Sentences with phrase «corporate campaign contributions»

He lives here, is a real person, and doesn't take corporate campaign contributions.

I would make private or corporate campaign contributions illegal.

The plan includes a total contribution limit of $ 2,600 for all candidates running for state office, a complete ban on corporate campaign contributions, the elimination of «housekeeping accounts,» a $ 2,600 limit for transfers between party and candidate committees, and the repeal of the Wilson Pakula provision of the State Election Law which allows non-party members to be approved for candidacy by party officials.

Some Democrats, including State Sen. Marc Panepinto of Buffalo and Jose Peralta of Queens, said they could not endorse the budget because it did not include proposals to increase the minimum wage or limit corporate campaign contributions.

We have no idea whether he is against corporate campaign contributions, given Obama I / II's voracious appetite for them.

However, a major difference between the two chambers is the status of the infamous «LLC loophole,» which permits politicians to benefit from virtually unlimited corporate campaign contributions — its closure, good government groups say, is essential to stemming pay - to - play politics and corruption.

First, why is it called extremism when you try to «intimidate» companies into making policy decisions you prefer, when that intimidation is done through protest, campaigning and civil disobedience, when the grand old tradition of political lobbying and corporate campaign contributions essential does the same thing?

When Democrats proposed laws that would crack down on corporate campaign contributions, Republicans said they conveniently left out unions — leading to a stalemate on closing election - law loopholes.

In the paper, Corporate campaign contributions and abnormal stock returns after presidential elections, forthcoming in Public Choice, we explore the stock market performance of top corporate contributors after the elections that brought Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, respectively, to power.