Sentences with phrase «campaigns of politicians»

And they don't donate to the Clinton Foundation slush fund, the treasuries of environmental groups, or the campaigns of politicians; or provide profits to the money interests in Silicon Valley, Wall Street or DC.

They b) mobilize opposition to clean energy policies by funding various front groups like Americans For Prosperity, and c) finance the campaigns of politicians that can be counted on to vote against measures that would level the playing field for clean energy.

«I don't think the taxpayers should pay to fund the campaigns of politicians,» Ronk said, though he did say he would be in favor of putting a box on the tax forms so taxpayers could give to a fund for candidates.

For example, corporations have freedom of speech, and this includes the freedom to donate to the campaigns of politicians.

Bank lobbyists back the campaigns of politicians committed to deregulating banking and its major clients (real estate, natural resources and monopolies).

Not exact matches

Think of every politician on the campaign trail and you'd be hard pressed to find any who don't use hand gestures to articulate points.

It is common for investors to treat most of what comes out of politicians» mouths as empty promises, particularly during campaign season.

«They're not thrilled that he's already jumping ship to run for higher office because that's exactly what he campaigned against and what he promised he wouldn't do, be a ladder - climbing career politician,» Petersen said, noting a JTD strategies poll that found half of Missouri voters think Hawley could be using his attorney general career as a stepping stone to higher office.

Politicians tell a lot of stories in their campaign speeches, and there's a not - so - secret reason why: if you convey your message through a dynamic story or metaphor, it has a better chance of resonating with your audience than if you were to simply state the facts.

Melenchon is certainly not the first politician to employ such technology — in 2014, then - Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan used a huge hologram of himself to attract wider support, while India's Narendra Modi trounced the opposition with a campaign that included holograms of his speeches in villages across the country.

A 30 - second spot released by Sanders» presidential campaign Friday, titled «$ 200,000,» blasts «Wall Street banks» that «shower Washington politicians with campaign contributions and speaking fees» of «over $ 200,000 an hour.»

There may well be a silent majority of super-rich strongly opposed to tax hikes who are funnelling campaign funds to anti-tax politicians to do their talking for them.

Since most politicians» campaigns are largely funded by wealthy companies and individuals, it would give voters a better sense of who the candidate they are voting for is actually representing if the company's logo, or individual's name, was prominently displayed upon the candidate's clothing at all public appearances and campaign events.

«Of course, it's undeniable that in our electoral system, candidates need access to wealth to run financially viable campaigns, and the most successful fundraisers are politicians who swim in those circles to begin with.»

«The fact that they have been included as part of the transition team just shows how inappropriate their role in bridging the gap between him as a businessman and politician is,» Meredith McGehee, a strategic adviser at the Campaign Legal Center, told the Washington Post.

Grillo's surge in the final weeks of the campaign threw the race open, with hundreds of thousands turning up at his rallies to hear him lay into targets ranging from corrupt politicians and bankers to German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

He claimed to be producing a porno homage to disgraced politician Anthony Weiner — and that he'd donate 15 percent of its profits to Weiner's ill - fated mayoral campaign.

The campaign was successful, with Taylor elected president, prompting future politicians to employ bandwagons in their campaign efforts in hopes of similar results.

Good ideas have been floated to address this hostility towards female politicians: last week, the Alberta Council of Women's Shelters created the Lift Her Up campaign to challenge sexist bullying; and Notley believes we should be encouraging more women to enter politics.

The author founded an anti-corruption campaign that resulted in putting «a couple of municipal politicians and a developer in jail,» and she was subsequently elected to council for the City of York.

The campaign website of a controversial US politician was hacked last year and hosted Russian SEO spam, according to several sources.

The efforts of Martin Schulz and other senior SPD politicians to gain an advantage over their political competitors by leading a hardline anti-Trump campaign do not appear to have had any significant effect on the SPD's standing in the polls.

This sentiment has been fueled by a decades - long public campaign by the NRA to convince the US public and politicians that, in fact, the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms, and that more guns will actually make people safer (by letting them protect themselves), despite research that shows higher levels of gun ownership actually lead to more gun violence.

Through 2015 Facebook had actually been ramping up its internal focus on elections as a revenue generating opportunity — growing the headcount of staff working directly with politicians to encourage them to use its platform and tools for campaigning.

