Sentences with phrase «of big campaign contributions»

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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.»»

Since I am (as you now know from last week's Civil Eats post) more of a realist than an idealist, I'm not especially hopeful that our elected officials will suddenly find the courage to defy Big Food — and forgo its campaign contributions — nor am I hopeful that industry will change its ways voluntarily on a widespread basis.

«(Tkaczyk's) campaign proved that New Yorkers are tired of the corrupting influence of big money on politics, where major campaign contributions grease the wheels to special access and preferred legislative outcomes for a select few.»

Cuomo, too, has talked about the importance of limiting big donors» access to government by limiting political contributions and creating a public campaign finance system — although he has yet to formally propose any legislation to accomplish that.

Longtime League of Women Voters lobbyist Barbara Bartoletti expressed frustration at the lack of action on items including closing a giant campaign finance loophole that allows big money donors to make unlimited contributions to candidates by setting up multiple Limited Liability Companies.

A Fair Elections system would allow the priorities of constituents to matter more, because big campaign contributions would matter less.

As Gerald Benjamin, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at SUNY New Paltz, points out in aJournal News op - ed; Forty - nine out of 63 New York State Senators received most of their campaign contributions from corporations or big money donors.Millions are wasted and misdirected each year because of sweetheart deals for the special interests.

Cuomo received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from a company involved in a controversial program that provides U.S. visas to big dollar foreign investors.

«We urge the Elections Committee to pass Senator Squadron's legislation, and the full Senate and Assembly to pass this critical reform that would improve our campaign finance and ethics laws by reducing the influence of big contributions on the decisions made by our elected officials.»

«The LLC loophole allows big special interests to virtually by pass the campaign contribution limits that apply to most New Yorkers, and give politicians vast sums of money, often without clearly identifying the source,» said Kavanagh, the bill's sponsor.

«The State Board of Elections» outrageous decision to grant favorable campaign contribution status to LLCs has helped contribute to some of the biggest scandals in New York's political history,» said Blair Horner, NYPIRG Executive Director.

NEW YORK CITY — The city's 2013 candidates are adding star power to their campaigns, raking in contributions from some of Hollywood's biggest names.

At a heated debate last night between Councilman Charles Barron and Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, both of whom are attempting to unseat Brooklyn Congressman Ed Towns, Mr. Barron leveled a big charge against Mr. Jeffries over his campaign contributions from the Police Benevolent Association, calling them «blood money,» a phrase he repeated to The Politicker this afternoon.

The criticism Teachout was making was not over direct contributions like the checks cut by the Soros family to her campaign, but the influence of big money flowing to super PACs.

It renewed rent regulations for over a million apartments in New York City, authorized property tax rebates for 2.5 million homeowners on Long Island and upstate, restructured and extended a tax subsidy for the real estate industry — the biggest source of state campaign contributions — and authorized New York City mayor Bill de Blasio's control of city schools for another year.

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.

«The whole scheme of collecting big campaign contributions from people with business before the city is very unseemly,» said Dick Dadey, director of the watchdog group Citizens Union.

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from a company involved in a controversial program that provides U.S. visas to big dollar foreign investors.

Cuomo's latest campaign finance report shows that he has received a total of $ 110,445 in big contributions from Central New Yorkers in the past 12 1/2 months.

An increasing amount of campaign contributions come from the wealthiest donors.As more big money floods into elections, we should...

Democratic NYC mayoral frontrunner Bill de Blasio, who has pledged to reduce the gap between the rich and poor, has collected more than 40 percent of his campaign contributions from big - ticket donors.

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.

«How big of a deal are campaign contributions in this case?»

The Center for Working Families has issued a new report, The Big Switch, which details patterns of corporate contributions in New York State political campaigns.

The report recommended public financing of campaigns to limit big donors» influence, closing loopholes that allow companies to ignore current state contribution limits and toughening bribery penalties.

«That's why you have big campaign contributions and you get the temptation for the people within government to take advantage of their positions of power.»

Throughout the past year, as NYC Councilman Rafael Espinal advocated for nightlife friendly legislation, owners of some the city's biggest bars made hefty contributions to the lawmaker's re-election campaign.

Government filings also suggest there will be testimony on matters ranging from lobbying on big - ticket items like rent regulation and real estate tax abatements, to Silver's killing of a Manhattan drug treatment clinic and $ 10 million in campaign contributions from New Hyde Park - based Glenwood Management, one of the real estate developers he allegedly shook down.

