Sentences with phrase «spent union money»

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In her announcement, Gillibrand criticized the 2010 Supreme Court case, Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission, which ruled that the government should not regulate the amount of money corporations and unions can spend on campaigns.

Most likely places where the money would be spent include upgrades on infrastructure, which President Obama, in his State of the Union address last week, mentioned as one of his top priorities in his remaining two years in office.

The report argues that the current lack of rules around third parties creates a huge loophole in financing limits — essentially, anyone who wants to spend a ton of money to influence an election can simply channel it away from parties, corporations and unions and instead pour it into an interest group.

While other provinces, most recently Ontario, and the federal government have moved to take big money out of politics, the Christy Clark government has not only said no to banning union and corporate donations, and no to municipal election spending limits — it has moved to eliminate pre-election spending limits in the 60 days prior to an election.

With a wide variety of credit card companies, banks and credit unions to choose from, it can be difficult to find the features that will benefit you the best to help you get the most out of the money you spend.

If he can just get those of the weak and thoughtless minds to concentrate on gay people and not on his distorted unemployment statistics, pay - offs to his union buddies, economy collapsing debt, bullying of the American businessman / woman, ever - lavish spending wife (our money, not theirs), and a debacle of a healthcare plan, then maybe, maybe he might just get elected again so that he can do even more damage than he has already wrought.

That, coupled with lots of other things, such as the European Union changing the law on how marketing money could be spent (only outside of Europe) resulting in wineries starting to invest in Asian events; along with the UK market becoming very competitive and multiple retail - led with low margins.

Our money should be spent on OUR priorities, not on membership to a political union.

Citizens United overturned a century of legal doctrine when it ruled that pursuant to the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment, corporations and labour unions have the right to spend unlimited amounts of money through ads, commercials and other political tools to support or oppose candidates for office.

COIB's announcement of the fines, and Stringer's scrutiny of Department of Correction spending, comes the same day that a jury is reportedly deadlocked in the corruption trial of former correction union president Norman Seabrook, who is accused of making a deal with a hedge fund to pocket $ 60,000 in exchange for agreeing to steer union money into the fund, which has since been revealed as one of the largest Ponzi schemes in recent memory.

The union says the report vindicates its position that UK taxpayers» money should be spent on UK produced defence equipment for our armed forces.

At present a political alliance of the party leadership and right wing trade union bureaucracy is spending unprecedented sums of money to try to take control of this NEC section.

All of the dogmatic rhetoric from fat cat trade union leaders on six - figure salaries and the money they are spending on anti-cuts campaigns can not disguise the fact that trade unions are becoming less relevant to the British workforce.

Government unions will likely continue to push to weaken the cap because it's been an effective curb on the growth of government spending, causing some unions to collect less money in dues than they would have otherwise.

The fact is that the European Union issue is more important than any of that, because it's about the decision of whether you want your laws made in Brussels and that march towards ever - closer union, or whether you want our country to make its own laws, our politicians to make the laws in this country, for us to be able to determine our immigration policy, to decide how we're spending our public mUnion issue is more important than any of that, because it's about the decision of whether you want your laws made in Brussels and that march towards ever - closer union, or whether you want our country to make its own laws, our politicians to make the laws in this country, for us to be able to determine our immigration policy, to decide how we're spending our public munion, or whether you want our country to make its own laws, our politicians to make the laws in this country, for us to be able to determine our immigration policy, to decide how we're spending our public money.

As for Citizens Union, Executive Director Dick Dadey said the Education Fund's money supported two reports: one examining the undisclosed spending of New York political clubs, the other pushing publicly funded elections and campaign finance reform.

While this margin is similar to the margin in 2014, it seems that unions spent less money through other means than they did this year.

Barbara Bowen, a CUNY English professor who is president of the Professional Staff Congress, the union that represents 25,000 CUNY faculty and staff, said she was happy to see the governor acknowledge the need for money to cover the retroactive raises that the union has been fighting for but was worried over the $ 485 million cut in state spending for CUNY.

Conservative MP Matthew Hancock is speaking at the conference to put the case that councils can and should spend money on services, not union subsidies.

Government unions account for about 6 percent of the money spent on Democratic candidates in federal elections — and that doesn't include significant in - kind contributions like phone banks and canvassing.

Jimmy Goldsmith's Referendum Party spent lots of money in the 1997 General Election, raising the profile of the European Union as an issue in British politics.

«People struggling to get to work yesterday morning will be appalled to see that under Labour union barons were being given thousands of pounds of taxpayers» money in expenses while spending millions more in secret,» Ms Patel said.

WFP and their supporting unions are spending money trying to influence legislation by pushing this agenda.

While Gov. Andrew Cuomo is yet to endorse and the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee has for now steered clear of spending any money in the race, the super PAC of the New York State United Teachers union continues to bolster Democratic Senate hopeful Amber Small.

Why should an employee have to pay to a union instead of being free to spend the money on other things?

But instead of just backing Senate Democratic's as the union's VOTE - COPE independent expenditure committee has done so far, NYSUT is also spending money in a handful of state Assembly races as well, filings with the state Board of Elections show.

«Powerful labor unions and New York City millionaires want to spend your money to support their political candidates and their tax - and - spend agenda.

This public employee union is nothing more than a sham democratic party run leadership operation who coercively takes money from its members and spends it on their own personal politics.

