Sentences with phrase «for wealthy donors»

But, boy, what corruption: De Blasio won the job four years ago by touting his «tale of two cities,» then delivered one New York for his wealthy donors and another for everyone else.

In a video recorded for Moveon.org, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand called the tax bill «cynical» and a «payback for wealthy donors,» adding: «And what we can do to fight back against it is flip the House in» 18.»

This is being done for wealthy donors not WNY constituents.

«Pay - to - play contracts and favors for his wealthy donors.

Nixon on Tuesday unveiled a blistering attack on Cuomo's record, taking him to task for wealthy donors and failing to push for liberal values in Albany.

Not exact matches

Some wealthy donors are approached in a more personal way, like being invited to meet for dinner to hear about a particular fundraising effort.

American wrestlers grappling in Rio this month are competing for much more than just gold medals thanks to some wealthy Wall Street donors.

Trump announced two picks on Wednesday for his Cabinet — South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and wealthy Republican donor and school choice advocate Betsy DeVos to lead the Education Department.

Per the New York Times, Cambridge Analytica was formed years ago as an effective «shell» for SCL to work on US elections following a $ 15 million donation by wealthy GOP donor Robert Mercer.

The calls for greater scrutiny followed reports on Saturday in The New York Times and The Observer of London that Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm founded by Stephen K. Bannon and Robert Mercer, the wealthy Republican donor, had used the Facebook data to develop methods that it claimed could identify the personalities of individual American voters and influence their behavior.

«The only people she looks out for are her donors and the wealthiest two per cent who she gave a $ 1 billion tax break to that they didn't even ask for.»

Like her husband before her, Clinton is trying to forge a new consensus and is unashamed to pile up policy proposals: on family leave, child care, college affordability, incentives to employers for higher wages, immigration reform, clean energy and limits on the power of wealthy campaign donors.

Field organizing has been a top priority this year of Americans for Prosperity, the conservative advocacy group backed by the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch and other wealthy donors.

Labour relies on the trade unions for 90 % of its funding, while the Tories lean on wealthy big - ticket donors - as this weekend has shown.

You also fail to remember that the Assembly one house bill was much more favorable to low income and working class New Yorkers, but John Boy — in his drunken stupor held out for bigger decrease for wealthy Pub donors.

«A year ago David Cameron faced the dinners for donors scandal where wealthy Tory backers were given access to Downing Street in return for huge sums.

And while political «gifts» don't yield a tax break, nonprofit donations do — and many wealthier people (i.e., donors) are balancing their books for the year in the last days of December.

I only prefer Dems because clearly the Pubs only speak for the wealthy and donor class (and the single issue folks — Guns, God, anti-Gays, etc) they can fool into voting against their own interests!

Now it looks like he's building up a base — potentially for some future move — aided by the fact that the bulk of wealthy donors live in his county.

Peters, who served as de Blasio's campaign treasurer before being named investigations commissioner, has been under fire for not refusing to step aside from the sweeping federal probe that is centered on two wealthy businessmen who were large donors to de Blasio, and who ware embroiled in a gifts - for - favors corruption scandal that has already toppled a handful of top ranking NYPD officials.

He told Syracuse.com he opposes Cuomo's calls for the Legislature to approve public financing of political campaigns, is undecided on closing the LLC loophole that lets wealthy donors contribute almost unlimited amounts to politicians, and is against the governor's call to limit the outside income of lawmakers to 15 percent of their $ 79,500 base salary as legislators.

An upcoming campaign fund - raiser for Gov. Andrew Cuomo promises to be a colorful departure from the staid hotel ballroom affairs typically used to court wealthy donors: In June, he'll host a performance of the Broadway show «Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical.»

Questions were raised about Labour's relationship with wealthy donors in 1997 when, following an announcement that a ban on cigarette advertising would include an exemption for Formula 1 racing, it was revealed that the formula 1 chief executive, Bernie Ecclestone, had earlier donated # 1 million to the Labour Party.

Ken Langone, the extremely wealthy, blunt, opinionated eponym of the Medical Center is a major political donor who heads «Republicans for Cuomo.»

Given the extensive powers of patronage available to the Prime Minister, with seats in the House of Lords and a range of other honours in his gift, dependence on wealthy donors can lead to obvious accusations of honours being traded for cash.

«The Board of Elections was just ensuring that everyone that spends money on our elections, whether it's a super PAC, a 501 (c) 4 or a wealthy individual, discloses information about its donors to public,» said David Earley of N.Y.U.'s Brennan Center for Justice.

