Sentences with phrase «of wealthy campaign donors»

Like her husband before her, Clinton is trying to forge a new consensus and is unashamed to pile up policy proposals: on family leave, child care, college affordability, incentives to employers for higher wages, immigration reform, clean energy and limits on the power of wealthy campaign donors.

Not exact matches

The only reasons Republicans are pushing this disastrous abomination of a tax bill are to show a single significant legislative accomplishment and to appease wealthy campaign donors.

Peters, who served as de Blasio's campaign treasurer before being named investigations commissioner, has been under fire for not refusing to step aside from the sweeping federal probe that is centered on two wealthy businessmen who were large donors to de Blasio, and who ware embroiled in a gifts - for - favors corruption scandal that has already toppled a handful of top ranking NYPD officials.

The Campaign Finance Institute found in New York City, the system multiplied the number of donors, and expanded diversity beyond the traditional white, upper middle class and wealthy who normally give money.

He told Syracuse.com he opposes Cuomo's calls for the Legislature to approve public financing of political campaigns, is undecided on closing the LLC loophole that lets wealthy donors contribute almost unlimited amounts to politicians, and is against the governor's call to limit the outside income of lawmakers to 15 percent of their $ 79,500 base salary as legislators.

The mayor told WNYC's Brian Lehrer on Friday that his 2017 re-election campaign will rely on small amounts of money from a large group of donors, rather than wealthy individuals who can donate the maximum amount.

An upcoming campaign fund - raiser for Gov. Andrew Cuomo promises to be a colorful departure from the staid hotel ballroom affairs typically used to court wealthy donors: In June, he'll host a performance of the Broadway show «Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical.»

Given the events of the last two weeks, I imagine Republican donors are less concerned with the polling numbers and more concerned with the impression the Republican campaign is giving of being completely inept, particularly in light of the revelation that Romney's staffers are paid more to achieve less than their Democrat counterparts (though Rachel Maddow shared an amusing story this week suggesting that wealthy Republicans had no problem throwing money at a sinking ship [skip to the 2 minute mark]-RRB-.

Though the original email suggested that Romney and Republican elites were the target (it included lines like «we need a bold Reagan conservative to debate Obama» and «this campaign is going to continue to rely on millions of patriots from across the country rather than just a handful of wealthy donors and bundlers»), a subsequent message focused on the incumbent:

Cuomo, a Democrat, said the new law would reduce the impact of a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision known as Citizens United, which helped wealthy donors dramatically increase campaign spending through the use of thinly veiled «independent expenditure» groups to tout or criticize a candidate.

If there is anything recent events have taught us, it's that we need to limit the outsized influence of wealthy corporate donors, who have been able to influence lawmakers by making virtually unlimited campaign contributions to candidates — often without even disclosing their identities.

Hou's arrest came two weeks after Xing Wu «Oliver» Pan was indicted on charges of trying to use straw donors to contribute $ 16,000 to Liu's campaign on behalf of an FBI agent posing as a wealthy donor, according to court records..

Wealthy donors, unions and corporations can now dump millions of dollars into political campaigns, seemingly in secret.

He could appeal to white ethnics in swing states, or rally the social liberals who admire him for having been out ahead of his party (and his president) on same - sex marriage, or perhaps headline a few fund - raisers with the wealthy New York donors who have stocked his own campaign coffers and funded the super PAC - like group dedicated to running pro-Cuomo advertising.

New York City Campaign Finance Board officials said Friday that they plan to review the testimony of wealthy donor Jona Rechnitz, in light of his revelations that he had «a...

Weiner apologized to a number of people during his tearful press conference, but not his wealthy campaign donors.

Sen. Liz Krueger, whose Upper East Side Senate district is one of the wealthiest in New York, has teamed up with Democratic donor / New Roosevelt Initiative founder Bill Samuels to propose using cash generated by the proposed casino expansion to pay for a publicly - funded campaign system.

Many New York City Council members believe the pending horse - carriage legislation that could erase hundreds of jobs and cost the city millions is less about animal rights and more about de Blasio keeping a campaign promise to wealthy donors.

Though the opposition did ship in hundreds of protesters chanting and signing in the hallways against gay marriage, they never had a similar, wealthy and high - profile set of donors who publicly put their name to the campaign.

Especially now: The current crop of Republican Senate challengers is hoping the new avenues opened up by the Citizens United decision will help separate them from the shoestring New York Republican campaigns of the past and help them keep up with the better - established candidate, in the same way that a few wealthy donors have managed to keep alive the under - funded presidential ambitions of Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich.

