Sentences with phrase «direct campaign contributions makes»
«The combination of foundation - funded front - groups, big lobbying budgets, [political action committee] donations, and direct campaign contributions makes Koch Industries and the Koch brothers among the most formidable obstacles to advancing clean energy and climate policy in the U.S.,» Greenpeace says.
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Disclose Company's Own Political Spending If a company chooses to use its own funds for direct campaign spending, the issue raised in many shareholder proposals is whether such corporations should — in addition to the governance procedures noted above — issue a comprehensive report which lists in one place all the recipients both of such direct spending and of contributions made from the company's employee PAC.
The criticism Teachout was making was not over direct contributions like the checks cut by the Soros family to her campaign, but the influence of big money flowing to super PACs.
But Neighborhood Preservation also gave $ 10,000 to Klein's Senate Independence Campaign Committee, which supports IDC candidates, and made smaller direct contributions to Klein and other IDC members.
«If, as alleged, the defendant directed others to make contributions to a Senate campaign and reimbursed them, that is a serious violation of federal campaign finance laws.»
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the so - called Citizens United case, which allowed almost unchecked independent expenditures by corporations and unions, also made it nearly impossible for candidates to block outside campaign efforts, whether positive or negative — unlike direct campaign contributions.
Let's start with the obvious: I think Rick Hasen is exactly right to suggest that such a move by the lefties is actually a «relative victory» for campaign finance reformers, given the extent to which» [t] aking the case would have been an opportunity for the majority of Supreme Court justices to make things worse [from the reformers» perspective], such as by suggesting that limits on direct contributions to candidates are unconstitutional.»
A federal appellate court considered whether a state can stop a corporation from making direct financial contributions to ballot issue campaigns.