Sentences with phrase «where campaign contributions»

The outcome of the special election will sway where campaign contributions flow.

Not exact matches

A less well - known variety of crowdfunding is where an investor seeks financial return from his or her contribution to a campaign.

He donated $ 3 million last month to the University of Texas where he played and matched Colin Kaepernick's $ 10,000 in the quarterback's «10 for 10» campaign, Durant's contributions helping a local organization doing community - based justice work.

Maddy was proud of her contributions, and to ensure continuity after she graduated, Maddy co-founded a school club where students could hang out, learn about ways to reduce stress, and get involved in CS projects, including a sleep campaign.

«(Tkaczyk's) campaign proved that New Yorkers are tired of the corrupting influence of big money on politics, where major campaign contributions grease the wheels to special access and preferred legislative outcomes for a select few.»

De Blasio bristled at the prospect of being called to the stand during the Mangano corruption trial, where he would grilled about his relationship with Harendra Singh, an ex-restaurant owner who has said in court that he bribed de Blasio with campaign contributions.

By contrast, in New York City, where profound reforms were implemented in 1989, the Campaign Finance Board imposed 128 penalties on 31 candidates that accepted contributions above the legal limit.

He said: «The Leave campaign promised a rosy economic future where everything could be paid for from our EU contribution.

Naparstek, who also founded the influential Streetsblog.org, will remain on Reinvent Albany's board where he will continue pushing for reforms like an end to outside income for state legislators, restrictions on the use of campaign contributions for personal use, and closing loopholes which foster corruption by allowing people who do business with the state to make enormous campaign contributions.

The Assembly's LLC loophole closing legislation (A. 1926, Kavanagh), which has passed every year since 2015, would eliminate a provision in the current law that allows LLCs to make campaign contributions as individuals, ending the practice where one person or a corporation owns multiple LLCs that are used to funnel donations to a single candidate or committee.

«This write in candidate who claims to be running on campaign finance reform took close to half of his contributions from lawyers and was the only candidate not considered qualified by the New York Bar Association in the race he lost for DA last month in Brooklyn, where he lives,» the campaign said.

Cuomo «threw up his hands and claimed there was nothing he could do» when he failed to win Legislative limits on New York's notoriously high campaign contribution amounts, the paper said, adding, «Where was the energy and determination he showed on marriage rights and guns?

The groups said there should be stricter laws against pay to play, where companies with business before government, or in competition for state contracts, would be restricted from giving large campaign contributions to politicians.

Sue Lerner, with Common Cause, says currently most contributions for campaigns for statewide offices, as well as the Senate and Assembly, come from a limited number of zip codes, many from the area right around the Capitol, where major lobbying and other interest groups have their offices, as well as the Upper East and West Sides of Manhattan, and Wall Street, and «not from the actual voters».

Where the rescue money came from is unclear — but as the Electoral Commission probes the sources of the Leave donor's campaign contributions, a group of accountants who specialise in offshore «wealth preservation» may hold the key.

But then, he's got bigger troubles: He's awaiting trial on separate corruption charges in Manhattan federal court, where he's charged with illegally using a nonprofit group — one that he had supported with taxpayer contributions as a City Council member — in his political campaigns.

He's been in office a short time, let's dump the ones in both parties that have assumed lifetime tenure and have done nothing but cash their campaign contribution checks and helped to build a public sector dictatorship where there are no private sector jobs.

Around him were remnants of a fund - raiser - turned - party, where about 40 former students had celebrated his unlikely campaign for lieutenant governor with small contributions and champagne, popped and toasted, «Wu 2014.»

WOH Government Solutions, the firm that lobbyist Todd Howe ran, provided an in - kind contribution to Cuomo's campaign by paying $ 913 to the Fort Orange Club, where the fundraiser was held the evening of Dec. 14.

In a year without a supervisor's race and with many incumbents in Southold seeking re-election, contribution rates differ greatly from neighboring Riverhead Town, where campaign cash raised for a single candidate rivals that of both Southold committees.

We hear the city Department of Investigation and new Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. is picking up where Bob Morgenthau left off, looking at a big - time developer who may have spread more than hefty campaign contributions around the Bronx.

In another instance where Halloran allegedly accepted illegal campaign contributions and agreed to steer taxpayer money to a fake company, he raised his glass with a man secretly working for the FBI, who said, «Pleasure doing business with you.»

Campaign finance reform is currently a hot button issue in the New York State Legislature where a bill to close the LLC loophole, which allows unlimited campaign contributions to individuals and parties through multiple LLCs, has languished in the stateCampaign finance reform is currently a hot button issue in the New York State Legislature where a bill to close the LLC loophole, which allows unlimited campaign contributions to individuals and parties through multiple LLCs, has languished in the statecampaign contributions to individuals and parties through multiple LLCs, has languished in the state Senate.

In Louisiana, where policymakers were considering proposals to make drug prices clearer to consumers, PhRMA gave campaign contributions directly to scores of state legislators last year.

And anyway, where are the campaign contributions from lower - class black America?

To celebrate the announcement of the Super Troopers 2 campaign, Broken Lizard made a hysterical, bawdy video (watch it above) where the cops pull over Rodney Farva (Kevin Heffernan) and demand that he make a contribution for running a stop sign.

One benefit of pursuing education reform through the judiciary is that the power of special interest groups — namely, the teachers» unions — is drastically diminished in courtrooms, where political lobbying and campaign contributions are far less influential.

In a campaign where cash contributions have become especially hard to come by, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has offered up a $ 1 million donation on behalf of state Sen. Gloria Romero's bid to become state schools chief.

making illegal campaign contributions as the head of a Private College where very few students actually graduated, yet they were enticed to enroll and take out huge student loans with promises of high paying jobs in the Medical Field!

But will this phenomenal streak come to an end in Detroit, where Spence is currently defending Jack Kevorkian lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger against charges that he violated campaign finance laws with illegal contributions to John Edward's 2004 presidential campaign?

SB 440 Provides rebuttable presumption of judicial recusal where party, attorney, or law firm in case gave 25 % of all contributions to judge's campaign.

A trio of professors teamed up to assess demographic data — including where lawyers work, where they went to school, what field they practice in, and campaign contributions — to map -LSB-...]

Still, if you think that this article will result in reforms, such as mandatory recusals in cases where judges have taken campaign contributions, or replacing judicial elections with appointment, think again.

Inc., the United Supreme Court required a West Virginia Supreme Court Justice's recusal where that Justice had received $ 3 million in campaign contributions from Massey Coal's CEO and then ruled favorably for Massey Coal in overturning a $ 50 million damage award against the company.

Campaign contributions muddy the waters, and where mud exists, mud - slinging is sure to follow.