Sentences with phrase «of rich donors»

Faced with a political climate unlikely to prioritize election reform, cities might lead the way in breaking the grip of rich donors and dark money in national campaigns.

Not exact matches

He also recently passed Charles and David Koch — leaders of Koch Industries and notorious Republican Party donors — to clinch third place on Bloomberg's list of the richest people in the United States, coming in behind Gates and Buffett.

From a data - capture perspective, tracking gift - gifting is brilliant: You get high - quality current data about the interests and tastes of both the donor and the recipient, with lots of rich demographics to boot.

Typically, if a rich donor fully controls the assets in an LLC, it's counted as part of their estate.

It loses sight of the basic fact that aid is principally for the benefit of developing country partners, not for the rich country donors or their private sector interests.

Rich donors, many of whom got rich in the oil patch, are cutting the university Rich donors, many of whom got rich in the oil patch, are cutting the university rich in the oil patch, are cutting the university off.

The crux of her pitch is this: Rich folks can give to Donors Trust and rest easy knowing that their millions will continue bankrolling the conservative movement long into the future, even after their death.

«Government should be owned by the people of B.C. — not bought and paid for by corporations and rich donors.»

But still, if a rich and high - powered conservative donor came to ask my advice, whether they should try to start a new college, or whether they should try the easier and apparently more civic - spirited task of helping to reform existing ones (by aiding things like existing APT programs, such as the one that employs me), I think I am obliged to advise the former.

Additionally, donors may see the propriety, in our indulgent culture, of exhortations by R&D professionals against selfishness and materialism, but they understand that development «education» that consists of popularized versions of dependency theory is not likely to be helpful - either for rich Western Christians or for their impoverished Third World brethren.

The average online donation was $ 80, and the average Obama donor gave more than once... Obama also raised millions from traditional campaign bundlers — rich, well - connected fundraisers — but the bulk of the more than $ 600 million that Obama raised throughout the campaign was through the Internet, aides said.

Research by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism showed how Tory fundraising dinners were resulting in rich donors» cash being funnelled directly into 80 key seats — the 40 the Tories want to hold on to and 40 more they want to gain.

He said the donors who have bankrolled his campaign are the rich friends of people like Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has been a strong supporter of Donovan's.

Nixon is also critical of the widening gap between the rich and poor in the state, accusing the governor of being beholden to «corporate interests and wealthy donors.»

It comes from a choice to slash taxes on corporations and the super rich and slash services on everybody else,» Nixon said, deeming Cuomo a «good investment» for the likes of the Koch brothers, who are prominent political donors.

After the congressional campaign of Democrat Zephyr Teachout this week challenged the top - dollar donors to a super PAC backing Republican John Faso to a debate, Republicans are highlighting her ties to the mega rich, namely the Soros family.

The project has received support from a diverse base of private and public partners including the Junior League of Buffalo / Buffalo News, Rich Family Foundation, Wegmans, Patrick P. Lee Foundation, James H. Cummings Foundation, Assembly Member Sean Ryan, NYS Empire State Development, NYS Homes and Community Renewal, the City of Buffalo, M&T Bank, Peter C. Cornell Trust, City Council Member David Rivera, Simple Gifts Fund, Children's Foundation of Erie County, and individual donors.

Big donors from WNY include David Rich of Rich Products, political operative Steve Pigeon and Leslie Zemsky, Albright Knox chair and wife of Howard.

In recent weeks, Cuomo has approached his traditional donors, public and private sector unions as well as a host of mega-donors and check - writers from the business elite, including uber - rich liberal activists George Soros, Agnes Gund and Bernard Schwartz, sources said.

He's made passing references to «wealthy donors» three times in his past five addresses, but goes all - in with that line of reasoning this time around: we have contribution limits to make sure elections «are not captured by wealthy public interests,» he says; «wealthy individuals and corporations are able to use Limited Liability Companies» to avoid these limits, so reform is needed «to even the playing field so that rich and poor New Yorkers alike have their voices heard.»

Among the other rich New Yorkers who signed the letter to Cuomo, which appears after the jump, are Democratic donors / bundlers like Leo Hindery Jr. and Bill Samuels (the one - time LG contender and founder of the New Roosevelt Initiative).

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.

Rich donors like the Koch brothers (conservative) and George Soros (liberal) are funneling cash to colleges and universities in hopes of influencing young minds.

Members of several good government, fiscal watchdog and education advocacy groups Wednesday took issue with the bill, saying it benefits mainly rich donors, and violates the separation of church and state.

Cambridge Analytica executives aggressively sought the backing of rich GOP donors, who they believed would help the company «effectively corner the market» in the United States, internal records show.

