Sentences with phrase «war chests by»

So while Sampson's colleagues sweated out the prospects of an unprecedented government shutdown, he scooped up $ 2,500 a head from 75 donors in a swank luxury suite - fattening his war chest by $ 187,500.

Not exact matches

And — if you can stand the short term pain and the forced smiles (until you take your money and leave to start your next business), you should think about taking a bunch of their money to build your own war chest before they wake up and smell the coffee and are replaced by the next savior CEO.

Having taken the browser world by storm, fueled with its IPO war chest, it faced a bruising battle with Microsoft.

Winners will be determined not just by their financial war chest, but by the size of their voter information database.

As a result, venture firms are adjusting to this cash - rich environment by stocking their war chests with significant capital.

Supporters in the five states set to vote on recreational marijuana had a war chest of $ 30 million as of Oct. 20, compared to just $ 6.6 million for their rivals, according to campaign finance data collected by the nonpartisan site Ballotpedia.

Two companies backed by venture capital have been recent buyers: Halifax Media Group (buyer of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette and a couple of others since its purchase of the New York Times Company's Regional Newspaper Group in 2012) and the new Gatehouse / New Media (recent buyer of the Providence Journal), which has announced a $ 150 - $ 300 million war chest for newspaper company purchases.

In my time in Moscow, one day each May was marked by the sight of stocky, grizzled old men, excusably tipsy, dancing and singing in the street, their medals clicking on their chests, as they remembered the ghastly war which turned back the Hitlerian menace.

That 10 million for cech wasn't used from the war chest lol Arsenal made more than that by selling 2 players and loaning out most of our talented young players!

The latest news on the matter, as provided by the Metro, is that Wenger will stay on and be given a # 200 million war - chest to improve the club's fortunes.

its rubbish that we can survive or more outrageously as claimed by said Ozil today, win anything without these players coming in Don't boast of a 100» 000 war chest and then quibble over pennies for a player we don't at this point know anything about and as I've stated before may or may not be a great player in the next three or four seasons, (makes you think is beilik an investment for resale to make more money?)

The Russian has offered before to inject large sums to bump up the war chest, but was turned down by Kroenke and the Board as a ploy to gain more shares, so it is doubtful the American will agree this time around either.

He's NOT god he's NOT infallable, fine we are all only human but to deny there are better players out there than the ones he has is 1) arrogant and 2) a plain lie To justify the teams failing using the same old rhetoric year in year out while attempting to justify why improvements were not made (by stying in budget and spending the touted «war chest money») is again pure arrogance, (I would say stupidity but AW is far from stupid) and then to blame this seasons failure on the fans attitude is just blatantly direspecting people who in a large part pay part of his wages.

CaughtOffside understands that the Emirates Stadium side are looking to tie down Wenger to a new three year contract and will back the French manager with a significant transfer war - chest, which will be boosted by the sale of a number of under - performing players with a trimmed squad offering the club the ability to cut their wage bill to make room for new additions.

They then have a huge war chest for transfers and massive income from stadium for salaries all paid for by the taxpayer.

«Clearly this was a preemptive strike by the Democrat Bosses, as they aim to distract voters from Andrew Cuomo's massive special interest war chest,» LaValle continued.

The junior senator has amassed a $ 9.9 million war chest (and counting), while Long's campaign debt exceeds her cash on hand by about $ 81,000.

But Liu has not yet released the names of «bundlers» or individuals empowered by the campaign to solicit contributions for Liu's political war chest.

DeFrancisco, a Republican from Syracuse who opposes most campaign finance reforms proposed this month by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, has more money in his Senate campaign war chest than any of the 61 other sitting senators.

In that email, Ball asks supporters to donate in hopes of reaching a $ 30,000 goal by January 1 due to exhausting his $ 1 million war chest leading up to the November election.

But as the former congressman still has a full campaign war chest and strong name recognition — and the fact that electoral politics is a zero - sum game — the question rises: which of his hypothetical rivals would be most impacted by his decision?

The younger Cuomo has about $ 30 million in his campaign war chest, and registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by a 2 - 1 margin in New York state.

De Blasio, though beleaguered by scandals and anemic approval ratings, would prove a daunting opponent in a general election thanks to his sizable war chest, Rolodex of union endorsements and an overwhelmingly Democratic electorate.

