Sentences with phrase «year campaign contributions»

State Senate Democrats have reaped $ 85,000 in election - year campaign contributions from the state teachers union since they skipped last month's vote to cut pension benefits for new teachers and other public employees.

Not exact matches

He has an interest in US prison reform because his father, Charles Kushner, served just over a year in federal prison after a conviction in 2005 for illegal campaign contributions and witness tampering.

That same year, they launched CreateaFund to help people launch personal fundraising campaigns, promote their causes through social media and collect contributions.

So they rely on lobbying ($ 110 million a year,) lawsuits, campaign contributions (wonder why the President won't be vetoing SOPA?)

So even if it's too late, or irrelevant, to submit an appropriations request for this year, it might be worth your while to make a campaign contribution anyway, and lay the groundwork for 2010.

Walmart Canada's annual campaign for disaster relief and preparedness raised a total of $ 3.27 million for the Canadian Red Cross this year, including an $ 818,000 contribution from Walmart which makes us the largest corporate donor to the Canadian Red Cross.

In a recent op - ed in the Edmonton Journal, Public Interest Alberta «s Larry Booi called on the new NDP government to institute campaign spending limits, lower contribution limits to $ 1,200 per year, impose much stronger rules on disclosure of contributions and spending and extend the rules on contributions and spending to cover party leadership and constituency contests.

This has been my experience for over 40 of my 67 years in a fellowship that has no buildings, is not organized, accepts no outside financial contributions, limits end of life personal contributions, has NO fund raising or capital campaigns, does not define stewardship in the level of financial «benevolence!»

So it is with these young people in mind that I ask you consider an end - of - year contribution to our «Support First Things» campaign.

Naked Juice is kicking off this year's campaign with a 250,000 - pound contribution to Wholesome Wave's SNAP Doubling Program.

The next week or so should at least tell us how serious Arsene Wenger is about signing the 25 - year old Algerian who set the Premier League on fire last season with his 17 goals and 11 assists to highlight his all - round impact and contribution to the surprise title winning campaign.

Your contribution to our year - end campaign supports Puppet Showplace Theater's mission to bring outstanding professional puppetry to diverse audiences through performances, workshops, and community outreach activities.

But he's finding that the senator — while likely harder to dislodge with more years on the job and a base of support in his district — is a more attractive target when it comes to generating campaign contributions, particularly for LGBT donors.

According to the GOP, Gillibrand accepted more than $ 610,000 in campaign contributions from the Hollywood / entertainment industry last year.

This year, the Senate Republican Campaign Committee received a $ 5,000 contribution from the group.

The group, which has pushed for an overhaul of campaign - finance laws in the past year, found that corporate and large - dollar donations made up nearly three - fourths of the contributions to Senate lawmakers.

Cynthia Nixon has already raked in more small - dollar contributions in one day than her rival Gov. Andrew Cuomo did in seven years, the star actress» campaign announced.

Last week, State Senator Adriano Espaillat's campaign circulated a tough mailer against his primary opponent, Assemblyman Guillermo Linares, in which they accused Mr. Linares of «betraying» the community by backing Rep. Charlie Rangel over Mr. Espaillat's bid to become the country's first Dominican - American congressman earlier this year and for taking campaign contributions from special interests.

As Gerald Benjamin, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at SUNY New Paltz, points out in aJournal News op - ed; Forty - nine out of 63 New York State Senators received most of their campaign contributions from corporations or big money donors.Millions are wasted and misdirected each year because of sweetheart deals for the special interests.

He said federal officials had taken more than two years to scrutinize every contract Walker handled and every campaign contributed he received, and found no allegations of bribery, official misconduct or improper contributions.

Since 2007 and up until July of last year, pro-fracking businesses, trade organizations, and unions spent $ 15.4 million on campaign contributions to state lawmakers, who are set to determine the fate of the practice in New York.

GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio turned his attention from Democratic LG contender Bob Duffy to his No. 1 target, AG Andrew Cuomo, slamming the gubernatorial designee for being the top recipient of lobbying campaign contributions in recent years.

In that year, the 119 candidates for state senate raised a total of $ 5,740,791 in campaign contributions.

«For more than a decade, Sen. Espada has cavalierly flouted campaign finance rules,» the letter says, referring to Espada's failure over several years to file legally required campaign - contribution disclosure forms.

In that year, the state senate had 90 candidates and raised a total of $ 18,266,324 in campaign contributions.

