Then there's also state laws forcing districts to bargain with NEA and AFT locals; the collective bargaining laws, along
with the campaign dollars the two unions deploy, essentially give union bosses a level of influence over districts that supersedes that of the voting public.
Most of the crucial decisions about how U.S. schools run and who teaches what to whom in which classrooms are still made in 14,000 semi-autonomous school districts, nearly all of them run by locally elected school boards, often
with campaign dollars supplied by those with whom they negotiate collectively, and managed by professional superintendents, trained in colleges of education and socialized over the years into the prevailing culture of public education.
Just the other week, two Niagara politicians were charged with trying to hide who they were paying
with campaign dollars.
Not exact matches
As BuzzFeed points out, rather than spend marketing money on a traditional online ad
campaign — which would involve paying someone to create an ad and then paying to place it on Facebook, or another social website, or even
with the publishers who so desperately need the ad
dollars — businesses are sending more of that money to Facebook to promote content created for free by publishers.
Anytime you are interacting or communicating
with customers or potential customers online under the name of the business, treat it like a million
dollar ad
campaign.
Starbucks says it plans to tout its brewer
with a multimillion -
dollar marketing
campaign.
Thereafter the multimillion
dollar ad
campaign was launched directly associating the color brown
with UPS's shipping services.
With the help of statistics PhDs, we applied complex statistical models to customer data to identify small tweaks in marketing
campaigns — to the tune of millions of
dollars of incremental profits.
Some of her remarks give fresh fuel to liberals» worst fears about Clinton, namely that she is a political moderate, happy to cut backroom deals
with corporate interests and curry favor
with Wall Street for
campaign dollars.
Pharma, which has mounted a multimillion -
dollar advertising
campaign to repair its image — a
campaign with the tagline «Go Boldly» — could use all the plaudits it can get.
In the latest move to attract business, the state is running a multimillion
dollar national ad
campaign promoting «Start - Up NY,» which offers 10 years free of all taxes to businesses that agree to partner
with universities.
Google announced on its blog on Monday that it will match every
dollar of donation
with two
dollars in a new public giving
campaign against Ebola.
In 2010, instead of partnering
with the No. 1 search engine Google, he launched a million
dollar marketing
campaign for his book, «Decoded» that doubled as promotion for Microsoft's search engine Bing, which was fairly new to the market.
The firm also secured hundreds of thousands of
dollars of business
with John Bolton's Super Pac, formed by the hawkish former UN ambassador to support conservative candidates
campaigning on national security issues.
The
campaign also said that Prop 61 «would invalidate many drug discount agreements the state has negotiated
with pharmaceutical companies,» which would increase state prescription costs by tens of millions of
dollars each year.
And we then targeted them
with a
with a donor solicitation or small
dollars solicitation
campaign to ask them to send donations in.
The Golden Arches kicked off the national marketing of its new $ 1 $ 2 $ 3
Dollar Menu on Jan. 4
with traditional and social media
campaigns meant to educate customers about its latest value play
with humor.
With millions of
dollars spent each year on marketing and brand activation strategies and
campaigns, it is imperative that you have the right execution team in place.
And every
dollar you give to support this
campaign I will return
with perks worth tens, hundreds or even thousands of times.
WebVisible found that
campaigns with the highest number of leads per
campaign dollar used between 1 to 5 negative keywords, combined
with the right number of long tail keywords.
In addition to its corporate efforts, Marriott Vacation Club Owners and guests at its seven Central Florida resorts will also soon be able to get involved by rounding - up their final folio balance to the nearest
dollar,
with the additional funds supporting the
campaign.
Together the alliance recorded over S$ 200 million
dollars raised through crowdfunding
campaigns in 2014,
with growth expected to accelerate over 2015.
A massive
campaign aimed at forcing Switzerland to make billions available in «compensation» was launched by the WJC,
with the governors of four American states threatening economic sanctions against the Swiss, and the City of Los Angeles withdrawing millions of
dollars of pension funds from a Swiss bank.
You apply for a job in my community by running a
campaign for a paid office that my local tax
dollars pay for and you get elected then show up to your first scheduled meeting and decide to spend the first 5 minutes — eating donuts instead of working, speaking to the audience about your personal problems
with your wife, telling the audience about an upcoming play your kid will be in, telling the captive audience about the benefits of being gay, speaking to them about God or praying aloud to your God regardless of which God the rest of the audience believes in.
You would think that
with all of the millions of
dollars they waste on the
campaign, they could hire a good spin doctor!
The game came out of a Kickstarter
campaign that billed the game as one of the «most complained about game in history» — it reached its goal of more than five thousand
dollars in just two days, finishing the
campaign with 2,500
dollars more than they needed.
