Sentences with phrase «dollars campaigning against»

This stance hurts our children's prospects but it does benefit adults, because the endgame here is to sever all ties between teacher evaluations and student outcomes (which is why NJEA spent millions of dollars campaigning against PARCC).

During his mayoral campaign last year, de Blasio promised to abolish the industry immediately upon taking office — a pledge that earned him significant support from horse carriage opponents, who helped wage a million - dollar campaign against one of his chief rivals, former Council speaker Christine Quinn.

Not exact matches

The rising trend for taxes on sweetened drinks has prompted beverage industry giants like PepsiCo and Coca - Cola to spend billions of dollars on advertising and lobbying campaigns against the measures.

Google announced on its blog on Monday that it will match every dollar of donation with two dollars in a new public giving campaign against Ebola.

The last time the G - 20 issued such a firm statement against currency wars Japan was in the spotlight as its campaign of monetary stimulus pushed the yen to its lowest level against the dollar in about five years.

A massive campaign aimed at forcing Switzerland to make billions available in «compensation» was launched by the WJC, with the governors of four American states threatening economic sanctions against the Swiss, and the City of Los Angeles withdrawing millions of dollars of pension funds from a Swiss bank.

There's one bank account that Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara can't get his asset - freezing fingers on as he plans a likely multimillion - dollar restitution order against Sheldon Silver: the pol's campaign war chest, which Silver can continue to use to pay legal fees.

Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, who's running in the GOP primary against Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, has recently given his campaign a big boost in the form of a million dollars, he announced at a Sunday event hosted by the Brooklyn Tea Party.

A political action committee associated with Jonathan Soros is prepared to spend millions of dollars against Republican state senators on Long Island if state lawmakers don't approve a system of public campaign finance.

Last month, President Obama spoke at a Murphy fund - raiser in Miami — one of many high - dollar events that Murphy advisers believe will allow them to spend as much as $ 8 million in his primary campaign against Grayson.

Cuomo in the final weeks of the race, spent from his hefty campaign war chest at the rate of nearly half a million dollars a week on television advertising, some featuring his daughters and partner Sandra Lee, but much of it negative against his Republican opponent Rob Astorino.

Mount Vernon Mayor Richard Thomas has denied the new charges against him that claim he allegedly stole thousands of dollars in campaign funds when running for office three years ago.

Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo made it clear this morning he intends to back up his tough talk against the so - called «special interests» — chiefly, the public employee unions — with dollars in an air campaign war, if necessary.

The teachers union has launched a multimillion - dollar TV campaign in opposition to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's education cuts with an ad that pits cut schoolchildren against wealthy Wall Street executives.

He's using part of his $ 35 million dollar campaign war chest to pay for a criminal defense lawyer to represent the office of the governor against the US Attorney's investigations.

Jordan is going up against former Rep. Pat Tiberi, a close ally of GOP leadership who resigned from his seat in January and has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars from his old campaign account to boost state Sen. Troy Balderson as his successor.

Doheny campaign spokesman David Catalfamo Monday - morning quarterbacks the primary: «At the end of the day, the difference was the north of a million dollars that was spent in negative advertising against Matt Doheny.

She said her run against Cuomo would be built on a critique of his use of high - dollar campaign donations and his support for linking teacher performance evaluations to student test scores.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

In addition to the Burke - Loeb case, Newsday has reported that the comprehensive federal scrutiny of Spota's office has included whether there was anything unlawful in the handling of the investigation into the shooting of Huntington Station taxi driver Thomas Moroughan by an off - duty Nassau County police officer; the circumstances under which former Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy gave up a $ 4.1 - million - dollar campaign chest to the district attorney's office, and also agreed not to run for re-election; the legality of a wiretap placed on the phone of former Suffolk detective John Oliva; the resolution of the criminal case against well - known Suffolk criminal lawyer Robert Macedonio; the office's distribution of asset - forfeiture money; and the investigation into a number of political associates of Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone.

In fact, NYSUT, which Iannuzzi has headed since 2005, has waged a scorched - earth campaign against New York charters for years, dipping into a billion - dollar war chest to do so.

I'm sure those at the top rationalize it along the lines of «If we do not retain and control the billions of dollars we now have to invest in political campaigns (and a whole slew of random non-profit organizations and programs — you got ta see it to believe it), that money will end up elsewhere and could be used against us.

Now, in addition to lazy, greedy politicians and bureaucrats, we also have to deal with the multi-million dollar attack campaign against teachers and public schools coming from the corporate sector, and from both the right - and left wing.

GNEPSA, Michelle Rhee's front group used a loophole in Connecticut campaign finance law to dumps tens of thousands of dollars in support of Democrat Brandon McGee and against Democrat Leo Canty.

Paul Watson, the charismatic and controversial leader of the Sea Shepherd campaign against Japanese whale hunts, has offered a potent rebuttal tonight to allegations that he ordered the scuttling of the Ady Gil, a million - dollar anti-whaling patrol boat damaged after a collision with a Japanese ship in the southern ocean early this year.

Vancouver researcher Vivian Krause has done excellent work at her blog, Fair Questions, exposing the millions of American dollars that have been funneled northward to fill the pockets of The David Suzuki Foundation and other groups campaigning against Canadian industry.

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has filed a multimillion - dollar lawsuit against Russia, the Trump campaign and Wikileaks over an alleged 12 offences, including conspiracy, fraud and violations of the Wiretap Act.

«The prohibition against foreign nationals managing campaigns, including making direct or indirect decisions regarding the expenditure of campaign dollars, will have a significant impact on how Cambridge hires staff and operates in the short term,» the memo stated.