All Entries Tagged With: "fundraising"
Three Toronto Mayoral Candidates Balk At Early Release Of Donors List
Mayoral candidates George Smitherman, Sarah Thomson and Rocco Rossi will wait until they are legally obligated to disclose their donors list to reveal who is funding their respective campaigns: “A spokeswoman for the Smitherman campaign declined to explain why. “We are going to comply with the law on disclosing our donors,” Erika Mozes said in [...]
How Council Hopefuls Spend
The Town Crier takes a look at the hotly-contested Ward 22 race, to find out how the various council hopefuls spend money on their campaigns: “Any available space around where (Chris) Sellors got his office, we got quotes of over $4,000 a month. All relative to the size he’s getting,” said Matlow. “We are looking for [...]
Ford Enlists Foes To Raise Cash
The Rob Ford campaign is using critical comments from his council colleagues to drive Ford’s e-mail fundraising efforts: “A copy of the missive obtained by the Sun shows Ford’s team gleaned quotes from Rae and Moscoe about the prospect of Ford as mayor and — in Augimeri’s case, her comments made on AM640 about the [...]
Inside City Hall: Ford Camp Claims ‘Overwhelming’ Response To Call-Out
The Globe’s Inside City Hall is reporting that the Rob Ford campaign is claiming victory on a recent fundraising initiative sparked by a negative Toronto Star article: “Adrienne Batra, director of communications for the Ford campaign, said in an e-mail Monday that, “Response to the fundraising e-mail has been overwhelming! In fact the over 200 [...]
‘Smear Pieces’ Help Bottom Line: Rob Ford’s Campaign
The National Post reports that mayoral candidate Rob Ford’s campaign team is working hard to turn the Toronto Star’s coverage this week into a drive to raise campaign funds: After the Toronto Star reported allegations that, during his tenure as coach for Newtonbrook Secondary School’s football team, Mr. Ford physically abused a player, Mr. Ford’s [...]
Million-Dollar Mayoral Candidates
The Toronto Sun looks at the fundraising efforts for the top mayoral campaigns, where both Rocco Rossi and George Smitherman have raised more than $1 Million each: “The public clearly sees Rocco as a winner and wants him to be mayor,” Rossi fundraising co-chair Jim Ginou stated in the campaign’s release. “With over $1 million [...]
Running The Numbers On Rossi Liberal Fundraising
Mayoral candidate Rocco Rossi has always pointed to his prowess as a fundraiser as a strength, but TEN has received some interesting numbers that show the Libs missed their targets while Rossi was at the helm. Look out – it involves math. From our reader, with a response from Rossi at the end: ———- Forwarded [...]
Ralph Lean Joins Team Smitherman
Mayoral candidate George Smitherman has picked up one of the city’s most influential fundraisers today. Lawyer Ralph Lean has agreed to raise funds for the Smitherman campaign, after John Tory declined to run for mayor: “It wasn’t easy, however, and Mr. Lean agonized over it for days. He met with both Mr. Smitherman and Rocco [...]
Stall: Who Gets The “Lean Machine”?
680 News personality John Stall thinks one mayoral candidate will get a big pickup in the fundraising department in the very near future: “It’s going to be a pivotal week for the two front-running mayoral candidates George Smitherman and Rocco Rossi, who should learn by the end of the week which of them gets the [...]
