Sentences with phrase «financed by a billionaire»

Unless you are financed by a billionaire this is how most squads should be built.

Dean Vogel, president of the state's other big teachers union, the California Teachers Association, called the lawsuit, which is financed by Students Matter, «an ideological red herring, financed by billionaires to pit parents against teachers.»

Philadelphia Schools Supt. William Hite is, like Chicago's Barbara Byrd Bennett, a product of the Broad Superintendents Academy, one of the many anti-union activities financed by billionaire Eli Broad.

According to Facebook, Dr. Kogan provided Cambridge Analytica — a political data analytics firm hired by President Donald Trump's campaign and financed by billionaire Robert Mercer — access to information about 50 million Facebook users, all the while telling Facebook the data was being gathered for academic purposes.

Not exact matches

Much the year - end maneuvering noted by the Rockefeller Institute involved the country's millionaires and billionaires rearranging their finances to maximize the portion of their income that would be taxed in 2012, at lower rates, rather than in 2013, at potentially higher rates.

Adani Group, controlled by the billionaire Gautam Adani, said it will now plan to finance the vast Carmichael coal project on its own, but the company faces an uphill struggle as both governments and major banks adopt a harder line towards new coal projects, citing the impact of coal - fired power on climate change.

That case was financed by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, who blamed for outing him as a gay man in 2007.

The lawsuit, which was secretly financed by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, may be a «personal vendetta» against Gawker, as Denton wrote in a memo to staffers on Monday.

Ultimately, the outcome of that mistake was a lawsuit by Hogan — financed by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel — which resulted in a $ 140 million judgement handed down against Gawker by a Florida court.

Once dubbed «the world's most interesting billionaire» by Bloomberg, Jorge Lemann had previous lives as a journalist and professional tennis champion before turning to finance in 1971 with the purchase of a small Brazilian brokerage firm.

A little - known data company, now embedded within Cruz's campaign and indirectly financed by his primary billionaire benefactor, paid researchers at Cambridge University to gather detailed psychological profiles about the US electorate using a massive pool of mainly unwitting US Facebook users built with an online survey.

Everytown for Gun Safety, which was founded and financed by Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire and former New York mayor, proudly declared that it had doled out more than $ 1 million in grants to local organizers.

Investors continue to hammer Tesla, a day after founder Elon Musk dumbfounded some on Wall Street by cutting off what the billionaire called «boring, bonehead» questions about the electric car maker's finances during a conference call with stock analysts.

And I'm sure the evangelical Republicans love the fact that the party ticket is made up of a Morman and a Catholic and is being financed by a Jew (billionaire Adelson).

As far as the club's financials show, the man has only respected the club's tradition / philosophy of self sustainability and that's his offense as we all have been spoilt by other clubs» billionaire / State - aid owners distorting the finances with decisions which don't make economic sense and which create unfair competition.

But it has also battered the nascent political network overseen by wealthy conservative donor Rebekah Mercer, which is financed by her father, Robert, a hard - line conservative billionaire.

We could take on New York's corrupt political establishment and the billionaire class on Wall Street by passing campaign finance and ethics reform.

public financing, with a cap that is realistic; free media time for the candidates, either through debates or public forums; and the elimination of Super-pacs funded mostly by right - wing, bored, wealthy billionaires.

The billionaire was interviewed by state and federal authorities investigating whether de Blasio violated campaign finance and election laws.

Tkaczyk is benefiting from a $ 230,000 advertising campaign from Friends of Democracy, a group funded by Jonathan Soros, the son of billionaire George Soros, which supports the public financing of political campaigns and backed her narrow victory two years ago.

Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Mike Tate branded Neumann an extremist whose only support comes from «tea party zealots who seek tax breaks for billionaires financed by the end of Medicare and Social Security.»

Howie Hawkins, Green Party candidate said, «Two issues in our campaign are, one is public campaign financing so that our elections aren't dominated by billionaires and I think the other is renewable energy.»

That allegation stems from Friends of Democracy, a pro-campaign finance reform super PAC backed by Democratic mega-donor Jonathan Soros, the son of the billionaire financier George Soros, which supported Jones but never gave him any money.

Top advisers to the billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer helped run a green group, financed in part by Steyer himself, that is at the center of a corruption scandal that could force the Democratic governor of Oregon to resign.

SpaceShipOne, created by aerospace engineer and aircraft designer Burt Rutan and financed by Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen, was launched from a traditional airstrip attached to White Knight, a Rutan - designed experimental plane.

Take finance — Books written by people who haven't made fortunes tend to sell much more than books written by actual billionaires.

Occupying the Punta della Dogana and the Palazzo Grassi, museums run by the French billionaire François Pinault's foundation, until Dec. 3, this privately financed exhibition purports to display artifacts that were once owned by the second - century collector Cif Amotan II and that have been salvaged, at vast expense, from the depths of the Indian Ocean.

So even if by miracle a sceptical scientist would be financed by Big Oil (it is unfortunately impossible), it would be certainly a positive action that would restore a balance in a world where not only Big Oil but mad people like Soros an other billionaires pour money in environmentalism.

In spite of EPW's focus on Vitter's billionaire's club and political spending by environmental groups, Senator Vitter has refused to support campaign finance reform, or efforts aimed at reducing the wealthy's influence in politics, like the DISCLOSE Act.

Since authoring the report, Stern has shot to climate stardom, being sought by carbon finance firms, keen to cash in on his connections to government and his insider policy - making knowledge, by the media, and by billionaire philanthropists wishing to have him set up and manage climate research organisations that bear the benefactors» names.

It begs the question: Why would Ohio politicians look to Utah professors, financed by a Kansas billionaire, for the data on Ohio's clean energy and efficiency efforts?

It turns out, Sen. Seitz prefers his data from out - of - state universities, financed by none other than Kansas billionaire Charles Koch.

A little - known data company, now embedded within Cruz's campaign and indirectly financed by his primary billionaire benefactor, paid researchers at Cambridge University to gather detailed psychological profiles about the US electorate using a massive pool of mainly unwitting US Facebook users built with an online survey.

«You have a new company that has never built a car, building a new plant in the middle of the desert, financed by a mysterious Chinese billionaire.

He's one of a number of business executive to be considered for the role by Trump's transition team, joining a list that includes Trump campaign finance manager Steven Mnuchin; David McCormick, the president of hedge fund Bridgewater Associates; and billionaire Wilbur Ross.