It's hard to imagine Jesus wearing a «God Bless Rome» T - shirt and promoting his
campaign with stickers and buttons and a hundred - million -
dollar campaign.
The «multi-year, multi-million
dollar»
campaign, on behalf of the industry as a whole, will begin in early May
with television advertisements, social media and in - store promotions.
Coca - Cola Amatil is preparing to blitz television screens
with multi-million
dollar marketing
campaigns to boost sales of carbonated soft drinks and bottled water after seeing the first rebound in beverage volumes in Australia for years.
This board would then spend 20 billion
dollars over the next decade marketing the health benefits of real food
with tv and magazine adds, and a massive PR
campaign to report on studies that link real food consumption to wellness, vitality and disease treatment.
But Sanders has built a powerful base of small -
dollar donors willing to give to him again and again, putting him at near parity financially
with Clinton's
campaign.
This is a fight to see which of them can be more out - of - touch
with Hudson Valley families and work hand - in - hand
with Mayor de Blasio and the New York City special interests who want to use our hard - earned taxpayer
dollars on political
campaigns and to give free college tuition to illegal immigrants.»
For instance,
campaigns often target non-donors
with a small -
dollar ask ($ 3 or $ 5) to get them moving up the ladder of engagement.
Congressional Democrats began giving away some of the thousands of
dollars in
campaign contributions they had received from Weinstein, moving to distance themselves from him after revelations he had reached at least eight settlements
with women accusing him of sexual harassment.
John Flanagan and his Albany cronies have sold out Long Island public schools and have cut a deal
with high finance charter school operators to exchange millions in taxpayer
dollars for
campaign cash for Chris McGrath,» said Democratic Senate Campaign Committee spokesman Mike
campaign cash for Chris McGrath,» said Democratic Senate
Campaign Committee spokesman Mike
Campaign Committee spokesman Mike Murphy.
«George is going to walk away
with a million, one hundred thousand
dollars in his
campaign account and Western New York is no further ahead today than it was when George originally took office,» Paladino added.
Maragos has pledged to infuse his
campaign with several million
dollars, and has so far loaned it $ 121,612.
Just days after NYSUT launched a multi-million
dollar TV ad
campaign in opposition to the governor's proposed budget cuts, the Alliance for Quality Education is out
with a web video featuring a famous New Yorker.
The International Business Times also reported that Attorney David Boies, who is working
with Weinstein's legal team had donated tens of thousands of
dollars to Vance's
campaigns, including $ 10,000 after Vance failed to prosecute Weinstein in 2015.
But the governor, in making a refocused pitch for overhauling
campaign finance laws
with a system of public financing
with matching
dollars, told reporters earlier today in New York City he finds the process of raising money as it is now deeply unpleasant.
As a fundraising tool, for instance, Facebook has largely failed so far,
with most Facebook «causes» raising a few
dollars at most — even the successful
campaigns have generally raised far less money than a well - tended email list would yield from the same number of members.
But
with millions — billions — of big - money
dollars flowing into races up and down the ballot, that last imperative is in danger of eclipsing everything else a
campaign's online team could be doing.
Golden defeated Gentile in 2002
with the help of nearly $ 4 million from the Senate GOP, and Gentile, who spent about half a million
dollars on his Senate
campaign, subsequently won a special election for the NYC Council seat Golden vacated to move up to the Senate.
With more than a million
dollars in his
campaign war chest, and a 7 to 1 Democratic enrollment advantage, Brown and his supporters have to be feeling confident.
Akshar's
campaign has been bolstered by the Senate Republican Campaign Committee, with Republicans in Albany sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to his c
campaign has been bolstered by the Senate Republican
Campaign Committee, with Republicans in Albany sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to his c
Campaign Committee,
with Republicans in Albany sending hundreds of thousands of
dollars to his
campaigncampaign.
Now Cuomo, the Republicans and the IDC are proposing millions of
dollars more in subsidies to charter schools while filling their accounts
with charter school
campaign donations.
In the second scheme, the indictment said, Howe was paid hundreds of thousands of
dollars by two major
campaign contributors to Cuomo — COR of Syracuse, and LP Ciminelli, a Buffalo construction company — and worked
with Kaloyeros to give them advantages in bidding for major projects, including the so - called «Buffalo Billions» project.
Ms. Hayworth also has the ability to finance her
campaign with hundreds of thousands of additional
dollars, as she did in 2010.
Still, Kickstarter - style crowdfunding
campaigns are a natural evolution in online fundraising,
with small -
dollar donor programs and Ron Paul - style moneybombs pointing the way toward greater and greater citizen involvement in
campaign financing.
Among its recommendations, the Commission called for legislation more clearly defining what candidates can not spend
campaign dollars on, which would bring the state in line
with stricter federal rules.