Sentences with phrase «powerful financial backers»

The rift between the WFP and some of its most powerful financial backers began in 2014 when party activists wanted to back little - known Fordham law professor Zephyr Teachout over Cuomo, who they felt was not progressive enough.

With the run - up of the stock market in recent years and the home equity, millennials have a very powerful financial backer in their parents.

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(The powerful health care workers union was a big financial backer of the campaign, too, and it has long been a close ally of the governor).

Werritty, the group's UK director, was funded by a raft of powerful businessmen including Michael Hintze, one of the Tories biggest financial backers whose hedge fund, CQS, has investments in companies that have contracts with the Ministry of Defence; Poju Zabludowicz, chairman of the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, who chairs a US munitions company; and the Good Governance Group, a private security firm set up by a South African businessman, Andries Pienaar, who also has an investment firm, C5 Capital, focused on the defence sector.

The group's launch underscored that while many of the party's financial backers support an anti-union, pro-charter agenda, the «reform» movement's actions are starting to trigger a powerful reaction within the party.

General Mills is also represented by the Grocery Manufacturers Association, a powerful lobbying group and major financial backer of the campaigns that defeated proposed GMO labeling laws in California and Washington.