Sentences with phrase «campaign money from»

«We have a judiciary at the highest level, the Texas Supreme Court, that gets 40 to 50 percent of its campaign money from the very people who are practicing before that court,» said Craig McDonald, head of Texans for Public Justice, a follow - the - money political watchdog.

He also receives a huge percentage of his campaign money from the fossil fuel sector.

On the whole, sponsors and co-sponsors from the six states in which the ALEC bill was proposed were recipients of $ 44,409 in campaign money from the oil and gas industry, a miniscule down payment for some of the most lucrative corporations known in the history of mankind.

A late influx of campaign money from oil and utilities industries sought to torpedo the measure.

Other major democracies (ones with stricter limits on taking campaign money from special interests; and ones in which the price of gas has been well over $ 5 / gallon for years) don't seem to have this problem of science blindness and deer - caught - in - the - headlights inaction.

The campaign money from charter school advocates has been flowing into Malloy's political operation at record levels while Malloy's administration has been turning a blind eye to the fact that charter schools are violating Connecticut laws, regulations and policies.

«They're going to go down as the worst laws we've looked at,» said Sen. Bert Johnson, a Democrat who has accepted campaign money from both the teacher's union and Democrats for Education Reform, a national Democratic group that support candidates with education platforms that often differ from those of the unions, according to campaign finance records filed with the state.

Brandon was a recipient of a significant amount of campaign money from the school choice movement during his 2012 run for office — 25 percent of his campaign contributions came from pro-voucher investors.

Since Combs» left office, the program was shelved, so Combs used left over campaign money from her various political campaigns to create the new initiative, which was announced Wednesday.

It's well known he's received multi-millions of dollars in campaign money from oil companies.

Members of Congress often get large shares of their campaign money from special interests, and the three local lawmakers are no exception.

In September, Cuomo bitterly rejected the Observer's suggestion that he stop taking campaign money from state contractors.

At least Freedom Watch is raising their campaign money from donors that give freely to a cause they believe in, whereas the union members who are not Democrats are being forced to give their union dues money to the political party they don't support.

«Given this news and the fact that Congressman Donnelly has received far more campaign money from Anthony Weiner than his colleague Betty Sutton, this again raises the question below for Indiana's Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate,» said National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman Brian Walsh.

The state parties both raise campaign money from contributors for two separate accounts — one for federal candidates and one for state candidates.

It was Rangel's most recent and direct shots at two of the people running to replace him: State Senator Adriano Espaillat, whom Rangel accused of making racial appeals during their races in 2012 and 2014, and Clyde Williams, a former DNC political director who moved into the district in 2001 and, as he did in 2012, has raised a significant portion of his campaign money from people in Washington.

As POLITICO New York's Bill Mahoney reported earlier, Wright — who chairs the Assembly Housing Committee — has raised a significant portion of his campaign money from the real industry.

Large spending in races up and down the ballot led to legal changes post-election, but candidates that year benefitted from — and were hurt by — large sums of campaign money from groups forbidden from coordinating with their campaigns, but with clear stakes in the outcomes of the elections.

Zeldin also attacked Demos for getting his campaign money from his father - in - law, a wealthy West Coast developer, and California Democrats who have backed Pelosi.

«So... as I read this, Meek is taking campaign money from donors outside of FL?

In the five days since The New York Times reported that Mr. Cuomo had construed an executive order to enable himself to collect roughly $ 890,000 in campaign money from his appointees to state boards, the administration has insisted the order was never meant to apply to most board appointees.

An analysis by Common Cause found that two Buffalo area Senators, Republican Mark Grisanti and Democrat Tim Kennedy raised 75 % to 90 % of their campaign money from large donors who live outside of their districts.

Many other Democratic senators have taken campaign money from Menendez this year through his political action committee, New Millennium, despite his 2015 indictment for corruption.

In the meantime, candidates for comptroller should not be allowed to take campaign money from anyone doing business with the pension fund.

