Sentences with phrase «big campaign contributors»

She also supports altering campaign finance laws to reduce the influence of big campaign contributors.

COR, which has been Cuomo's biggest campaign contributor in Central New York, was hired by New York to build the Central New York Hub for Emerging Nano Industries (commonly called the film hub) in DeWitt.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he had no involvement in the awarding of more than $ 100 million in state contracts to COR Development, a Fayetteville company that is Cuomo's biggest campaign contributor from Central New York.

But beyond the sensational details, trial testimony portrayed an unsavory state government where big campaign contributors are eager to curry favor, willing to exploit campaign finance limit loopholes.

But it turns out that many companies already contracted by the Port Authority, and who stand to benefit from the airport's overhaul, are also big campaign contributors to the governor.

Rangel was a much bigger campaign contributor to his fellow Democrats than Weiner, whose main goal was furthering his own political career.

They primarily reward big campaign contributors.

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.

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 was among Lazio's biggest campaign contributors.

In the Fall 2015, Cuomo was asked if his biggest campaign contributors getting state contracts was a potential problem:

The recipients include some of the governor's biggest campaign contributors, generating calls among some government officials and watchdog groups to intensify oversight of state contracts, including by the comptroller's office and the attorney general.

My preliminary research indicated only one company met the criteria — LP Ciminelli, whose president, Louis Ciminelli, just so happens to be one of Cuomo's biggest campaign contributors In Western New York.

ALBANY — For years, Long Island - based Glenwood Management has cut a profile as a luxury apartment developer and one of the biggest campaign contributors in New York politics.

«You shouldn't be allowed to take airplane flights from big campaign contributors.

Look at both of their big campaign contributors.

His biggest campaign contributor has been a company called Jovian P4, which gave him $ 57,000 and Jovian Holdings which gave him another $ 18,000.

However, working in Perry's favor, in addition to the possible benefits from threatening legislators, is the fact that Governor Dannel Malloy's biggest campaign contributor in last year's gubernatorial election was a leading charter school advocate named Jonathan Sackler and his family.

Snow serves as the director of the Connecticut Chapter of Teach for America and Lowney works for Steve Mandel, the billionaire corporate education reform industry leader who is also one of Governor Malloy's biggest campaign contributors.

Sackler and his wife are among Luke Bronin's biggest campaign contributors having donated the maximum allowable amount to the Bronin mayoral campaign not once, but twice, in the last few months.

Sackler and his wife are two of Governor Malloy's biggest campaign contributors having donated the maximum allowable amount of $ 10,000 each.

The oil and gas industry has been Rep. Lamar Smith's biggest campaign contributor.