Sentences with phrase «when big donors»

Without public funding, however, candidates will go back to the days when big donors called the shots.

In a tense exchange with reporters in September 2015, Cuomo was asked by reporters about potential problems created when big donors are awarded large contracts.

Not exact matches

lmao sure tell that the the hormone driven teens of the world... you can only have woopie if your going to marry, marriage will go through the roof... but so will divorce and lawyers will love that mentality because child custody battles make them loads of money and let's not forget the physcologist / phychiatrists that will make big money having to help all these emotionally damaged adults that were dragged through custody battles due to the fact their genetic donors procreated when it was the best time for them.

Similarly when you see an elected official renege on a promise it is most likely in the favor of the big donors.

And she believes it saves money when you take into account what she says is the indirect costs to taxpayers from the present big money donor system.

For example, when commission investigators sought to review political donations and communications by the Real Estate Board of New York — a trade group whose members include some of Cuomo's biggest donors — in an effort to connect the dots on a valuable housing tax break, the governor's secretary reportedly instructed commissioners not to subpoena the organization.

Almost as if those big donors were expecting something more than just a warm glow when they made those big donations.

When Gov. Andrew Cuomo had to get to Utah for the debut of his longtime girlfriend Sandra Lee's new documentary on her battle with breast cancer, he hopped on a private plane owned by his big campaign donors, billionaire hedge fund manager Barry Rosenstein and his wife, Lizanne

Phony John Francisco can say «too bad» because he strong armed a lot of big donors when heading up the Finance Committee and because he had a district drawn that means we are virtually stuck with him.

De Blasio had another memory lapse when grilled yesterday about damning testimony from a big bucks donor, saying he doesn't remember whether he personally asked the man for a six - figure check.

Among his 142 Twitter followers (when we wrote about them last year) were the biggest Brexit donor Arron Banks and his spokesperson Andy Wigmore.

The PAC is using a pollster and political consultant, Doug Schoen and Bradley Tusk, connected to former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, once the Senate Republicans» biggest individual donor and a charter school champion when he was in office.

Hedge funder Simons, whose money to the state Democrats made him the third - largest donor of the 2014 election cycle, arguably had his biggest influence on state politics when he made a $ 150 million donation to Stony Brook University contingent on the Legislature agreeing to a SUNY - wide raising of tuition.

The work gets exciting when we see how the reports and information help our team and donors see the big picture of how beneficial their gift is.

See which of Canada's 100 biggest charities are best - in - class when it comes to spending donor money wisely.