Sentences with phrase «lobby dollars from»

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After loosing his senate position Rick Santorum earned millions of dollars including payments from a lobbying firm, an energy company engaged in controversial practice which pollutes ground water and endangers the public and a hospital conglomerate that was sued for allegedly defrauding the federal government.

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Connor: I think Cuomo's very beholden to corporate interests, particularly individuals from the finance sector of New York City who have donated tens of thousands of dollars to his campaigns — directly to Cuomo himself but also to his affiliated organization, the Committee to Save New York, which is this opaque lobbying organization that has fought for his various budget proposals.

Neighborhood lobbying group Pledge 2 Protect settled with the state for failing to disclose that more than a million dollars it received from a...

That the Governor who raised 33 million dollars from real - estate donors and corporate entities before the gubernatorial campaign even started may have allowed undue influence for these entities to lobby and pass legislation they desired as a result of their donations to the Cuomo campaign war chest.

The New York Times reports that the Committee to Save New York, a lobbying group of primarily business interests that has run ad campaigns to support the governor's positions, received $ 2 million dollars from Genting in December.

Shortly afterward, the New York Times reported that a lobbying group closely associated with Cuomo had received $ 2 million dollars from Genting last December, just as Governor Cuomo was putting together his priorities for the New Year, which included the Genting convention center proposal.

The hearing comes two days after the New York Times reported that a lobby group closely associated with Governor Cuomo, the Committee to Save New York, had received over $ 2 million dollars from the gambling corporation Genting, just weeks before Cuomo made a Genting convention center project the centerpiece of his State of the State message.

ALBANY — Companies involved in bidding for casino licenses in New York State spent nearly $ 11 million on lobbying and campaign donations in 2012 and 2013, and are donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to campaign committees through holding companies, according to a new report from the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Instead, Catholic Schools, who were part of the lobbying effort, received $ 250 million dollars from the state, an amount that they said they were already owed.

The billions of dollars going for state contracts to rebuild Lower Manhattan are mostly exempt from the state's lobbying rules — a fact that should concern all New Yorkers, not to mention members of Congress, who help pay the tab.

It's why the largest wireless operators are spending millions of dollars each year in lobbying to make sure rules for new spectrum auctions are written in a way that favors their interests, and it's why there has been so much wheeling and dealing around Verizon's move to buy wireless spectrum from a consortium of cable operators.

What got me really pissed while watching the movie was learning that when the World Health Organization came out with revised guidelines on sugar consumption in 2003, the sugar lobby in the US demanded that Congress withhold the 408 million dollars in funding the WHO receives from the US each year.

Meanwhile, ConnCAN and the rest of the charter school industry are using their hundreds of thousands of dollars to promote Malloy's disgraceful budget and lobbying to stop the Connecticut legislature from pausing the development of further charter schools in the state.

The same Jonathan Sacker who set up ConnCAN's unknown sister organization called the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Advocacy Inc. which poured more than half a million dollars into legislative lobbying over the past few years helping to get Achievement First more money and a special law exempting charter schools from having to have all their teachers certified.

These foundations have clear agendas and are using their money to enlist allies in their causes, whether it's through funding advocacy groups (they're mostly blocked from direct lobbying due to their nonprofit status) or by tying their dollars directly to desired changes in policy and personnel.

Pearson Education, ETS (Educational Testing Service), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw - Hill and dozens of other companies have spent tens of millions of dollars lobbying to weaken privacy laws or stop the federal and state governments from reducing their access to student data.

The NEA and the AFT also have extraordinary millions of dollars extracted from their members to lobby for policies they want to have enacted by Congress, state legislatures and school boards and also to elect their favored political candidates.

Meanwhile, Luke Bronin's spokesperson's New York based company received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the charter school industry for coordinating the lobbying campaign on behalf of the charter schools, a proposal that diverted Connecticut taxpayer money that should have been spent on public schools.

The undisclosed spending is one omission from a lobbying disclosure by Families For Excellent Schools that sheds little light into the group's millions of dollars in recent outlays.

I am pleased to see a document, such as this, which speaks to something as important as our education system that uses proper scientific citing of bona fide papers on the subject as opposed to emotional arguments meant to sway voters or think - tank «papers» from thinly (or otherwise) veiled lobby groups whose intent is NOT the betterment of our educational system but rather the increase of funneling of tax - payer dollars away from socially responsible infrastructures (like education) and towards already wealthy private corporations.

The advocacy and lobbying group is also behind the multi-million dollar advertising campaign to undermine New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's decision to make New York City's public schools a high priority compared to the Bloomberg administration's approach that diverted tens of millions in public resources away from the public schools and to the city's privately run charter schools.

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You are correct up to a point, Bob Dole the former make believe Republican and the lobbies are responsible for stealing our tax dollars in the form of subsidies and forcing us to use an inferior product that actually costs more due to the poor mileage, robs performance from the engine, creates engine and fuel system problems and is environmentally worse.

That same year, IER and its lobbying arm, the American Energy Alliance (AEA), together received millions of dollars from foundations affiliated with the Koch brothers, who have bankrolled an all out campaign to roll back state and federal clean energy policies.

Soon after Dick Gephardt retired as the Democratic leader in the U.S. House of Representatives he began receiving $ 120,000 per quarter from Peabody coal for lobbying, almost half a million dollars per year from a single source.

I guess that's why, when the section dealing with how global warming could affect North American tourism got written, the IPCC chose to quote a dollar amount plucked from... drumroll please... a press release issued by an industry lobby group — in this case the International Snowmobile Manufacturers Association.

Airline companies would have never seen any financial light of day without massive subsidies provided by our involuntary tax dollars — plus a little help from our favorite petrochemical lobbies.

But the life insurance lobby had visions of Million dollar signs in their eyes and have used plenty of the inordinate profits that come from selling overpriced products that, by design, almost never pay a death benefit, to insure that no one makes them uncomfortable while they rape and pillage.

Or, as The Verge reported, it could be the millions in dollars over 250 other Republicans in Congress have received from those lobbies.

They then saw how much the NRA contributes to politicians, starting with Rubio's $ 3.3 million from the gun - lobbying group, and learned the dollar cost.