The club, however, insist that "the total value" of their contribution "comprising capital costs, direct funding, in kind, delivery and long-term public sector savings" is "a substantial contribution in excess of £20m".
That would enable them to identify players who would be particularly well-suited to join their existing roster, and thus likely to make a contribution in excess of their pay cheques.It also suggests, at least in this instance, that being an outlier works.
Federal Election Commission rules permit elected officials to speak at such events as long as they do not directly solicit contributions in excess of federal limits.
It also describes how Mr. Chvala apparently engineered contributions in excess of state limits and submitted false reports to the election board, and used the Senate Democratic Caucus staff to run campaigns, which violates state law.
More than three-fourths of the federally registered lobbyists making campaign contributions in excess of $25,000 this year have showered money mainly on one political party or the other, according to the reports they filed with Congress at the end of last month.
PAGE A18 CHOOSING SIDES An analysis of the first filings under the new congressional ethics law shows the strength of party loyalty among lobbyists: more than three-fourths of the federal lobbyists making campaign contributions in excess of $25,000 this year have given money mainly to one party or the other, according to the reports they filed with Congress at the end of last month.
While the D.N.C. and R.N.C. are the institutions designed to direct research like this, to conduct voter mobilization, to spearhead fund-raising, and to act as broker between competing primary candidates, campaign reform prohibiting party committees from accepting contributions in excess of $32,400 clearly poses an impediment.
The mechanism solicits discrete contributions towards a provision threshold using a money-back guarantee for insufficient contributions and extended benefits for contributions in excess of the threshold.
Among them was a stipulation that the principal investigator would not be allowed to recruit foreign instrument contributions in excess of one-third the value of the U.S. instruments on the payload, even though those contributions don't count against the $450 million cap.
While a list of individual donors could not be located (the group is a 501(c)4), a financial audit from April 6 through December 31 , 2010 indicated contributions in excess of $5 million.
Since 1990 the Finance/Insurance/Real Estate has made political contributions in excess of $2 billion, far more than any other sector.
