Sentences with phrase «by the billionaire conservative»

According to the New Yorker, The Mercatus Center was first founded and funded by the billionaire conservative Koch Brothers, and the small think tank advocates environmental deregulation.

To support the California Teachers Union in its fight to preserve due process and seniority rights in a lawsuit brought against it by an organization funded by a billionaire conservative activist;

It was rebuffed by the political network overseen by the billionaire conservative brothers Charles G. and David H. Koch, to which the Mercers were major donors.

Not exact matches

A group linked to the conservative billionaire Koch Brothers, owners of an energy and trading conglomerate who are reviled by unions and Democrats, held three conferences in Michigan in early 2012 on right - to - work featuring renowned conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart.

The conservative tech billionaire may be ditching lefty San Francisco, frustrated by its cultural homogeneity.

Field organizing has been a top priority this year of Americans for Prosperity, the conservative advocacy group backed by the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch and other wealthy donors.

But it has also battered the nascent political network overseen by wealthy conservative donor Rebekah Mercer, which is financed by her father, Robert, a hard - line conservative billionaire.

It was initially funded by conservative billionaire Robert Mercer and led by former Trump advisor Steve Bannon.

The firm, initially funded by a multimillion investment by conservative billionaire Robert Mercer and helmed by former Trump advisor Steve Bannon, touted tools using data to identify and sway voters.

With conservative strategist Steve Bannon playing a founding role, backed by money from billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, the firm was able to develop data from 50 million Facebook users into a psychologically - based strategy to target voters.

The first - term Alaska Democrat, who faces a challenging re-election this November, has been targeted in two TV commercials put up by Americans for Prosperity, a conservative group backed by the deep pockets of the billionaire industrialist brothers, David and Charles Koch.

The city's unions are joining forces to raise millions for Bill de Blasio, with the intent of counterbalancing a fund - raising effort for Joe Lhota spearheaded by conservative - activist billionaire David Koch.

Saying their patience is at an end, conservative activist groups backed by the billionaire Koch brothers and other powerful interests on the right are mobilizing to pressure Republicans to fulfill their promise to swiftly repeal the Affordable Care Act.

Generally Labour are the first to accuse the Conservatives of being bankrolled by a few rich millionaires and billionaires, while the Conservatives respond by claiming that Labour are heavily in debt to the trade union movement.

One of the major players on the right is Americans for Prosperity, a group co-founded by conservative billionaire David Koch.

Cambridge Analytica is owned by conservative billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter, Rebekah, and counted former Trump adviser and Breitbart chairman Stephen Bannon as one of its founders.

Other groups also oppose the border - adjusted tax, including Americans for Prosperity, a conservative organisation backed by billionaires Charles and David Koch, who typically donate generously to Republican campaigns.

It attempted to tell of a star - crossed romance between two conservative young adults from not - all - that dissimilar backgrounds (played by Lily Collins and Alden Ehrenreich) set in the backdrop of the 1950s Hollywood movie - making scene and all of its well - known tropes, while under the controlling — and perhaps crazy — command of billionaire Howard Hughes (Beatty).

Also fueling this viewpoint are advocacy groups funded by David and Charles Koch, billionaire industrialists who have funded many conservative causes and political candidates.

Charter school advocates are pouring money into a fight to convince Massachusetts voters that their already best in the nation school system needs unlimited charter schools — painting itself as a progressive cause when it is funded mostly by the same conservative groups — DFER, New Schools Venture Fund, billionaire donors — behind school privatization everywhere else.

The trust, which is sponsored by the billionaire Carphone Warehouse founder and Conservative Party donor David Ross (pictured right), runs 33 schools across the East Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber, educating 11,000 pupils and employing 2,200 staff.

It's a network that is «increasingly funded by a handful of conservative billionaires and for - profit education companies — often without proper disclosure,» the report states.

Carlisle is 75 % - owned by chairman Lord Michael Ashcroft, a British billionaire and Conservative party officer who holds dual citizenship in the UK and Belize.

Finally embraced by museums that long considered him a pariah for his critiques of institutional power, Hans Haacke's critical eye remains unchanged: his new exhibition at Paula Cooper includes a new work about the Met's acceptance of donations from David H. Koch, the billionaire philanthropist who's financially supported conservative political campaigns.

Tax filings obtained by the Center For Public Integrity show that the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch donated a combined $ 24 million to various conservative organizations and think tanks in 2011, through the four foundations that they run.

Louisiana Senator David Vitter made headlines with conservative websites in the last few days by releasing a report called Chain of Environmental Command: How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama's EPA.

In recent years, the left, lead by billionaire Tom Steyer, has begun to copy the strategies pioneered by Charles Koch and other movement conservatives, investing millions in castigating Right - wing politicians as know - nothing climate - deniers.

Less a new assault inspired by the Republican - led backlash against green energy under way in Washington, D.C., it's the continuation of campaigns by conservative groups such as the American Legislative Exchange Council, Americans for Prosperity and the Heartland Institute with ties to the fossil fuel billionaires, the Koch brothers.

His case was championed by the group Families Against Mandatory Minimums, former FBI director Bill Sessions, conservative billionaire Charles Koch and others.

Former employees accuse the firm, owned by the conservative billionaire Robert Mercer and previously headed by Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon, of taking advantage of ill - gotten data belonging to millions of unwitting Facebook users.

Cambridge Analytica is backed by the family of billionaire donor Robert Mercer, a hedge fund manager who also supported the Trump campaign and other conservative candidates and causes, including Bannon, the Trump campaign strategist.

Cambridge was backed by the conservative billionaire Richard Mercer, and at one point employed Stephen Bannon — later President Donald Trump's campaign chairman and White House adviser — as a vice president.

Cambridge was backed by the conservative billionaire Richard Mercer, and at one point employed Stephen Bannon — later Trump's campaign chairman and White House adviser — as a vice president.

Cambridge Analytica was backed by the conservative billionaire Richard Mercer, a hedge - fund manager who supported the Trump campaign.