Sentences with phrase «huge campaign contributions»

On the other hand, there were all these mega-billionaires who (a) threatened to target him if he voted no; (b) promised him huge campaign contributions if he went along; and (c) would pay to call him a «hater» and a «homophobe» and even, perhaps, pay «witnesseses» to allege he was in the closet as part of a blackmail scheme.

«You shouldn't be allowed to accept huge campaign contributions from people with business before the government.»

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Huge legal loopholes allow legislators to spend campaign contributions on just about anything they -LSB-...]

During a conversation with de Blasio, Jona Rechnitz noted that he hadn't asked for much since forking over huge contributions to de Blasio's mayoral campaign, personal charity and Democratic allies, sources said.

Authorities are also examining whether fundraising efforts for Democratic state senate candidates violated campaign contribution limit laws by being routed to other committees, which were allowed to rake in huge donations compared to caps on single donors directly to a candidate's campaign.

making illegal campaign contributions as the head of a Private College where very few students actually graduated, yet they were enticed to enroll and take out huge student loans with promises of high paying jobs in the Medical Field!

Campaign contributions are huge in America, with no limits of any kind.

Although few were willing to speak on record then, many agreed that the only reason Belo Monte was built was because the PT government needed a big construction project by which the political party could pay back the big construction companies, like Odebrecht, for the huge sums in illegal electoral campaign contributions the firms had provided.

Since the laws governing campaign contributions were relaxed in 2010, more advocacy organizations have entered the arena with huge amounts of money for federal candidates.