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An exploration of the moral world of corporate money.
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One way is to realize that fighting the obesity crisis means going up against a ton of corporate money and that banning bake sales is not really the issue.
I think it's the education level of the general population, and limitation of corporate money influencing politics and media.
The problem of corporate money polluting state judicial election campaigns has long been recognized as a fundamental problem for our democratic government.
An exploration of the moral world of corporate money.
To counteract what he calls the pernicious influence of corporate money in politics (and Gibson's campaign), Eldridge has called for a Constitutional amendment to reverse the Citizens» United Supreme Court decision which found corporate contributions to be a form of protected speech, as well as a law to require PACs to reveal their funding sources and increased public financing for political campaigns.
The mask has dropped, if just for a moment, from the man we know as viscerally hostile to any kind of activist government, contemptuous of three generations of Canadian nation - building and, perhaps, most important in this particular instance, a man who spent much of his political life defending the influence of corporate money in politics.
«Because of the corrosive effect of corporate money in politics, I've decided from this point on, I'm no longer accepting corporate PAC checks into my campaign,» Gillibrand said in a video posted on her Twitter page on Tuesday afternoon.
«We in this campaign will not be accepting a single dime of corporate money,» said Javier Valdés, co-executive director of Make the Road Action, before introducing Nixon on Saturday.
«From battling the flood of corporate money and corrupt insiders deals that infect our politics to challenging the powerful interests that block common - sense gun violence prevention, Bill has always been a voice for everyday New Yorkers.»
«We really need to make every effort we can to get rid of the corporate money and dark money that is flowing into politics, and my effort to ban corporate PAC checks is just a step in that direction.»
Dean used lot of corporate money along with an appeal to Jeff Klein's massive ego to buy off Klein's five.
He also slammed de Blasio for staying silent on the independent expenditure while railing against the flow of corporate money in elections for years in his role as public advocate.
Since the new breed of political corruption takes the form of corporate money smothering our democracy, our club is staying true to its roots by supporting Howie Hawkins: a genuine friend of the working and middle classes,» said long time club member John Bredin.
Teachout has written and lectured on the influence of corporate money on elections, and frequently criticized Governor Andrew Cuomo for favoring large campaign donors in his policies.
Posted by: robert17 April 19, 2010 4:34 PM -------------------------------- While I agree with you about the corruption of corporate money, don't you think it would be more efficient to get the corporate MONEY out of Congress, rather than keep tossing incumbents until they «forget» about corporate money.
The esports market is no longer the next hot place for brands to advertise - it's the current hot place, as evidenced by dozens of stories from the last year of corporate money flooding the scene.
The role of corporate money Do big corporations have anything to do with the lessening of interest of average Americans on climate change issues?
«Overruling Austin and McConnell would fundamentally alter the legal rules governing corporations» dating back to at least 1947, she warned, «and would make vast sums of corporate money available for overt electioneering.»
There's a lot more in Krugman's piece about the corrupting influence of corporate money behind ALEC's work.
It would be up to the corporation to bring its own claim for misappropriation of corporate monies at its own expense and with its own counsel.
New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand will no longer accept money from political action committees linked with corporations for her reelection campaign, she announced on Tuesday, citing the «corrosive» effect of corporate money in politics.
I can't blame them, the San Jose area has a ton of corporate money that would make a San Jose team pretty competitive financially.
She said millionaires and billionaires have seen «massive tax cut windfalls and handouts that loot the state budget» and pledged not to take «a dime of corporate money.»
«I oppose fracking, and I'll be an independent advocate to protect our environment and reduce the influence of corporate money in Washington.»
The outsize influence of corporate money was on full display this week, as frozen pizza manufacturers were able to circumvent proposed changes to school food regulations that woud have ended the practice of counting pizza as a school food vegetable.
-LSB-...] outsize influence of corporate money was on full display this week, as frozen pizza manufacturers were able to circumvent proposed changes to school food regulations -LSB-...]
Gibson has countered Eldridge's accusations of being under the influence of corporate money, especially in regards to his positions on energy, by pointing to his challengers» own investments in oil and gas companies and his acceptance of individual contributions from wealthy corporate executives.
While big money in Albany is nothing new, the Committee to Save New York's relationship with Cuomo is taking the influence of corporate money in politics to a whole new level.
Another theory on why they are caving so early comes from The Nation's Johann Hari, whose explosive piece «The Wrong Kind of Green» hypothesized that the influence of corporate money has damaged the credibility of many of the US's biggest green groups.