The Republican Party filed a lawsuit Thursday to overturn the ban on unlimited campaign contributions that is the cornerstone of a 2002 law designed to reduce the influence of big donors in politics.

The big - spending political donor in last year's election cycle, Litwin's campaign contributions following the Silver arrest dipped to just 6 percent of donations in prior years.

Gubernatorial campaign contributions are «capped» at the ludicrously high level of $ 60,000, but widespread loopholes allow big donors and industries to effectively shovel millions to their favored candidates and party committees.

A check of campaign finance records shows in June Pence received about $ 354,000 in individual big contributions (those over $ 10,000) and the Republican Governors Association bought nearly $ 855,000 in advertising on his behalf.

Irwin's campaign disclosure form reads like a «who's who» of big union players, including max - out contributions from AFSCME, the California School Employees Association, the California State Council of Laborer's PAC, the California Teachers Association, Los Angeles County Firefighters Local 1014, SEIU United Long Term Care Workers Local 6434, Service Employees International Union Local 1000, the State Building & Construction Trades Council of California and the United Nurses Association

Gray has received roughly a half - million dollars in campaign contributions in the last two weeks of the campaign, including late contributions from big business and big labor.

The North District race was a hotly contested one filled with big campaign contributions and contrasting educational ideologies from the two candidates on everything from charter schools to extending the school day to the use of standardized tests.

We hear the city Department of Investigation and new Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. is picking up where Bob Morgenthau left off, looking at a big - time developer who may have spread more than hefty campaign contributions around the Bronx.

The state investigation, led by Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, focuses on whether the de Blasio Administration illegally funneled big bucks campaign contributions to upstate campaign committees in an unsuccessful bid to regain Democratic control of the state senate in 2014, WCBS 880's Marla Diamond reported.

The federal proceedings concern whether the administration doled out «pay - to - play» favors to big donors that dumped money into de Blasio's now - defunct «shadow government» nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York — Vance's case concerns allegations the mayor sought to circumvent state contribution limits in his failed bid to turn the State Senate Democratic, by having people seeking city business funnel unlimited cash into upstate county committees instead of into candidates» campaign aCampaign for One New York — Vance's case concerns allegations the mayor sought to circumvent state contribution limits in his failed bid to turn the State Senate Democratic, by having people seeking city business funnel unlimited cash into upstate county committees instead of into candidates» campaign acampaign accounts.

Espada, who heads the Senate's housing committee, gets a big chunk of his campaign contributions from landlords and real estate groups.

It is stuffed full of billions of dollars of slush funds that the governor and legislative leaders can spend on just about anything, including giving hundreds of millions in tax dollar subsidies to companies and hospitals that make big campaign contributions,» said John Kaehny, director of the group Reinvent Albany.

Longtime League of Women Voters lobbyist Barbara Bartoletti expressed frustration at the lack of action on items, including closing a giant campaign finance loophole that allows big money donors to make unlimited contributions to candidates by setting up multiple limited liability companies.

With more than $ 30 million reported in his war chest as of January, Cuomo receives the lion's share of his campaign contributions from much bigger sectors — like real estate and pharmaceuticals — than the state's brewing industry.

As of January Sugarman had also not begun assembling a report on the biggest violators of campaign contribution limits the board has traditionally issued.

«The combination of foundation - funded front - groups, big lobbying budgets, [political action committee] donations, and direct campaign contributions makes Koch Industries and the Koch brothers among the most formidable obstacles to advancing clean energy and climate policy in the U.S.,» Greenpeace says.

And most of the judges accepted campaign contributions from the Washington Education Association, the state's biggest teachers» union — and also the plaintiff.

Larger contributions state or local chapters of teachers unions — which provided more than three - quarters of Ritz's campaign funding — no doubt helped Ritz with bigger expenditures.

Hundreds of contributions of less than $ 100 to her campaign — combined she's received $ 50,000 worth of those to date — and another cash infusion from her campaign's biggest supporter, the political arm of the Indiana State Teachers Association.

For a minimum of $ 30, campaign contributors can secure a DRM - free PC copy of System Shock at launch next year; higher contribution tiers include copies of the original System Shock and System Shock 2, a «Digital Collector's Edition», physical «Big - Box Collector's Edition» featuring Tri-Optimum gear, and the chance to be in the remake as an NPC.

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.

Planned Parenthood is a member of the Clean Missouri Coalition, an effort to reform our democracy by banning big lobbyist gifts, capping campaign contributions, and improving the way we draw district lines.