Sentences with phrase «big donors who»

«Other campaigns are bankrolled by big donors who have given so much even under our current corrupt political system they can't legally give any more,» campaign manager Jeff Weaver said in a statement that pegged the average donation to Sanders at $ 30.

The 27 came from a larger pool of 779 big donors who stood out on electoral commission records.

Jack Straw yesterday defended the big donors who propped up the Labour party, saying they were «not dodgy but honourable».

That makes them unwilling to work on behalf of the citizens of their district who polling show strongly support minimum wage increases — while still trying not to offend the business interests and and big donors who literally own them!

Unlike traditional big donors who often reach their quota for a given candidate with a single check, small donors can contribute again and again, providing a financial consistency that's useful in a short campaign and priceless in a long one.

Not exact matches

Another big donor to Priorities USA Action is J. Steve Mostyn, who gave $ 1 million.

By showing your donors that you can follow through on your first campaign, effectively raise money, build a prototype, fulfill rewards and communicate your success, you have built in a second round of donors who have a vested interest in your success, and who will not only support you in round two, but will also help you spread the word for the bigger second campaign.

Lithuania only got to the games thanks to funding from small time donors and one big contributor: THE Grateful Dead (pictured), who commissioned the t - shirts in support of the team / country's recent independence from the Soviet Union.

Tax records, however, reveal some of the sugar - daddies of the conservative and libertarian movement who funnel big money through Donors Trust.

Online political advertising was seen «initially as a force for good,» because it offered a lower cost way for candidates to advertise and could serve as a counterweight to the influence of big political donors, said Ellen Weintraub, a veteran Democratic commission member who now serves as its vice chairwoman

A look at some of the biggest donors of the election cycle: TOP DEMOCRATS — Tom Steyer, a retired San Francisco hedge fund billionaire who...

There are tons of people who don't believe in God, who could use some help, the only reason he's getting it, is because to these donors, he represents a big middle fingered salute to religion, and that gets them exited.

all I can think of today is what I saw in yesterday's news, about the former paratrooper turned preacher at an Independent Fundamental Baptist church just outside Ft. Bragg, N.C., that told his congregation they should break their sons» wrists if they catch them doing the «limp wrist», or give him a good punch... and all the kids that have committed suicide because other kids have picked up on messages like this and bullied them till they couldn't stand it anymore... we are the only bible some folks will ever read, and if they get this kind of message, well, who'd want to be with a group of people where you are grudgingly tolerated, if not outright hated, and all this in Jesus» name... it also says that the churches will do just about anything to keep people obedient and unquestioning, so they will continue to give, and so the big donors will continue to give, so that the doors at Monster Megachurch can be kept open, and the lights on... David, this is one of your «less is more» toons here... a minimum of elements that says so much....

Just being able to sign big money world class players is what has papered over their cracks, but the likes if Arsenal don't have a donor who will lose # 50 million on a flop player and take it as nothing.

In honor of March being National Social Work Month, Circle would like to extend a big THANK YOU to the hard - working social workers in the Circle Family, who work tirelessly providing support and guidance to our intended parents, surrogates and egg donors along every step of their journeys.

«If you don't know who they are, they are two of the biggest donors to Donald Trump's presidential effort and helped place Steve Bannon on the campaign and in the White House.

Toulon's biggest donors included physician Jeffrey Vacirca, who gave $ 10,000, and North Eastern Bus Rebuilders in Ronkonkoma, $ 5,000.

Zacarese's biggest donors in the latest filing were supermarket magnate John Catsimatidis and his wife, who each gave $ 10,000.

«The 6th District and America need to stop big corporate money from privatizing our democracy, which means public funding for public elections as we have in NYC and a DISCLOSE act so anonymous money from billionaires doesn't buy our government,» said Green, who is the author of Who Runs Congressand Losing Our Democracy, as well as the author of the multiple matching funds for small donors part of the City's campaign finance lwho is the author of Who Runs Congressand Losing Our Democracy, as well as the author of the multiple matching funds for small donors part of the City's campaign finance lWho Runs Congressand Losing Our Democracy, as well as the author of the multiple matching funds for small donors part of the City's campaign finance law.

Although Dan Jarvis seems to be gathering donors and thinkers around him for the future... Although Peter Hyman, Joe Haines and Peter Kellner are recommending active resistance in the latest edition of the New Statesman... and although there are signs that the two biggest stars of the Twitterleft — Owen Jones and Mehdi Hasan — are becoming frustrated at Team Corbyn's competence... the chances are that May's tests of public opinion won't be catastrophic for the man who wants nuclear submarines without nuclear warheads.

The big donors include actors Steve Buscemi and Cynthia Nixon, designer Diane von Furstenberg, composer Jonathan Scheffer, de Blasio's former communications director Karen Hinton, who left City Hall last year, and former senior adviser Peter Ragone, who left in 2015.

Sini's biggest donors in the latest report include Herbert Allen III, head of Allen & Co., who gave $ 33,349.

