Sentence examples for election donors from inspiring English sources
The campaign will soon start raising money for the general election, donors said, as well as drastically expand its Boston headquarters and build state operations across the country.
While checks to the campaign are limited to $5,000 per individual — $2,500 each for the primary season and the general election — donors to the party committee can give as much as $30,800 each.
Mr. Romney, who holds a Harvard M.B.A. and had a reputation as an astute businessman, has also given back $4.9 million to general election donors, according to federal filings.
Also among the salvaged documents were old lists of election donors, which drew scrutiny from some attorneys.
Such 527 groups, named after a section of the tax code, do not necessarily fall under stiff election donor restrictions.
It also became the biggest federal elections donor and the biggest spender on Washington lobbying.
Freedom Partners, a group that serves a central role in the political activities of the brothers Charles and David Koch, unveiled its plan to spend $889m in the upcoming election to donors at an annual meeting in California on Monday.
The very wealthiest Americans already have disproportionate influence: in the 2012 election, 1,219 donors reached or nearly reached the overall limit, and together they were responsible for giving $155 million to federal races.
First, in the 2004 election, small donors in droves gave their credit card numbers to the Democratic campaign of John Kerry, and Kerry was able to keep pace with George W. Bush, dollar for dollar.
Mr. McCain has already begun returning checks designated for the general election to donors, but if the deadlock over nominees to the commission continues, campaign finance experts said he would need either a court order or an act of Congress to amend the statute so he could receive the public money.
Over the course of the 2012 election cycle, donors like Stephens helped the Club for Growth and its affiliates raise and spend more than $16.5 million.
