Sentences with phrase «wealthy donors»

Now it looks like he's building up a base — potentially for some future move — aided by the fact that the bulk of wealthy donors live in his county.

Considering the trouble and scrutiny this practice brings, you'd think politicians might think twice before accepting plane rides from wealthy donors.

Independent expenditure committees backed by wealthy donors who support education reforms and charter schools sought to be major players in a range of Democratic primary campaigns.

The only avenue left for an alternative to campaigns funded by wealthy donors, she says, is a voluntary publicly funded matching donor system.

The involvement of large wealthy donors in local schools is influencing who gets elected to govern on school boards.

A few wealthy donors dominated the leave and remain campaigns.

The measure would help wealthy donors who want to contribute to private schools and charter schools.

Certainly not the middle or working classes and more like his super wealthy donor friends who have so much money they don't care about tax rates.

And wealthy donors thought it could make a difference — that's why they donated those hundreds of thousands of pounds.

There is still a lack of support from foundations, corporations, and wealthy donors toward this end.

I believe that the board and administrators can find wealthy donors and other ways to pay off their expensive new building.

But it had plenty of money left over from wealthy donors.

Where are the front page headlines about government policy being decided by wealthy donors?

This scheme will use taxpayer money in the form of tax credits for corporations and wealthy donors who make contributions to state - sponsored voucher scholarship programs.

Questions were raised about Labour's relationship with wealthy donors in 1997 when, following an announcement that a ban on cigarette advertising would include an exemption for Formula 1 racing, it was revealed that the formula 1 chief executive, Bernie Ecclestone, had earlier donated # 1 million to the Labour Party.

This is being done for wealthy donors not WNY constituents.

But White House officials defended the president's tweet, arguing that the intention was not to launch a sexist broadside but to underscore that Gillibrand was a «swamp» politician who relied on wealthy donors like Trump to get where she is today.

Cuomo appears to have given up on the state Legislature taking action to close the notorious LLC loophole, which allows wealthy donors to subvert campaign finance laws by creating multiple limited liability corporations that can each give more than $ 60,000 to a candidate's campaign.

Well, apart from frustrating both my opportunity for an unmediated first experience of the work and my consumer - advocate responsibility to see the exhibition as all visitors see it, it assumed something I find troubling: that, as one of the anointed (I also observed wealthy donors getting the same treatment a few days later), I somehow «deserved» access to information denied to the rest of the audience.

Field organizing has been a top priority this year of Americans for Prosperity, the conservative advocacy group backed by the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch and other wealthy donors.

But I would warmly endorse a larger cut in inocme tax for those undr $ 60K with a corresponding increase to the very wealthy donor class that pays you to lie on their behalf — after all — those are the people who primarily benefitted from the Ryan / Rump tax cuts for donors!

The video reveals how the entire scheme was sketched out by green activists and trial attorneys in 2012, funded by wealthy donors including various Rockefeller interests.

The mobilizing began in late June and early July, when wealthy donors like hedge fund managers Paul Tudor Jones and Daniel Loeb, Wal - Mart heirs Jim and Alice Walton, and financier Roger Hertog donated heavily to committees backed by education reform groups.

At a time when many wealthy donors attempt to fix U.S. education by funding charter schools, advocacy and political candidates, Mr. Weiss, who is 74 years old, seeks change in the regular public system.

It allegedly funneled money from wealthy donors into de Blasio's campaign coffers.

Next time you're on campus, count the number of plaques that name buildings, wings, theatres and classrooms after wealthy donors and corporations.

«Talking before wealthy donors at ritzy schools, those are good times for the governor, rather than doing the people's work in Albany,» Kaehny said.

One advantage for Mr. Romney is his success with very wealthy donors who can afford to contribute the maximum contribution of $ 78,800.

«With thousands of activists joining over a hundred house parties, we took a big first step tonight towards building a people - powered campaign to transform New York into a state that leaves no one behind — a state that includes all of us, not just wealthy donors and their lobbyists,» Lipton said.

The mobilizing began in late June and early July, when wealthy donors like hedge fund managers Paul Tudor Jones and Daniel Loeb, Wal - Mart heirs Jim and Alice Walton, and financier Roger Hertog donated heavily to committees backed by education reform groups.

«They will cost us money and we will be competing with the Conservatives, whose wealthy donors have much deeper pockets,» he wrote.

«They can start by enacting the Moreland Commission's number one recommendation: passing statewide public financing of elections to level the playing field between wealthy donors and working families.»

More insidious still is the ethos this fosters: a polite, inoffensive, undemanding demeanor, eager to impress but not inclined to disrupt and thus safe to display among wealthy donors.

New York City Campaign Finance Board officials said Friday that they plan to review the testimony of wealthy donor Jona Rechnitz, in light of his revelations that he had «a...

That nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York, allowed the mayor to avoid campaign finance restrictions, where wealthy donors gave to the tune of $ 3 million.

The House Intelligence Committee report released on Friday contained a new bombshell: after the 2016 election, wealthy donors paid a former Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D - CA) staffer $ 50 million to continue «exposing» Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

They point to the role that outside spending by a handful of millionaires played in the Republican presidential primaries by helping to keep Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich in the race, and wealthy donors also seem to have made a difference in Dick Lugar's recent downfall.

Nicholas Confessore of the New York Times joined Hayes and Teachout, to explain the intricate network of undisclosed wealthy donors seeking to influence American elections.

Scharff argues it's a way to ensure that not only wealthy donors have an impact, and she says the climate in New York is right to enact it.

Cuomo has been campaigning for an education tax credit to benefit wealthy donors who want to give money to private school scholarships and enhanced programs at public schools.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Donald Trump says he is only asking wealthy donors for their money because the Republican National Committee wants him to.

While such rhetoric stirs enthusiasm on the left, she risks irking wealthy donors, including her backers on Wall Street.

The group of wealthy donors see giving more funds to the presidential candidate as politically fruitless as Romney continues to trail President Obama in polls, and might prefer to allocate their resources to House and Senate candidates.

As TIME reports in a new story in the upcoming issue of the magazine, Cruz is trying to ride the power of the pews — and the checkbooks of a cadre of extremely wealthy donors — to the Republican presidential nomination.

«British Columbians gave Christy Clark a chance to protect our coast and she chose to put wealthy donors before the well - being of local communities, First Nations and our coastal environment.»