Deep-pocketed interests know the game, so they spend millions on lobbying expenditures, contributions and PAC donations to support their favored candidates -- in this case military hawks who are more likely to support intervention.
Expenditure items Contribution of UNICEF in USD 2008-2011 In % to total expenses Staff training 31,052.58 9.4% Operational costs (including wages) 35,229.77 10.6 % Services240,833.16 73% Awareness campaign 4,693.00 1.4% Equipment and tools for the operation of the Observatories 18,428.66 5.6% TOTAL 330,237.17 100% Table 4. Distribution of UNICEF support for each level of intervention.
The justifications used were the type of EBHI whereby private employers cover the total health expenditure without contributions by the beneficiaries and with no co-payments in most cases.
(1) Any payment consisting of a contribution, expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement for an electioneering communication that is made by the entity, its officers or directors, or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries to a candidate for election for Federal office or to a political committee, or that is otherwise made with respect to any election for Federal office.
Those reports actually disclosed nothing: Mr. Espada reported "no activity" by his campaign committee, neither expenditures nor contributions, although he was in a close fight for election last year.
She and her firm kept track of expenditures and contributions and made sure that candidates and party committees' campaigns complied with California's tangled election finance laws.
