Sentences with phrase «corporate political money»

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California Sen. Kamala Harris (D) has pledged not to accept money from corporate political action committees.

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.

While corporations are prohibited from contributing to federal political campaigns, in 2013 46 of the top 60 TSX companies still gave money to candidates at the provincial level (where in many cases corporate donations are still allowed).

(CQ: http://moneyline.cq.com and National Institute on Money in State Politics: http://www.followthemoney.org) In addition, FedEx scored just 42.9 out of 100 points in the 2013 CPA - Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Accountability and Disclosure, placing it near the bottom of a ranking of the 196 largest U.S. companies.

It's been my view since circa 2003 that «they» would hold up the system with printed money and credit creation until every last crumb of middle class wealth was swept off the table and into the pockets of those in position to do the sweeping: Corporate America, the very wealthy («wealthy» = enough disposable cash to buy a few politicians and Federal judges) and the political elite — the latter of which are compensated pawns for the first two cohorts.

BC is one of few provinces with no limit on corporate donations (as is Saskatchewan, whose leading political party appears to have benefitted handsomely from vast sums of money from Alberta - based fossil fuel corporations over the last decade).

«It is tantamount to political suicide for the Republican Party in this state because they believe it ends corporate money, and only union money would come into the system, which would help the Democrats.»

Since the new breed of political corruption takes the form of corporate money smothering our democracy, our club is staying true to its roots by supporting Howie Hawkins: a genuine friend of the working and middle classes,» said long time club member John Bredin.

«You can keep them in Albany until they take the corrupting influence of big corporate money seriously and close the LLC loophole that currently allows corporations to contribute unlimited sums of money into our political system.

This works in closely held companies because the identity between ownership and management and effective political power of the owners in corporate governance is sufficient to make sure that the entity distributes enough money to allow the owners to pay taxes on profits that are earned.

It is tantamount to political suicide for the Republican Party in this state because they believe it ends corporate money, and only union money would come into the system, which would help Democrats,» Cuomo was quoted as saying in a June 19 New York Times article.

Former Texas Republican Rep. Tom DeLay was sentenced to a three - year jail term today for illegally funneling corporate money into Texas state House races, a ruling that ends a near - decade long legal and political battle for the former House majority leader.

After various transfers from state committees to county committees, from housekeeping accounts to political accounts, from various campaign accounts for other candidates (often legislative leadership), and from individual and corporate donors to county party committees, money ends up transferred to a specific candidate.

They said that group then distributed the money to seven legislative candidates in an effort to skirt Texas law, which forbids corporate contributions to political campaigns.

Rep. Claudia Tenney (R - Oneida County), said «From day one, I have fought against the elimination of the federal deduction for state and local taxes (SALT), and will work to ensure the deduction is included in the final bill... The real question is: When will Gov. Cuomo stop wasting hard - earned tax payer money on corporate welfare and political self - promotion schemes and finally give New Yorkers the relief they desperately need?»

The Green Party represents the political front against the two - party corporate - money political establishment that is allowing the brunt of the environmental and economic crisis to fall on working people and the poor,» said Mr. Funiciello.

Synopsis: DARK MONEY, a political thriller, examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officMONEY, a political thriller, examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officmoney on our elections and elected officials.

While you can read Bronin's political meandering on education on his website — See CLOSING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP, what is far more telling is the amount of money that is pouring into his campaign from the corporate education reformers, the charter school industry and the people who are pushing the Common Core and Common Core SBAC testing scheme.

The net result of Malloy's «plan» for Connecticut would be cuts in local schools, high property taxes, especially for Connecticut's dwindling middle class, and more money for his campaign donors and political allies who are profiting off Malloy's Corporate Education Reform Industry initiatives.

And, it's a school run by corporate money and political motivation.

And, it's a school system run by corporate money and political motivation.

As reported yesterday in, Charter School Political Action Committees target Connecticut legislative races, two new corporate funded political action committees (PACS) are have recently been created and are spending money to elect pro-charter school candidates and defeat public school advocates in races for the Connecticut General Political Action Committees target Connecticut legislative races, two new corporate funded political action committees (PACS) are have recently been created and are spending money to elect pro-charter school candidates and defeat public school advocates in races for the Connecticut General political action committees (PACS) are have recently been created and are spending money to elect pro-charter school candidates and defeat public school advocates in races for the Connecticut General Assembly.

Michelle Rhee is infamous for pouring tens of millions of dollars money into the local political process to try and force local officials to shift scarce public funds from their public schools to the privatized corporate education reform model.

Reagan was so successful as a corporate pitchman that a group of extremely conservative and wealthy backers put up the money to position him as a political candidate who would espouse the corporate ethos.

A review of campaign contributions finds that he and his leadership PAC have received at least $ 57,500 from the Koch brothers» corporate political action committee - the same PAC that has been repeatedly accused of breaking elections laws surrounding money contributions.

We must work swiftly towards a system in which every vote counts and corporate money is removed from political campaigns.

For the past five years, the political and corporate leaders of Columbus devoted much time, energy and money to diversifying their businesses and the general business climate.