Sentences with phrase «biggest donors spent»

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The five biggest donors to Clinton combined contributed more to elect her president than Trump spent on his own campaign.

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.»

But, among the groups reporting the biggest political ad spending in 2014, the 15 top Democrat - aligned committees that disclose their donors have outraised the 15 top Republican ones $ 453 million to $ 289 million in the 2014 cycle, according to a POLITICO analysis of the most recent FEC reports, including those filed this month.

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.

This president endures with little joy the small talk and back - slapping of retail politics, rarely spends more than a few minutes on a rope line, refuses to coddle even his biggest donors.

One of the biggest beneficiaries of Clinton's campaign spending in 2007 was also one of her top donors, former Rhode Island Democratic state chairman Mark S. Weiner.

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 big - spending political donor in last year's election cycle, Litwin's campaign contributions following the Silver arrest dipped to just 6 percent of donations in prior years.

In his first month in office, he signed on as a co-sponsor of two House bills aimed at campaign finance reform — both of which seek to limit the influence of big donors and special interests, including super PACs that can spend unlimited amounts of money on federal campaigns.

See which of Canada's 100 biggest charities are best - in - class when it comes to spending donor money wisely.

Mercer was reportedly the third biggest donor to conservative outside - spending groups this election cycle, behind casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and hedge fund manager Paul Singer, and The Washington Post named him one of the «top 10 most influential billionaires in politics,» alongside Rupert Murdoch, the Koch brothers and President - elect Trump.