Sentences with phrase «influenced by big money»
She portrayed Cuomo as tied to corruption, influenced by big money donors, clandestinely supportive of legislative Republicans and «inhumane budgets,» and more aligned with the top 1 percent of the economic class than regular Democrats.
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We know the answer to those questions: the money and influence of Big Food, and a moral failure by this Congress to stand up for the health of American kids.
The other, even more serious type of very British corruption revealed by the resignation honours list is the fact that these honours — and even places in our legislature — can be purchased with political donations... it is simply undeniable that big donations buy influence... when money buys influence, trust in politics is eroded.»
The criticism Teachout was making was not over direct contributions like the checks cut by the Soros family to her campaign, but the influence of big money flowing to super PACs.
Prosecutors allege he illegally cashed in on his outsize influence, making big money by doing political favors — not legal work — for law firms.
It's great that she elevated progressive infrastructure by making this announcement at Netroots Nation — and that she is promising to elevate the fight against big money influence in politics during her first month in office,» said Marissa Barrow, a spokeswoman for the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.
The documentary Dog by Dog provides an educational view of how big money and big agriculture have influenced what laws do and don't get passed to regulate the industry.
While it was launched as an intervention into big money's influence on art, BHQFU is funded by sales of high - priced art.
Maybe if we all concentrate with Facebook to address this issue of the Russians meddling with our election process, we can conveniently forget the real (and much more alarming) issue of undue influence in our Federal Government by Big Money Interests like the MIC.
and I see it as a huge time suck and failure for the vast majority of people who are influenced by this romantic notion that this is the way to make big money.