Metaphorically, at least, this isn't unusual; the idea of the «permanent campaign,» a reference to how politicians consider their reelection chances from almost the moment they take office, has been around for decades.

In recent months, as the 2016 election campaigns have gathered momentum, concern about the long - term effects of the buyback craze has crept into public discourse and caught the attention of politicians.

And while Facebook has claimed it was unaware that ~ 50M Facebook users» data was passed to Cambridge Analytica for political targeting purposes, Facebook has itself long been actively encouraging politicians and political campaigns to make use of its tools — at a time when there was a complete lack of regulation for political ads on digital platforms.

He also became notable as one of the first politicians in the U.S. to accept bitcoin donations for political campaigns.

All of the politicians implicated angrily denied the allegations, accusing the government of engineering a politically motivated campaign against them.

Rejecting traditional campaign techniques in favor of social media, the party pushed its agenda of, first, ending the generous state subsidies and salaries paid to Italy's political parties and elected politicians and, second, replacing them with a vaguely conceived Internet - based representation system.

Democratic politicians who have received campaign contributions from Harvey Weinstein are being called upon to return the money after the New York Times published an exhaustive story Thursday detailing decades of sexual harassment allegations against the Hollywood super-producer.

The charges against the pair related to nearly a decade of foreign work they did for the Ukrainian government and Ukrainian politicians before they joined Trump's campaign.

3) Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chair, was indicted in October in Washington, DC on charges of conspiracy, money laundering, false statements, and failure to disclose foreign assets — all related to his work for Ukrainian politicians before he joined the Trump campaign.

Jobs also became one of Silicon Valley's most prominent opponents of the Trump administration's restrictive immigration policies, including speaking out at public events, lobbying politicians on both sides of the aisles and funding multi-platform media campaigns, this year aimed at the at - risk Dreamers.

DId you know that Joseph Smith campaigned briefly for President of the United States in 1844 on a platform to end slavery by 1850, LONG before almost any other politicians were doing so?

In Australia, the state governments control most planning and have discouraged suburban growth» to the benefit, Kotkin notes, of developers (and presumably of the politicians whose campaigns they support) and the detriment of middle - class people, who now face some of the world's highest housing prices.

Ever since 2002, most of those organizations have insisted that support for campaign - finance restrictions — particularly of the McCain - Feingold sort — is a black mark on a politician's pro-life record (on the grounds that pro-life advertising would be unfairly limited during campaign seasons).

That is, they are the sort of people who command the attention of politicians in search of campaign funds.

@Sarah: You may choose to focus on what you like as well but it doesn't cancel out the fact that in our political arena today, we have religious right politicians coming out of the woodwork and campaigning on their alleged moral superiority.

Fathers who leave families to make civil rights marches, politicians who sacrifice family life to the exigencies of political campaigns, wives who have to decide between a significant life in a public vocation and the demands of housekeeping, all should know the impossibility of any clear solution of this ethical problem.

If whites reject racial preferences as unfair to them, and if politicians campaign on the issue, the problem is construed as a lack of restraint by unscrupulous candidates who are willing to use divisive tactics to achieve their ends.

Obama is a career politician and like all other career politicians his campaign attempts to portray him as a candidate who appeals to the majority of voters.

While this meant that the Garrisons and the Sumners were unpopular with swing voters, their more inflammatory form of anti-slavery politics made it easier for somewhat more moderate (in both tone and substance) politicians to campaign on opposition to slavery.

One promise President Donald Trump made often and loudly on the campaign trail was to revoke a 1954 law that says houses of worship can't officially endorse politicians, or they...

Someone may object that, given the current weakness of our political parties, politicians necessarily have to turn to interest groups for their ready - made mailing lists and rely on «fat cat» contributors for large campaign donations.

Politicians in Scotland, for example, have pursued a «hearts and minds» campaign to re-educate society on its understanding of sexuality; will a Scottish state rather than a United Kingdom state make that more or less likely to continue.

In terms of the political system, the media, again reflecting the values held by society generally, give us politics by image, treating politicians and their campaigns as products to be sold rather than as people and ideas to be understood.

They would have struck down attempts to use the campaign finance laws to restrict criticism of liberal politicians (or anybody else.)

The politician is a poster child for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints» campaign to present a more diverse face to a historically very white church.

It seems incredible to think of it now, but in this country, quite respectable people (some of whom later became senior politicians) campaigned for «paedophile rights».