Sentences with phrase «with wealthy donors»

In one story, recounted by the witness, longtime Cuomo associate Todd Howe, Mr. Cuomo mingled with wealthy donors to his campaign and listened to their concerns about their business projects with the state in front of a shiny row of colorful Corvettes lined up along a checkerboard floor at a private home outside Syracuse...

«Andrew Cuomo has made a choice, he has surrounded himself with wealthy donors, powerful corporate real estate tycoons, and Wall Street hedge fund moguls,» Nixon said.

Questions were raised about Labour's relationship with wealthy donors in 1997 when, following an announcement that a ban on cigarette advertising would include an exemption for Formula 1 racing, it was revealed that the formula 1 chief executive, Bernie Ecclestone, had earlier donated # 1 million to the Labour Party.

Desperate for funding in a world that fundamentally opposes the procedure, Xeno - Edit makes a conniving deal with a wealthy donor: They will film a television series documenting the first recipients» transplantation experiences.

Not exact matches

There are already plenty of examples of wealthy individuals attempting to advance their political agendas by supporting unaccountable lobby groups, as was the case with Calgary's infamous Sprawl Cabal «s plans to throw more than $ 1 million behind Preston Manning «s «Municipal Governance Initiative,» and the anonymous donors behind the shady «St. Albert Think Tank.»

Then again, the business of academic research endowments, especially in fields as conceptually confused as artificial intelligence or cognitive science, really is all about exploiting the credulity of wealthy foundations and corporations and private donors (sometimes with devious cynicism, sometimes in deluded innocence).

«They will cost us money and we will be competing with the Conservatives, whose wealthy donors have much deeper pockets,» he wrote.

And he cited struggles with fundraising - despite having been backed by the wealthy Ukip donor Arron Banks.

«From the pending ethics investigation against him to his decision to ignore his district in favor of his wealthy donors, people were fed up with Chris Collins and his cronies,» Zellner said.

Still, he acknowledges he's been flooded with entreaties in recent months, from fellow leaders of the city's black community as well as wealthy white donors, that he's got the best shot at spearheading a coalition to oust the embattled de Blasio.

Under the current system, only the wealthy or those with a vast network of well - heeled donors can compete.

His comments were almost certainly designed to flatter his wealthy prospective donors and so we should take them with a grain of salt.

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-.

Given the extensive powers of patronage available to the Prime Minister, with seats in the House of Lords and a range of other honours in his gift, dependence on wealthy donors can lead to obvious accusations of honours being traded for cash.

Forty - seven per cent of voters said the way the party is funded by wealthy donors is dodgy with just 12 % saying it is «clean».

The findings follow a week in which details of the party's black and white ball, where meetings with cabinet ministers were auctioned off to wealthy donors, were revealed.

«With the public's faith in Albany rapidly eroding, now is the time for Governor Cuomo to enact the Moreland Commission's number one recommendation: pass statewide public financing of elections to level the playing field between wealthy donors and working families,» Lipton said.

The firm had secured a $ 15 million investment from Robert Mercer, the wealthy Republican donor, and wooed his political adviser, Stephen K. Bannon, with the promise of tools that could identify the personalities of American voters and influence their behavior.

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.

The ethics refresher was ordered as the burgeoning federal probe into police corruption has resulted in the transfers of nine officers, including eight high - level supervisors, many of them stripped of their guns and badges, for their dealings with two wealthy Brooklyn businessmen who are also large donors to Mayor Bill de Blasio and were on his Inauguration Team.

«Of course Ben Walsh doesn't want to do that because his donor list is replete with wealthy developers who got millions of taxpayer dollar benefits from when he was (SIDA's) executive director.»

Prosecutors said Hou and Pan met a man named Richard Kong who portrayed himself as a wealthy donor willing to go along with a scheme to skirt campaign finance rules.

Long Island activists and superstorm Sandy victims on Wednesday urged Republican Senate and Assembly candidates to reject political contributions from wealthy donors with ties to the fossil fuel industry.

