Sentences with phrase «political benefactor»

Muslim groups have called on McDonnell to condemn the remark because Robertson is a longtime political benefactor of the Republican, who won a blowout victory in this year's closely - watched gubernatorial election.

Mercer, a political benefactor of Sen. Ted Cruz and later President Donald Trump, helped fund the PAC this month with the donations.

Whelan, whose political benefactor is state Independence Party chairman and Melius employee Frank MacKay, was re-elected in November to another 14 - year term.

Unlike Michael Bloomberg, who was Skelos» most generous political benefactor, de Blasio has publicly committed to ousting Republicans from their perch in the state Senate leadership.

His immediate predecessor, the independently wealthy and political benefactor of the Senate GOP Michael Bloomberg, had received a seven - year extension when mayoral control was last up for renewal.

The Republican conference had an ally and political benefactor in Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and de Blasio made little secret of his desire to flip the Senate to Democratic control.

And perhaps most self - critically, the report found that Christians in Nigeria's north must abandon a «dependency mentality» that leaves them reliant upon political benefactors or wealthy relatives for protection and support.

Hence they're more than willing to richly reward political benefactors.

Not exact matches

But banks aren't completely abandoning their typical role as a benefactor of political conventions

The fight over control of the Senate came into relief this month when a prominent political donor and charter school benefactor, Dan Loeb, wrote on Facebook that Stewart - Cousins has been worse for people of color than the Ku Klux Klan.

Much of the super PAC's money has come from a handful of political megadonors, and the group has supported candidates also favored by its benefactors.

In recent years the PAC's largest benefactor has been Al D'amato, a lobbyist and former U.S. Senator who often makes political donations through LLCs named after real estate companies.

«Nothing restores the faith of a people more than getting big money out of politics,» said the mayor, whose administration has been dogged by scandals involving political fund - raising and alleged favors done for big - money benefactors.

Then there was the benefactor, Baruch Eliezer Gross, an Israeli businessman virtually unknown in New York political circles, who paid at least $ 25,000 so that the mayor and his team could travel here without taxpayer expense.

At first, Marty appears to be the unlikeliest possible choice but, with the help of his new benefactors» support, a cutthroat campaign manager and his family's political connections, he soon becomes a contender who gives the charismatic Cam plenty to worry about.

FERA would seal their fates as education reformers when Virginia Gilder, then the wife of one of their major political reform benefactors, Wall Street financier Richard Gilder, asked Carroll what she could do to help fix the schools.

And the benefactors of these schools have no political agenda — they are Democrats, Republicans, and independents.

Without explicit statement, Ripley's political alliances, mentors, and benefactors allude to her beliefs in a failing American school system that can be rectified through selecting academically talented teachers, increasing school spending, and promoting school choice in the form of charter schools.

I think the questioning of science by the American right wing and the political assaults funded by their rich benefactors are proving to be a distraction to those interested in moving the planet to a path of sustainable economic growth.

Using these and a variety of other methods, Cambridge Analytica was alleged to have been capable of building a comprehensive profile of users that isn't normally available to Facebook advertisers, with the result that a political operation had powerful information on 50m users that could be useful to its benefactors.