Sentences with phrase «in political money»

For years, the teachers» unions were the key players in the political money game to help further education policy objectives.

Cryptocurrency donations may be the latest innovation in political money.

Not exact matches

New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand will no longer accept money from political action committees linked with corporations for her reelection campaign, she announced on Tuesday, citing the «corrosive» effect of corporate money in politics.

The Republican Party's fast journey from debating how to combat human - caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money, Democratic hubris in the Obama years and a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack in the Antarctic shelf, favouring extreme positions and uncompromising rhetoric over co-operation and conciliation.

Questions about where Mr. Low and the prime minister's stepson — a movie producer behind films including «The Wolf of Wall Street» — obtained money for the United States properties have helped fuel political unrest in Malaysia, where several political leaders in the opposition and in Mr. Najib's own party have called for the prime minister to step down.

Other political money flows through trade associations in the U.S. such as the American Chamber of Commerce, which has already spent more than $ 21 million in campaign advertising this year, including $ 1.5 million on ads accusing Democratic Senator Mark Udall of driving up energy costs, largely in response to his refusal to support Republican demands for immediate approval of the Keystone pipeline.

The three defense companies have also donated more money in the 2018 election cycle than any other company in the industry, according to a new analysis from the Center for Responsible Politics, which draws on the Federal Election Commission's latest political - candidate - contribution report.

Especially in a time when dark money threatens to take outer our political system, the Internet offers a forum for people to make a difference with ideas, not dollars.

The real shocker is that psychopaths have a high rate of «success,» at least in terms of garnering popularity, making lots of money, and advancing to high positions in companies and political circles.

With that in mind, here are five things you may not have known about how the health care industry is spending its political money this year:

Most of the money spent in its first year went directly to political ads or grants to other groups.

Federal Election Commission records show that these groups, as well as five other grant recipients of Crossroads GPS, spent money on political ads, directly or indirectly, in the 2010 election cycle.

Point Bridge Capital, a financial firm in Fort Worth, Texas combed through election filings to identify 150 corporations whose employees, management and political action committees have donated the most money to Republican candidates for office and any party - affiliated federal committees or groups.

The Supreme Court's Citizens United decision in 2010 allowed for unlimited political spending by corporations, but Justice Anthony Kennedy expressed his strong support for public disclosure of the money spent.

«The issue of me running for political office frequently comes up because I am constantly touring around, giving speeches and raising money for the party,» he said in a statement.

So Luckey isn't just spending money to support a political candidate who is hostile towards, and profoundly unpopular in, the tech world.

More than 500 contributors who gave more than $ 200 to Republican candidates earlier in this election cycle, are now giving money to Clinton rather than the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, according to political research group, Crowdpac.

While corporations are prohibited from contributing to federal political campaigns, in 2013 46 of the top 60 TSX companies still gave money to candidates at the provincial level (where in many cases corporate donations are still allowed).

Businesses can certainly make money in countries whose stability depends on maintaining the political status quo.

That means we could see more money for entrepreneurs working in the political world, and a whole new set of customer problems that savvy entrepreneurs might race to remedy.

Extremely wealthy people — enabled by a series of key Supreme Court decisions as recently as yesterday — want to be able to spend gargantuan amounts of money in the political process and remain essentially private persons who don't get knocked around or criticized like everyone else in the political arena.

In some ways, this lines up with something I noted in my «Brittle Grip» series of posts: growing calls from the extremely rich to not only be able to use their money without limit to shape the political process but to do so anonymously to avoid being «intimidated» or «vilified»In some ways, this lines up with something I noted in my «Brittle Grip» series of posts: growing calls from the extremely rich to not only be able to use their money without limit to shape the political process but to do so anonymously to avoid being «intimidated» or «vilified»in my «Brittle Grip» series of posts: growing calls from the extremely rich to not only be able to use their money without limit to shape the political process but to do so anonymously to avoid being «intimidated» or «vilified».

A version of this article appears in print on July 22, 2012, on Page MM14 of the Sunday Magazine with the headline: How Did Political Money Get This Loud?.

Dogwood's success in 2006 in getting the province to make political donations disclosures available online laid the groundwork for our Ban Big Money campaign.

Had Trump taken the measures suggested repeatedly by ethics experts on both sides of the political aisle, he would by now have put his assets in what's called a blind trust, which would entail turning over his empire to a third party with whom he will have no contact, who would sell off the properties and reinvest the resulting money in other assets without providing the president any information about the sales or the purchases.

For example, Amazon's payments to trade associations that are used for political activities are undisclosed and unknown — in some cases, even management does not know how trade associations use Amazon's money.

Every tech company has increased political spending over the last few years, and the amount of tech money circulating in D.C. will skyrocket now that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been hauled before Congress to answer questions about the myriad ways in which his company is harming America and the world.

