Sentences with phrase «paying political work»

He went to work for casino developer Steve Wynn, starting a real estate career that he has pursued concurrently ever since then with his lower - paying political work.

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b) The initial FISA application notes Steele was working for a named U.S. person, but does not name Fusion GPS and principal Glenn Simpson, who was paid by a U.S. law firm (Perkins Coie) representing the DNC (even though it was known by DOJ at the time that political actors were involved with the Steele dossier).

A basic mathematical as well as political principle is at work: Debts that can't be paid, won't be.

Manafort, 68, and Gates, 45, remain under home confinement on pledges to pay $ 10 million and $ 5 million, respectively, if they fail to return to court after pleading not guilty Oct. 30 to charges of conspiracy, money laundering and making false lobbyist registration statements in connection with their work advising a Russia - friendly political party in Ukraine.

There are a variety of reasons for this gap in understanding: The time gap between discovery research and the translation of that discovery into a therapeutic or a commercial product can take decades, and public and political attention spans are short; the natural human inclination is to pay more attention to things that don't work rather than things that do.

The entire nation embarked on a campaign in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century to control rapacious business, to clean up government, to democratize more fully our political institutions, to protect labor with better hours and pay, safer working conditions, and anti-child-labor laws.

Just as MyBarackObama.com let the future President's supporters go to work on his behalf well before paid campaign staff arrived in their communities, the availability of distributed and effective online political tools gives ANYONE with an audience the means and opportunity to spark collective action.

«Scott was among the first to call for a ban on private placement agents for City pension investment and also worked to advance shareholder initiatives to align corporate executive pay with long - term performance, promote workplace diversity, increase transparency and sustainability, and disclose corporate political spending.»

The first political campaign I paid close attention to was in 1992, when I was right out of college and working in Texas politics.

Online volunteer organizing essentially built the campaign a structure in places where it didn't exist, letting paid staff parachute in and immediately take command of a working political army.

The PAC has a substantial relationship with two companies that have been connected to Bannon and had shared the same Beverly Hills address as Breitbart, paying millions for video and data services from production house Glittering Steel (which has worked with the Mercers» PAC in both its Cruz and Trump incarnations) and political data firm Cambridge Analytica.

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr.'s office has paid nearly $ 550,000 to a security firm with close ties to him and his political campaigns to work with its public corruption unit.

Gerard Terry, an influential political operative and chairman of the North Hempstead Democratic Committee, has for years received government work paying him hundreds of thousands of dollars even as he compiled an income tax debt of $ 1.4 million and battled lawsuits alleging fraud and failure to pay back loans, a Newsday review of public records shows.

Political rivals have demanded a police inquiry into the way Henry, 25, and 22 - year - old Freddie Conway were paid more than # 80,000 of public cash for apparently doing little work.

Ms. Mark - Viverito's team was Brooklyn - infused for this purpose and included a paid operative, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz's chief of staff John Paul Lupo, and an operative with the controversial Advance Group, Jonathan Yedin, who has been working in Brooklyn Democratic Party politics for more than a decade and belongs to Mr. Seddio's political club.

In that case, the court found that governments could not force workers to pay for «ideological» political work by unions that is not related to things like contract negotiations.

Hiring pricey political appointees to work for the Executive Chamber — but paying them through other entities — has allowed Cuomo and prior governors to increase the size of their staffs while escaping criticism for inflating the Executive Chamber budget.

The subjects up for negotiation — employee pay, benefits, and work rules — are ultimately political decisions about how to allocate tax dollars and how public services should be carried out.

«We have consistently called for proper negotiations on the key issues of paying more and working longer for less, but the government has refused at every point, leaving us with no choice but to oppose what is nothing more than a political attempt to make the least culpable pay the highest price for the failings of the banks.

This works in closely held companies because the identity between ownership and management and effective political power of the owners in corporate governance is sufficient to make sure that the entity distributes enough money to allow the owners to pay taxes on profits that are earned.

Gerard Terry, an influential political operative and chairman of the North Hempstead Democratic Committee, has for years received government work paying him hundreds of thousands of dollars even as he compiled an income tax debt of $ 1.4 million and battled lawsuits alleging fraud and failure to pay back loans.

Speaking to the BBC's Political Editor Nick Robinson, the Conservative leader said strategic spending to help hard working people to buy their homes and pay their energy bills made sense as the UK headed towards an economic surplus.

The $ 30,000 - plus that's been paid since 2012 to Align Media and VoterTrove for political jobs covers not only Republican state Senate candidates» campaigns, but also work Gargiulo did for the state Republican Party (including «robo calls» for fundraising) and work for former state Senate Republican Leader John McKinney's unsuccessful 2014 campaign.