He's made passing references to «wealthy donors» three times in his past five addresses, but goes all - in with that line of reasoning this time around: we have contribution limits to make sure elections «are not captured by wealthy public interests,» he says; «wealthy individuals and corporations are able to use Limited Liability Companies» to avoid these limits, so reform is needed «to even the playing field so that rich and poor New Yorkers alike have their voices heard.»

The current system is set up as a farce, with a lot of phony «community charity» organizations being set up as phony grass - roots organizations when they are actually conduits for corporate and wealthy donors.

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.

The document doesn't lay out the individual donors to the wealthy group aligned with Cuomo's fiscal agenda, but it does show just how well - funded the coalition is.

Although incumbents tend to have a leg up in fundraising, the Campaign Finance Board's public matching funds program ensures that first - time candidates and those with little access to wealthy donors can run serious campaigns by matching small dollar donations at a 6 - to - 1 ratio up to a certain amount.

Especially now: The current crop of Republican Senate challengers is hoping the new avenues opened up by the Citizens United decision will help separate them from the shoestring New York Republican campaigns of the past and help them keep up with the better - established candidate, in the same way that a few wealthy donors have managed to keep alive the under - funded presidential ambitions of Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich.

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.

The Turnbull Government has called for Labor senator Sam Dastyari to be hauled before the powerful privileges committee to further explain his relationship with a wealthy Chinese political donor.

Two wealthy donors have each given him # 50,000, sparking accusations within the party that the former foreign secretary is deploying far more staff than his rivals and is in danger of «buying the election» with «Blairite» support.

Reliance on dirty money — be it from the unions or wealthy donors with interests that need protecting — isn't helping either Labour or the Tories win over more support.

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

The program, meant to help candidates compete without raising money just from wealthy donors, matches donations under $ 175 from New York City voters six - to - one, so that a $ 10 contribution is matched with $ 60.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Prosecutors said Tuesday that in the midst of a fundraising drive for mayoral candidate John Liu, two of his aides met a man named Richard Kong who portrayed himself as a wealthy donor willing to go along with a scheme to skirt campaign finance rules.

The Bronx Beep also has strengthened his ties with officials in the city's charter - school movement, many of whom have ties to wealthy donors who could back a future citywide campaign.

One advantage for Mr. Romney is his success with very wealthy donors who can afford to contribute the maximum contribution of $ 78,800.

Clegg also offered his background as a civil rights attorney and a volunteer with Habitat for Humanity against Faso's history of being a lobbyist for the «wealthy donor class.»

In most cases, wealthy outside donors are supporting reform - minded school board candidates who are competing with candidates backed by teacher unions, said Sarah Reckhow, MSU assistant professor of political science and lead author on the study.

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.

Based on the first thorough study of the archival records, this essay reveals that the campaign established novel features of university fundraising through contentious negotiations among conflicting groups, prompted the university administration to centralize and control alumni affairs and development efforts for the first time, and, above all, introduced today's ubiquitous episodic pattern of continuous fundraising, in which mass comprehensive campaigns alternate with discrete solicitations of wealthy donors, whose dominant roles have never changed.

The privatization agenda was birthed by segregationists in the 1950s, but it was kept alive in subsequent decades by Milton Friedman and sustained by wealthy conservative donors (and the infrastructure built with their dollars).

In the run - up to the May 16 board election, the union United Teachers Los Angeles issued news releases that lumped the charter - backed candidates and wealthy donors together with the Trump administration.

Unless our citizenry elects some leaders with principles, who actually care about our public institutions rather than wealthy donors, things are looking grim for the over 95 percent of Connecticut's children who attend our public schools.

«The 51 - to - 50 vote elevates Ms. DeVos — a wealthy donor from Michigan who has devoted much of her life to expanding educational choice through charter schools and vouchers, but has limited experience with the public school system — to be steward of the nation's schools.

Wealthy donors sensitive to animal causes, foundations that give yearly grants — these, along with other sources, are imperative to success.

I sympathize with those who found «Skin Fruit,» a museum's sell - out to Jeff Koons and a wealthy donor's collection, a greater annoyance, but one could safely make fun of it.