Which took in $ 1.3 M (laundering campaign money from DC based American Justice Partnership and various insurance companies) and paid it out to TenCapitol, Inc and Strategum Group ($ 186,000) for a Georgia Special election 2006.

Let's see if they try and raise campaign money from this too»

«IDC members also get tons of campaign money from real estate, charter school, and health care lobbyists, some of whom are Republicans with connections to Trump,» the narrator says.

The Creative Resistance said in a video «IDC members also get tons of campaign money from real estate, charter school, and health care lobbyists, some of whom are Republicans with connections to Trump.»

Cuomo signed off on the current iteration of 421 - a in 2013, and has raked in more campaign money from real estate interests than any other politician.

All told, the company has taken in $ 226,583 in campaign money from city - based candidates since June, Campaign Finance Board records show.

The Independent Democrats have backed that idea in the past, and have received campaign money from pro-school choice donors.

«President Obama is currently caught in a bit of a scandal over his pledge not to take campaign money from lobbyists.

Asked about acceptable ways for candidates to raise money, more than three - quarters of Americans say that raising campaign money from contributions made by Washington lobbyists is unacceptable, putting it at the bottom of a list of six ways for raising money.

There is no particular reason why a politician shouldn't accept campaign money from his own defense attorney: the CFB manual says nothing about it.

In an exclusive interview with NY1's Zack Fink, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance said he regrets taking campaign money from defense attorneys with cases before his office.

From Libby Pataki's no - show job, Murphy's dirty campaign money from Glenwood Management.

Not exact matches

Once the money from the Kickstarter campaign landed in the company's bank account, the team was able to finally order fabric, getting the production process officially moving forward.

There is, unfortunately, no getting around the fact that the government will need to spend even more money on farmers than it does today if it wants to save the industry, whether it's for developing a perennial wheat, funding a home - grown advertising campaign or investing more into making car parts from plants.

New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand will no longer accept money from political action committees linked with corporations for her reelection campaign, she announced on Tuesday, citing the «corrosive» effect of corporate money in politics.

It was set up after the director of the CIA, John Brennan, received a recording of a conversation about money from the Kremlin going into Trump's campaign coffers, the BBC's Paul Wood reported.

Once your business begins experiencing favorable results from this low - cost marketing campaign, you can start investing more money into the various high performing digital outlets.

«No one from Jeb's campaign asked me if it was okay with me for Jeb to raise money off my first show.

In August 2015, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook and DNC CEO Amy Dacey signed an agreement that would allow Clinton to control the party's finances, strategy, and all the money raised in exchange for raising money and investing in the DNC, which was still struggling to recover from debts incurred from the Obama 2012 campaign.

Other facets of the Grylls plan include lifting the payroll tax - free threshold from $ 850,000 to $ 1.5 million, ensuring any money from privatisations is reinvested in infrastructure, and a renewed campaign aimed at fixing problems with WA's GST distribution.

No Nevada lawmaker received money from Google in 2011, according to campaign finance reports.

But those figures don't include personal donations from industry executives to the super PACs that can collect unlimited amounts of money and spend it independently of a candidate's official campaign.

A flood of money from outside groups - a result of the 2010 Supreme Court ruling Citizens United - created a «huge cacophony of television» in the final months of the campaign, making it harder for any one message to stand out.

Crowdfunding sites have long been plagued by instances of designers and entrepreneurs collecting money from backers and then failing to deliver their product; more ominously, Indiegogo has hosted a series of campaigns that some believed were outright scams.

Supporters of NBC's Community and Chuck have rallied to their defense — from promoting social media campaigns to raise ratings to buying Subway sandwiches en masse (a Chuck advertiser)-- but this is the first case of fans putting their money directly into a proposed project and it broke all previous Kickstarter funding speed records.

Cruz's campaign committee raised more than $ 20 million in the fourth quarter, and more than half of pro-Cruz money in 2015 came from the real estate industry, the CRP said.