Sentences with phrase «lobbyists for campaign contributions»

Not exact matches

And that's just another way of saying, «This joint runs great for those who can hire armies of lobbyists and lawyers and have them make big campaign contributions, but not here for real people.»»

AG Andrew Cuomo says it's OK for him to accept big campaign contributions from special interests and lobbyists because he has integrity and can't be bought.

The Campaign Finance Board does have different, lower contribution limits for individuals who are categorized by them as doing business with the city — registered lobbyists, those applying for land use actions, grants or contracts — but neither Herrera nor his relatives who worked at MJM or Masonry were categorized as such.

Asked about acceptable ways for candidates to raise money, more than three - quarters of Americans say that raising campaign money from contributions made by Washington lobbyists is unacceptable, putting it at the bottom of a list of six ways for raising money.

What's more, they are enforced by an energetic and independent Campaign Finance Board, which oversees a carefully constructed system that combines generous public matching funds with limits on contributions to political candidates, limits that are especially strict for lobbyists and others doing business with the city.

While Mayor de Blasio was soliciting campaign contributions from billionaire John Catsimatidis, lobbyists for one of the tycoon's companies were pushing to secure legislation that could mean big bucks, in a potential conflict of interest, critics charged Sunday.

Among the many provisions in the bill: end outside employment for lawmakers, ban per diem limits and dramatically tighten campaign contribution limits, restrict contributions by lobbyists, create a public financing system, and provide for a substantial salary increase for legislators while extending their terms from two years to four years.

Mr. Schneiderman has outlined an ambitious package of proposals that would end outside income for lawmakers, end per diem compensations given to politicians to pay for accommodations in the capital, drastically lower campaign contribution limits for individuals and lobbyists, control the amount of cash limited liability corporations can donate to candidates and abolish the virtually unregulated party «housekeeping» accounts.

The state will not match contributions from lobbyists, anonymous donors, vendors for campaigns or transfers from political parties or other committees.

Hevesi admitted to using his control over the state's pension fund, now at $ 130 billion, to steer $ 250 million in investments to a private equity fund that paid him handsomely: $ 75,000 in trips to Israel and Italy for him, his adult children, and people from his staff; $ 500,000 in campaign contributions, and $ 380,000 in make - believe consulting fees to a lobbyist allied with Hank Morris, Hevesi's political guru.

While de Blasio was soliciting campaign contributions from billionaire John Catsimatidis, lobbyists for one of the tycoon's companies were pushing to secure legislation that could mean big bucks, in a potential conflict of interest, critics charged.

Each of those lines is followed by a local news report about a NYPIRG study that found Cuomo tops the list for lobbyist campaign contributions to the tune of $ 320,540 from December 2008 to last January.

Industries that profit off everyday people and taxpayers have not hesitated to spend heavily on lobbyists and campaign contributions to influence policy decisions for their corporate gain.

To outlaw the pay - to - play nature of state contracting, he proposes low campaign contribution limits for contractors and lobbyists.

According to his admission and Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Markstone's principal, Elliott Broidy, lavished Mr. Hevesi, his associates and family with $ 75,000 worth of luxury trips, gave or arranged for more than $ 500,000 in contributions to Mr. Hevesi's campaign and agreed to a $ 380,000 sham consulting deal for a lobbyist friend of Mr. Hevesi's close political adviser, Hank Morris.

Robert McChesney has written about how the media operate as an oligopoly through corporate lobbyists, political campaign contributions, government media policies, the control of news coverage by corporate elites, and the enforcement of monopolistic rights for those broadcasters who can make the most profit.

The Federation hired Gary Goyke, a former legislator and top lobbyist perhaps best remembered for his 1990 conviction on four felony counts of money laundering campaign contributions to state legislators.

Programs, mandates, and subsidies beget vocal beneficiaries, industries, lobbyists, and crony corporatist arrangements between them and elected representatives — who receive dinners, trips, and campaign contributions in exchange for votes that perpetuate programs, mandates, subsidies, and electoral success.

The immediate threat in the United States is that dirty energy lobbyists will effectively use hypothetical arguments of WTO or NAFTA illegality to chill congressional action and provide cover for U.S. legislators who are indebted to Big Oil, Big Coal and the LNG lobby for campaign contributions, even though international trade law is not incorporated into U.S. domestic law and violations can not be enforced in U.S. domestic courts.

If the transaction is all cash, the buyers lawyer is the party that needs to gather the Fintrac required information, As usual money rules, CREA has let the Real Estate industry down again, by failing to aggressively lobby the government, to exempt us from Fintrac rules, The banking industry and the legal community have the ear of the government thru their financial contributions for campaigning, and their paid lobbyists, The government of Canada had to show that they are making an effort to stop money laundering, in order to meet International requirements for financing our massive National debt.