Sentences with phrase «of opposition research»

However, because the collaborative attorneys will not bring contested issues to court, their focus is on finding solutions rather than using the meetings as a tool of opposition research.

The public release of opposition research against Moser prompted liberal podcast «Pod Save America» co-hosts Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor to castigate the DCCC for attacking a candidate from their own party.

(CNN)-- It could have been a crucial piece of opposition research: The South Carolina Democratic Party accused Mark Sanford, who criticized his rival for taking union contributions, of receiving campaign cash from labor groups himself during a past run for Congress.

WASHINGTON — Legendary journalist Bob Woodward on Sunday clashed with his former Watergate reporting partner over the intelligence briefing of President - elect Donald Trump on the salacious allegations contained in an unverified dossier of opposition research.

This gem of opposition research is still around today; with Edwards again in the news, perhaps you've even heard it in the last couple of weeks like I did.

The dossier was part of opposition research funded by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign to look into Trump's ties to Russia.

a) During this same time period, Ohr's wife was employed by Fusion GPS to assist in the cultivation of opposition research on Trump.

Steele, who was the head of the British intelligence agency MI6's Moscow desk and is known for his «knowledge of the intricate web» of Kremlin - tied companies and associates, wrote the dossier between July and December of 2016 as part of an opposition research project funded by anti-Trump Republicans.

Not exact matches

«Reports that the Saudi government is planning to dilute its reform plans may be the first sign that the power and influence of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is starting to wane and that broader opposition to reform is building,» Jason Tuvey, Middle East economist for Capital Economics, wrote in a research note.

In February, Erik Nielsen, global head of CIB research at UniCredit, told CNBC that «Weidmann's vocal opposition to most of the ECB decisions in recent years has generated too much opposition in too many other member states for him to get the nod.»

Just last week, a company executive floated the idea of creating an opposition research arm to dig up dirt on critical reporters, while another Uber executive was accused of improperly accessing and displaying a specific user's data.

While lawyers and advisers say it's common to hire investigators to do opposition research in the context of a proxy campaign, executives» kids — of any age — are typically considered off - limits.

Ohr later provided the FBI with all of his wife's opposition research, paid for by the DNC and Clinton campaign via Fusion GPS.

Allyson Kapin, founder of Rad Campaign and Women Who Tech in Washington, D.C., says previous incidents, such as Uber advertising that was demeaning to women and a top executive's suggestion that the company conduct opposition research on journalists who are critical of Uber, were shocking and disappointing but hadn't kept her from hailing rides on the smartphone app.

The Free Beacon has a history of employing so - called opposition research firms to assist in news articles critical of targets like Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton.

In essence, Nunes alleges that the FBI used opposition research put together by a Democratic political operative to go after the Trump campaign without disclosing that clear conflict of interest to the court.

The memo argues the dossier became the basis for the surveillance of Page, the conclusion being that the entire Russia investigation is based on dubious political opposition research.

While the Wildrose Party «s new role as Official Opposition will mean additional staff and research funding, a party position was made vacant following the election of Shayne Saskiw in Lac La Biche - St.

In our own time and place, the worlds of myth and science, of religious experience and empirical research, are frequently set in opposition to one another.

In contemporary sociology, Weber has often been a source of inspiration for interpretive, ethnographic, and historical approaches to religion advanced in opposition to narrowly reductionistic, positivistic research designs.

Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back of stem cell research that could save countless human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place children's health and safety at risk, burning of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence of them existing.

Kass ably led the council members in a long debate on cloning, with the result that earlier this year they came out in opposition to human cloning but divided on the use of cloned embryos for research purposes.

The German universities expressed less opposition to the growth of Nazism in the 1930's than did the churches and labor unions; their failure at this point has been attributed in large part to their neutral pursuit of truth without concern for the life of the nation.14 By contrast, an example of intellectual responsibility occurred a few years ago when the University of Chicago was building a new cancer research hospital.

«The forms of a living being are not but rather come to be,» says Ludwig von Bertalanffy (BW 120), and his «organismic» biology and later general system - theory for overcoming the opposition between mechanism and vitalism has given central insights of Whitehead a new formulation on the basis of science, 8 Something similar holds for all the directions of research which Jean Piaget has brought to the [264] concept of genetic structuralism.9 The genetic epistemology founded by Piaget has proved through empirical research on the problem of knowledge the fruitfulness both of genetic analysis and of Whitehead's principle of process.

