accused of stealing more than $ 12,000 from his political campaign and diverting more than $ 45,000 from his inaugural committee in what the state Attorney General's Office called a wide - ranging scheme to use those funds as his «personal piggybanks.»

The campaign in Oregon drew a lot of national attention over accusations that federal taxpayer money was being used to fund anti-legalization events.

The mayor — now facing multiple investigations of his campaign fund - raising tactics — is using an obscure loophole in campaign finance laws to pay the lawyers defending him.

An upcoming campaign fund - raiser for Gov. Andrew Cuomo promises to be a colorful departure from the staid hotel ballroom affairs typically used to court wealthy donors: In June, he'll host a performance of the Broadway show «Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical.»

The political fund, which Plaid is asking trade unionists to opt out of, is used to finance all of our political campaigns, from supporting manufacturing in Wales to highlighting the murder of trade unionists in Colombia.

Reading this blog provides some extreemly interesting insights about the evolution of marketing campaigns as used in raising funds for political candidates.

In recent days, Heastie's use of his campaign funds, his donations and steering of member items to contributors have come under the magnifying glass as Assembly Democrats coalesce around his election as speaker.

In my consulting practice, if I had dime for every campaign that was so excited to be using social media but had no field plan, no fundraising, no message calendar and no ground game of any kind, I'd be able to fund all of the Progressive organizations I'd like to.

The first is affiliated supporters, which consist of individual trade unionists who have indicated that they wish their party affiliation fees (funded from the political levy, a small sum of money in addition to normal union dues and used for political campaigning) to be paid directly to the Labour Party rather than via their trade unions as they have historically been.

Sifry focuses only on use of the Internet to create a marketplace for small donor fund raising and revels in «open» conversations hosted on the campaign website as a sign of direct democracy to come.

New York City Council Speaker Cory Johnson and Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo announced the package of 10 bills on Sunday and said the measures would be introduced this week... The proposals include: Requiring businesses with more than 15 employees to provide lactation spaces and refrigerators to store breast milk, Requiring lactation rooms in all schools, police precincts, and jails that house women or allow women visitors, Assessing the need for free and low - cost doula services in the city, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTiAtZ

Labour backs the latter proposal, arguing that concerns about the use of loans to fund political parties arose out of an «arms race» in campaign spending between the main players.

Maziarz is accused of playing a role in a «multilayered pass through scheme» that had him using campaign funds and the Niagara County Republican Committee to funnel payments to a former Senate staffer who had been accused of sexual harassment.

The early - bird posting of Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy's campaign - finance report shows the Cuomo administration's number two has used his fund to pay for what is described in the filing as «housing,» with payments going to a company owned by a major Republican contributor.

A number of current and former senior aides to Cuomo have been caught up in an investigation by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara into possible contract bid - rigging and kickbacks, while Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D - Bronx) has said his use of campaign funds is also being looked at by the FBI.

He will reportedly use part of the # 40,000 in damages paid by News Group Newspapers over his status as a phone - hacking victim to fund his campaign, Sky News reported.

Not included in the agreement was blocking the use of campaign funds to pay for legal fees (which Cuomo himself is currently doing for representation in the ongoing inquiry surrounding the Moreland Commission's closing).

Cuomo has highlighted of his inclusion in this year's budget of a ban on the personal use of campaign funds, as he promotes his commitment to ethics reform.

The millionaire Republican, who has homes in the city, Larchmont, N.Y., and in Massachusetts, said he plans to opt out of the city Campaign Finance Board's matching funds program and use his own money and donations to underwrite his cCampaign Finance Board's matching funds program and use his own money and donations to underwrite his campaigncampaign.

The question before progressive advocates of public campaign financing in New York State is whether we push for full public campaign finance on the Clean Money model of equal and sufficient funding grants for all qualified candidates, or whether we settle for partial public campaign financing on the Matching Funds model used for presidential primaries since 1976 and for New York City local elections since 1989.

This is what we know: the Electoral Commission is still assessing claims that potentially illegal donations were made; the information commissioner is investigating «possible illegal» use of data; the heads of MI6 and GCHQ have both voiced unprecedented warnings about foreign interference in our democratic systems; the government has refused to elaborate on what these are; one of the leave campaigns has admitted the undeclared support and help of the American hedge fund billionaire who backed Trump; the Crown Prosecution Service is being asked to mount a criminal investigation; and questions have been raised about possible unlawful collaboration between different elements of the leave campaign.

Suozzi, who aired no TV ads in the primary, acknowledged that in winning the five - way race, he used up the bulk of his $ 800,000 campaign funds.

Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi, in an email, said of NYPIRG's criticism: «No governor has fought harder to reform New York's campaign finance system than Governor Cuomo, who included public campaign financing in his budget and is using the funds that NYPIRG is railing against for commercials urging the public to support it.»

Singas, a Democrat, in September had asked the ethics board to weigh in on the use of taxpayer resources to fund mailings that promote elected officials» re-election campaigns.

Briefly, on Oct. 6 during the candidates» first major voter forums in the town of Bedford, Killian took her own crack at Latimer's use of money, briefly targeting him and other longtime politicians for using campaign funds for what she characterizes as frivolous expenses like food and gas; expenses of which there are dozens of in Latimer's most recent disclosure.

While city rules don't require reimbursement, city Comptroller Scott Stringer has contributed $ 1,702.02 from his campaign fund and personal piggy bank to cover the cost of using his government SUV on noncity business since taking office in January 2014, his office said.

Early on Wednesday the NYPost reported that «Queens Assemblyman William Scarborough was hit Wednesday morning with a 23 - count indictment charging him with using campaign funds for personal expenses, authorities said.Scarborough, a Democrat first elected in 1994 to represent the 29th Assembly District in southeast Queens, was arrested following a joint probe by the offices of state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.»

«The government can still use taxpayer funds to subsidize political campaigns, but it can only do that in a manner that provides an alternative to private financing» said William R. Maurer, a lawyer with Institute for Justice, which represented several challengers of the law.

I think it would have been inappropriate for him, and certainly he would have been criticized by the McCain people and the press — and probably should have been — if on a political trip in Europe, paid for by political funds, not the taxpayers, to go essentially, then, and be accused of using our wounded men and women as props for his campaign.

In October 2008, the Electoral Commission cleared the Conservative Party of breaking electoral law by using an MIC - funded company, Coleshill Campaigning Services (aka Constituency Campaigning Services), as a front to provide millions of pounds of services to Tories fighting marginal seats.