Sentences with phrase «after wealthy donors»

Next time you're on campus, count the number of plaques that name buildings, wings, theatres and classrooms after wealthy donors and corporations.

Most of their largest gifts, however, come after a wealthy donor dies.

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One of the biggest trends in philanthropy is wealthy donors getting institutions named after themselves, but there's more than vanity at stake.

The House Intelligence Committee report released on Friday contained a new bombshell: after the 2016 election, wealthy donors paid a former Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D - CA) staffer $ 50 million to continue «exposing» Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

Hou's arrest came two weeks after Xing Wu «Oliver» Pan was indicted on charges of trying to use straw donors to contribute $ 16,000 to Liu's campaign on behalf of an FBI agent posing as a wealthy donor, according to court records..

But I would warmly endorse a larger cut in inocme tax for those undr $ 60K with a corresponding increase to the very wealthy donor class that pays you to lie on their behalf — after all — those are the people who primarily benefitted from the Ryan / Rump tax cuts for donors!

Many wealthy Republican donors quickly supported DeSantis for governor after Trump's endorsement.

Trying to steer the tortured course between the Scylla of her ties to Bloomberg — including to wealthy donors many of whom were his cronies and to pro-Bloomberg Democrats who were a significant minority of the primary electorate — and the Charybdis of the more progressive primary voters who were fed up after 12 years of Bloomberg, Quinn was left without a winning campaign theme.

David Cameron faced demands for an independent inquiry into «cash - for - access» allegations after the Conservative Party released a list of wealthy donors, who had attended private meals hosted by the Prime Minister.

started taking bribes from a wealthy donor shortly after he entered the Senate in 2006.

«This leaves wealthy donors, political institutions, PACs and special interests, which after decades of the male - dominated structure, few women have the same connections to, and even fewer women of color.»

There's nothing like a mid-summer «scandal» to get the education press buzzing, and there's little doubt that the media will continue to have a field day with revelations that Tony Bennett worked to change Indiana's A — F grading system after learning that a high - performing school started by a wealthy donor would receive a mediocre C.

Nearly $ 2.3 million from wealthy charter school advocates fueled the nation's most expensive school board elections in Los Angeles last spring, but those donors and their contributions were never disclosed to voters until months after the election, a review of records shows.