Campaign Contribution Guidelines

campaign contribution guidelines

 Lander 2025 does not take contributions from: 

  • Corporate or Real Estate PACs 

    • This does not include Labor PACs 

    • This does not include Nonprofit &  trade-association PACs (e.g. engineers, trial lawyers)

  • Principals of for-profit real estate development companies (Principal is defined as an Owner, Founder, CEO, and/or Senior Executive) 

    • This does not include Principals of construction and architect/design companies (unless that company also acts as developer/owner of its projects) 

  • Corporate lobbyists who are registered in the NYC

    • Prohibition includes registered lobbyists who work at for-profit law firms

    • Prohibition includes PACs of law firms with lobbying practices

    • This does not include contributions from nonprofit employees who are registered as lobbyists because they lobby the City or State on legislation relevant to the issue they are working on

  • Fossil-fuel executives, which includes utilities companies  (e.g. Con Ed, National Grid)

    • This does not include contributions from  executives of renewable energy 

  • Investment managers who seek or do business with the City. The SEC directly prohibits investment managers from making contributions to elected officials who have a role in selecting them.