Sentences with phrase «political funding»

But I would also argue it has seen the need for broader change within our system of political funding.

Yet again, the teachers unions are among the largest political funders in local and national elections alike from coast to coast.

The play revolves around party political funding and a matrimonial scandal involving the home secretary.

Lawmakers and public officials on both sides of the aisle have used political funds to cover a variety of items, including car leases.

He has thrown away billions to corrupt «green» companies with political fund raising ties.

Meanwhile unions will still have political funds from which they can make very large donations to the party.

Before the ruling, corporations were prohibited from using corporate treasury funds for political communications and were required to set up separate political funds using only personal contributions from corporate employees.

But there was a request for me to meet with them to discuss my positions on someone representing political funders.

This established that for trade unions to engage in political activity, they must create a separate political fund.

Boundary changes and the over-hasty introduction of individual electoral registration will stack the odds against Labour, and changes to trade union political funds are designed to paralyse their campaigning strength and to attack their financial connection with the party.

They are having money taken from their pockets which is handed over to the Labour Party and put into political funds without them even knowing.

The committee said Mr Straw was «negligent» and should have known better because as Home Secretary, he had brought in a 2001 law to reform the rules on political funding.

The 85 - year - old mayor of Dunkirk has received a sentence of six months of home confinement and two years of probation after he was found guilty of using political funds for personal items.

Speaking after the HMRC data loss and a fresh row over political funding in the Labour party, Mr Cameron said Mr Brown's government was now suffering from bureaucratic over-reach and incompetence.

Sinatra gives to state political funds on both sides of the aisle, too.

July 16, 2004: New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey simmers in a pot stirred by indicted political fund raiser David D'Amiano and indicted campaign contributor Charles Kushner.

Just two years earlier we educated Coloradans about the widely - endorsed Ethical Standards ballot initiative, Amendment 49, which would have kept political funds from being channeled through government payroll systems.

Like 17 other unions in the TUC, the NEU has a non-party political fund whereby members can opt to pay a small amount on top of their subs to support our campaigning work.

Donations to the National Rifle Association's political fund tripled in the days after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, according to reports.

By the end of March, 45 non-union managers and lawyers, along with their spouses, had given a combined $ 408,000 to local and state political funds since taking their Water Authority jobs.

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``... While I have always found political fund raising to be one of the most distasteful aspects of elected service, it is unfortunately a necessary one.

It's not uncommon for elected officials to hold political fund - raisers at sporting events.

But if the government's plans result - as is likely - in smaller political funds, this would also make less cash available to union leaders to make, at their discretion, the separate party political donations on which Labour increasingly depends.

«Each year our success rate increases, but given the increasingly challenging environment we operate in, with big national banks trying to enter our business, we must keep pushing ourselves to do better,» says Larry Von Feldt, 2002 RPAC political fund - raising chair.

Cuomo also jumped on that and Sanders» platform in which he attacks what he calls a corrupt political funding system and Clinton's reliance on substantial funding from Wall Street and corporate America.

Jack Straw and Francis Maude are among the politicians appearing before a hearing on party political funding later.

The Usual Suspects moved quickly as news spread of Eric Cantor's sudden fall in Tuesday's primary election: my inbox filled fast with fundraising messages from the Democratic party committees, outside political funding groups, individual candidates and more.

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The UK has dropped from 16th to 17th in the international corruption table, as worries over unfair lobbying and party political funding grow.

Glushefski's biggest financial support, aside from her $ 25,000 family loan, includes a $ 3,000 contribution from the Women's TAP political fund of Buffalo, $ 2,000 from Erie County Democratic Party Chairman Jeremy Zellner's political fundraising committee and $ 1,000 each from Sean Cooney of Buffalo and Phillips Lytle, a Buffalo law firm.

That means eliminating the dark arts anywhere near the leadership, reforming the rules on MPs» expenses before July, and legislating for new rules on party - political funding before the general election.»

The action sought a court order forcing Jacobs to explain details of unreported expenditures from the Maziarz political fund.

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The # 25m annual political fund income from 4.5 million political levy payers funds a wide range of political campaigning including being a chief source of funding for Labour.

online fundraising powerful here because of quirks in the U.S. political funding system (individual donations, individual campaigns, money = speech, campaigns are driven by need to raise money)

He was a local government officer at the Greater London Council between 1983 and 1984, before working for the trade union movement, running the first political fund ballots, and then with the GMB until his election in 1987.

Getting those who pay into unions» political funds engaged in the life of the Labour party, is worth pursuing.

General secretaries are preparing for the introduction of restrictions next year on political funds introduced under the Trade Union Act 2016.

The NALC, which endorsed Clinton last June, compensated those USPS workers using the Letter Carrier Political Fund, the union's PAC.

They also announced plans to cut their wider political fund, as well as their contribution to regional Labour party campaigns.

The Trump administration says Sessions was acting as a then - U.S. senator when he talked to Russia's ambassador at an event during last year's RNC in Cleveland, but he paid for convention travel expenses out of his own political funds and he spoke about the Trump campaign at the event.

Capitol sources say there's a chance for a session in the middle of this week — both Cuomo and Flanagan have big political fund - raisers scheduled for Monday — but it's equally possible negotiations could drag into July or even August.

Instead of managing highly institutionalised political funds, the role of the union leadership would be to mobilise its membership to actively support progressive causes through choice.

Unite may well find itself with a healthy political fund, no one to spend it on, and unable to influence government policy.

This week's heightened debate about political funding has raised the important issue of Trade Union Funding.

(The $ 10,000 - a-head political fund - raiser that later occurred at Abbruzzese's home was outside the scope of the indictment, because it's okey - dokey under New York's campaign finance laws.)

«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.