Sentences with phrase «making campaign contributions»

The percentage of physicians making campaign contributions in federal elections increased to 9.4 percent in 2012 from 2.6 percent in 1991, and during that time physician contributors shifted away from Republicans toward Democrats, especially in specialties dominated by women or those that are traditionally lower paying such as pediatrics, according to a new study by Adam Bonica, Ph.D., of Stanford University, California, and colleagues.

Hawkins said that he would also prohibit individuals and companies doing business with the state (including lobbyists) from making campaign contributions, and would restrict the ability of state lawmakers to earn income from outside employment.

Singh said he was trying to get millions in favorable financial treatment from the city for his then Water's Edge restaurant by making campaign contributions to the mayor.

In 2011, Howe contacted Aiello via email to suggest Cor needed a strategy for connecting with elected officials and making campaign contributions.

Antisthenes Kynosarges: Lobbyists making campaign contributions?

Federal law bars foreign interests from making campaign contributions or interfering with U.S. elections.

Governments have made efforts to improve accountability by requiring lobbyists to register their activity and making campaign contributions public, predicated on the idea that transparency will reduce the risk of undue influence.

Schultz was on the President's mind because the business icon had suddenly become a political activist, announcing that because he was disgusted with Washington's dysfunction, he would cease making campaign contributions to incumbents in either party.

So even if it's too late, or irrelevant, to submit an appropriations request for this year, it might be worth your while to make a campaign contribution anyway, and lay the groundwork for 2010.

In addition to restoring Glass - Steagall, Celente says Congress needs to stop favoring special interest groups that make campaign contributions.

In its interactions with the government, the financial sector buys bonds (and also makes campaign contributions).

It's not unsual for Brookfield et al to make campaign contributions.

«They don't make campaign contributions because they're feeling charitable, they do it fatten the bottom line.»

The Assembly's LLC loophole closing legislation (A. 1926, Kavanagh), which has passed every year since 2015, would eliminate a provision in the current law that allows LLCs to make campaign contributions as individuals, ending the practice where one person or a corporation owns multiple LLCs that are used to funnel donations to a single candidate or committee.

But using the standard that Bharara used in the Silver case (and, arguably, his case against former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was busted on similar charges and is also appealing his conviction), the prisons would be filled with people who made a campaign contribution so they can get a meeting with a politician.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and the FBI alleged that Skelos (R - Rockville Centre) extorted a real estate company to make campaign contributions to Republicans and finance the hiring of his son, Adam, through an Arizona - based environmental company.

A former Gipson staffer, Matthew Martini, last week announced on Facebook that he had just made a campaign contribution to his old boss, and urged others to do the same.

Companies know that if they make a campaign contribution they can get the Cuomo administration to be their friends.

Then I could make a campaign contribution the same day.»

The federal rule says firms can not engage in state bond work for two years after they make campaign contributions to state officials who oversee the bonds.

The bill, which awaits action in the Senate, would regulate the ability of individuals to make campaign contributions over the legal limit through the use of LLC's.

According to the latest complaint, Skelos pressured a real estate company to make campaign contributions to Republicans and finance the hiring of his son through an Arizona - based environmental company, AbTech Industries.

A rule of the federal Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) prohibits bond work from going to financial firms that make campaign contributions to public officials who control bond decisions.

While the advocates have not poured money into lobbyists, they make campaign contributions and exert pressure in other ways.

De Blasio donor Jona Rechnitz testified last week during the corruption trial of former correction union president Norman Seabrook that he used straw donors to make campaign contributions to the mayor.

Under state election law, it's a misdemeanor for anyone to make a campaign contribution «in any name except his own, directly or indirectly.»

«In fairness to your readers it should be pointed out that there are hundreds of campaign contributors who do not do any business with Onondaga County and there are thousands of individuals and businesses who have contracts with the county and have never made a campaign contribution,» Mahoney spokesman Martin Skahen wrote.

