Sentences with phrase «wealthy candidates»

But campaign finance experts say the tactic can give an unfair advantage to wealthy candidates who try to use loans to persuade prospective donors to take their campaigns seriously.

Every cycle, a few wealthy candidates dig into their deep pockets to fund their own campaigns.

His substantial earnings allowed him to donate more than a $ 1 million to his own campaign in 2002, but it also made him a target of critics that year, who argued wealthy candidates like Mulrow and Spitzer were trying to buy their way into elections.

Faso told the Observer, «Heaney is the only one who gave to President Obama and the voters know that he is another in a series of wealthy candidates from downstate who have tried to buy this congressional district.

«One of the problems with it is the SC allows for Super PACs, number one, number two it allows for wealthy candidates with unlimited expenditures and that's something we really have to come to grips with,» he said.

The two wealthy candidates running outside the duopoly in the Massachusetts gubernatorial contest this autumn have failed to catch fire, according to a Boston Globe survey released Friday.

Petition challenges are, in their current form at least, a mode of candidate suppression that favors establishment candidates over insurgents, and wealthier candidates over their poorer opponents.

This CLP notes from the experience of the US that primaries: drive up the cost of seeking selection; favour wealthy candidates; reduced the input of grassroots members; and strengthened the influence of right wing media in candidate selection.

An investor who had led the Obama administration's task force to bolster the automobile industry in the wake of the great recession, Wilson was seen as an independently wealthy candidate who could also appeal to Democratic and independent voters.

Rahm Emanuel, Pelosi's lieutenant who, at the time, ran the DCCC, looked for wealthy candidates who could self - fund a race.

The $ 1,500 donation limit rules out the prospect of a wealthy candidate like Belinda Stronach entering the race and using his or her own money to blow away the field.

The interviews ended with Lalor accusing Caputo of attempting to profit from a wealthy candidate.

Candidates for New York's hotly contested first congressional districts filed campaign finance disclosures yesterday and it looks like another wealthy candidate is flooding the district with money.

The Working Families Party was up in arms over the proposal, suggesting in an email to supporters a wealthy candidate could «hijack» the ballot line through the petitioning process.

The real question is: In addition to making some lucky consultants rich, will some of these wealthy candidates actually win elective office?

From Democratic Connecticut Senate hopeful Ned Lamont's $ 8.6 million to Michigan's GOP governor nominee, Rick Snyder, and Florida Democratic Senate hopeful Jeff Greene ($ 6 million each), wealthy candidates are spending big money on winning many of the biggest races on the map.