Sentences with phrase «say about the donation»

Harlem Children's Zone President and CEO Geoffrey Canada had this to say about the donation: «I want to thank Prince.

Not exact matches

The securities and investment industry led all sectors with about $ 90 million in donations to candidate committees and the PACs supporting them, the Center for Responsive Politics said.

CBS Radio brings in more than a billion dollars in revenue from about 50 million listeners, Henn said, and the public radio universe generates about the same amount of money from pledges and donations, as well as advertising and grants.

«If you don't have records to satisfy any IRS auditor questions about your donations, you can lose your deduction,» said Bell.

Given that the small kosher market chain opened the Pikesville location about two weeks ago, general manager Zachary Richards said, the donation drive, promoted via the Baltimore Jewish Life community news website, was an unprecedented success.

Trussell Trust says foodbanks have concerns about the extra pressure the increased demand puts on food donation stocks and volunteers» time and emotional welfare.

Again since the topic is about religion and businesses, one must list Mormonism as a business that fronts as a religion that uses forced donations and «volunteers» to advertise said businesses.

«We get a fair amount of requests from local charities about making donations, and we respond to them regularly,» David Painter says.

I said, «thank you»... because, you know, Todd had a big part in the victory with all his donations... and she turns to her friends and starts telling them about the championship... I hear her say at one point,»... and then he turns to the camera... and winks!!!! it was so great....!»

While he said he hoped his fame as the first organ transplant recipient to win an Olympic medal would «get families talking about organ donation,» he said he never felt any pressure to win to make his ordeal worthwhile.

«At that time we were working together and I was of the belief that the Senate Republican Campaign Committee solicited some donations that would help that effort to elect Senator Grisanti and that was about the extent of what I knew at that time,» Langworthy said.

«It's disappointing to me that, despite many years of talk from people on both the left and the right of politics we are still stuck with this system which is antiquated and undemocratic... We need to try to get beyond the more tabloid version of this argument and really understand what it says about our democracy — you've got people appointed to the legislature without going through the proper processes of democratic accountability that are taken for granted in most countries in the world and you have people being influenced by making political donations.

«The way it worked... the state didn't do any of the contracts,» Cuomo said when asked about the COR contracts and donations.

And he says that while he's willing to talk about limiting political donations of county vendors, he has no thoughts on what the limits ought to be.

Asked about the middle - man in an alleged bribery scandal — Jona Rechnitz — who also made six - figure donations to the mayor's political efforts, Hizzoner said his campaign team had vetted him as much as possible.

Jacobs said she was concerned about the donations going to a group such as Friends.

Deputy County Executive Ed Ward said Friday the county was gathering information about the flag donations and where the money had been spent but had yet to receive answers Friday afternoon.

Scharff said the donations are a small part of PPEFNY's operating budget, which is about $ 3 million a year, and said the candidate also sent money in 2017.

In response to questions about the donations from appointees, Cuomo administration officials said they believed that the order only applied to appointees who could be fired at any time by the governor, not those serving set terms.

I would say the same about charitable donations,» de Blasio said.

Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli will return about $ 25,000 in similar contributions, while Attorney General Eric Schneiderman will donate around $ 15,000 to charity to offset the donations he got, their spokesmen said.

He also admitted to making false statements about those donations, the office Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said.

Mr Grayling said: «The fact is that we were told by the Labour party two days ago that only one person was involved and only he knew about the donations.

A DNAinfo New York examination of de Blasio's campaign finances has found some unusual contributions — one commercial driver who flip - flopped about making two sizeable donations and a Bronx landlord who said he did not give $ 4,500 to the mayor's transition team, even though records show he did.

Commenting on the latest revelations about David Abraham's secret donations to the Labour Party, Director of Unlock Democracy Peter Facey said:

She said the donation was also based on what President Mahama told her about the Infirmary when he visited, saying, it was in need of urgent medical supplies and equipment.