After the intense opposition from various farmers and consumers groups, including the uprooting of the clandestine field trial in Camarines Sur, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) postponed the commercialization, citing the failure of Golden Rice to produce better yields.

All of these cultural «truths» are in exact opposition to clear and overwhelming research and biographical data on the optimum care and treatment of children.

In the same way that the zero - tolerance approach to discipline sends precisely the opposite psychological message to disadvantaged kids than what we now know they need in order to feel motivated and engaged with school, so do many basic elements of traditional American pedagogy work in direct opposition to what the psychological research tells us will help those children succeed.

Medical establishment advice, education, directives, policies and procedures run in direct opposition to the thousand s of academic and scientific research and articles and the millions of anecdotes that speak the truth about birth.

Home birth, mama is a nurse for maternity home health company, faced opposition but support from immediate family, had some formative and transformative experiences that were precursors for a deciding on a home birth, devoured much research on positive births and home births and empowered herself with it, lots of visualisation, hand s and knees swaying, followed the urge to moan and it felt good, bath, natural endorphins produce a feeling as «high as a kite», felt her own baby, skin to skin bonding, ready to have another one!

Instead, both campaigns of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his Republican rival Rob Astorino have traded barbs either through surrogates, TV commercials or in opposition research made to paint the other guy as corrupt.

Has the level of scrutiny / opposition research, either by those within the Labour party, people in other political parties, those in the media, or those in social media, increased?

Our friend Ben Donahower (last seen on Epolitics.com writing about online opposition research) published a nice overview of the Best and Worst of Campaign 2012 on Campaigns & Elections a couple of weeks back, which included observations from him, me, Keya Dannenbaum, Brian Hanf and Geoff Sharpe.

More than 200 leading medical and scientific charities have written to MPs urging them to support the legislation, which supporters argue could facilitate ground breaking scientific research, in the face of increasing religious opposition.

Stone didn't write the material Senator Gillibrand's opposition research team is spreading, it commented on it as did thousands of others.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee was the subject of similar criticism after intervening in a Texas primary, dropping opposition research on Democrat Laura Moser, who made comments that she would rather have her teeth pulled without anesthesia than move to Paris, Texas.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee took the unusual step of releasing opposition research on Laura Moser, who is running for Congress as a Democrat in Texas» 7th District.

Opposition research has been a part of political campaigns for decades, but the 2010 cycle is different.

In one Texas congressional primary, the DCCC took the unusual step of releasing opposition research on a Democratic candidate.

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Twenty years ago, this information would have been hidden away in FEC records, available in practice only to political opposition research professionals and a handful of activists.

This research considers the ways national identity translates into support or opposition to democratic or authoritarian forms of government.

If you're interested in a walkthrough of some of the ways that you can use Google search and docs to research a candidate's background and pull voting records, check out the opposition research guide (self - aggrandizement alert, I wrote it) below:

Most of them are harmless, but a few tweets are worth both a facepalm and a note in your candidate - and opposition - research dossier.

Our friend Ben Donahower (last seen on Epolitics.com writing about online opposition research) published a nice overview of the Best and Worst of Campaign 2012 on Campaigns & Elections a couple of weeks back, which included observations from him, me, Keya Dannenbaum, Brian Hanf and Geoff...

Campaign finance data has obvious value to campaigns, and is the source of the some of the most memorable opposition research.

In February 2017, the Times described the European Research Group as «the most powerful opposition force in British politics», organising through a Whatsapp group with «a sense of discipline» which puts even the (famously disciplined) SNP «to shame».

Democratic Senate candidate Shawn Morse is accusing the campaign of Sen. Neil Breslin is engaging in «Nixon - style politics» because he has a private investigator on the payroll to dig up opposition research.

Even before the National Executives of the opposition National Democratic Congress gives the go - ahead for the election of a flag bearer for the 2020 elections, a nationwide research conducted by The aL - hAJJ indicates former President John Mahama has an edge over his potential competitors.

A national Republican group that specializes in opposition research targeting prominent Democratic candidates is starting a new initiative on Wednesday to undercut Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York ahead of his 2018 re-election bid — and sully his image should he run for president in 2020.

Opposition research is an expensive and time - consuming endeavor, and it's one of the major services that the campaign committees provide to a candidate.