And according to an analysis by Reuters, the organization's political action committee (PAC) began providing more money to Republican candidates than Democrats in 2016, in contrast to previous years.

Trump delivered a swift kick to the political status quo by running on a populist platform, promising the average Joe more money in their pocket, and fewer people coming in to the country to compete for jobs and benefits.

Former New York City mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, now an attorney for President Trump, has rocked the political and legal worlds not only with his revelation that Trump reimbursed attorney Michael Cohen for hush money paid to adult - film actress Stormy Daniels, but that the president fired James B. Comey because the then - FBI director wouldn't publicly clear Trump in the Russia affair.

Some would say, of course, that O'Leary's religion is money; that he appeals to the worst aspect of human nature, greed, and that this in itself disqualifies him from participating in Canadian political life.

The term «dark money» is often applied to this category of political spender because these groups do not have to disclose the sources of their funding — though a minority do disclose some or all of their donors, by choice or in response to specific circumstances.

Faced with a political climate unlikely to prioritize election reform, cities might lead the way in breaking the grip of rich donors and dark money in national campaigns.

«Self - Fulfilling Prophecy» In its Quarterly Outlook this week, the famously pro-Bitcoin institution said a mixture of global political uncertainty, tightening of credit access and commodities volatility could all see new money pouring into crypto markets.

(CQ: http://moneyline.cq.com and National Institute on Money in State Politics: http://www.followthemoney.org) In addition, FedEx scored just 42.9 out of 100 points in the 2013 CPA - Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Accountability and Disclosure, placing it near the bottom of a ranking of the 196 largest U.S. companiein State Politics: http://www.followthemoney.org) In addition, FedEx scored just 42.9 out of 100 points in the 2013 CPA - Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Accountability and Disclosure, placing it near the bottom of a ranking of the 196 largest U.S. companieIn addition, FedEx scored just 42.9 out of 100 points in the 2013 CPA - Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Accountability and Disclosure, placing it near the bottom of a ranking of the 196 largest U.S. companiein the 2013 CPA - Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Accountability and Disclosure, placing it near the bottom of a ranking of the 196 largest U.S. companies.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; 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Manafort and longtime business partner Rick Gates, meanwhile, were charged in a 12 - count indictment with conspiracy to launder money, making false statements and other charges in connection with their work advising a Russia - friendly political party in Ukraine.

It's been my view since circa 2003 that «they» would hold up the system with printed money and credit creation until every last crumb of middle class wealth was swept off the table and into the pockets of those in position to do the sweeping: Corporate America, the very wealthy («wealthy» = enough disposable cash to buy a few politicians and Federal judges) and the political elite — the latter of which are compensated pawns for the first two cohorts.

Manafort, 68, and Gates, 45, remain under home confinement on pledges to pay $ 10 million and $ 5 million, respectively, if they fail to return to court after pleading not guilty Oct. 30 to charges of conspiracy, money laundering and making false lobbyist registration statements in connection with their work advising a Russia - friendly political party in Ukraine.

Markets have been increasingly volatile since Greek voters last weekend rejected political parties that imposed the deep spending cuts required in exchange for bailout money to keep the country from bankruptcy.

Australian companies in China have expressed concern about political tension between Beijing and Canberra but said they still saw opportunities to make money in China.

When it refused to appoint his corrupt political cronies, he deposited the U.S. Treasury's money in his «pet banks.»

The money spent by candidates and political parties in Alberta elections are nowhere near the truckloads being spent south of the border in advance of November's presidential and senate elections, but some of these numbers demonstrate how pitched some electoral battles were in the recent provincial election.

It was well - known in Alberta political circles that the PC Party had the goal of always having enough money in their bank account to run two back - to - back election campaigns at any time.

I rather put my time in researching stuff that makes money than wasting my time on political posts.

As freelance journalist Wendy Siegelman and Business Insider reported in March, two members of the Mercer family — major backers of conservative political causes whose money and management was key to Cambridge Analytica from the beginning — have joined the board of Emerdata.

U.S. - listed ETFs continued to rake in money in the latest week, even as political uncertainty in Washington fueled the largest stock market decline of the year on Wednesday.

Michelle Ye Hee Lee is a reporter on The Washington Post's national political enterprise and accountability team, covering money and influence in politics.

One is left amazed that the political system directed Johnson's energies toward good works, but also wary of the legacy he left, in which American politics would be dominated more than ever by publicists, soundbytes, and vast sums of money.

But there the crusty pol and the personable young professor recently raised to political prominence were, going on and on about the minutiae of which health care plan will give more money and choice to the middle class and who voted for what and when in the fetid world of senatorial maneuverings.