D'Souza, 52, of San Diego, was charged with one count of making illegal campaign donations in the name of others and a second count of making false statements about those donations, authorities said.

«And with just 0.1 % of his support coming from small donations from everyday New Yorkers, that tells you exactly the chance that Cuomo will care about your concerns: 0.1 %,» Aro said.

«Jaden's Law would take the first steps to educating the broader public about the importance of bone marrow and cord blood donation», said Assemblyman Wright.

«For a few desperate Democrats to now whine about some legal donations from LLCs to Sen. Marchione's campaign, while deliberately ignoring the fact that their own governor has raked in millions from LLCs, is political hypocrisy at its worst,» Marchione's spokesman, Josh Fitzpatrick, said in a statement.

Instead of saying, «Well, geez, I'm just going to think about people who give campaign donations because that's going to help me appeal to this very small select group of people that already vote,» we would be widening that, in essence doing what I believe our founding fathers through this process wanted us to do.»

Maybe it was Ed, for instance, who described how he, Brown and Charlie Whelan were listening to Blair's party conference speech on a car radio when Brown suddenly started heckling («He didn't want that... He opposed that...») And surely it could only have been Whelan, still spinning even in his political grave, who described the Chancellor's fury after being «ambushed» about the Ecclestone donation on the Today programme, for who else but our Charlie would say «Gordon went mental»?

Since launching his campaign in May, his donations came from about 1,300 donors, his campaign said, including 400 who gave $ 100 or less and 900 have given less than $ 100.

In May, party leader Arlene Foster responded to questions about the unprecedented donation by saying that «we have satisfied ourselves that it was all kept within the rules.»

The Conservative MP Ben Bradley has apologised unreservedly and will make a substantial donation to charity for a tweet making claims about Jeremy Corbyn's links to cold war spies, the Labour party said.

When first questioned about the donations last week, administration officials said they believed the order only barred donations from salaried state employees and board members who could be fired by the governor.

Wade said he showed up for his grand jury testimony armed with a newspaper article about Jack Casey, a former Rensselaer County Republican chairman, once soliciting campaign donations from county workers.

His campaign said he paid income tax on one of the donations, but did not respond to questions about the others.

«You may hear tomorrow that it's not about the money,» Easton said, «but you never hear that when hedge fund managers want to make political donations.»

Disgraced City Hall donor Harendra Singh testified under oath Monday that he's telling the truth about bribing Mayor de Blasio and making illegal donations on his behalf — but the mayor says he's full of it.

Concern about corporate political donations has grown since the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 ruling in the Citizens United case that lifted restrictions on independent spending by corporations, said David Yermack, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business.

«There's no allegation that has anything to do with the mayor in these complaints,» Bharara said when asked about the donations.

The state's notoriously high limits on campaign donations should be drastically reduced, he said, and rules about people with business before the state donating to campaigns should be tightened.

The head of the Northern Irish Electoral Commission, Ann Watt, has made it unequivocally clear that she thinks information about donors from 2014 onwards should be published, saying: «While all reportable donations and loans received from 1 July 2017 will now be published by the commission, we would also like to see the necessary legislation put in place, as soon as possible, to allow us to publish details of donations and loans received since January 2014.»

Whitehall sources said the information about donations had been «regrettably» included as background information only and had no bearing on the decision.

NEW YORK CITY — A top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo who vetted campaign donations couldn't say in court how she felt about a contribution from a Syracuse developer.

It's a stretch to think that donations on the scale we're talking about really have that kind of influence on the governor,» she said.

Schneiderman said his office is requiring more information from them about the use of the funds and about the use of donations to pay operating costs.

«Two hundred grand to 250 is premier league... what you would get is, when we talk about your donations, the first thing we want to do is get you at the Cameron / Osborne dinners,» he said.

Due to the budget crisis, how about suspending matching funds for campaigns beginning in, say, January, after the incumbents collect on donations at Christmas parties?