While opposition forces, led by labor unions, have already begun to spend sizeable sums of money to encourage a «no» vote, it is unclear how rising populist sentiments indicated in last year's presidential election — especially through the campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump — may factor in.

Citizens Union, like dozens of groups that are active in state politics, exists as both a (c)(3)-- which can receive tax - deductible donations but can spend a finite amount of money on direct political activity — and a (c)(4)-- which can engage in a broader range of political activity designed to promote «social welfare» but can't get tax - exempt donations.

The large sums of money, derived from compulsory dues government employee unions like AFGE, AFSCME and the NEA spend lobbying for ever bigger government should be banned.

Karen Scharff, with the Working Families Party, which is led by reform activists and union leaders, says a request that the unions refrain from spending money on campaigns when there are no restrictions on big business, would not work.

Unions like 1199 and the U.F.T. that pushed for more money to fund education and health care will get almost $ 2 billion toward bridging next year's budget deficit, which books 4 percent increases in spending to both of their topical areas.

There were several education - focused groups not associated with charter schools or unions who spent significant money on lobbying last year.

A super PAC is a committee that can raise and spend unlimited money — including from corporations and unions — to support candidates for federal office.

Not sure, if this is undetAnd, labour spent more than the Tories in 2005 75 % of labours spending in 1997 came from the private side, and recall 1979 when the closed shop meant everyone had to joina Union, that union had to give money to the labour party, we knew the next election would be the most vicious since 1992 ′ we win the campaign, lost the election that time, The Tory press isn't as strong as it was then, the tories haven't got lost of «extremist» stories about labour they had thrn to smear us now, They're a smaller party not just cos of Ukip, But labour has a lot of keen strong members, and it'll come doen to 70 or so marginal seats what happens, while not losing our working class votes in Newcastle, birmingham Luton Rotherham, Scotland, and if they're not abstaining, or voting Ukip, we have to ask why they're votingUnion, that union had to give money to the labour party, we knew the next election would be the most vicious since 1992 ′ we win the campaign, lost the election that time, The Tory press isn't as strong as it was then, the tories haven't got lost of «extremist» stories about labour they had thrn to smear us now, They're a smaller party not just cos of Ukip, But labour has a lot of keen strong members, and it'll come doen to 70 or so marginal seats what happens, while not losing our working class votes in Newcastle, birmingham Luton Rotherham, Scotland, and if they're not abstaining, or voting Ukip, we have to ask why they're votingunion had to give money to the labour party, we knew the next election would be the most vicious since 1992 ′ we win the campaign, lost the election that time, The Tory press isn't as strong as it was then, the tories haven't got lost of «extremist» stories about labour they had thrn to smear us now, They're a smaller party not just cos of Ukip, But labour has a lot of keen strong members, and it'll come doen to 70 or so marginal seats what happens, while not losing our working class votes in Newcastle, birmingham Luton Rotherham, Scotland, and if they're not abstaining, or voting Ukip, we have to ask why they're voting tory

Cuomo's also getting a boost from the health care workers union SEIU, a long time Cuomo ally, which is spending money on television advertising that features workers as well as photos of the governor.

Norman Seabrook, the president of the Correction Officers Benevolent Association, the largest union in the department and a frequent critic of Mr. de Blasio's reform agenda, praised the mayor for spending money on the department and bringing it «into the 21st century.»

What's more, trade union members even get to have a say over where there money is spent.

Every election cycle — in every part of the country — AFL - CIO unions and unaffiliated labor organizations make pragmatic calculations about who to endorse and spend money on.

More than a third of the state's money is spent on Medicaid, making it a necessary and obvious target for cuts, and yet each year the same ritual plays out: The governor proposes cuts to health care; the state's hospital lobby and the union representing health - care workers spend millions of dollars in maudlin TV ads decrying the cuts — on top of the millions they contribute to elected officials; the governor's poll numbers decline, and he agrees to an expensive truce that barely makes a dent in rising Medicaid costs.

COBA members — some of whom have sued to claw back the $ 20 million — asked Judge Oetken in May to force Seabrook to reimburse the union for any union funds he has spent on his defense thus far and to block him from using any more of their money to defend himself.

In addition to backing the union candidate for district attorney, the campaign committee has spent money to attack John McCann, a candidate for Chula Vista City Council who has also been endorsed by the Republican Party of San Diego County.

Dick Dadey, with Citizens Union, says the governor's proposal is weakest when it comes down to large, lump sums of money that can be spent at the governor's and legislative leader's discretion, which the harshest critics call slush funds.

DiGerolamo said the union, in spending money to boost local lawmakers, is merely playing by the rules established by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Avis Gilmour from the National Union of Teachers agreed, saying money that would have been spent on refurbishment of old schools has instead been spent on new schools.

Thursday's Supreme Court decision eases ban on corporations and unions from spending money in campaigns.

«Governor Cuomo spent his time and money creating a fake party instead of fighting for the State Senate and congressional candidates of the party he is supposedly a member of,» said Bill Lipton, the state director of the Working Families Party, a group of labor unions and liberal activists.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Anticipating a «feeding frenzy» over New York state's $ 5 billion windfall, a dozen public officials, union leaders and contractors gathered this morning at Syracuse City Hall to advocate spending all of the money to repair roads, bridges, water pipes and other infrastructure.

The more «stimulus» money spent, the more the unions get, the more that gets taken from their paycheck to be funneled to Democrat campaigns.