Sentences with phrase «form of campaign contributions»

It doesn't get at the root of corruption in the money that wealthy individuals and special interests shower on elected officials in the form of campaign contributions and outside salaries.

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox suffered a bit of a memory lapse earlier today while pressuring Senate Democrats to return what he called «dirty money» in the form of campaign contributions doled out by scandal - scarred Sen. Carl Kruger.

Not exact matches

At the same time, however, the court allowed restrictions on contributions to stand, reasoning in part that giving funds to a campaign is only an indirect form of speech.

According to Wikipedia, the forerunner to the CCF was called the «Guest Choice Network» and was formed «to unite the restaurant and hospitality industries in a campaign to defend their consumers and marketing programs against attacks from anti-smoking, anti-drinking, anti-meat, etc. activists...» It was funded by $ 2.95 million from, you guessed it, Phillip Morris, along with contributions from an unholy alliance of slot machine manufacturers, beer companies, meat processors and cigar makers.

The ad calls Carl Paladino «a landlord and developer» who traded $ 452,000 worth of campaign contributions for sweetheart inside deals in the form of a $ 1.4 million Empire Zone tax break for which he created only one job.

Campaign contributions aren't normally construed as a form of economic development, but fair enough.

But, with neither Mr. Cuomo nor newly - minted Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan — both beneficiaries of campaign contributions from REBNY — committed to reform, and the end of the legislative session looming, a simple extension of 421a in its current form appears increasingly likely.

The Bethel Woods Performing Arts Center disclosed on its form that one of its members might give a campaign contribution to the legislator who sponsored the grant.

The bulk of its money has come from a long - standing agreement in which it gives Cuomo's campaign efforts office space in Manhattan, which appears on the governor's forms as in - kind contributions.

Much of Johnson's spending, $ 126,300 to be exact, took the form of political contributions, and he spent only about $ 22,750 with campaign consulting firm Metropolitan Public Strategies.

Meanwhile, Bill Samuels, a co-founder of Effective NY, has urging the commission to investigate millions of dollars in campaign contributions by business interests formed as limited liability corporations.

De Blasio's campaign — like others in the city — required all of its donors to sign a form affirming their contributions were made from their own personal funds.

Some lobbying comes in the form of giving campaign contributions to politicians.

Most of EMILY's List's influence comes in the form of bundled campaign contributions, but the group now also does polling and airs television and radio ads.

The ad ended with Nancy Naples, a former Pataki administration official who is Paladino's campaign manager, saying Paladino is «outgunned» and needs «urgent help» in the form of «emergency contributions.»

Irwin's campaign disclosure form reads like a «who's who» of big union players, including max - out contributions from AFSCME, the California School Employees Association, the California State Council of Laborer's PAC, the California Teachers Association, Los Angeles County Firefighters Local 1014, SEIU United Long Term Care Workers Local 6434, Service Employees International Union Local 1000, the State Building & Construction Trades Council of California and the United Nurses Association

The letter came in response to the leak on Friday of a confidential report by the board that accused a team formed by Mr. de Blasio of illegally funneling money to various candidates through county Democratic Party committees and a statewide party committee, in order to evade limits on campaign contributions.

Approximately 60 % of the LLC contributions given to Governor Cuomo's campaign exceeded the $ 5,000 limit for other forms of businesses — corporations.

He's the top recipiant of campaign contributions form special interests, and then goes out and touts his reform agenda on the very same people who feed him and basically buy politicians votes.

The Nassau County Legislature, after months of reports by Newsday on contracts that went to politically connected companies, in December unanimously passed the measure that created a new political campaign contribution disclosure form to accompany all agreements up for lawmaker approval.

This cut into the time in which Rob Astorino could play the populist and accuse him of doling out «massive corporate welfare» that came back to him in the form of $ 45 million in campaign contributions, and assert that Preet Bharara would soon present him with a pair of custom - made handcuffs.

The forms require disclosure of contributions made by «the vendor or any corporate officer of the vendor» to the campaigns of county legislators, the county executive, county clerk, county comptroller, district attorney and all candidates for those offices.

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.

At the time, Mr. Spitzer and Mr. Bruno had been discussing a deal that would have imposed some form of new limits on campaign contributions, which was important to Mr. Spitzer.

Federal Employees often choose to support our program through the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC), State Employees donate to their State Employees Charitable Campaigns (SECC), and other employees donate by way of designating Guide Dogs of America on their United Way Contributions forms or their special workplace giving campaigns.