Sentence examples for electioneering ads from inspiring English sources

"And 501(c) serves as a haven for these front groups to run electioneering ads and keep their donors completely secret".

But the CREW complaint says the group's less-pointed "electioneering" ads — costing $4.6 million in all — crossed the line as well.

"We're seeing a flood of special-interest money pouring not just into electioneering ads," said David Donnelly, director of Campaign Money Watch, a liberal-leaning group, "but into the campaign accounts of the person who could be the next speaker.

Those "electioneering" ads will be redesigned so that users can identify them as such.

The Court explicitly overruled two prior decisions -- and invalidated the laws of 22 states -- to permit corporate and labor spending on electioneering ads in campaigns.

Federal election rules, though, require that when a group accepts a donation earmarked for an electioneering ad, the donor must be identified.

Twitter said Tuesday that it would create an "advertising transparency center" that would display all ads that followed the Federal Election Commission's definition of an "electioneering ad," which refer specifically to a candidate or to a party associated with a candidate.

It also targeted so-called "electioneering communications", ads that name a candidate within 30 days of a primary or caucaus or 60 days of a general election.

In 2007, Public Citizen filed complaints with the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Election Commission, contending that Americans for Job Security spent the vast majority of its resources electioneering — running ads close to elections — contrary to I.R.S. guidelines for tax-exempt, nonprofit business groups.

Since 2000, when special interest groups with innocuous-sounding names began spending money on electioneering television ads, the average spending by all candidates for Supreme Court seats has reached $3.5 million, with half the total spending, or $20.8 million, being from undisclosed sources.

(The Republican Party can spend another $19m or so supporting him; and supposedly independent groups can easily find loopholes in the complex campaign-finance laws that allow them to run blatantly electioneering attack ads).Previous presidential nominees have all accepted public funds in general elections.