«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.

«With the public's faith in Albany rapidly eroding, now is the time for Governor Cuomo to enact the Moreland Commission's number one recommendation: pass statewide public financing of elections to level the playing field between wealthy donors and working families,» Lipton said.

He could appeal to white ethnics in swing states, or rally the social liberals who admire him for having been out ahead of his party (and his president) on same - sex marriage, or perhaps headline a few fund - raisers with the wealthy New York donors who have stocked his own campaign coffers and funded the super PAC - like group dedicated to running pro-Cuomo advertising.

The ethics refresher was ordered as the burgeoning federal probe into police corruption has resulted in the transfers of nine officers, including eight high - level supervisors, many of them stripped of their guns and badges, for their dealings with two wealthy Brooklyn businessmen who are also large donors to Mayor Bill de Blasio and were on his Inauguration Team.

The Democrat said Tuesday he would begin touring the state to argue for a system of public matching funds that will blunt the influence wealthy donors have on the political system.

«Talking before wealthy donors at ritzy schools, those are good times for the governor, rather than doing the people's work in Albany,» Kaehny said.

Former Rep. Steve Stockman misused money he had solicited from a wealthy conservative donor, spending none of it on the charity for which it was intended, according to testimony heard this week.

The current system is set up as a farce, with a lot of phony «community charity» organizations being set up as phony grass - roots organizations when they are actually conduits for corporate and wealthy donors.

But I would warmly endorse a larger cut in inocme tax for those undr $ 60K with a corresponding increase to the very wealthy donor class that pays you to lie on their behalf — after all — those are the people who primarily benefitted from the Ryan / Rump tax cuts for donors!

Sen. Liz Krueger, whose Upper East Side Senate district is one of the wealthiest in New York, has teamed up with Democratic donor / New Roosevelt Initiative founder Bill Samuels to propose using cash generated by the proposed casino expansion to pay for a publicly - funded campaign system.

«In federal and many state and local elections, and even elections for state courts, extraordinarily wealthy individuals and powerful corporations exercise vastly outsized influence,» the donors write in the letter.

The Turnbull Government has called for Labor senator Sam Dastyari to be hauled before the powerful privileges committee to further explain his relationship with a wealthy Chinese political donor.

But Cox, who was the leader for Senator John McCain's campaign for President in 2008, says he's learned that the state, especially New york City, is important for another reason; numerous wealthy, politically involved donors.

«A lot of times the need to fundraise large amounts of money prevents a lot of people who are qualified and who are leaders in that community from running for office because they don't have networks that include wealthy donors,» said Allie Boldt, a Washington, D.C. - based counsel for the think tank Demos.

The Guardian reports this morning that the former Foreign Secretary is accused of «buying» the leadership election as wealthy Blairite donors push his campaign chest to # 200,000 - causing what the paper describes as a «disparity in financial backing» for the five candidates, which it believes to be «a big issue».

Under Steele, the RNC has shifted toward a reliance on small donors, but the document reveals extensive, confidential details of the strategy for luring wealthy checkwriters, which range from luxury retreats in California wine country to tickets to a professional fight in Las Vegas.

A fake greeting penned to New Yorkers from de Blasio has him boasting of beaches and lobster dinners while denying commuters some of City Hall's $ 4 billion surplus for track repairs, because they are not «wealthy campaign donors.»

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Prosecutors said Tuesday that in the midst of a fundraising drive for mayoral candidate John Liu, two of his aides met a man named Richard Kong who portrayed himself as a wealthy donor willing to go along with a scheme to skirt campaign finance rules.

In 2015, protesters objecting to Mr. Cuomo's ties to wealthy donors marched outside a fund - raiser that Mr. Loeb hosted for Mr. Cuomo at his home in the Hamptons.

Many wealthy Republican donors quickly supported DeSantis for governor after Trump's endorsement.

David Cameron faced demands for an independent inquiry into «cash - for - access» allegations after the Conservative Party released a list of wealthy donors, who had attended private meals hosted by the Prime Minister.

One advantage for Mr. Romney is his success with very wealthy donors who can afford to contribute the maximum contribution of $ 78,800.

Clegg also offered his background as a civil rights attorney and a volunteer with Habitat for Humanity against Faso's history of being a lobbyist for the «wealthy donor class.»

Yesterday, the Albany Times - Union criticized the Board of Elections» decision to not enforce the state's aggregate contribution limit, saying it would allow a single wealthy donor to «pour millions of dollars into an election like this fall's, when every state office will be up for grabs.»