The groups are prohibited from coordinating their expenditures with the campaigns.
DETROIT'S automakers have long defended their racing expenditures with a simple axiom: Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday.
The ministry said it would review airport revenues and expenditures with a view to reducing landing fees.
There is nothing illegal about supplanting state expenditures with federal welfare dollars, provided the states meet minimum spending levels outlined in the 1996 federal welfare law.
The Obama campaign initially reported that the payment was for "staging, sound, lighting" and other advance work when it reported its expenditures with the Federal Election Commission.
The city council protected remaining council services but faced a difficult battle balancing extra expenditures with providing a favourable climate for businesses.
In fact, I often justify my accessory expenditures with this analogy: In New York, a woman's coat is her car, her shoes are her wheels, and her handbag is her trunk.
What I detect in their tone is reproach, disappointment that I have failed to grasp who they really are: "Surely you don't think a man like me needs to discuss such trivial expenditures with his wife?" Actually, they are right.
But the state then appealed to a higher authority.In 1976 the Supreme Court, in Buckley v Valeo, equated campaign expenditures with the political free speech protected by the constitution's first amendment.
Federal Election Commission guidelines adopted in the wake of the Supreme Court decision prohibit independent groups from coordinating expenditures with their favored presidential candidates and limit how much candidates can directly help raise for the groups.
Maren Hensla, director of independent expenditures with Emily's List, which has campaigned heavily for Mrs. Clinton, acknowledged that some surveys also suggest that women (who voted 2-1 for Mrs. Clinton in Pennsylvania) may drift away if she is not the nominee.
