Sentences with phrase «wealthy donors like»

The decision empowered hugely wealthy donors like the oil billionaire Koch brothers seeking to shape politics in America.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Some wealthy donors are approached in a more personal way, like being invited to meet for dinner to hear about a particular fundraising effort.

But many of our donors are old, wealthy, white people and they have a certain idea of what godliness looks like,» Bournes said.

Like her husband before her, Clinton is trying to forge a new consensus and is unashamed to pile up policy proposals: on family leave, child care, college affordability, incentives to employers for higher wages, immigration reform, clean energy and limits on the power of wealthy campaign 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.

Though the original email suggested that Romney and Republican elites were the target (it included lines like «we need a bold Reagan conservative to debate Obama» and «this campaign is going to continue to rely on millions of patriots from across the country rather than just a handful of wealthy donors and bundlers»), a subsequent message focused on the incumbent:

He could appeal to white ethnics in swing states, or rally the social liberals who admire him for having been out ahead of his party (and his president) on same - sex marriage, or perhaps headline a few fund - raisers with the wealthy New York donors who have stocked his own campaign coffers and funded the super PAC - like group dedicated to running pro-Cuomo advertising.

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.

Wealthy contributors helping their favored candidates win elections would not systemically skew politics or policy outcomes if these well - heeled donors were like the rest of us, if on average they had the same life experiences, opinions about issues, and political views as average - earning citizens.

Republicans at both the state and national levels would LOVE to cap the awards in medical malpractice suits — to protect their wealthy donors (like doctors and HANYS).

Yesterday, the Albany Times - Union criticized the Board of Elections» decision to not enforce the state's aggregate contribution limit, saying it would allow a single wealthy donor to «pour millions of dollars into an election like this fall's, when every state office will be up for grabs.»

Like other wealthy campaign donors, Mr. Litwin circumvented contribution limits by funneling many smaller gifts through dozens of limited liability companies he controlled.

Another one is a control freak running for Congress who treats Montana like a prop at dinner with two wealthy donors.

There's nothing like a mid-summer «scandal» to get the education press buzzing, and there's little doubt that the media will continue to have a field day with revelations that Tony Bennett worked to change Indiana's A — F grading system after learning that a high - performing school started by a wealthy donor would receive a mediocre C.

-- major funding from AFT), who together launched a website calling DFER and its supporters «Democrats in name only,» while insinuating that the organization is a kind of political Trojan Horse backed by wealthy GOP donors like the Koch Brothers and Betsy DeVos.

And the club's Super PAC disclosures show that its wealthy donors include some heavily invested in the fossil fuel industry and connected to the Koch brothers, like hedge fund manager Paul Singer of Elliott Management, and Quantum Energy, a Houston private equity and venture capital firm specializing in oil and gas.

Both large agricultural firms and wealthy, leftist political donors, such as the likes of Gore and Soros, need the huge subsidies to make their biofuel investments profitable.