Sentences with phrase «huge donations»

One, Senate Leadership Fund, received huge donations from Chevron, Petrodome Energy and Devon Energy Corporation in the second half of 2015.

Various Christian denominations have stepped in and surplanted a good idea with a «churchy» or «Jesus» message by making huge donations.

The Independence Party has also received huge donations at times from de Blasio predecessor Michael Bloomberg.

Politicians who did 1199's bidding were rewarded with huge donations and the invaluable help of union volunteers.

They give huge donations (bribes) so that «the flock» in turn will vote for them.

Refused to give dying patients appropriate pain medication, consorted with known felons and dictators to get huge donations, never built a state of the art hospital despite raking in millions in unaccounted for funds, which went into the Vatican's general expense account despite being designated specifically for charitable purposes?

■ Powerful politicians — including the governor himself — continue to exploit a loophole in state law that allows corporations to funnel huge donations to them in smaller gifts that disguise the true sources of the money.

If the RNC can out raise the DNC by orders of magnitude by taking huge donations from companies the system is useless.

In 2014, the $ 100,000 gift to Tkaczyk, a freshman senator, came amid a flurry of huge donations and transfers arranged by a team organized by de Blasio.

She'll get a couple huge donations from the Koch Bros but they don't vote in NY.

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.

Jim Waterson at Buzzfeed and Carole Cadwalladr at the Observer had raised concerns about huge donations from the official Leave campaign to two smaller Leave outfits shortly before the referendum.

For his part, Vance stated that the mayor's efforts to steer huge donations to a failed effort to win a Democratic majority in the state Senate violated the «spirit» of campaign finance laws.

No stranger himself to campaign finance, Amedore, the three - term assemblyman, was meanwhile raking in huge donations from New York City real - estate interests later associated with the demise of Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate majority leader Dean Skelos.

For years, African power companies solicited huge donations to build sophisticated networks that could handle the high loads predicted 30 years down the road.

It's no secret that a sad dog story, properly promoted on social media, can bring in some pretty huge donations — for an animal shelter, a rescue organization, or an individual.

Gates also makes huge donations to PBS... wonder how that will taint their education coverage.

If you've made a huge donation — this would be one of these «new and intimidating» financial circumstances — you better be able to back it up.

According to him, he may have lost the election if the chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) had not made a huge donation to his campaign.

► The Broad Institute received a huge donation — $ 650 million, the largest ever made for psychiatric research — from philanthropist and businessman Ted Stanley, to study the biological basis of psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, Emily Underwood wrote at ScienceInsider.

Finally to answer your question: You can achieve his 13 % tax rate by ignoring all taxes except federal tax, by calculating the average tax rate instead of the marginal tax rate (these two don't change what you pay, but what the numbers are in your mind), then by making huge donations to charities, buying a big house with a big mortgage, and having unpaid expenses.

With the huge donation from Nancy and Ron Soule and many others, that dream became true.

That's not a huge donation, but you don't lose anything by getting this card instead of one of the other Bank of America cashback cards.

[A] s the details of the plan have emerged, environmental groups and politicians — who applaud Norway's impulse — say the feat relies too heavily on sleight - of - hand accounting and huge donations to environmental projects abroad, rather than meaningful emissions reductions.