In response, the DUP, which backed Vote Leave's bid to win the official campaign designation, denied asking for money and said it was Banks who offered cash.
"But the Electoral Commission, which has been pursuing a spiteful vendetta against us since we reported their crooked activities during the Leave campaign designation process to the Treasury select committee, has decided to shut us down.
Mr. McCain's aides said that to deal with his fund-raising problems, he would adopt what had been a centerpiece of Mr. Bush's fund-raising technique, and one that has been embraced by most major presidential candidates: creating an honorary campaign designation to reward the campaign's top money raisers.
Banks told the Guardian that he did not think Vote Leave would get the lead campaign group designation because it was "now just a Conservative group with one Ukip MP on it".
Mr. McCain's political director, Sarah Simmons, said the campaign's designation of Arizona as a battleground state was simply a recognition that voters there do not always vote for Republicans for president.
Britain began to campaign for the designation after a terrorist attack in Bulgaria a year ago, which killed five Israeli tourists and their Bulgarian driver, and the conviction in March of a Hezbollah operative in Cyprus for plotting a similar attack.
That dreadful distinction, along with the building's impending centenary, are what prompted Steve Fisher, 62, a retired architect who grew up in and lives in the area, to campaign for landmark designation of the Maspeth firehouse, at 68th Street and Borden Avenue.
A campaign for landmark designation brought together advocates who have never before fought shoulder-to-shoulder, like Representative José E. Serrano, a Bronx Democrat who is the ranking member of the House Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, and the artist Jonathan Shahn, whose parents painted the murals.
Then, as a community board member, he helped in the campaign to win landmark designation for Eastern Parkway, the grand boulevard designed by Olmsted and Vaux that separates the Lubavitcher-dominated blocks from those occupied by West Indian families.
You don't need a terrorist designation and campaign to prosecute existing law.
Henry Edwards-Woods, 25, a skateboard film-maker and spokesman for the campaign, feels the proposed designation is perfectly fitting.
