Sentences with phrase «n't big donors»

Benjamin (pictured above) says he sees indications that both new legislative leaders are more interested in listening to their members and willing to meet with groups that aren't the biggest donors.

He claims he wants a new politics, yet he won't even own up to whether or not his big donors pay full British taxes.

The President says he understands climate and is committed to acting in the interests of posterity and not big donors.

Not exact matches

Given the number of body brokers that currently operate in America, academics and others familiar with the industry say regular inspections of facilities and reviews of donor consent forms wouldn't place a big burden on government.

By showing your donors that you can follow through on your first campaign, effectively raise money, build a prototype, fulfill rewards and communicate your success, you have built in a second round of donors who have a vested interest in your success, and who will not only support you in round two, but will also help you spread the word for the bigger second campaign.

Trump's donor list doesn't include as many big companies, and the total haul is relatively small, compared to Clinton's numbers.

Spoiler alert: she does not go into detail about how fentanyl dealers used the real estate market to launder drug money or how B.C. casinos (also big donors to her party) helped international high rollers convert duffel bags of dirty cash into down payments on luxury homes.

There are tons of people who don't believe in God, who could use some help, the only reason he's getting it, is because to these donors, he represents a big middle fingered salute to religion, and that gets them exited.

And if they can, they'll take a poor person's bed away if it means certainty that the big donor's money does not decrease.

all I can think of today is what I saw in yesterday's news, about the former paratrooper turned preacher at an Independent Fundamental Baptist church just outside Ft. Bragg, N.C., that told his congregation they should break their sons» wrists if they catch them doing the «limp wrist», or give him a good punch... and all the kids that have committed suicide because other kids have picked up on messages like this and bullied them till they couldn't stand it anymore... we are the only bible some folks will ever read, and if they get this kind of message, well, who'd want to be with a group of people where you are grudgingly tolerated, if not outright hated, and all this in Jesus» name... it also says that the churches will do just about anything to keep people obedient and unquestioning, so they will continue to give, and so the big donors will continue to give, so that the doors at Monster Megachurch can be kept open, and the lights on... David, this is one of your «less is more» toons here... a minimum of elements that says so much....

lmao sure tell that the the hormone driven teens of the world... you can only have woopie if your going to marry, marriage will go through the roof... but so will divorce and lawyers will love that mentality because child custody battles make them loads of money and let's not forget the physcologist / phychiatrists that will make big money having to help all these emotionally damaged adults that were dragged through custody battles due to the fact their genetic donors procreated when it was the best time for them.

Also, I've known of a church where big donors acted as if they were patrons and threatened the pastor that they would leave the church if he did not agree to their demands.

The reason why the talking heads in the pulpit won't confront greedy people is that those same greedy people are some of their biggest donors.

The Republicans during their negotiations on the bill that was PASSED by Congress insisted that their big money donors the insurance corporations were not cut out of Obamacare.

Just being able to sign big money world class players is what has papered over their cracks, but the likes if Arsenal don't have a donor who will lose # 50 million on a flop player and take it as nothing.

Knowing the donor, allowing the child to grow up knowing the donor, or not having a third person, potentially, in your life that thinks they have a bigger role than you would want.

Or, are they afraid that the voters might pick someone not fully bought off by their big buck donors?

REBNY is a big participant in CSNY, although the extent of its involvement is unclear since the committee is not required to publicize its donor list.

«If you don't know who they are, they are two of the biggest donors to Donald Trump's presidential effort and helped place Steve Bannon on the campaign and in the White House.

Some believed Golden was purposefully absent to avoid casting a vote that would be a direct «screw you» to one of its biggest supporters (not to mention the Senate GOP's biggest individual donor), Mayor Bloomberg.

De Blasio dodged the question about whether he'll have to testify in a Long Island corruption trial that stars one of his big donors, saying: «I'm not a lawyer... What we did, what my team did, what I did was legal and appropriate.»

Both were big donors to the anti-Christine Quinn group «New York City Is Not For Sale» during the 2013 mayor's race.

«The 6th District and America need to stop big corporate money from privatizing our democracy, which means public funding for public elections as we have in NYC and a DISCLOSE act so anonymous money from billionaires doesn't buy our government,» said Green, who is the author of Who Runs Congressand Losing Our Democracy, as well as the author of the multiple matching funds for small donors part of the City's campaign finance law.

