Sentences with phrase «of big money donors»

Commonly cited concerns include the potential for outsized influence of big money donors on the policy process relative to more traditional voices in public education debates, such as teachers and other education practitioners.

«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.

Meanwhile, the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School plans to push for a system of public funds to match smaller donations as a way to limit the influence of big money donors in campaign fundraising.

Silver says it's important to get the influence of big money donors out of politics.

The majority of the 25 Moreland Act commissioners say a public campaign finance system modeled on New York City's matching donor system is the only way to curb the undue influence of big money donors in state government.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Tax records, however, reveal some of the sugar - daddies of the conservative and libertarian movement who funnel big money through Donors Trust.

And to get the big bank accounts, we need big donors, so we can pool lots of money to make the biggest difference in a big world of big needs.

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.

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.

For the record, it limits the ability of all candidates to raise money as most big donors are throwing money at getting their tax breaks or government hand - outs ensured.

Data, which makes sense considering the business background of most big - money Republican donors.

Casale said Cox is also working on raising money from some «very big» donors, and asking members of the party's finance committee to recommit.

Fundraising: Speaking of money, online fundraising is where it's at, whether you're building a network of small - dollar grassroots donors or trying to increase the efficiency of your big - money bundlers.

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.

«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.

They're also big - time donors to politicians in both the United States and Israel with contributions approaching $ 1.8 million, although none of the money has funneled into Western New York.

Case in point: While the 2002 McCain - Feingold law was supposed to put an end to the influence of big money in politics, eager donors turned to independent expenditures financed through Super PACs as a way to conduct unlimited political advertising.

Those who support a convention say dramatic action is required to address corruption charges that have forced more than 30 officials out of office in a decade as well as issues such as New York's high taxes, unequal funding of schools, and the influence of big - money donors in campaigns.

People - Powered - Politics, with a focus on how digital organizing can help us counter the wave of big - donor money that's flowing into the 2012 elections.

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.

Far from swept away by torrents of money flowing from individual big - dollar donors, the Democrats and their small - dollar donors are holding their own.

«Without closing this loophole, the money of big donors will continue to have an unfair influence in our elections.»

Under the rules of the broadcast era of politics, a young man with a funny name and a couple of years in the Senate might run honorably but would almost certainly lose, crushed by the ability of an experienced candidate like Hillary Clinton to raise money from big donors and lock up endorsements from elected officials and party activists.

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.

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.»

«They choose the candidates, pick the leader and remain Labour's biggest donors - providing three quarters of the party's money.»

The party's biggest donor was set to face 18 money laundering offences along with charges of theft and perverting the course of justice.

We may not be able to do anything about the limits of individual donors but we can separately be building another infrastructure, a public financing infrastructure that at least enables candidates to get heard in their relevant district without have a lot of money and without having big money backers,» said Teachout.

As well as attracting the support of voters who instinctively vote Labour, they would retain control of the party's institutional donors, campaigning operation and campaigning data, as well as a bigger share of the Short Money given out to opposition parties.

Mr. Cuomo, a prodigious fund - raiser who has long preferred collecting fewer big checks to cultivating a small - donor base, raised only 0.2 percent of his money from donors who gave less than $ 200.

Edward Erikson, a consultant who works with prominent Sanders supporter Ben Cohen (of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream fame) and other activists trying to reduce the role of big money in politics, said Sanders himself deserves the credit for motivating small donors.

She portrayed Cuomo as tied to corruption, influenced by big money donors, clandestinely supportive of legislative Republicans and «inhumane budgets,» and more aligned with the top 1 percent of the economic class than regular Democrats.

According to an Assistant US Attorney, Malcolm Smith shook down big money donors back in 2008 by essentially offering to sell votes like shares of stock.

Probers are seeking to investigate charges that team de Blasio sought to evade individual campaign limits of $ 10,300 by having donors make big donations to local county committees, which in turn earmarked and funneled the money to specific candidates.

According to NYPRIG, Cuomo has raked in $ 22,191,108 from big - money donors so far, or 49 percent of all his donations in this election cycle.

No surprise that Klein — the landlords» best friend in the Senate with a «D, WF» after his name — got tons of money from landlords including at least $ 5000 from the notorious slumlord Larry Gluck — see one of his many corporate names «WB Stellar IP Owner, LLC» Another big corporate donor to Klein and his IDC clan is the check cashing industry.

She told the audience she won't be accepting corporate money, as she accused the governor of being beholden to his «big money donors.»

Without small - donor public financing of campaigns, New Yorkers who manage to get a ballot will stay stuck with candidates dependent on big - money donors.

Cuomo, in the remaining days of the session, is pressing for one of the items in his education initiatives: a tax credit for big money donors to send students to private schools and pay for extra curricular programs for public schools.

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 accounts.

Hedge funder Simons, whose money to the state Democrats made him the third - largest donor of the 2014 election cycle, arguably had his biggest influence on state politics when he made a $ 150 million donation to Stony Brook University contingent on the Legislature agreeing to a SUNY - wide raising of tuition.

He has also donated tens of thousands of pounds to the Labour Party and to Gordon Brown's leadership campaign (Iain Dale posted a list of eight Labour big money donors who are reportedly non-dom earlier in the week).

It was only a few short winters ago the Occupy Albany tents were set up across from the Capital in Academy Park, trying to shake loose the hold of Wall Street and big money donors on state government.

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.

In his first month in office, he signed on as a co-sponsor of two House bills aimed at campaign finance reform — both of which seek to limit the influence of big donors and special interests, including super PACs that can spend unlimited amounts of money on federal campaigns.

The news emerged from a swanky resort outside of Palm Springs, CA where the brothers Koch were holding forth with 550 of their favorite big - money donors.

Big Hollywood Donors Enter School Board Race for First Time Hollywood donates a lot of money to national political campaigns.

And behind all that is the reality that a number of the key players behind charter schools are among Bronin's biggest campaign donors... money that is so important to Bronin that he refused to give back those funds and thus lost the endorsement of the Hartford Federation of Teachers.