Sentences with phrase «wealthiest supporters at»
«It didn't take long for President Obama and his liberal friends to throw their support behind David's opponent, Charlie Melancon,» said the incumbent in a fundraising appeal to his own supporters, slamming Melancon for» (flying) up to Martha's Vinyard to collect campaign cash from Obama's wealthiest supporters at cocktail parties in Massachusetts.»
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The group has been funded in part by Dan Loeb, a wealthy supporter of charter schools who last year apologized after making a racially charged remark at Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.
No doubt true — the real money arrives in large chunks at fundraisers and through networks of wealthy supporters.
The independent expenditure effort was heavily supported by charter school supporters like Paul Singer, a wealthy hedge - fund manager and investor who supports charter school expansion, as well Daniel Loeb, a director at Success Academy and Dan Senor, a former Bush administration official who is married to former CNN anchor Campbell Brown, a critic of teacher tenure.
The ad, entitled «Opportunity,» is pretty straight forward, hewing to the «rich vs. everyone else» argument employed to date by supporters of the Assembly Democrats» plan to continue taxing the state's wealthiest residents (in this case, actual millionaires and not simply those who earn $ 200,000 or more) at a higher rate for at least the next year.
The e-mail is also a fundraising appeal that asks supporters to help Rice keep the spot on the air by contributing and warns rather ominously that she will be the subject of attacks in the coming weeks «by career politicians and wealthy political insiders who will stop at nothing to make sure that our state's next lawyer is a politician, rather than a career legal advocate.»
May is determined to take us out of the EU at any cost to satisfy her very wealthy supporters, apart from wanting the social chapter destroyed, the wealthy do not want the new EU legislation that requires governments to stop tax avoidance by companies.
At a preemptive news conference with education advocates, The Alliance for Quality Education's Billy Easton says wealthy supporters of expanding charter schools have spent nearly twice that amount, and have contributed large sums to the governor's campaign.
Palantir is owned by Peter Thiel, a wealthy Trump supporter and board member at Facebook.