Although Dan Jarvis seems to be gathering donors and thinkers around him for the future... Although Peter Hyman, Joe Haines and Peter Kellner are recommending active resistance in the latest edition of the New Statesman... and although there are signs that the two biggest stars of the Twitterleft — Owen Jones and Mehdi Hasan — are becoming frustrated at Team Corbyn's competence... the chances are that May's tests of public opinion won't be catastrophic for the man who wants nuclear submarines without nuclear warheads.

Whether or not earmarks were involved, campaign finance experts say the general practice of party committee transfers to candidates amounts to a loophole that boosts the influence of party leaders and big donors.

«This is not a race to compile the biggest number of small donors.

And once the internecine struggle was over and donations DID start flowing in, as we saw above many of them weren't under his direct control, leaving him cautious with cash up until the Republican convention let him hit his big donors one more time.

believe that the future of our country lies in our people, not in big money donors and lobbyists who seek to divide us for their profit.

That makes them unwilling to work on behalf of the citizens of their district who polling show strongly support minimum wage increases — while still trying not to offend the business interests and and big donors who literally own them!

Not surprisingly, the WFP's biggest donors are unions, including CWA (co-chair Bob Master is the political director), SEIU / 1199 and NYSUT's political arm, Vote / Cope.

«We did not become the most taxed state in America by accident; it is due to a systematic break down caused by politicians beholden to big donors and party leaders rather than the people,» Giambra said.

Eldridge notes that New York's antiquated campaign finance system is built for big donors, not average voters.

And as the ones on the receiving end of so many fund - raising pleas, they know that elected officials are spending too much time courting big donors and not enough time doing the people's business.»

For example, when commission investigators sought to review political donations and communications by the Real Estate Board of New York — a trade group whose members include some of Cuomo's biggest donors — in an effort to connect the dots on a valuable housing tax break, the governor's secretary reportedly instructed commissioners not to subpoena the organization.

«Government can't succeed and can't really work for ordinary New Yorkers until we do restore the public trust,» said Scharff, who believes that can only happen if there's less reliance on big money donors and more on small donors.

Costly proceedings — that localities will not likely prevail on — all to allow our megalomaniac governor to pay off on promises made to his big hedge fund donors.

Jack Straw yesterday defended the big donors who propped up the Labour party, saying they were «not dodgy but honourable».

This is not particularly surprising — he and his brother are among the biggest conservative donors in the country.

«She demonstrated that, even in this day and age, a candidate with a real message doesn't necessarily need the support of the party apparatus, or the financial backing of big donors, to have an impact.»

Given that he is a public figure — not only a peer of the realm but also the deputy chairman of the Conservatives, the party's biggest single donor and one of the architects of its general election strategy — that right must surely be somewhat circumscribed.

The reaction to the report «political party funding — ending the big donor culture ``, by the committee on standards in public life, chaired by Sir Christopher Kelly, has been depressing if not surprising.

He ripped Cuomo for the MTA mass transit crisis, accused him of «emboldening a Republican state Senate majority» by not doing enough to reunify fractured Senate Democrats, and knocked his support for charter schools and big - money hedge fund donors.

Latimer must rely on big money donors to support his inaccurate mailers because he either does not care enough to attend public forums on issues important to constituents, or he is too feeble.

The committee advising the not - for - profit arm for City Hall initiatives has been stacked with big mayoral campaign donors.

The NYT slaps de Blasio for professing «a devotion to goodness and idealism, and working for «the people» while quietly taking unlimited sums of cash from big donors, supposedly because these benefactors love the values he fights for and not the access and influence that buckets of money can buy.»

House Speaker Paul Ryan, who has repeatedly insisted he's not interested in being the compromise candidate for president should the current contenders fail to reach the delegate threshold, will meet with big GOP donors in Manhattan next week.

«Albany doesn't need another politician who'll represent the needs of big money donors and that's what they'll get with George Amedore,» said David Donnelly, treasurer of New York Friends of Democracy.

«It has now been suggested that the list of meetings published by David Cameron last week was incomplete, with numerous other meetings with big Tory donors, including Peter Cruddas, not being disclosed,» Mr Trickett commented.

Glenwood Management, the giant real - estate firm that was once the biggest political donor in New York, is being sued by US Attorney Preet Bharara for not making one of its properties disability - friendly, new court papers charge.

The Party has lost most of its bigger private donors and depleted trade union political funds will not be capable of again bridging this gap.