Sentences with phrase «biggest donors did»

The big donor does not fit the profile the critics are looking for either.

Not exact matches

Trump's donor list doesn't include as many big companies, and the total haul is relatively small, compared to Clinton's numbers.

Spoiler alert: she does not go into detail about how fentanyl dealers used the real estate market to launder drug money or how B.C. casinos (also big donors to her party) helped international high rollers convert duffel bags of dirty cash into down payments on luxury homes.

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.

And if they can, they'll take a poor person's bed away if it means certainty that the big donor's money does not decrease.

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....

Also, I've known of a church where big donors acted as if they were patrons and threatened the pastor that they would leave the church if he did not agree to their demands.

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.

«Usually, the tree was too big to get up there and decorate in order to do it justice,» said tree donor Mike Krafton.

In fact, talented friends of mine in the field argue that a campaign's FIRST hire should be a digital director, supplemented as needed by a big - donor fundraiser — because what the digital team does is effectively the backbone for the rest of the campaign.

Then why did they pass the one house bill that provided bigger cuts for working / middle class while giving smaller cuts to the donor class?

«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.

De Blasio dodged the question about whether he'll have to testify in a Long Island corruption trial that stars one of his big donors, saying: «I'm not a lawyer... What we did, what my team did, what I did was legal and appropriate.»

«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 law.

And once the internecine struggle was over and donations DID start flowing in, as we saw above many of them weren't under his direct control, leaving him cautious with cash up until the Republican convention let him hit his big donors one more time.

De Blasio claimed the firing of a top city official had «nothing to do» with the aide telling federal investigators City Hall improperly intervened on behalf of a big campaign donor.

«We did not become the most taxed state in America by accident; it is due to a systematic break down caused by politicians beholden to big donors and party leaders rather than the people,» Giambra said.

And as the ones on the receiving end of so many fund - raising pleas, they know that elected officials are spending too much time courting big donors and not enough time doing the people's business.»

«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.

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.

«She demonstrated that, even in this day and age, a candidate with a real message doesn't necessarily need the support of the party apparatus, or the financial backing of big donors, to have an impact.»

He ripped Cuomo for the MTA mass transit crisis, accused him of «emboldening a Republican state Senate majority» by not doing enough to reunify fractured Senate Democrats, and knocked his support for charter schools and big - money hedge fund donors.

Many CF1NY donors do business with the city, including unions and big real estate developers seeking tax breaks and zoning changes for their projects.

Latimer must rely on big money donors to support his inaccurate mailers because he either does not care enough to attend public forums on issues important to constituents, or he is too feeble.

Elected leaders around New York are trying to figure out what to do with campaign contributions they've received from two big developers — and donors — connected to this scandal, LPCiminelli in Buffalo and COR Development in Syracuse.

«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.

We may not be able to do anything about the limits of individual donors but we can separately be building another infrastructure, a public financing infrastructure that at least enables candidates to get heard in their relevant district without have a lot of money and without having big money backers,» said Teachout.

She noted that New York City has a database that links subsidiaries to their parent companies and the state could do the same to identify big donors.

De Blasio had another memory lapse when grilled yesterday about damning testimony from a big bucks donor, saying he doesn't remember whether he personally asked the man for a six - figure check.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio had a bout of memory loss Saturday during his first public comments about the damaging pay - to - play testimony of one of his biggest donors, Jona Rechnitz, though he did call Rechnitz a «liar» and a «horrible human being.»

«If a big donor gets a favor you don't necessarily tie it to the donation,» he said.

Regardless of whether you think Labour or the Tories have done this in the past, do you think a big donor «having a quiet word» is a good way to determine policy or not?

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The Republican partisanship of the big donors was particularly intense, because conservative Republicans depended more on the contributions of the 0.1 percent than did moderate Republicans.

After a 2012 analysis of his affinity for big checks, his campaign issued a statement that Cuomo «is not campaigning at this time, so we haven't done many fund - raising events, which would include low - donor events.

Talking to big donors can be a daunting task for most administrators, but that does not mean that administrators don't have the capacity to become successful large donation fundraisers.

However, ERN and ERNA do not disclose who its major donors are and how much those big donors give to fund its operations and ambitions.

The league doesn't have that kind of financial wherewithal, but just one big donor and it'll be there.

Heartland hasn't disclosed the sources of its funding in years (although leaked documents have done some of that work for it), but we know that ExxonMobil and the American Petroleum Institute have been big donors in the past.

timg56, if you think lawmakers vote based on their constituents» wishes and not their biggest campaign donors» wishes, you don't live in the post Citizens United world.

suspects climate change is such a big problem that many would - be donors do not know how to donate or who to give to.

Rather than mostly doing «safe» projects that attract big corporate donors and government grants, CBD is more willing to stick their neck out.

I am very well aware that several of these big donors benefit from the energy mix we have currently, but I am convinced that few of them (perhaps by choice) don't really understand what we are facing regarding global warming.