Sentences with phrase «big donations»

It can be tricky for the state's most regular recipient of big donations to suggest that such donations can cause corruption.
He lines up big donations, and then ensures that the elected official delivers.
The kids could even get into the giving spirit here, doing household chores to earn bigger donations.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg topped the list of US philanthropists who opened their cheque books to make big donations in 2013, with his gift of almost $ 1 billion to a Silicon Valley charity.
Party funding is more diversely based than at the start of David Cameron's leadership and this chart from the Spectator captures the fact that his Lordship has not been making big donations for some time.
I learned that my predecessors had solicited most of the money in a handful of big donations from a small group of donors.
Big polluters gave big donations to B.C. politicians Rumour has it, during one winter vacation in Hawaii, Premier Gordon Campbell read Tim Flannery's The Weather Makers.
Similarly, Flanagan likes to mess with rent control and housing regulations to get big donations from the real estate fat cats.
But men also did something else women did not do: If a man made an exceptionally large donation to an attractive female fundraiser (i.e., an amount twice that of the average donation), other men would soon follow with bigger donations of their own.
Yes, we do still take some very big donations because we have to compete with the Labour Party who can literally pick up the phone to three unions and get the money, but we have massively broadened the number of people giving # 50,000.»
The Committee on Standards in Public Life, the anti-sleaze watchdog, wants all parties to become less dependent on big donations.
The other, even more serious type of very British corruption revealed by the resignation honours list is the fact that these honours — and even places in our legislature — can be purchased with political donations... it is simply undeniable that big donations buy influence... when money buys influence, trust in politics is eroded.»
«The end result is that the vast majority of citizens who can't afford to make big donations feel shut out, and in many cases actually are.»
But while supporters of state funding believe it to be a panacea to end big donations, reduce the risk of corruption and support smaller parties, the fact that state funding is being given serious consideration actually demonstrates how political parties have not done enough to broaden their memberships and attract voluntary support from the public.
Before the last general election, he gave the party their single biggest donation in six years — # 1.5 m.
Small donations might be a good measure of grassroots energy, one of many factors that go into winning a campaign, but big donations indicate which candidate the people who spend the most time gaming out the state's political climate think is likely to win.
Four of the 10 biggest donation bundlers for Stringer's 2017 campaign are real estate executives.
Last month, Henry made is biggest donation yet as the outgoing board member of the National Corvette Museum surprised his fellow board members by donating his 1967 Corvette Sting Ray big block to the NCM's collection.
The phenomenon starts during our political campaigns when people and powerful organizations with their own agendas and resources, skew voting.They secretly or openly give big donations and other supports to the political parties with the expectation that, their political cronies will offer them juicy contracts etc when they win political power.With this support, our parties buy votes instead of winning them.
He also picked up big donations from several developers not listed in REBNY's member database and not included in the above totals.
It's going to be big money and big donations because the federal law guarantees that with this Citizens United case, which has institutionalized big anonymous money.»
Questioned by reporters an hour after the decision was released, de Blasio implied he might try to change the law to allow for bigger donations.
While Cards Against Humanity actually has a history of making big donations to charitable causes, this time, it used the cash more selfishly, splitting it evenly among its 17 employees for about $ 4,185 each.
Reform political party funding, rely less on big donations, and the issue of who does or doesn't meet up with super-wealthy Russians is immaterial.
If you don't have the funds to make a big donation, pay it forward.
«At some schools, sometimes when you give a big donation, you get your name on a building,» a touched Shaw told the Edmonton Journal.
Now fabulously rich, Charles handed over big donations to smooth Jared's way into Harvard (with the help of two United States senators).
And money kept on pouring into BC Liberal coffers, with some of the biggest donations in late 2016, right about the time Rich Coleman flew to Singapore to meet with Sukanto Tanoto.
In one of the biggest donations, Park Heights Roofing gave 100 buckets — one of the cleaning items on the Baltimore donation drive's list.
Truth be told, our financial problems were my fault, because of all the fishing gear I had purchased recently and that big donation I had made to the TV fisherman.
It is said that Democrats this year outdid Republicans in big donations of $ 50,000, $ 100,000 and more.
When Christian college administrators describe an uptick in enrollment or a big donation for a new building project «a picture of God's goodness,» I wonder how they would describe Kanakaraju's situation.
«The support from the other high schools was great and they really stepped in and gave big donations,» said Moody.
To be honest, I chose Vogelbach as both a vote of confidence for him since he had such a bad spring last season and because I figured it would be on the more conservative side since I really couldn't afford a big donation.
Don't be defensive about it... Daddy made a big donation because you have no skills to work in private sector!
A good fundraiser should bring in big donations, of course (that's why you hire one), but even cash generated by big - donor candidate calls is available faster if the transaction takes place online.
Thanks goodness Daddy made a big donation so you can work for Flanagan and the boys... hey a few days ago you were all in with Johnny D. now you are jumping ship for the new guy?
The reality is the way our system is currently set up, the reliance on private donation — and big donations — is a deterrent to people getting involved.»
In 2007, Salmond received a big donation from Souter and called him «one of the outstanding entrepreneurs of his generation».
«We've got to stop this perception that parties can somehow be bought by big donations either from very rich people, or trade unions, or businesses.»
Even with Daddy's big donation to the party — that would not go over well!
I said Labour should sort itself out from the union money and then get stuck into the tories for their big donations.
The Liberal Democrats received their biggest donation of the campaign so far of # 100,000 from Mark Petterson, the director of a large wind farm.
The Tories» two biggest donations, each worth # 150,000, came from Investors In Private Capital Ltd, and Andrew C Green, an investment adviser to equity funds.
It was the biggest donation in Conservative Party history and believed to be the second biggest individual donation in New York electoral history.
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