«Republicans in Congress continue to seek out new ways to help themselves and their rich donors at the expense of the hard working families they are supposed to represent.

State Committee chairman Ed Cox as well as Republican National Committee members Charles Joyce and Jennifer Saul Rich will fill three of those slots, but the remaining 11 will be parceled out to party stalwarts and donors.

Many of the rich list members chose to use their wealth to fund the Conservative party, with only eight out of the top 50 political donors spurning the Tories.

He tried to rip the livelihoods from hundred of pedicab and horse carriage workers to reward his rich campaign donors and real - estate interests, and thinks he can get away with it.»

If we re-elect Governor 1 %, he will continue his economic policy of austerity for working people and special favors for his rich donors.

A new YouGov poll suggests that the majority of the public think that Tony Blair is sleazy, the way honours are distributed are corrupt and that rich donors have too much influence over the Labour party.

On the questions of party funding, almost two - thirds of people think Labour kept the loans secret because they were embarrassed by them and a similar amount of people though that rich donors had too much influence.

Starting just before conception, Jirtle and Waterland fed a test group of mother mice a diet rich in methyl donors, small chemical clusters that can attach to a gene and turn it off.

Rich donors tend to be more supportive of market - oriented reforms, such as charter schools and merit pay for teachers, but are less supportive of paying more taxes for early childhood education and federal spending to improve schools.

The rich donor nations are growing increasingly disillusioned by the UN system, and many of them have openly challenged the WHO's leadership.

Then they would transfuse donor bone marrow rich in the highly prized stem cells that are capable of generating new, normal blood.

«Rich and Susan are two of the university's most loyal volunteers and generous donors,» says U-M vice president for development Jerry May, who has worked with the Rogels for more than 30 years.

Then, after a social function for donors puts the lavish jewels of «rich yuppies» on display, Frank and his reluctant partner in crime begin studying the habits of the affluent Jake and his wife in anticipation of a big heist.

Aren't there some fine lawyers who would, preferably with pro-bono work, support families who have children with disabilities, all kinds of disabilities, or children who have second language hurdles, or the really really poor children, to sue the charter operators and their rich donors for denying these students a slot in their elite charter schools?

Not surprisingly, several of PWF donors are rich «philanthropists,» including George Soros and other globalist / socialists.

The article centers around the Hedge Clippers outing donors who they claim made undisclosed contributions in 2012 as part of a «dark - money» scheme to defeat Prop 30, an initiative that raised income taxes on the richest Californians and sales tax on all Californians.

Even Connecticut's richest billionaire and recipient of well over $ 50 million from Governor Dannel Malloy's taxpayer funded corporate welfare program, Ray Dalio, is a donor to Families for Excellent Schools.

In light of increased media attention paid to school choice programs, school choice detractors allege that tax - credit scholarship programs lead to «profit,» «double - dipping,» «get - rich schemes» and «tax shelters» for donors.

Lori Rich with «Taking it to the Streets with Lori and Shira» with the help of their donors put Bullet and his guardian in a motel for a few nights while Bullet recovered from surgery.

With a core of historical material donated by C.R. Smith and Mari and James A. Michener, now supplemented by purchases, commissions, and generous gifts by donors such as Jeanne and Michael Klein and the Blanton family, the collection is rich in masterworks that show modern and contemporary art production at its most ambitious; experimental works that provide clues to artistic transitions; strong representative works that capture the essence of an artist's style; and uncommon works that enrich our understanding of the history as well as the current state of American art.

This invitation - only event, hosted for finance and climate ministries of select donor countries, typifies the extraordinary emphasis rich governments are placing on private finance as the solution to meeting developing countries» climate needs.

CFACT has accepted at least $ 4 million from Donors Trust — a fund that spends cash on behalf of rich conservative millionaires while keeping their identities a secret.

Donors Trust is a vehicle for rich conservative philanthropists and their organisations to distribute money to projects that match their ideology of low government regulation and «free markets».

CFACT, credited as the film's producer, has accepted cash from fossil fuel interests including ExxonMobil and Chevron, as well as more than $ 7million from Donors Trust — a slush fund of rich conservatives which acts to conceal the identities of donors to proDonors Trust — a slush fund of rich conservatives which acts to conceal the identities of donors to prodonors to projects.

arguments that legalisation of such practices will inevitably result in the exploitation by the rich (recipients) of the poor (donors) to their profound disadvantage, qualms about the ethically suspect source of the organs to be transplanted, namely, as here, from executed prisoners; and quaint and idealistic, but arguably antiquated notions that donations are always made altruistically.