Sentences with phrase «political vote buying»
Lincoln is not above political vote buying.
https://www.rogerebert.com/ Not exact matches
People will buy Bitcoin for the financial gains, and most won't realize they are voting with their wallets and self - interest to build a world based on peace and cooperation, even if that conflicts with their own political ideals.
ANY person who votes for a political grifter that spouts his love for Jesus and / or the buy - bull is a sucker, a chump or a fool — if not all three... In fact, they should have their right to vote take away!
Better for us all to know you can be bought by the fringe now so when you try and change your tune with higher political aspirations we have the proof you are not worthy of a vote.
It doesn't buy you a vote on something like tax breaks, according to the industry and political experts.
But it's all corrupt: Just as the speaker uses the cash to buy members» votes, so do they, in turn, toss it around their districts to buy political support.
On Tuesday, reports quoted the International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety), as estimating that at least N1.5 bn was used in buying votes by some of the political parties that participated in the election.
The phenomenon starts during our political campaigns when people and powerful organizations with their own agendas and resources, skew voting.They secretly or openly give big donations and other supports to the political parties with the expectation that, their political cronies will offer them juicy contracts etc when they win political power.With this support, our parties buy votes instead of winning them.
The former UN Secretary General called for political equality and the need to fight the incidence of unregulated money in politics which leads to vote buying and bribery by candidates.
Like the rest on Wall street, He made his first $ 10 Million Dollar's by inside - trading when Solomon Brother's (where he was a partner) was sold to another company (great inside info only reserved for the member's of the inner - circle who have ton's of shares in the company) who sent him packing (in my opinion a ruse (i.e. bonus) to keep the SEC from sticking their nose into the matter) and with that money started his own business & bought his way into City Hall where he now sits on his throne denying benefits to the familie's of those who sacrificed their lives to help other's on 9/11, threaten the political future of community representatives (Councilmember's) who dared to disagree with him or voted against one of his policie's etc., etc..
Rep. Louise Slaughter, D - N.Y., called the GOP plan «a political sleight of hand» that seeks to buy GOP votes - and pay for tax cuts for the wealthy - at the expense of New Yorkers.
Writing in the Guardian recently, the social critic George Monbiot commented, «So I don't blame people for giving up on politics... When a state - corporate nexus of power has bypassed democracy and made a mockery of the voting process, when an unreformed political system ensures that parties can be bought and sold, when politicians [of the main parties] stand and watch as public services are divvied up by a grubby cabal of privateers, what is left of this system that inspires us to participate?»
For more than a decade, Global Green has collaborated with the Hollywood community to raise global awareness of Smart Climate Solutions — from building green homes and schools to buying green products and voting for green political leaders.
In Thailand, the company claimed to have done research for multiple political parties on the scale of vote - buying.
«The next layer of scum — Cambridge Analytica, who seized the opportunity to scrape your details from Facebook, value - add with other big data, and build tools for political parties to microtarget you with just the right words at just the right time to buy your vote — add to this the fact that the Australian Privacy Act does not apply to politicians, political parties, or those acting on their behalf, and you have a recipe for the wholesale violation of the privacy rights of Australian citizens,» he told the Senate.
People will buy Bitcoin for the financial gains, and most won't realize they are voting with their wallets and self - interest to build a world based on peace and cooperation, even if that conflicts with their own political ideals.
The real estate buying / selling public in Canada currently enjoys the same right as the political voting public enjoys, the right to vote against, or for, a so - called dominant industry leader (competing CREA member brokerages within said industry) via choosing to work with / hire same, or not, when deciding to participate in competitve real estate offerings / transactions.