Sentences with phrase «contributor pays campaign»
Contributor pays campaign which turns around and pays the politician.
https://politics.stackexchange.com/ Not exact matches
But then at the G8 meetings in 2011, President Obama went over along with Tim Geithner and said, our big campaign contributors are on Wall Street, and they've made huge bets that Greece can pay.
He's proven over and over that his Administration is all about pay - to - play, meaning anyone who is doing work on the Buffalo Billion or the other State contracts is almost certainly a major contributor to Cuomo's campaigns.
Also, the $ 1,000 RLC membership fee (to be paid in personal or corporate funds), gets contributors access to two «exclusive» functions a year, an invite to the NY GOP's annual holiday party and access to forums with senior representatives from the Republican Senate and Assembly conferences and campaigns.
In the second scheme, the indictment said, Howe was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by two major campaign contributors to Cuomo — COR of Syracuse, and LP Ciminelli, a Buffalo construction company — and worked with Kaloyeros to give them advantages in bidding for major projects, including the so - called «Buffalo Billions» project.
«Pay to play» rules bar bond work for campaign contributors, yet the New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivered bond deals to his finance industry donors.
The early - bird posting of Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy's campaign - finance report shows the Cuomo administration's number two has used his fund to pay for what is described in the filing as «housing,» with payments going to a company owned by a major Republican contributor.
The original specs and eventual contract awards raised the spectre of pay to play because LPCiminelli, headed by one of the governor's biggest campaign contributors in Western New York, was awarded the lion's share of the work.
Great suggestions, however, the Times neglected to mention the extravagant, family style dinners where a $ 23 Pecan - walnut salad is paid for by campaign contributors.
The former longtime and closest aide to Cuomo (whom the late Gov. Mario Cuomo considered a «third son,» Andrew Cuomo once said) now stands accused of using his influence to rig lucrative state construction contracts for campaign contributors who, in turn, paid him bribes.
Despite revelations last week that the governor's officials have steered state housing bond work to his campaign contributors in apparent defiance of federal pay - to - play rules, New York state officials on Friday announced they are giving those same donors even more lucrative business — this time on a massive new transportation revenue bond.
Common Cause / NY is urging the City Council to pass legislation introduced by City Councilman Brad Lander which would require city campaign ads paid for by independent expenditures to list the top five contributors on the ad itself.
The senator, one of three announced Republican candidates, said the practice represents «pay to play» dealing, in which campaign contributors receive special treatment.
Despite revelations last week that the governor's officials have steered state housing bond work to his campaign contributors in apparent defiance of federal pay - to - play rules, New York state officials announced they are giving those same donors even more lucrative business.
Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is still being paid by the presumptive GOP presidential nominee's campaign while simultaneously drawing a salary as a CNN contributor to discuss the candidate on - air, according to the network.
Green gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins responded today to reports from both the Cuomo and Astorino campaigns about the other candidate engaging in pay - to - play contracts given to major campaign contributors.
Special interests and their campaign contributors controlled Albany and the people paid the price.»
Crain's New York Business, in a March 28 story, quoted Kathy Wylde, president of the Partnership for New York City and a contributor to Quinn's campaign, as saying, «We don't support paid sick leave, period.»
Having taxpayers pay campaigns» expenses was considered preferable to candidates become indebted to big - money contributors, including state contractors, who have special interests in government decisions.
Nunes, who was his own largest contributor with $ 5,000 paid to his own campaign, had more than $ 33,000 in total contributions and about $ 88,000 in matching funds, the CFB said.
Both candidates have run mudslinging campaign ads — Udall's are paid for in many cases by the League of Conservation Voters, whereas Schaffer's contributors include ExxonMobil and Halliburton — establishing their disparate positions.
The percentage of physicians making campaign contributions in federal elections increased to 9.4 percent in 2012 from 2.6 percent in 1991, and during that time physician contributors shifted away from Republicans toward Democrats, especially in specialties dominated by women or those that are traditionally lower paying such as pediatrics, according to a new study by Adam Bonica, Ph.D., of Stanford University, California, and colleagues.
Most recently, Sackler and his family were the largest contributors to Malloy's re-election effort, pumping well over $ 100,000 into the various committees that paid for the Governor's campaign activities.