The New York Post finds that NYC Comptroller John Liu has spent more in legal defense this year than he has raised in campaign contributions.

The Assembly's LLC loophole closing legislation (A. 1926, Kavanagh), which has passed every year since 2015, would eliminate a provision in the current law that allows LLCs to make campaign contributions as individuals, ending the practice where one person or a corporation owns multiple LLCs that are used to funnel donations to a single candidate or committee.

This chart shows how many candidates ran for state senate in Arkansas in past years and the cumulative amount of campaign contributions in state senate races, including contributions in both primary and general election contests.

Over two million dollars in campaign contributions from the gambling industry to Albany politicians in the last two years, plus $ 2.6 million to the pro-Cuomo Committee to Save New York.

The 25 - year - old candidate has received $ 155,390 in contributions and spent $ 29,085 on his campaign so far, according to campaign finance records.

Records show Lynn Nunes, who was six votes shy of defeating City Councilman Thomas White (D - South Ozone Park) during last year's Democratic primary, has dwarfed the incumbent in both contributions and expenditures, campaign finance records show.

Supposedly, Silver for many years sent former Manhattan DA Bob Morgenthau's campaign committee a $ 100 contribution.

«For that reason, the extraordinary step will be taken of giving all contributions from prior campaigns whose committees have been closed for years so that we can dispense with the Republican ploys and focus on the real issues.»

Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell says the state's campaign finance contribution limits will remain the same through the end of the year.

Ms. Quinn, who already reached the maximum contribution limit for this year's Democratic primary, also asked her supporters to boost her campaign's war chest in order to fight back against these sorts of attacks.

It renewed rent regulations for over a million apartments in New York City, authorized property tax rebates for 2.5 million homeowners on Long Island and upstate, restructured and extended a tax subsidy for the real estate industry — the biggest source of state campaign contributions — and authorized New York City mayor Bill de Blasio's control of city schools for another year.

Immediately after the vote, Bloomberg donated $ 10,300 to McDonald's campaign, a contribution that was reported in disclosure reports last year.

Last year, she disclosed the hiring of her son, Ricardo Aguirre Jr., as a campaign consultant who earned $ 55,000 of the $ 102,000 she received in campaign contributions for a primary she ended up winning by a 2 - to - 1 margin.

The jury could only agree on count 3 against Edwards, which related to accepting illegal campaign contributions from 101 - year - old supporter Rachel «Bunny» Mellon in 2008.

In past years, the group of breakaway Democrats have proposed a new system for campaign contributions and limits on outside income.

Among the many provisions in the bill: end outside employment for lawmakers, ban per diem limits and dramatically tighten campaign contribution limits, restrict contributions by lobbyists, create a public financing system, and provide for a substantial salary increase for legislators while extending their terms from two years to four years.

Michael Tolkin, a 32 - year - old tech entrepreneur who is among over a dozen long - shot candidates running to unseat New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, appears to have outspent every other contender in the race, including the mayor, with a $ 5 million in - kind contribution to his own campaign.

Last year, Westchester County police chaplains Jeremy Reichberg and Jona Rechnitz were suspended after a probe called into question campaign contributions to Astorino's re-election campaign; specifically, a $ 15,000 contribution made in the same month that Reichberg was appointed chaplain.

The following chart shows how many candidates ran for State Senate in California in past years and the cumulative amount of campaign contributions in State Senate races, including contributions in both primary and general election contests.

If Mayor Miner is unwilling to respectfully hold Senator Defrancisco accountable for his opposition, she should at the very least return the thousands in campaign contributions that anti-minimum wage interests have generously given to her campaigns over the years,» said Jason Ortiz, political director of HTC.

But only a sliver of the more than $ 350,000 he received in contributions during the first half of the year came from the real estate industry, according to a review of campaign finance records by The Real Deal.

Fat - cat contributors exploited New York's porous election law to shovel $ 28 million in campaign contributions to statewide candidates and to political parties last year, according to a report released Tuesday.

The center, which first called Albany «dysfunctional» years ago, also seeks lower campaign contribution limits and an independent enforcer of campaign finance laws.

The governor's campaign said last Friday it would donate $ 50,000 of those contributions — the amount contributed in 2016 and 2017 to his planned reelection bid next year — to an unspecified woman's group.

This chart shows how many candidates ran for state senate in California in past years and the cumulative amount of campaign contributions in state senate races, including contributions in both primary and general election contests.