Sentences with phrase «wealthy candidates running»
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.
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It shouldn't be a surprise, since Trump is a wealthy guy from New York, but he's also a candidate who ran on helping the little guy.
Some political observers have even named Harry Wilson, the party's 2010 candidate for comptroller and an independently wealthy businessman, as potentially interested in running.
But members of the state's congressional delegation from Baltimore are still quietly considering whether there is a path to victory for a candidate such as them to run as a voice for the state's less affluent urban core against those from the wealthy suburbs.
Ursula Rozum, the Syracuse - area Green Party candidate running in the NY - 25 against Democrat Dan Maffei and GOP Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle, says she is donating $ 4,250 in campaign contributions she received from a wealthy Florida couple she believes is trying to split the vote in the race.
Although incumbents tend to have a leg up in fundraising, the Campaign Finance Board's public matching funds program ensures that first - time candidates and those with little access to wealthy donors can run serious campaigns by matching small dollar donations at a 6 - to - 1 ratio up to a certain amount.
We're making democracy stronger by helping ensure that candidates can run for office even without huge wealthy networks,» said Monica Kamen, co-director of the Washington, D.C. - based Fair Budget Coalition.
But uber - wealthy (and perennial) candidate Tom Golisano is considered likely to run.
Tkaczyk was a supporter of making it easier for grassroots candidates to run for office and not be beholden to the wealthy, so in that case Soros weighs in on her behalf, and that helped tip the balance.»
She says currently, a candidate who wants to run for office has to immediately go out and raise money form «wealthy people who want something from you.»
In the run - up to the May 16 board election, the union United Teachers Los Angeles issued news releases that lumped the charter - backed candidates and wealthy donors together with the Trump administration.