Sentences with phrase «political slush funds»

It is about carving off a piece of the profits for political slush funds.

Then it added insult to injury by handing half a billion dollars of our money to the U.S. Coalition on Fair Lumber Imports — the ultra-protectionists who launched the lumber fight — and another half billion to George Bush for use as a political slush fund.

«I personally would not call it a political slush fund; I'd call it a timber industry slush fund.»

«The notion of diverting money away from public housing and toward a political slush fund is morally sickening,» Torres said.

His study, «CPS Pensions: From Retirement Security to Political Slush Fund,» argues that revenues never were the problem.

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-LRB-... The DN calls on de Blasio to use his mayoral powers to abolish the Council practice of dividing up some $ 400 million annually in so - called member items...) ************* Don't see de Blasio using up political chips to try to end the member - item slush fund.

While I was doing that, Chris Quinn was using a corrupt slush fund to park taxpayer dollars in phony charities to buy political support and running the City Council budget in a way that rewarded her friends and punished those who disagreed with her.»

· Eliminate «Housekeeping Committees»: Housekeeping committees now operate as barely regulated slush funds for political parties and legislative campaign committees and must be eliminated.

Political office holders have access to slush funds during their stay in office, including the unaccounted and non-refundable security vote.

There, Republican Sen. Ron Johnson has attacked his Democratic rival, former Sen. Russ Feingold, as a Washington insider who set up a «slush fund» political action committee after losing his 2010 re-election campaign.

His scorn grew to encompass her tenure during the so - called «slush - fund scandal,» where it was revealed that Council members were handing out discretionary money to fake organizations and political cronies with little oversight.

«She wouldn't,» Turner said before attacking Weprin as being «tainted by a long career in politics,» referring to the City Council slush fund scandal and accusing Weprin of taking political contributions from charity.

Stringer was also a vocal critic of the Campaign for One New York, de Blasio's political nonprofit, calling it a «slush fund» shortly after de Blasio had been criticized by the Campaign Finance Board for how the nonprofit raised and spent funds.

Not having Unions in their back pocket — and with no Super Funds to milk — the Greens have gone direct to the source: filling their campaign slush funds with $ millions from Danish fan maker Vestas and wind farm developers — like Wotif entrepreneur Graeme Wood — who threw a pre-election donation to the Greens which was the largest political donation that has ever been given to an Australian political party (see our post hFunds to milk — the Greens have gone direct to the source: filling their campaign slush funds with $ millions from Danish fan maker Vestas and wind farm developers — like Wotif entrepreneur Graeme Wood — who threw a pre-election donation to the Greens which was the largest political donation that has ever been given to an Australian political party (see our post hfunds with $ millions from Danish fan maker Vestas and wind farm developers — like Wotif entrepreneur Graeme Wood — who threw a pre-election donation to the Greens which was the largest political donation that has ever been given to an Australian political party (see our post here).

It was intended to justify a global tax - with the American taxpayer getting soaked the most - to create a giant slush fund for the world political elite, the result of which would make those elitists richer and everyone else poorer.