Sentences with phrase «for big money donors»

Cuomo, in the remaining days of the session, is pressing for one of the items in his education initiatives: a tax credit for big money donors to send students to private schools and pay for extra curricular programs for public schools.

Not exact matches

By showing your donors that you can follow through on your first campaign, effectively raise money, build a prototype, fulfill rewards and communicate your success, you have built in a second round of donors who have a vested interest in your success, and who will not only support you in round two, but will also help you spread the word for the bigger second campaign.

lmao sure tell that the the hormone driven teens of the world... you can only have woopie if your going to marry, marriage will go through the roof... but so will divorce and lawyers will love that mentality because child custody battles make them loads of money and let's not forget the physcologist / phychiatrists that will make big money having to help all these emotionally damaged adults that were dragged through custody battles due to the fact their genetic donors procreated when it was the best time for them.

For the record, it limits the ability of all candidates to raise money as most big donors are throwing money at getting their tax breaks or government hand - outs ensured.

«The 6th District and America need to stop big corporate money from privatizing our democracy, which means public funding for public elections as we have in NYC and a DISCLOSE act so anonymous money from billionaires doesn't buy our government,» said Green, who is the author of Who Runs Congressand Losing Our Democracy, as well as the author of the multiple matching funds for small donors part of the City's campaign finance law.

But as the big traditional donors attend their last $ 1000 - a-plate dinners, small donors across the country should become every campaign's target, in part because a campaign can turn to them for money again and again.

believe that the future of our country lies in our people, not in big money donors and lobbyists who seek to divide us for their profit.

«For example; McCain and Palin claimed the donars are largely unknown for Obama, while they have taken campaign money for years from big donors such as Freddie and Fannie, AIG, Oil companies, Drug companies etc.,&raqFor example; McCain and Palin claimed the donars are largely unknown for Obama, while they have taken campaign money for years from big donors such as Freddie and Fannie, AIG, Oil companies, Drug companies etc.,&raqfor Obama, while they have taken campaign money for years from big donors such as Freddie and Fannie, AIG, Oil companies, Drug companies etc.,&raqfor years from big donors such as Freddie and Fannie, AIG, Oil companies, Drug companies etc.,»

«Government can't succeed and can't really work for ordinary New Yorkers until we do restore the public trust,» said Scharff, who believes that can only happen if there's less reliance on big money donors and more on small donors.

«Zephyr is fearless, independent - minded, and will stand up for working families against the big money donors and wealthy insiders who have rigged the economy in their favor.

He ripped Cuomo for the MTA mass transit crisis, accused him of «emboldening a Republican state Senate majority» by not doing enough to reunify fractured Senate Democrats, and knocked his support for charter schools and big - money hedge fund donors.

Meanwhile, the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School plans to push for a system of public funds to match smaller donations as a way to limit the influence of big money donors in campaign fundraising.

Even if their White House hopes seem to be doomed, watch for big Republican donors to funnel their money to congressional and state - level races.

The NYT slaps de Blasio for professing «a devotion to goodness and idealism, and working for «the people» while quietly taking unlimited sums of cash from big donors, supposedly because these benefactors love the values he fights for and not the access and influence that buckets of money can buy.»

Edward Erikson, a consultant who works with prominent Sanders supporter Ben Cohen (of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream fame) and other activists trying to reduce the role of big money in politics, said Sanders himself deserves the credit for motivating small donors.

Indeed, Cuomo has regularly been criticized from the left for embracing the charter school and education reform movement, with its big - money donors often connected to Wall Street.

«Unilateral moves like this risk being seen as overtly partisan, and could make it even harder for parties to get round the table and thrash out a deal on the real problem: their over-reliance on big donors» money.

The federal proceedings concern whether the administration doled out «pay - to - play» favors to big donors that dumped money into de Blasio's now - defunct «shadow government» nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York — Vance's case concerns allegations the mayor sought to circumvent state contribution limits in his failed bid to turn the State Senate Democratic, by having people seeking city business funnel unlimited cash into upstate county committees instead of into candidates» campaign accounts.

Elected officials become indebted to these power brokers for maintaining their office as big donors could just as easily funnel their money to a primary challenger should their interests go unheard.

Big Hollywood Donors Enter School Board Race for First Time Hollywood donates a lot of money to national political campaigns.

Commonly cited concerns include the potential for outsized influence of big money donors on the policy process relative to more traditional voices in public education debates, such as teachers and other education practitioners.

As for the day's developments, the leftie wallahs at ThinkProgress have a piece on the Mann vs Steyn trial of the century, and by comparison with the excitable Pajama Boys of last week (latest to Xerox the party line: Philadelphia Magazine) it's a pretty fair statement of where we're at (and even the comments - Fox News, big - money donors - are comparatively genial).