Sentences with phrase «dominated in campaign contributions»
In addition, the health care and real estate sectors dominated in campaign contributions, with the former dominating donations to the new governor's coffers.
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«For most offices, New York State's contribution «limits» are substantially higher than those of any other state that imposes limits, and they are so high as to ensure that large donors dominate major political campaigns and candidates spend as much time as possible raising money from donors rather than talking with voters about issues,» Cuomo said in the written version of the SoS.
Conservative - supporting hedge fund managers and major Ukip donors dominate the contributions to the campaign to persuade people to vote for Britain to leave the EU in the 23 June referendum.
Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Co-Leader Jeff Klein have backed the changes — including public matching of campaign contributions — in some form before, but the legislation foundered in past years in the Republican - dominated Senate.
The percentage of physicians making campaign contributions in federal elections increased to 9.4 percent in 2012 from 2.6 percent in 1991, and during that time physician contributors shifted away from Republicans toward Democrats, especially in specialties dominated by women or those that are traditionally lower paying such as pediatrics, according to a new study by Adam Bonica, Ph.D., of Stanford University, California, and colleagues.