Sentences with phrase «large money donors»

The Moreland Commission, after several months of hearings and investigations, concluded in early December that public financing of statewide political campaigns would go a long ways toward curbing the influence of large money donors.

Not exact matches

A group of former wrestlers - turned financial gurus who have worked at some of America's top financial firms have pooled their own money with charitable donors» to grant larger cash prizes to wrestlers who win Olympic medals, The New York Times reports.

GFI is entirely supported by grants and donations.79 Their three largest donors provided a total of around 25 - 40 % of their funding in 2016, and we would expect those donors to provide a similar, perhaps slightly larger, amount of funding in 2017 — though GFI's intention is to raise significantly more money overall.80, 81 GFI's fiscal management strategy is to spend each year what it raised the prior year; this enables them to budget on a rolling 12 - month timeframe.82, 83 Overall, we think that while their funding sources are not especially diverse, they do rely on a relatively broad donor base and take a responsible and sustainable approach to their finances.

In that sense, a solid Twitter following is like a favorable internal poll released to the press, or like having big money in the bank — it's a way to show The Powers That Be (funders, bloggers, journalists, party committees, large donors) that a campaign is worth supporting.

His large - scale Facebook outreach reached voters in groups large and small in critical areas of the country, and the bulk of the campaign's late funding came through grassroots donors identified and recruited via Facebook ads (even if they often gave the money in response to a subsequent email appeal).

Also, as online donations bring a larger group of small donors into the process, they're going to demand that their money be well spent if campaigns want more of it.

«For most offices, New York State's contribution «limits» are substantially higher than those of any other state that imposes limits, and they are so high as to ensure that large donors dominate major political campaigns and candidates spend as much time as possible raising money from donors rather than talking with voters about issues,» Cuomo said in the written version of the SoS.

Though much of the money came from large fundraising events in Hollywood and elsewhere, the average donation was less than $ 100 (most much lower) and came inonline, and the new donors have swelled the Obama list to some 3.1 million people.

Malliotakis sought to focus attention on recent testimony of de Blasio donor Jona Rechnitz in the federal corruption trial of Norman Seabrook, in which Rechnitz said he donated large amounts of money to Mayor de Blasio in exchange for special treatment.

The mayor told WNYC's Brian Lehrer on Friday that his 2017 re-election campaign will rely on small amounts of money from a large group of donors, rather than wealthy individuals who can donate the maximum amount.

And, by extension, online donations give small donors a much larger voice than they've had in the past, since a distributed army of excited activists can yield as much money as quite a few $ 1000 - per - plate dinner donors.

In all, the Democratic committees in Putnam, Ulster and Monroe Counties raised at least $ 1.2 million in large donations from union political action committees, private companies and individual donors, state records show, and sent money to four Senate candidates in close races.

(They are the state's largest campaign donors, and have given Cuomo more money than anybody.)

A substantial portion of those companies» donations — at least $ 370,400 — went to the pro-Republican independent expenditure committee Jobs for New York, which raised about 40 percent of its money from donors who are also among Cuomo's top 25 largest donors.

NYPIRG and other reform groups say larger, more systematic issues need to be addressed, like closing a loophole that permits donors to skirt contribution limits by bundling money in limited liability corporations, or LLC's.

Mr. Laufer, however, noted that giving money to party committees in order to help elect specific candidates is a common practice — one that former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, once the largest donor to the State Senate Republicans, took part in.

While Wu will likely have a hard time raising money for his campaign committee, Hochul could have at her disposal the large universe of donors that have maxed out to Cuomo and could now give to her as well.

McLaughlin's largest contribution was $ 1,300 from State & Broadway State PAC, a lobbying firm, however most of the money raised has come from small, individual donors.

the obama campaign admited most of its money came from large donations, not the small online donors.

«Every year, hundreds of donors give more money than is allowed by state law that has highest limits of any state capping donation size; scores of candidates fail to disclose large contributions received in the run - up to Election Day; thousands of filings obfuscate the identity of donors or the purpose of expenditures through the inclusion of incomplete or incorrect information; and dozens of incumbent lawmakers spend campaign funds for what reasonable people would unanimously agree are non-campaign reasons,» the report found.

