Sentences with phrase «wealthy backers»

The teachers unions have also pointed to wealthy backers of charter schools who have contributed heavily to the governor's re-election campaign.

Previously only loans that were not charged interest were made public, but this led to fears that parties were using this rule to hide wealthy backers.

The Empire State Pride Agenda, meanhile, released a statement saying that it will continue to back candidates friendly to their cause (all three lawmakers running for re-election have benefitted from wealthy backers of same - sex marriage).

Metropolitan police officers are investigating whether Labour and the Conservatives took secret contributions from wealthy backers in return for peerages before the last general election.

There are allegations that the main political parties offered wealthy backers a seat in the House of Lords in return for loans.

There have also been questions as to why Lord Levy asked wealthy backers not to donate money to the party, which would have had to be made public, but instead provide a loan which, as long as it was at a commercial rate of interest, could be kept private.

A source within the group — whose wealthy backers and their close associates donated about $ 900,000 to the mayor's 2013 campaign and political nonprofit — took aim at the speaker for the stall, branding her as «neither strong on animal welfare, nor a leader.»

But further revelations yesterday continued to pile on the pressure on the prime minister, suggesting that Mr Blair misled Labour's governing body over who decided wealthy backers should give loans rather than donations to the party.

Decentralized projects can use the platform to raise funds, allowing developers to circumvent an environment ill - suited for startups that lack wealthy backers or industry connections.

He accused Clinton — who has received support from wealthy backers of charter schools — of having ties to «corporate education reform» that work against teachers.

Political parties are still failing to declare all the loans and donations they receive from wealthy backers, the Electoral Commission has warned today.

Police launched an investigation into possible breaches of the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925 earlier this year, after claims that Labour was offering wealthy backers a seat in the House of Lords in return for loans.

Following allegations that parties were asking wealthy backers to make loans rather than donations, to avoid having to make their names public, the commission called for full disclosure in this year's accounts.

And, not exactly able to announce that fact or ask his sick wife to sign off, the wealthy Edwards turned to some wealthy backers to take care of the woman and the baby and hide the whole thing from Elizabeth Edwards and presumably everyone else.

And instead of a panel of wealthy backers, the judges included a diverse mix of more than 40 investors, academics, entrepreneurs and policymakers.

If so, the wealthy backers using equity crowdfunding platforms may be able to help.

Everett founded S2 in 2012, identified a promising acquisition target, and secured a wealthy backer.

For months, the Gawker Media owner and people around him had speculated that the pro wrestler had a wealthy backer footing the legal bill for his fight against Denton and Gawker, which had published an excerpt of a Hogan sex tape.

To help pay for it, they found some wealthy backers, including two Wall Street titans with ties to Valeant.

October will mark Wenger's managerial milestone but in recent years he has become a target for PSG and their wealthy backers, Qatari Sports Investments.

But as long as Santorum and the rest insists on plugging on, their wealthy backers are willing to bankroll them, and between a third and half the Republican primary electorate keeps on voting for them, they can do it.

The Conservative party has lost potentially thousands of pounds after a wealthy backer withdrew his support in protest at David Cameron's «arrogant» old Etonian style of leadership.

So she is getting desperate to please her wealthy backers, appointing new peers just to bolster her voting capability.

The Tories were, as ever, reliant on a handful of wealthy backers.

With Skelos and Cuomo on the same page, teachers unions will no doubt continue to point to the wealthy backers of charter schools who have contributed heavily to the governor's re-election campaign as well as independent expenditure campaigns backing Republican Senate candidates last year.

The wealthy backer of charter schools has been subsidizing the Senate IDC's campaign committee, which has been financing Marisol Alcantara's Senate campaign.

They promise us a minimum wage hike that will still keep working families in poverty, a drug reform program that seeks to enforce the decriminalization law passed 40 years ago, and a so - called public campaign finance reform deal that maintains the right of politicians to still spend unlimited private money from their wealthy backers,» noted Hawkins.

Tony Blair was particularly successful in soliciting donations from wealthy backers, although that was blamed for the «cash for honours» controversy.

Reporters Matea Gold and Chris Mooney of the Washington Post published an exposé of the Heartland Institute and their wealthy backers, the Mercer family:

Rhee, like other ideologues in this overheated debate on public education, has wealthy backers, many of whom have an agenda to privatize public education.

He says AET, which does not benefit from a wealthy backer, hires out its school premises and leisure facilities to make an income stream.

Nine wealthy backers of Marshall Tuck — led by $ 1 million donations each from William Bloomfield of Manhattan Beach and Eli Broad, a longtime funder of reform efforts in Los Angeles — seeded a new independent expenditure committee with $ 4 million.

Wealthy backers of the Zone urge Canada to concentrate on the beginning end of his «conveyor belt» and stop trying to turn around Harlem's adolescents.

Urban schools have been in trouble for quite some time and to my knowledge the wealthy backers of education reformer were nothing other than sublimely uninterested.

Despite the rhetoric of wealthy backers (like hedge - fund billionaire Daniel Loeb, who just raised $ 35 million for the Success Academy charter chain), the charter industry has a mixed record of student achievement and a reputation tainted by a string of scandals — hardly a record that justifies the massive expansion.

Or, if you happen to have $ 32,000 to spare, there's a real Aprilia RSV4 SBK Special Edition Superbike, complete with custom SBK paint job, waiting for one wealthy backer.

The spectacle last week of a few Midwestern Senators making threats and holding up nominations to protect a government handout that only benefits their wealthy backers in the ethanol industry was a new low even for Congress.