Sentence examples for election contributions from inspiring English sources

Mr. Santorum is also accepting general election contributions, his spokeswoman said on Monday.

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In the current election, contributions that would not have been possible before Citizens United are flowing freely.

Romney had used up almost all the money donated to his primary campaign, and by law could not tap into his general election contributions until after formally receiving the nomination on Aug. 28.

Nearly 20 years later, the organization hosts hundreds of millions of records relating to state and local election contributions.

Electoral courts currently take an overview of declared election contributions and compare it to what they believe is spent on the campaigns, including expenses for travel, media production, marketing, and infrastructure for rallies.

When Michael Foot won and led Labour to a notorious defeat in 1983 – unilateralist and in favour of leaving the European Union – Callaghan made an unhelpful election contribution on defence.

One former Pasok official, Theodoros Tsoukatos, has admitted that he accepted €400,000 from the local Siemens boss as an election contribution in 1999, when he was a prime ministerial aide responsible for collecting political donations.

In our culture of expectations for re-election contributions, what develops is a form of extortion, Lessig explains, that has become systematic.

But the Justice Department said that the contribution limit "applies to anything of value provided for the purpose of influencing a federal election," including contributions, expenditures and "payments for personal expenses of a candidate unless those payments would have been made irrespective of his/her candidacy".

The Super PACs have one basic purpose: to allow a presidential candidate to circumvent and thereby eviscerate the $2,700 per donor, per election, candidate contribution limit with huge contributions made to the Super PAC supporting the presidential candidate.