Sentence examples for election donations from inspiring English sources

"We need major reform in this country around election donations.

After Watergate, limits were placed on the size and scope of election donations.

Each of those individual donations was within the legal maximum of primary and general election donations, a total of $5,000 in 2012.

On the anniversary of Citizens United, U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) and U.S. Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) reintroduced the DISCLOSE Act, which would require the disclosure of all election donations.

"I wanted to -- if I was going to win -- win in a way that wasn't just immersing myself, that wasn't just sucking myself into the system that already exists that we're not happy with," Ing said of private election donations.

Some members of the party's executive committee were keen to pursue him for the return of at least £10,000 which the trial had revealed he had taken from a generous election donation in order to pay for dealing with Scott.

Around the Web: President Obama has set up an events registry that will give supporters the option to encourage re-election donations in lieu of a wedding or birthday gift, Politico reports.

Labour managed to catch up with the Tories on pre-election donations last week, taking more than £7m in the last quarter of 2014, just behind the Conservatives, who received more than £8m.

That shouldn't be a problem, the firm argues, because as a post-election donation, the sum is not covered by those campaign limits -- at least as the law applied in 2007.

"Should the Conservative party secure a majority following the general election using donations made by Bearwood Corporate Services Limited, and your investigation were to conclude after the general election that these donations were illegal, this would raise serious concerns about the legality and validity of the entire election result," it says.

Q | How will Jeremy Corbyn's election affect donations from Labour supporters?