Sentences with phrase «wealthy donors paid»

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.

Not exact matches

«Pay - to - play contracts and favors for his wealthy donors.

The leaked YouTube video shows Romney speaking to a group of wealthy donors suggesting that nearly half the country doesn't pay federal income taxes and relies on government assistance.

Given the events of the last two weeks, I imagine Republican donors are less concerned with the polling numbers and more concerned with the impression the Republican campaign is giving of being completely inept, particularly in light of the revelation that Romney's staffers are paid more to achieve less than their Democrat counterparts (though Rachel Maddow shared an amusing story this week suggesting that wealthy Republicans had no problem throwing money at a sinking ship [skip to the 2 minute mark]-RRB-.

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!

Sen. Liz Krueger, whose Upper East Side Senate district is one of the wealthiest in New York, has teamed up with Democratic donor / New Roosevelt Initiative founder Bill Samuels to propose using cash generated by the proposed casino expansion to pay for a publicly - funded campaign system.

Let's be clear about what the Congressional Republican tax plan really is: It is Washington's culture of soft - corruption at its worst - nothing more than paying back wealthy donors and lobbyists through corporate welfare, at the expense of the middle class.

Mayor Bill de Blasio signaled Friday he's going to significantly shift his fundraising strategy as he readies his 2017 re-election campaign, focusing on raising small amounts of money from a wide group of donors rather than relying heavily on wealthy donors who can pay the maximum amount to his campaign.

Astorino's campaign attributed Cuomo's fund - raising advantage with wealthier Republican donors to Albany's «pay - to - play» culture.

And today several newspapers have published letters from the time in which Mr Hague gives assurances that the wealthy Tory donor would start paying UK tax.

Many supporters of federalism and a return to local control of education also argue cronyism infiltrates public education when wealthy private donors pour much - desired dollars into public projects, demanding attention paid to their pet projects.

Funding mechanisms, by which wealthy countries pay developing countries to maintain their forest cover, such as REDD + (short for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries), could also give donors the «soft power» to push for improved governance of industrial agriculture, he said.