Sentences with phrase «big donations from»

I learned that my predecessors had solicited most of the money in a handful of big donations from a small group of donors.

Christmas is just a week away, but some museums have already opened their presents: big donations from longtime supporters.

As noted in a New York Times piece, she could face some sticky moments as the teacher union candidate and as one who is looking for big donations from rich Democrats who happen to favor the reforms that the teachers unions despise.

Big donations from business people have largely dried up since Ed Miliband became leader, increasing the party's dependence on the unions.

Similarly, Flanagan likes to mess with rent control and housing regulations to get big donations from the real estate fat cats.

In 2007, Salmond received a big donation from Souter and called him «one of the outstanding entrepreneurs of his generation».

Kaminsky's biggest donation from a REBNY Board of Governors member came from John Catsimatidis, the Red Apple owner and former Republican New York City mayoral candidate, who gave $ 33,000 with his wife.

Moskowitz has also relied on Loeb to help coordinate some of the network's biggest donations from his colleagues on Wall Street; fellow hedge fund billionaire Julian Robertson gave Success $ 25 million several years ago, and financier John Paulson has donated $ 8 million to the network.

By far the biggest donation from the firm is # 1.9 m that it gave in the form of «non-cash» to the anti-EU group Grassroots Out.

In 2010, Donnelly «was the first to get a big donation from any of the state's law - enforcement unions,» according to the Pasadena Star - News.

We received a big donation from a Chicago sports team without any contact there.

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During recent years, Werklund has been focusing on philanthropy — in March he donated $ 16 million to Olds College, the biggest single donation in Alberta colleges» history — after stepping down from executive control of his company Canadian Crude Separators in 2010.

That changed in 2013 for his second inauguration, when the administration reversed course and welcomed donations from big companies.

VICTORIA — After more than a century of unlimited donations, corporate cronyism and declining public faith in institutions, Big Money was finally banished from B.C. provincial and municipal elections today as bills 3 and 15 officially became law.

From what I know about Mormons they are family oriented, God loving, charity giving (actually one of the biggest charity donation churches in the world), hard working, honest, read the bible and modest dressing group of individuals.

Republicans get donations from big business and the chamber of commerce and want to continue the flow of money.

Donations are pouring in from individuals and organizations big and small, and now the MLB and MLBPA have announced they will jointly contribute $ 1 million to various relief efforts to help with the damage in Texas.

Unique attempts to bankroll big - ticket items include publishing a wish list seeking donations from residents, working with a neighboring community to build a shared dog park and entering a contest to raise the money needed to redo a public building.

First up on the target list were Sens. Dave Valesky, John DeFrancisco and Steve Saland, all of whom rely on big dollar donations, many of which come from outside their respective districts, to feather their campaign nests.

For instance, they don't just ask for money, and when they do, it's often for only $ 5 or $ 10 (fundraising emails from the RNC generally emphasize the one - off big - money donations, by contrast).

One targets de Blasio's use of an outside non-profit, Campaign for One New York, to raise big unlimited donations from people and entities doing business with the city.

The coalition has promised to reach «detailed agreement on limiting donations and reforming party funding in order to remove big money from politics».

COR is the Democratic governor's single biggest contributor in Central New York, according to the Syracuse Post-Standard, which tallied more than $ 300,000 in donations since 2010 from COR affiliates, executives and their family members.

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.

«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.»

It was late September and Gov. Andrew Cuomo was in Buffalo to help make a big announcement, a $ 42.5 million donation from collector Jeffrey Gundlach to the Albright - Knox Art Gallery.

Labour may suffer the biggest headache from the review because of its heavy dependence on the trade unions, which provide about 80 per cent of its donations.

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.

Of all the issues that dominated legislative debate in last year's session, rent control and 421 - a tax abatements had the most potential to drive a spike in donations from one sector; the fact that contributions from the biggest real estate developers ebbed made it difficult for 2015 to compete with prior years.

Britain Stronger in Europe has received donations of # 6.9 m including # 3.7 m from the Labour peer David Sainsbury, the biggest individual donor in the EU referendum campaign.

Records from last year show people in the film industry have been big contributors to Cuomo and to political party housekeeping accounts, which can accept unlimited 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.

Finance has consistently been one of the biggest talking points from early on with Latimer painting Killian as the big money candidate and championing his larger number of small donations.

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.

With Oregon's gubernatorial race just a few months away, Republican nominee Knute Buehler's campaign received a big boost: a $ 500,000 donation from Nike co-founder Phil Knight.

Much of that came in the form of smaller donations from individuals, as well as bigger funds from the many unions and organizations that have endorsed Rivera over the last month or so (like 1199 SEIU, the Committee of Interns and Residents, and a number of other labor groups.)

He has received campaign donations from companies and wealthy donors ranging from big Albany, N.Y. lobbying shops and real estate developers to Hollywood moguls and pharmaceutical companies.

While facing multiple pay - to - play probes over whether he provided political favors to big donors, de Blasio sent out a fundraising solicitation claiming he really wants donations from regular New Yorkers.

«We're trying to encourage people to make smaller donations to political parties and at the same time discourage big multimillion pound donations from millionaires.»

We also agree to pursue a detailed agreement on limiting donations and reforming party funding in order to remove big money from politics.

Mr. Cuomo received donations from an array of wealthy individuals and companies, from big Albany lobbying shops to real estate developers, from Hollywood moguls to the pharmaceutical industry.

If such a system would have been implemented, it could have enabled candidates who can't garner big checks from special interests to compete with small dollar donations from constituents.

According to NYPRIG, Cuomo has raked in $ 22,191,108 from big - money donors so far, or 49 percent of all his donations in this election cycle.

Hawkins blasted Cuomo's big money contributors, saying that less than 1 percent of the governor's multimillion dollar campaign war chest actually comes from donations of less than $ 1,000.

Many sources do not agree that the Obama campaign was funded by small donations, and have criticised the lack of transparency which masked the hugely important role of the massive donations from big corporations (eg the financial sector gave more to Obama than to his opponents).

The role of large donations in this dash for cash is almost inevitable, but it would be wrong to assume that the public are happy with it; voters are far from unmoved by the relationship between big money and politics.

Glenwood has long been Cuomo's biggest donor, but no donations from its slew of limited liability companies are listed in the governor's most recent campaign filings.

But BBC political correspondent James Hardy said Sir Hayden would «risk Labour fury» by recommending a legally binding limit on individual donations, whether they are from private donors, big business or trade unions.

The Palaeo - Anthropological Scientific Trust (PAST), launched with donations from mining giants Anglo American and De Beers, among others, hopes to attract regular funds from big business to support a range of activities, from excavations and exploration to the training of palaeo - anthropologists and encouragement of «archaeo - tourism» to South Africa's spectacular cave sites.