Sentences with phrase «from tobacco giant»
Similar to Gov. Jerry Brown's ballot - measure committee, Gray has used the second campaign account to accept larger campaign checks from special - interest groups and big corporations that lobby the Legislature, including $ 35,000 from the California Independent Petroleum Association, $ 25,000 from the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians and $ 15,000 from tobacco giant Philip Morris.
http://www.calnewsroom.com/ Not exact matches
When retail giant CVS Caremark unveiled its announcement this morning that it will no longer sell cigarettes or other tobacco products in its stores it was rightly hailed as a boon for public health, even netting public praise and a thank you — from the White House.
We continue to seek answers from federal bodies and universities whose employees are taking money from the Heartland Institute to attack science and disrupt the democratic process on behalf of tobacco companies, industrial giants and billionaire ideologues like the Koch brothers.
One theory pedalled by a former tobacco advertising guru is that opposition to the «joys» of living with giant fans is only a problem among English speaking countries: the guru reckons that complaints like those heard from dozens of wind farms around Australia are a cooked - up phenomenon exclusive to the English speaking world — as pitched - up in this piece of propaganda on ABC radio and parroted in this piece of eco-fascist drivel from ruin - economy (for a taste of what the Taiwanese — not the world's strongest English speakers — think about giant fans, see our post here).