Sentences with phrase «political spending»

Findings in this second annual report indicate corporate disclosure of political spending is now a mainstream corporate practice.

Specifically a 2010 decision ruling that corporations and unions have the right to unlimited political spending in support or opposition of candidates in elections.

That growth has fueled an already heated debate about political spending by corporations.

Additional requests for political spending transparency went to a vote at 13 other company shareholder meetings this year and received a significant level of support.

The basic fact about political spending is this: incumbent politicians want to control it.

A new poll shows that teachers are politically divided, but union political spending is anything but.

That's how crazy the discussion has gotten regarding regulating political spending.

The goal of this report is to provide detailed information about corporate political spending so that shareholders can make more informed proxy voting decisions.

For a number of years, investors have pushed companies to enhance disclosure of their corporate political spending activities.

The suit's approach focuses on whether shareholders — in this case the state's pension — have the right to view political spending and contributions by companies they are investing in.

Yet the person who should be leading the fight to ban such high - rolling political spending is now badly compromised.

There's no requirement on either side of the border to disclose the full extent of political spending.

Political spending by corporations can create risks for investors — even at relatively low amounts.

Right now, teachers are being punished for exercising their First Amendment right to opt out of contributing to union political spending.

Such groups have no limits on political spending on behalf of a candidate as long as it is not a direct contribution to that candidate's campaign coffers.

Qualcomm Discloses Political Spending New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, manager and trustee of the state retirement fund, has dropped a lawsuit against wireless tech giant Qualcomm following the company's decision to disclose its political expenditures.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli is asking fellow investors in Wynn Resorts to vote their shares for the NY pension fund's request that the company disclose its direct and indirect political spending, which will be voted on at Wynn's annual meeting tomorrow.

(CNN)- The Supreme Court has blocked enforcement of a ruling by Montana's highest court that upholds the state's century - long restrictions on independent political spending by outside groups in election campaigns.

Cuomo has often decried the Citizens United decision, which ushered in the era of the «super PAC» of unlimited political spending on the national level as constraining efforts in New York to limit the state's porous campaign finance laws.

The London - based analytics firm is also partly owned by Robert Mercer, an American billionaire hedge fund manager and Trump's top campaign donor — he donated more than $ 15 million to Trump's election, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks political spending.

WASHINGTON — Overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections.

In an email, Teachout pointed to the Citizens United decision, which opened up a spigot of political spending from «super PAC» entities in elections.

Proxy Preview 2015 covers the record - breaking 433 social and environmental shareholder resolutions filed so far this proxy season, with political spending and climate change driving the majority of the activity.

Every tech company has increased political spending over the last few years, and the amount of tech money circulating in D.C. will skyrocket now that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been hauled before Congress to answer questions about the myriad ways in which his company is harming America and the world.

The pension fund requested information about Qualcomm's political spending through letters and shareholder resolutions.

Efforts to curtail the tax breaks are likely to face fierce opposition in Congress; the oil and natural gas industry has spent $ 340 million on lobbyists since 2008, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, which monitors political spending.

The parent company of Clear Channel Communications, one of the nation's biggest radio station and outdoor advertising firms, saw its 2013 loss widen as political spending dropped without a presidential election to drive results.

Shareholders need disclosure on issues like political spending and climate change because there is material risk that can affect the bottom line.»

However, lobbying, advocacy and other political spending by corporations and trade associations can also inhibit good policy - making, hold back progress, undermine critical environmental, social or economic regulations, and offload private costs onto the public.

The U.S. Supreme Court in late January swept away a long - standing prohibition on direct political spending by corporations, but it will take time before the full force of the ruling is clear, say NAR attorneys.

Last year, investors filed a record - breaking 417 social and environmental shareholder resolutions — up from 365 in 2012 — with the majority addressing political spending and climate change, according to a report released today by As You Sow, the Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2) and Proxy Impact.

Since Democrats have an overpowering inclination toward controlling everything, their push to control political spending is much more aggressive.

The packed fund - raising calendars, brisk political spending and trips to early primary states suggest that a shadow campaign for the Democratic Party's 2020 presidential nomination is already well underway — potentially the earliest start ever seen.

Much of the Mercers» political spending came in 2016 alone, when they funded a family super PAC with $ 15.5 million, including $ 2 million to support Trump once he secured the GOP nomination, according to Federal Election Commission filings.

BuyPartisan, a free app for iOS (Android version is coming soon), allows shoppers to scan the barcode of a product they're considering buying, which brings up that company's political spending information, including the donations of the CEO, Board of Directors, employees, and political action committees (PACs).

Minutes from 1MDB meetings indicated the fund prioritized political spending even when its cash flows couldn't cover its debt payments, the WSJ reported.

One study — on the abuse of «housekeeping accounts» — did question political spending by the health care workers union 1199 SEIU, a close ally of Citizen Action, along with that of a number of corporate interests.

NOTE: When a group is deemed to have full, some, or no disclosure, the entirety of the group's FEC - reported political spending is deemed to have that quality.

«The City's public finance system stands tall as a bulwark against a nation awash in political spending dominated by corporations, unions and other moneyed interests,» said Dick Dadey, Executive Director of Citizens Union.

And while the campaign to support the amendment has been expensive, passage could open the floodgate for even more political spending.

NY LEAD member David Calone, President and CEO of Jove Equity Partners, praised the Attorney General's efforts: «Attorney General Schneiderman's new disclosure policy offers a concrete solution to the explosive growth in secret non-profit political spending.»

More complicated would be to cut off the spigot of independent expenditure committees in the post-Citizens United age of big political spending.

• Television ad markets are less expensive in August, before political spending and prime time drives up the market rate for points in September and October.

Looking at those 2010 political spending numbers, allow us at the Independence Institute a moment to say: «We told you so.»

Traditionally «dark money» is money received by a political organization under the «shadow of darkness» — referring to political spending meant to influence the decision of a voter, where the donor is not disclosed and the source of the money is unknown in the form of a political action committee or SuperPAC.