Our very generous donors - either large or small - won't wear it if they are told that their money is being used to fill a gap left by government.

An analysis by Common Cause found that two Buffalo area Senators, Republican Mark Grisanti and Democrat Tim Kennedy raised 75 % to 90 % of their campaign money from large donors who live outside of their districts.

«A lot of times the need to fundraise large amounts of money prevents a lot of people who are qualified and who are leaders in that community from running for office because they don't have networks that include wealthy donors,» said Allie Boldt, a Washington, D.C. - based counsel for the think tank Demos.

To counter the large deficit, Gibson on Tuesday proposed a candidate - imposed ban on using New York's LLC loophole to raise large sums of money from well - heeled donors.

Teachout has written and lectured on the influence of corporate money on elections, and frequently criticized Governor Andrew Cuomo for favoring large campaign donors in his policies.

Large donors have fueled Gov. Andrew Cuomo's campaign warchest, with 81 percent of his money coming from people who gave him $ 10,000 or more, a report by the New York Public Interest Research Group said today.

He continues to call for an education tax credit that would help large donors give money to private and some public schools.

Thanks in part to his army of small donors, Mr. Obama gathered more money in his own campaign account than Mr. Romney, whose advantage lies in raising large checks that primarily benefit the R.N.C.

Mr. Pan, according to the charges, sought to send the money to Mr. Liu's campaign by using 20 straw donors — people who are recorded in campaign finance documents as giving to a candidate but actually serve as conduits for money from an unseen large donor, the person said.

In 2010, Rick Lazio raised a larger share of his money from small donors than either his Republican primary opponent Carl Paladino or the general election victor, Cuomo.

While technically a lobbying entity, the CSNY shared many attributes with independent expenditure committees: it raised large sums of money from a small number of donors to bolster the agenda of a specific politician with whom it purportedly did not coordinate, running advertisements thematically identical to those funded by the Democratic Party's campaign finance committee later in Cuomo's term.

Hedge funder Simons, whose money to the state Democrats made him the third - largest donor of the 2014 election cycle, arguably had his biggest influence on state politics when he made a $ 150 million donation to Stony Brook University contingent on the Legislature agreeing to a SUNY - wide raising of tuition.

The Falcones were the largest donors in the Syracuse area for former Gov. George Pataki, a Republican, who also raised money at their lakeside home.

Large organizations like hospitals get most of their money from the federal government or private donors, meaning that the compensation of those executives may not be affected.

A second report issued today by Advocacy to Control TB Internationally, a partnership of advocates from eight countries, claimed that the four largest TB funding donors — including the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria — made it difficult to discern where they spent money on HIV / TB and whether the programs were effective.

Whether it is the role of money in politics and the so - called «donor class,» the emergence of Republican majorities in formerly blue states like her native Michigan, or the still - rocky relationship between accountability and school choice, DeVos has become a convenient proxy for these larger issues.

This method for raising money from large groups of like - minded donors has never been more popular.

Some of the largest, and most well - funded, national organizations that are meant to protect animals and advocate for their causes (organizations that if you are reading this article there is a good chance that you give money to) are spending precious time and resources (i.e. donor dollars) to advocate against a system that's sole purpose is to save animal's lives.

Nearly all of the potential Democratic Presidential nominees have spoken out against «big money» in politics, often decrying the «corporate influence» of large - money donors, specifically...

The Guardian investigated further, and found that one of the foundation's secret donors is Michael Hintze, a businessman who has also given large sums of money to the Conservative party.

It is led by the Association of Washington Business and funded by five top money donors including TransAlta, Washington's only in - state coal plant and single largest carbon emitter.

Organizations that actively block efforts to address climate change are funded by a large network of conservative donors to the tune of nearly $ 1 billion a year, according to the first in - depth study into the dark money that fuels the denial effort.

In reality, the activists, especially in Canada, look less like grassroots groups than like subsidiaries of large U.S. institutional donors, many with billions of dollars of assets — organizations that have funneled colossal amounts of money to anti-oil sands groups over the past decade.

So a particularly large Kickstarter donor may wish to report his or her Kickstarter donation as a gift for tax - exemption purposes, but a gift receiver typically need not report that money to the IRS.