Sentences with phrase «financial backer of the campaigns»

(The powerful health care workers union was a big financial backer of the campaign, too, and it has long been a close ally of the governor).

General Mills is also represented by the Grocery Manufacturers Association, a powerful lobbying group and major financial backer of the campaigns that defeated proposed GMO labeling laws in California and Washington.

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Hughes became the owner, publisher and editor - in - chief of The New Republic in March and has also been a strong advocate and financial backer for same - sex union campaigns.

Many of the companies using crowdfunding today are actually organizations with their own substantial PR and marketing budgets — as well as a full back - office support staff of internal PR people, marketing experts and financial backers fueling and helping their campaign.

He is expected to supply full details of his financial backers to the commission within days, after first stating on December 3rd that he had not fully reported the donations to his deputy leadership campaign.

The announcement caught even some of Ms. Moskowitz's top backers by surprise, and threw open the question of who, if anyone, would carry the banner for school - choice advocates — including, among others, some of New York's financial elites — in a 2017 campaign.

Both their campaigns received record - breaking financial support — an estimated $ 30 million — from their respective backers, making it the most expensive political contest in the state, almost three - times more expensive than that of the governor's seat.

Now the Alaska Wilderness League has sifted the financial backers for Mr. Gingrich's campaign and released a list of donors that it says shows Mr. Gingrich's push for drilling is «funded by Big Oil, for Big Oil.»

Mercer was a key financial backer of Donald Trump's election campaign and Mercer's daughter, Rebekah, was a member of the committee tasked with shaping the new Trump administration.

The Mercer family were key financial backers of Trump's successful presidential campaign, but were also key influencers in the makeup of Trump's administration.

Because the Federal Elections Commission determined that the movie is an «electioneering communication,» promoters must comply with campaign finance rules, which require a political disclaimer and disclosure of the film's financial backers.