Sentences with phrase «big campaign contributions»

They are also notorious as a political tool to funnel big campaign contributions to politicians above the legal limit.

Sean Coffey and his former law firm made big campaign contributions to pension fund powerbrokers — including $ 16,000 to disgraced former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi — and supposedly landed big contracts in return.

«The whole scheme of collecting big campaign contributions from people with business before the city is very unseemly,» said Dick Dadey, director of the watchdog group Citizens Union.

Across New York State, from Buffalo to the Bronx, voters support small donor matching funds and limiting the size of big campaign contributions as a way to fix our broken political system.»

AG Andrew Cuomo says it's OK for him to accept big campaign contributions from special interests and lobbyists because he has integrity and can't be bought.

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

The North District race was a hotly contested one filled with big campaign contributions and contrasting educational ideologies from the two candidates on everything from charter schools to extending the school day to the use of standardized tests.

Cuomo was asked if the public should be concerned when winning bidders in contracts also make big campaign contributions.

And that's just another way of saying, «This joint runs great for those who can hire armies of lobbyists and lawyers and have them make big campaign contributions, but not here for real people.»»

«That's why you have big campaign contributions and you get the temptation for the people within government to take advantage of their positions of power.»

We are over-taxed, under - served, and under - paid by a state government that has been bought by the 1 %'s big campaign contributions.

It is stuffed full of billions of dollars of slush funds that the governor and legislative leaders can spend on just about anything, including giving hundreds of millions in tax dollar subsidies to companies and hospitals that make big campaign contributions,» said John Kaehny, director of the group Reinvent Albany.