One start-up his firm has decided to back recently received five competing financing proposals, he said.
The bankruptcy judge, Kevin Gross, said at a telephone hearing that a July 20 hearing on competing financing proposals for the team — one favored by the Dodgers and another by M.L.B. — should not become a "trial of the commissioner," according to Reuters.
Ultimately, that means it can pass on savings to consumers in the form of lower interest rates than competing financing options.
And one of Mr. McCain's closest friends in the Senate, Chuck Hagel, Republican of Nebraska, has already introduced his own competing campaign finance measure along with Senator Mary L. Landrieu, Democrat of Louisiana.
"After we sold the company to Google and they shut it down, we left those questions to Twitter, and they did a great job of answering them," said Mr. Crowley, who went on to create Foursquare, which Silicon Valley venture capitalists are competing to finance.
Both sides in the long, contentious debate over how to regulate campaign fund-raising now predict that the bill has enough support to emerge victorious from a byzantine voting process that pits their proposal against 11 competing campaign finance plans and numerous efforts to add amendments.
And both rates are higher than the Las Vegas Convention Center, at 25 cents -- or almost any competing publicly financed center in the country.
The advocacy groups find themselves competing for financing against the very cultural organizations they were created to support, which in turn can no longer afford the dues required by some of the groups that advocate for them.
PAGE B9 Arts ARTS ADVOCACY GROUPS START TO FEEL THE PINCH Groups that advocate for the arts find themselves competing for financing against the very cultural organizations they were created to support, which in turn can no longer afford the dues required by some of the groups that advocate for them.