Those who support a convention say dramatic action is required to address corruption charges that have forced more than 30 officials out of office in a decade as well as issues such as New York's high taxes, unequal funding of schools, and the influence of big - money donors in campaigns.

Even as Messina jet - sets around the country, huddling with big donors, will the campaign cultivate the small donors and grassroots activists who powered and shaped the «08 Obama campaign?

believe that the future of our country lies in our people, not in big money donors and lobbyists who seek to divide us for their profit.

The four candidates vying for control of Ukip have been blasted by its biggest donor, who questioned whether it was «all over» for the party.

Sky - high contribution limits — $ 41,000 for statewide races in the general election — mean that candidates spend more time courting big donors, who in turn exercise disproportionate influence over policy - making.

«Government can't succeed and can't really work for ordinary New Yorkers until we do restore the public trust,» said Scharff, who believes that can only happen if there's less reliance on big money donors and more on small donors.

«Zephyr is fearless, independent - minded, and will stand up for working families against the big money donors and wealthy insiders who have rigged the economy in their favor.

The Doe Fund's George McDonald (he's a big Cuomo donor who got his start in Democratic politics working for Sen. Ted Kennedy and was wearing a Kennedy / NY pin on his suit lapel today), state Democratic Party Executive Director Charlie King (he ran as Andrew Cuomo's LG candidate in 2002), and Paul Francis, a former aide / campaign advisor to ex-Gov.

No charges have been filed, but prosecutors are examining «substantial payments» from a tax firm that has helped some of New York City's biggest developers (who double as the state's top political donors) reduce the property tax bills on their holdings.

The biggest donor to New York 2014 is Kenneth Griffin, founder and CEO of hedge fund Citadel LLC, who also recently made the largest single contribution in the history of the state of Illinois.

Among other big donors, the family of Shalom Maidenbaum, who heads several residential tax refund companies, gave Mangano $ 50,000.

The list includes 23 big - bucks donors who got appointed to municipal boards and committees, eight developers who benefited from government actions or policy changes, six political allies put on the city payroll and five business owners who scored lucrative contracts.

Donors affiliated with a major TV and film production company who never gave more than $ 250 to any city office donated thousands to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2013 — and are now dodging questions about the big - money contributions.

While the Obamas line up their post-White House plans, 18 - year - old first daughter Malia Obama reportedly has already landed a plum gig for sometime in the future — an internship with Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, who has been a big Democratic donor.

Mayor de Blasio's team raised conflict - of - interest questions about the state awarding two big contracts to a firm owned by a top campaign donor to Cuomo one a day after the state put on hold a Brooklyn construction project because Cuomo ESDC appointees expressed similar concerns about the developer who made donations to a fund supporting the mayor.

House Speaker Paul Ryan, who has repeatedly insisted he's not interested in being the compromise candidate for president should the current contenders fail to reach the delegate threshold, will meet with big GOP donors in Manhattan next week.

«Albany doesn't need another politician who'll represent the needs of big money donors and that's what they'll get with George Amedore,» said David Donnelly, treasurer of New York Friends of Democracy.

Democratic NYC mayoral frontrunner Bill de Blasio, who has pledged to reduce the gap between the rich and poor, has collected more than 40 percent of his campaign contributions from big - ticket donors.

Getting a plea deal from Rattner — Obama's former car czar, a big Democratic donor and a close friend of Mayor Bloomberg (who has endorsed Cuomo for governor)-- would make national headlines and further assit the gubernatorial frontrunner in his quest to demonstrate that he is indeed a corruption fighter who can clean up Albany.

«What Albany needs are Senators like Cece Tkaczyk who'll stand up to big donors and fight for reforms of our broken campaign finance system.»

«America is a place where the freedom to be who you are shouldn't be a barrier to your ability to get a job and provide for your family,» said Paul Singer (pictured), a billionaire hedge fund founder and big Republican donor.

As well as attracting the support of voters who instinctively vote Labour, they would retain control of the party's institutional donors, campaigning operation and campaigning data, as well as a bigger share of the Short Money given out to opposition parties.

Mr. Cuomo, a prodigious fund - raiser who has long preferred collecting fewer big checks to cultivating a small - donor base, raised only 0.2 percent of his money from donors who gave less than $ 200.

The filing is a big haul for a mayor who has spent the last six months, and longer, under the cloud of state and federal investigations into his fundraising efforts, and who had pledged this spring to follow the example set by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, who raised the majority of his presidential campaign's funds from donors giving small amounts.

The governor isn't the only one retailing bogus history last week: His Democratic primary opponent Cynthia Nixon told New York Magazine that Cuomo's work to pass marriage equality in 2011 was due to his having «a lot of big Republican donors who wanted the marriage issue to go away because they thought it was making the party look bad.»

Lerner says that would give small donors a bigger voice, and encourage candidates who are not rich to run for office.

Edward Erikson, a consultant who works with prominent Sanders supporter Ben Cohen (of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream fame) and other activists trying to reduce the role of big money in politics, said Sanders himself deserves the credit for motivating small donors.

«He had a lot of big Republican donors who wanted the marriage issue to go away because they thought it was making the party look bad,» she told me.