Distributing tons of pork around the district and backed by a near - million - dollar war chest «the best looking man in the Senate,» 76 this year, is still a force.

General chest - thumping in response to threats of war (which is what Saddam was doing) are not the same as clearly stated demands backed by a credible threat of force.

Or that Anthony Weiner, driven by the city program's «use it or lose it» provisions, is now salivating at the chance to rebuild his war chest on the backs of New York City taxpayers?

Gianaris did not give Vallone any cash, but three months before that endorsement the lawmaker dished out $ 3,850 to Avella — the maximum allowed by campaign laws and the largest contribution in the lawmaker's war chest.

His overall total is still six figures ahead of Enneking's $ 271,000 war chest, though she was enthused by her campaign gaining ground.

But riding a wave of anti-tax sentiment, Mangano beat Suozzi — who had run recently for governor and sat on much of his campaign war chest — by fewer than 400 votes.

Blair Horner, legislative director for the New York Public Interest Research Group, said the track should not be used by politicians to fatten their campaign war chests.

With $ 1.1 mil still sitting in his campaign war chest, he COULD bump it up another $ 750Gs in matching funds if he steps into the «gettin» crowded» city Controller's race by just raising another $ 125G.

A recent FEC filing shows he only has about $ 35,000 on hand, which is dwarfed by Collins» $ 1.27 million war chest.

The new deputy Senate majority leader, a Syracuse Republican who opposes most campaign finance reforms proposed this month by Cuomo, has more money in his campaign war chest than any of the 61 other sitting senators.

Republican Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb earned a note of distinction by becoming the first major - party candidate to formally declare a campaign to unseat Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whose formidable war chest and bruising political style have seemingly made other potential candidates wary to enter the 2018 race.

The day after Paterson's energetic Jackson - lunch speech, his latest campaign filing showed a paltry $ 3 million in the bank, a war chest dwarfed by his putative rival's $ 16 million.

He has $ 1 million in his war chest, compared with $ 33 million for Cuomo, and trailed the governor by 30 points in a recent poll.

They're both stalwart incumbents with high name recognition, and their campaigns were fueled by war chests that, on the scale of elections in these upstate communities, should have been big enough to make them invincible.

The incumbent outraised Halvorson by a significant margin and had $ 883,000 in his war chest as of April 30, compared to Halvorson's $ 15,000.

Brooklyn Democrat Carl Kruger, who's being probed by the FBI in an alleged shakedown scheme, has amassed a $ 2.1 million war chest, the biggest in the Senate, although he hardly needs it to stay in office.

The message also played well with donors who contributed nearly $ 15,000 to his war chest and made him, by a wide margin, the best - funded candidate in the race.

He didn't need to mention that this incumbent has spent most of his time in office building a large campaign war chest and a huge «favor bank» — by selling access to City Hall and showering public resources on all those he expects to help in the future.

In «Submarine Politics,» the New Times wrote: «Despite a $ 1.8 million campaign war chest financed by county contractors and various special interest groups like the Florida International University Foundation, and an army of heavy - hitting political strategists such as Keith Fredericks, voters flatly rejected the tax increase because of their mistrust of county government.

Gillibrand, who was appointed by former Governor David Paterson to replace Hillary Clinton, has already won an election for her job, in 2010, and she's fairly popular and has a significant campaign war chest.

He's been running 30 points behind Cuomo in the polls, and has been outspent by the governor's massive $ 35 million campaign war chest.

According to the Olusola Oke Campaign Committee, the contract sum was perfected and released without going through due process and the money has now been earmarked as part of the war chest to be used by the APC to rig the election later this month.

The retail energy sales industry is putting together a war chest to fight the Cuomo administration over new consumer protection rules that were delayed last week by a state Supreme Court judge.

His investigation into political fundraising by Levy, a Republican, resulted in Levy's agreement in 2011 not to seek re-election and to turn over his $ 4.1 million war chest to Spota, who distributed it to Levy's donors.

By comparison, Katko had more than $ 1 million in his campaign war chest.

But McCoy had still outspent him by about $ 75,000 as late August thanks to a sizeable war chest accumulated over his first term.

Giambra adds he's not intimidated by the Andrew Cuomo war chest, estimated at $ 26 million.