Sentences with phrase «wealthy supporters of»

The main reason it won't happen is that wealthy supporters of politicians will complain, and many politicians are wealthy themselves.

(Calif.) Wealthy supporters of charter schools have never been slow to put up big dollars backing candidates or ballot measures they believe will help the movement.

Over the course of her public life, Clinton has received backing from wealthy supporters of charter schools, including Eli Broad, the Los Angeles billionaire; and Alice Walton, a primary shareholder Wal - Mart.

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.

Two independent expenditure committees funded in part by wealthy supporters of charter schools are wrapping their spending sprees on Senate Republican candidates with large ad purhcases in two state Senate races upstate.

Mehlman and other wealthy supporters of same - sex marriage would ultimately form a political action committee to help GOP supporters of same - sex marriage in New York primaries, an off - shoot of a national effort.

The independent expenditure spending over the last month has been largely dominated by the usual players: Committees funded by real estate or wealthy supporters of charter school expansion.

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.

He has accepted significant contributions from Ravenel Boykin Curry, a wealthy supporter of education reform and trustee of Girls Prep charter school, which made the news in 2010 when Joel Klein used emergency powers to displace the public school program for autistic children with which Girls Prep was co-located.

Its backers include some of the wealthiest supporters of privatization.

Not exact matches

The trial made embarrassing national headlines for the once - rising Democratic star, who was accused of seeking more than $ 900,000 from two wealthy supporters to conceal his pregnant mistress, Rielle Hunter, from voters during his unsuccessful run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.

The club should be controlled by its supporters, for its supporters, with its central mission of being a successful football team, rather than making wealthy foreign businessmen even richer.

Mitt led a 3 - day confab of wealthy supporters in Utah, the Mormon controlled state.Condi Rice attended.Why?Could she be the game - changer?

No doubt true — the real money arrives in large chunks at fundraisers and through networks of wealthy supporters.

Three weeks after Donald Trump was elected president, a data company owned by one of his wealthiest supporters began cashing in.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who has been a long time supporter of raising taxes on the wealthy, says he's pleased with the agreement.

Supporters of the de Blasio approach want a «dedicated funding stream» — which for now includes a tax on the wealthy in New York City.

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.

In front of a small crowd of supporters and Syracuse University students, congressional candidate Steve Williams said the United States is becoming an oligarchy — more controlled by a small group of wealthy elites.

His campaign attracted criticism when he joked that the election was «a simple choice between good and evil», [302] and when he was accused of anti-semitism by Jewish Labour supporters for suggesting that being largely wealthy, the Jewish community would not vote for him.

The list was made up of wealthy businessmen and included a large number of TPA supporters, as recorded on the BBC Politics Show website.

The coalition is also organizing supporters to make calls in these districts, urging voters to call their respective senators and urge them to support extending the temporary PIT hike on the state's wealthiest New Yorkers rather than voting in favor of budget cuts.

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.

He certainly wants to bring in primaries, opening the door to a US system with expensive contests manipulated by wealthy donors; and undermining a democratic membership party in favour of an amorphous mass of largely passive supporters.

State Conservative Chairman Michael Long, a Lazio supporter, described the nomination as the end of a combative phase in his relationship with Paladino, a wealthy Buffalo developer whose win in the Republican primary shocked many members of the GOP establishment.

Two years before helping Donald Trump target prospective 2016 supporters, the now - embattled data firm Cambridge Analytica tested its tools with an array of conservative groups allied with the wealthy Mercer family, including a super PAC run by newly appointed national security adviser John Bolton.

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.»

Some of Foley's wealthy supporters are said to be preparing to do the same for him when the moment arrives.

Mr. Cuomo is planning an aggressive fundraising schedule through the end of the year as potential gubernatorial candidates — including a wealthy Republican businessman and a Democratic former Sex and the City star — weigh challenging him in 2018, according to an advisory his campaign sent supporters that was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

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.

Tkaczyk was a supporter of making it easier for grassroots candidates to run for office and not be beholden to the wealthy, so in that case Soros weighs in on her behalf, and that helped tip the balance.»

Right now Republicans are in danger of being shut out of that general election thanks to Cox and state legislator Travis Allen splitting the GOP vote, even as Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom steadily leads the field and fellow Democrat and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa surfs a wave of TV ads paid for by wealthy charter school supporters.

But earlier this fall, it emerged that some of the people listed as donors to his campaign hadn't actually given to him, and that their names had been deployed so that wealthy Liu supporters could skirt the rules that limited them from giving too much.

If union supporters carry the day, the world's wealthiest university will become home to the newest chapter of the United Auto Workers (UAW), marking one of the first instances of a private university being forced to accept a union of students against its will.

The media mogul, who pulled herself up from poverty to become one of the wealthiest women in the world, might be one of the biggest celebrity supporters of affirmations.

Supporters raised more than ever before, mostly from a handful of wealthy individuals, and had a 10:1 financial edge.

Try to get a charter approved that offers the poor (and everyone else) the kind of education the wealthy commonly access in private schools, and watch the usual charter supporters fade away.

Hired by some of the country's wealthiest citizens in America's Gilded Age, members of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency infiltrated unions, protected strikebreakers, and worked to keep union supporters out of plants and mines.

-- 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.

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.

This lack of trust is reinforced when public officials cozy up to wealthy hedge fund operators, venture philanthropists, and school privatizers, take their marching orders from astroturf advocacy groups, or «rent» supporters, as recently happened during school closing hearings in Chicago.

Supporters — including most Republicans, a handful of Democrats, a wealthy Oregon businessman behind a national network of charters and an ALEC - affiliated, right - wing outfit — call it an «innovative» solution to the plight of chronically underperforming schools.

Loeb is one of the nation's wealthiest charter school supporters, and sits on the board of the Success Academy Schools in New York City.

Another key person was Peggy Guggenheim, a wealthy art collector who was to become one of Pollock's early supporters and promoters of his work.

Thomas Fahr «Tom» Steyer is an American hedge fund manager and philanthropist who is among the world's wealthiest and largest supporters of radical environmental groups, left - wing causes, and Democratic candidates.

Thomas Fahr «Tom» Steyer is an American hedge fund manager and philanthropist who is among the world's wealthiest and largest supporters of radical environmental groups,...

Thomas Fahr «Tom» Steyer is an American hedge fund manager and philanthropist who is among the world's wealthiest and largest supporters of radical environmental groups, left - wing causes, and Democratic...

It already is the structure that ABS supporters want to bring to the legal profession — a much smaller number of much wealthier owners with a badly hollowed out middle.