Sentences with phrase «help wealthy donors»

The measure would help wealthy donors who want to contribute to private schools and charter schools.

Cuomo, a Democrat, said the new law would reduce the impact of a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision known as Citizens United, which helped wealthy donors dramatically increase campaign spending through the use of thinly veiled «independent expenditure» groups to tout or criticize a candidate.

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They point to the role that outside spending by a handful of millionaires played in the Republican presidential primaries by helping to keep Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich in the race, and wealthy donors also seem to have made a difference in Dick Lugar's recent downfall.

She has access to the wealthy donors who help buoy her charter network and enjoys relatively strong name recognition among primary voters.

Wealthy contributors helping their favored candidates win elections would not systemically skew politics or policy outcomes if these well - heeled donors were like the rest of us, if on average they had the same life experiences, opinions about issues, and political views as average - earning citizens.

Gibson faces Democratic candidate Sean Eldridge this November, a wealthy venture capitalist who has been able to tap rich donors to help fund his effort.

Especially now: The current crop of Republican Senate challengers is hoping the new avenues opened up by the Citizens United decision will help separate them from the shoestring New York Republican campaigns of the past and help them keep up with the better - established candidate, in the same way that a few wealthy donors have managed to keep alive the under - funded presidential ambitions of Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich.

Reliance on dirty money — be it from the unions or wealthy donors with interests that need protecting — isn't helping either Labour or the Tories win over more support.

The program, meant to help candidates compete without raising money just from wealthy donors, matches donations under $ 175 from New York City voters six - to - one, so that a $ 10 contribution is matched with $ 60.

The governor has already been talking up tougher campus sexual assault rules and an education tax credit program that could help needy families, parochial schools, and wealthy donors.

The U.S. should rethink its overemphasis on military approaches, and Europe should honor its unmet commitments of aid to this region, but other nations — including the wealthy countries of the Middle East and new donors such as India and China — can also help turn the tide.