But I must pay tribute to the work of my 1970 co-author, Michael Pinto - Duschinsky whose British Political Finance 1830 - 1980 chronicles the extraordinary

The workers, had earlier alleged that «whereas a civil servant that served the state for over 30 years and retired over five years is yet to be paid his / her gratuity, political officeholders, who worked for four years, get jumbo salaries and other allowances, free Prado jeeps (N11.5 m) and severance allowance.»

Happily retired... lots of time for posting... don't just work the 9 am to 3 pm shift like paid political flaks.

«We need a New York that works for all of us, where big corporations are responsible for paying their fair share of taxes to support our schools, roads, public transit and the services that we all rely on,» said Tomas Garduno, political director of ALIGN.

A Flanagan spokesman, Scott Reif, insisted that Dunham was not running the GOP campaign — a sensitive matter since rules in both the Senate and the Assembly strictly limit the time paid staffers can spend on political work.

Walsh is charged with theft of government funds and wire fraud for collecting more than $ 80,000 in pay and overtime pay by allegedly claiming that he was working for the sheriff's department when he was actually golfing, gambling, working on party political activities, being fitted by his tailor for clothing or relaxing at home.

Skelos, who was kicked out of the state legislature when the jury announced its decision, was charged with using his political power to help his son, who was not at work to make friends — or do work — keep various high - paying jobs.

Ortt is accused of using political donations to enrich himself, paying his wife $ 21,000 from the Niagara County Republican Party for work she didn't do.

She works part - time to help pay for her political science classes at Suffolk County Community College.

A Unite national officer, Clare Moody, works full time in the Prime Minister's political office — her salary paid by the union.

The Rockland County Times has moved Senator David Carlucci's odds up to 8:1, because after two - plus years of working for his political boss Senator Jeff Klein, Carlucci might begin to feel his oats and want to run for a «boss» position of his own, one that pays considerably better and which could expand his visibility if he wants to run for Congress someday.

What's being revealed at trial of how the pay - to - play culture works in New York, which has resulted in a $ 30 million political war chest for the governor, is a case in point.

Our political work and lobbying in Albany have paid off: Governor Cuomo and the state Legislature reached a budget agreement on April 2 that is the best we have had for our schools in a decade.

Avella testified he didn't know about the alleged bribery scheme, in which Dean Skelos promised political favors to two companies if they paid his son hundreds of thousands of dollars for no - show work.

Jones pays particular attention to Cameron's years working for Norman Lamont and Michael Howard in the 1990s (when he was covering those politicians» activities for the BBC on a daily basis) and later in the book - after dealing with the 2005 Tory leadership election, Brown replacing Blair, the political attitudes of the Murdoch press and Expenses-gate - he devotes whole chapters to both the TV debates and the role of the leaders» wives in a modern British election campaign.

They say Casey and Grant worked together behind the scenes on political campaigns, sometimes with Pigeon, and the pay they received was never properly disclosed to the state board of elections.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

Tabone's lawyer, Dennis Ring, said Tabone considered his $ 25,000 — in 250 $ 100 bills — to be legitimate pay for political consulting work, «which is what he does for a living.»

The ironING lady: «Cost - conscious Margaret Thatcher offered to pay for an ironing board for No 10 after becoming PM... She insisted on using her own household items because she feared political enemies might spark an expenses row over refurbishment work... Her prudent attitude is in contrast to MPs» claims for items like moat cleaning that shocked Britain in the expenses scandal in 2009.»

Secondly, the authors of the dictionary — and this is an easy criticism of a work which has emerged over a number of years and can not be expected to keep up with every change in common usage — will need to pay attention to the influence of political correctness, which has resulted in changes to many signs in BSL in recent years.

NESS officials dutifully pay taxes and follow protocols for obtaining permission for their foreign visitors to work, thus allowing the station to avoid political or economic entanglements.12

He finds Daniel Arlington Williams III (Michael Douglas, in one of his earliest film roles), a political science major who is looking for temporary work to pay for schoolbooks.

this is a great deal to do with the degree of political control now exerted over the day to day business of the classroom, unrealistic expectations of working practice and also the growing disparity in pay between teaching and the «top» professions.

They also have guaranteed sources of money (member dues) for financing campaigns, paid staff to coordinate political activities, and activist members to do the invaluable trench - work of campaigning.

Perry has literally sent thousands of political tweets during the work day while being paid by taxpayers to fulfill his duties at Capital Prep Magnet School in Hartford.

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First, UFT is worried that a reconfigured U.S. Supreme Court will overrule the 1977 Abood vs. Detroit Board of Education decision, which requires all unionized teachers who live in thirty - two states without «right to work» laws to pay annual fees to unions even if they disagree with the union's political agenda.