The Campaign Finance Board dealt Herman Badillo's cash-poor mayoral campaign a setback yesterday when it rejected his request to count donations totaling about $20,000 from 127 New Yorkers toward the amount he needs to qualify for matching city funds.
In New York City, Mayor Michael "Money Bags" Bloomberg spent about 120 million dollars of his own money on his reelection campaign, and that does not count donations to the favorite charities of other politicians, outright campaign contributions to them, or the money he spent overturning the city's term limits law.
For the fiscal year ending in June 2002, it raised almost $1.7 million, not counting donations earmarked for victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The analysis by The Times counted donations made in the 2011-12 elecycle cycle to the candidates, to super PACs aligned with them and to the national parties, from the two addresses that make up the San Remo — 145 and 146 Central Park West.
And it only counts donations made during the current year, so cumulative generosity doesn't figure.
That's not counting donations to chapter offices around the country, Newhouse said.
Allen pleaded guilty last year in Los Angeles Superior Court to a charge of grand theft by embezzlement for stealing cash tithes by members of Lancaster Baptist Church, where he was a deacon and served on a committee that counted donations after services.
What's more, because the tickets are not being sold, any payments made count as donations, which means they qualify for gift aid.
While it is lawful to accept foreign loans on a commercial basis, these could count as donations if they were advanced on terms that were more favourable.
At the Electoral Commission's last count of donations, more than £7,500 (the ones that have to be declared), groups arguing for a leave vote had raised £12.1m, while £9m had been given to those backing remain.
After all, Mr Toomey is still running in Pennsylvania and he can now count on donations from a Republican base that views Mr Specter in as much esteem as, say, your typical Beatles fan views Yoko Ono. Theentire conservative movement, over 20 years, has been creating litmus tests and arguing that only cast-iron fiscal and social conservatism can win elections.