Many New York City Council members say the pending horse - carriage legislation that could erase hundreds of jobs and cost the city millions is less about animal rights and more about Mayor Bill de Blasio keeping a campaign promise to wealthy donors.

In one story, recounted by the witness, longtime Cuomo associate Todd Howe, Mr. Cuomo mingled with wealthy donors to his campaign and listened to their concerns about their business projects with the state in front of a shiny row of colorful Corvettes lined up along a checkerboard floor at a private home outside Syracuse...

Mayor Bill de Blasio signaled Friday he's going to significantly shift his fundraising strategy as he readies his 2017 re-election campaign, focusing on raising small amounts of money from a wide group of donors rather than relying heavily on wealthy donors who can pay the maximum amount to his campaign.

Much of the drop in campaign cash is due to the wealthiest donors shunning Hizzoner as the probes heated up.

The Guardian reports this morning that the former Foreign Secretary is accused of «buying» the leadership election as wealthy Blairite donors push his campaign chest to # 200,000 - causing what the paper describes as a «disparity in financial backing» for the five candidates, which it believes to be «a big issue».

Independent expenditure committees backed by wealthy donors who support education reforms and charter schools sought to be major players in a range of Democratic primary campaigns.

A fake greeting penned to New Yorkers from de Blasio has him boasting of beaches and lobster dinners while denying commuters some of City Hall's $ 4 billion surplus for track repairs, because they are not «wealthy campaign donors.»

Other measures Heastie outlined include closing the LLC Loophole that allows wealthy donors to subvert the state's campaign contribution limits, tightening rules around the use of campaign funds and party «housekeeping» accounts, which are also used to get around state campaign finance laws.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Prosecutors said Tuesday that in the midst of a fundraising drive for mayoral candidate John Liu, two of his aides met a man named Richard Kong who portrayed himself as a wealthy donor willing to go along with a scheme to skirt campaign finance rules.

The Bronx Beep also has strengthened his ties with officials in the city's charter - school movement, many of whom have ties to wealthy donors who could back a future citywide campaign.

In which the Republican - controlled Senate is unashamed to stonewall even the closing of a scandalous loophole that allows wealthy donors to flout campaign donation limits.

Trying to steer the tortured course between the Scylla of her ties to Bloomberg — including to wealthy donors many of whom were his cronies and to pro-Bloomberg Democrats who were a significant minority of the primary electorate — and the Charybdis of the more progressive primary voters who were fed up after 12 years of Bloomberg, Quinn was left without a winning campaign theme.

Like other wealthy campaign donors, Mr. Litwin circumvented contribution limits by funneling many smaller gifts through dozens of limited liability companies he controlled.

But earlier this fall, it emerged that some of the people listed as donors to his campaign hadn't actually given to him, and that their names had been deployed so that wealthy Liu supporters could skirt the rules that limited them from giving too much.

The group, which could accept unlimited contributions because of its status, allegedly funneled money from wealthy donors into de Blasio's campaign coffers — avoiding campaign finance restrictions.

Based on the first thorough study of the archival records, this essay reveals that the campaign established novel features of university fundraising through contentious negotiations among conflicting groups, prompted the university administration to centralize and control alumni affairs and development efforts for the first time, and, above all, introduced today's ubiquitous episodic pattern of continuous fundraising, in which mass comprehensive campaigns alternate with discrete solicitations of wealthy donors, whose dominant roles have never changed.

While the investigation did not go anywhere, it obtained negative media coverage for the pro-charter campaign and contributed to the public perception of the Yes side being funded by wealthy donors disconnected from Massachusetts communities.

[54] While the investigation did not go anywhere, it obtained negative media coverage for the pro-charter campaign and contributed to the public perception of the Yes side being funded by wealthy donors disconnected from Massachusetts communities.

«Electoral intervention is not supposed to be a non-profit's main activity, but these dark money groups are abusing their tax - exempt status by existing primarily as vehicles for corporations and wealthy donors to secretly influence elections,» Fischer noted, adding, «Some dark money non-profits might now use lobbying as an accounting trick to balance their books between electoral and non-electoral spending, leading to a spiraling cycle of non-stop campaigning and special interest influence, but with zero transparency or public accountability.»

In recent days, Facebook has been in the spotlight over reports that up to 60 million of its users» personal details were obtained by Cambridge Analytica, a data - analysis firm that worked with the Trump campaign in 2016 and was founded by Stephen Bannon and Robert Mercer, a wealthy Republican donor.