Sentences with phrase «because of campaign contributions»

«High court deadlocks on Smart Growth; Donations prompt Ziegler to step aside on moratorium case»: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel today contains an article that begins, «The state Supreme Court deadlocked on a Smart Growth decision Wednesday after Justice Annette K. Ziegler stepped aside because of campaign contributions she received.»

She promised to fight burdensome regulations and taxes, cast Maloney as an elitist and accused him of helping two Orange County businesses because of campaign contributions from their CEOs, who happened to be Republicans.

GOP senators also bristle at Democrats» claims that the Republican opposition is because of campaign contributions from National Rifle Association - affiliated groups and supporters.

Not exact matches

Saunders, the president of the Vancouver and District Labour Council, says that Canadian workers and their pensions are more exposed to risk during market trouble because of the successful campaign over the past decades to move from defined benefit pensions, which guarantee a certain monthly amount when you retire, to defined contribution plans, promoted by market enthusiasts.

The leaders had all begged the Congressmen to support the act because the leaders themselves had already arranged very heavy campaign contributions for themselves out of all of this.

Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani said he's still getting up to speed on the facts, but the payment to Stormy Daniels did not require him to have a full accounting of the details, saying: «I am focused on the law more than the facts right now... The whole situation of the $ 130,000 doesn't require an analysis of the facts because it wasn't intended as a campaign contribution.»

«Because regular people don't give millions of dollars in campaign contributions.»

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If anything, her higher profile because of the «Me Too» movement has translated into more campaign contributions from the grass roots.

A Fair Elections system would allow the priorities of constituents to matter more, because big campaign contributions would matter less.

This ongoing corruption is made possible because Glenwood, through its aggressive use of its LLCs, is effectively not subject to any campaign contribution limits.

As Gerald Benjamin, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at SUNY New Paltz, points out in aJournal News op - ed; Forty - nine out of 63 New York State Senators received most of their campaign contributions from corporations or big money donors.Millions are wasted and misdirected each year because of sweetheart deals for the special interests.

That second account has $ 1.76 million in it, but because there are higher contributions limits in that statewide account most of it could not be used for a Senate campaign.

The board said that, because the council members were Advance Group clients and NYCLASS was also a client of the group, the contributions were «coordinated» and violated campaign finance law.

Photo Credit: The Suffolk Democratic Committee returned a $ 100,000 union campaign contribution from The New York State United Teachers during the 2014 election because the union sought to steer the money to Democratic State Senate candidate Adrienne Esposito in possible violation of state election law, according to documents and Suffolk Democratic officials.

Some Democrats, including State Sen. Marc Panepinto of Buffalo and Jose Peralta of Queens, said they could not endorse the budget because it did not include proposals to increase the minimum wage or limit corporate campaign contributions.

The Suffolk Democratic Committee returned a $ 100,000 union campaign contribution during the 2014 election because the union sought to steer the money to Democratic State Senate candidate Adrienne Esposito in possible violation of state election law, according to documents and Suffolk Democratic officials.

The Senate GOP, which is based mostly upstate and on LI is sticking its nose into NYC schools / charters because it needs the campaign contributions of the charter billionaires, not because it wants to help anyone.

The Suffolk Democratic Committee returned a $ 100,000 NYSUT campaign contribution during the 2014 election because the union sought to steer the money to Democratic state Senate candidate Adrienne Esposito in possible violation of state election law.

Gianaris, of Queens, insisted that because Bruno is no longer an office holder or candidate, the money he gave to the Senate GOP's main campaign account should be considered a donation, not an unlimited transfer, and capped at the legal $ 109,600 contribution limit.

David Plouffe, a former aide to Barack Obama now working for the ride - sharing company, has claimed de Blasio is simply thwarting its progress because he received campaign contributions from taxi medallion owners, who have warily watched the number of Uber drivers eclipse their own ranks.

While testifying at the unrelated corruption trial of former State Sen. Dean Skelos, Walker confirmed he is being investigated by federal prosecutors for what he called «campaign contributions, that contractors received work because of that.»

The senior member subsequently flagged the contribution when Kasowitz notified the office of his involvement in the Trump case and instructed the campaign to return it, and the office concluded its probe after two years because it did not yield enough evidence to support a criminal prosecution.

The Mangano campaign in February refunded $ 5,000 because it exceeded the limit of $ 5,000 per calendar year for corporate contributions.

«You see that in New York and you don't see it at the state level because you have the highest campaign contribution limits of any state that has limits in the country, coupled with a rigged system of redistricting and the normal powers of incumbency.»

But such spending made with the cooperation of a campaign is illegal because candidates are barred from accepting contributions from corporations under city law.

The group, which could accept unlimited contributions because of its status, allegedly funneled money from wealthy donors into de Blasio's campaign coffers — avoiding campaign finance restrictions.

Now, this tells me a story, and I love it; I really don't know why, maybe because of the poses and the set, I can not help it to relate the whole thing to psychology, which I think gives an intellectual contribution to the campaign, and at least in my case, makes the clothes look a lot more interesting... and what a lovely surprise to see Ondria and Yumi, they're definitely perfect casting, I think they both fit their aesthetic very well.

As Terry Moe, a senior fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution, noted in a 2002 interview with the Heartland Institute, the teacher unions «have a lot of money for campaign contributions and for lobbying... They also have a lot of electoral clout because they have many activists out in the trenches in every political district.»

Instead, they felt that the government hadn't proved its case because it presented no evidence of intent, i.e., that Fieger knew that his campaign contributions violated the law.

And because campaign contributions are a matter of public record, it's hard to argue that judges can be shielded from knowing who their campaign contributors are.

The Arkansas Supreme Court held that the canon was narrowly tailored to the state's interests in judicial impartiality and open - mindedness, and that White was inapplicable because the facts of the case and the details of the solicitation canon were distinguishable: «We do not believe anyone can seriously argue that a judge personally soliciting campaign contributions from attorneys having cases before him or her should be permissible.»