It's tiring to hear the governor say that «you can only live within the system that exists» while he rakes in campaign cash that comes overwhelmingly in donations of $ 10,000 or more and takes advantage of a loophole that treats limited liability corporations as individuals when they make campaign contributions, even if they're controlled by one individual.

During earlier testimony, Lacewell said it is not illegal in New York for companies who do business with the state to make campaign contributions.

The right of individuals to make campaign contributions would not be infringed, but they would have to make a choice between their lobbying activities and their personal financial contributions to the political process.

Parents for Educational Freedom NC (PEFNC)-- a pro-voucher lobby in North Carolina that receives the bulk of its funding from the Walton Family — has made campaign contributions to Stam and has even flown him and other lawmakers to Florida in 2013 to learn more about that state's own voucher scheme.

Make your campaign contribution decision and vote based on that agenda and make sure your friends and neighbors know the score.

The petition sought to amend the recusal rules when a party in an action — or the lawyer or law firm in an action — makes a campaign contribution to or spends money in a judicial campaign for a judge presiding in the case.

Further, according to Comment 5 to Rule 2.11, a judge has a duty to disclose information that litigants might find relevant to a disqualification motion, like whether either the parties or their lawyers have made campaign contributions, even if the judge believes there is no basis for disqualification.

Beginning on March 1, employees of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts and the Federal Judicial Center may not make campaign contributions or engage in partisan activity.

Not exact matches

The CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX made two separate contributions, together totaling $ 5,000, to the Clinton campaign May 1, according to the FEC.

Levie made a contribution of $ 2,700 to the Clinton campaign last month, according to FEC filings.

That would appear to make Cohen's payments an excessive contribution to Trump's campaign, as well as an unreported campaign expenditure, both violations of federal election law.

Mr. Cohen said that he had given a similar statement to the Federal Election Commission in response to a complaint filed by the government watchdog group Common Cause, which contended that the payment, made through a limited liability company that Mr. Cohen established, was an in - kind contribution to the Trump campaign.

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.»»

«If this is true then it looks like Cohen may have made an unreported loan to the campaign rather than a contribution,» said Richard L. Hasen, an expert in election law at the University of California, Irvine.

To make matters worse, tax rates are being cut for the rentiers who receive this interest, while their array of special exemptions and tax breaks are widened as they gain control of the political process through campaign contributions and ownership of the media.

Walmart Canada's annual campaign for disaster relief and preparedness raised a total of $ 3.27 million for the Canadian Red Cross this year, including an $ 818,000 contribution from Walmart which makes us the largest corporate donor to the Canadian Red Cross.

Trump, Noble said, could make contributions of any size to his own campaign.

Disclose Company's Own Political Spending If a company chooses to use its own funds for direct campaign spending, the issue raised in many shareholder proposals is whether such corporations should — in addition to the governance procedures noted above — issue a comprehensive report which lists in one place all the recipients both of such direct spending and of contributions made from the company's employee PAC.

January 22, 2018: The campaign finance and anti-corruption watchdog group Common Cause filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission and Department of Justice asking them to «determine whether the payment was made by the Trump Organization or some other corporation or individual, which would additionally make it an illegal in - kind contribution to the campaign.»

The payment was made in coordination with the Trump campaign and constituted an illegal and unreported in - kind campaign contribution, according to the two complaints.

If Cohen made that payment from his own funds and without Trump's knowledge, it could be considered an illegal contribution to the Trump campaign.

As for Westcoast's $ 20,500 donation to Ms. Clark's campaign on March 1, Weilinger stated that's «something we can't really comment on other than to say we try to take a non-partisan view of our contributions and donations and we like to make sure the democratic system is working and effective.»

The government watchdog group Common Cause has argued that the payment was made to influence the 2016 presidential election and therefore it was an illegal in - kind contribution to Mr Trump's campaign that was never publicly disclosed.