Sentences with phrase «rich donors»

And most rich donors want the income tax exemption.

State funding might solve this problem as well as making the parties significantly less dependent on a few rich donors.

He wrongly assumed Democratic legislators would be cowed by the argument that Keystone would create jobs, missing the growing influence of rich donors intent on making the party greener.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has his own grand jury contemplating evidence the mayor and his team ran a corrupt pay - for - play scheme with rich donors to his now - defunct political nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York, exchanging government favors for cash.

Shady cash from Vladimir Putin's Russian energy oligarchs and other rich donors is being laundered through Bermuda - based lawyers and middlemen to «green» pressure groups, lobbyists, and spinmeisters — to promote «green energy» schemes that bring billions of dollars from government agencies (and thus from us taxpayers and consumers) to a cabal of billionaires and crony companies.

Journals of opinion have always depended upon rich donors to keep them alive.

Research by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism showed how Tory fundraising dinners were resulting in rich donors» cash being funnelled directly into 80 key seats — the 40 the Tories want to hold on to and 40 more they want to gain.

I have saved the tweet as the ultimate testament to this anti-politics era: the parties are reliant on unions and rich donors because voters will not support state funding.

Gibson faces Democratic candidate Sean Eldridge this November, a wealthy venture capitalist who has been able to tap rich donors to help fund his effort.

Rich donors like the Koch brothers (conservative) and George Soros (liberal) are funneling cash to colleges and universities in hopes of influencing young minds.

Members of several good government, fiscal watchdog and education advocacy groups Wednesday took issue with the bill, saying it benefits mainly rich donors, and violates the separation of church and state.

Rep. Kathleen Rice (D., N.Y.) took nearly $ 6,000 in gifts from rich donors, according to financial disclosure documents, the New York Post reported.

Rich donors tend to be more supportive of market - oriented reforms, such as charter schools and merit pay for teachers, but are less supportive of paying more taxes for early childhood education and federal spending to improve schools.

This week in #nced: Improve Mental Health Services to Make Schools Safer, Speakers Tell NC Lawmakers; Company Tied to Rich Donor Recommended to Take Over Low - Performing NC School

Faced with a political climate unlikely to prioritize election reform, cities might lead the way in breaking the grip of rich donors and dark money in national campaigns.

Shady cash from Vladimir Putin's Russian energy oligarchs and other rich donors is being laundered through Bermuda - based lawyers and middlemen to «green» pressure groups, lobbyists, and spinmeisters — to promote «green energy» schemes that bring billions of dollars from government agencies (and thus from us taxpayers and consumers) to a cabal of billionaires and crony -LSB-...]

Typically, if a rich donor fully controls the assets in an LLC, it's counted as part of their estate.

Rich donors, many of whom got rich in the oil patch, are cutting the university off.

«Government should be owned by the people of B.C. — not bought and paid for by corporations and rich donors.»

I hear that there will be new allegations against this sicko Sandusky, and it involves pimping out his young victims to rich donors.

The Brennan Center has teamed up with Democracy 21 to push a voluntary small donor match program they think would eliminate the influence that rich donors has on the election system.

The Hudson Valley is ready for a Congressperson who will put the needs of everyday people before the profits of rich donors.»

Yesterday's US Supreme Court decision in McCutcheon v. FEC removed limits on the total amount that rich donors could contribute to all candidates in an electoral cycle.

«Republicans in Congress continue to seek out new ways to help themselves and their rich donors at the expense of the hard working families they are supposed to represent.

If we re-elect Governor 1 %, he will continue his economic policy of austerity for working people and special favors for his rich donors.

A new YouGov poll suggests that the majority of the public think that Tony Blair is sleazy, the way honours are distributed are corrupt and that rich donors have too much influence over the Labour party.

On the questions of party funding, almost two - thirds of people think Labour kept the loans secret because they were embarrassed by them and a similar amount of people though that rich donors had too much influence.

Allowing tax avoidance for their rich donors and them not paying their fair share.

Their request for key funding was denied by the UK's Medical Research Council, and only succeeded thanks to a rich donor whose identity remains a secret.

The rich donor nations are growing increasingly disillusioned by the UN system, and many of them have openly challenged the WHO's leadership.

Aren't there some fine lawyers who would, preferably with pro-bono work, support families who have children with disabilities, all kinds of disabilities, or children who have second language hurdles, or the really really poor children, to sue the charter operators and their rich donors for denying these students a slot in their elite charter schools?

Rich donors are to shiny new art museums what electricity is to Teslas.

They expressed outrage at the interposition of clothed, rich donors with unclothed, not - so - rich performers in a glitzy gala environment.

Steyer has been the largest individual donor in American politics for the last two election cycles, giving over $ 91 million in the 2016 cycle.7 Given the way Steyer has focused his giving on environmentalist causes of the left, Steyer's inspiring CAP to squash scientific discussion provides support for Robert Brulle's view that rich donors can distort public perceptions of climate science.