Sentence examples for contributing to candidates from inspiring English sources

Last week, at a Senate hearing about voting, Mr. Martinez called for an industrywide stance preventing all voting machine company executives from endorsing, assisting or contributing to candidates, political parties or political organizations.

In 1907, as corporations reached new heights of wealth and power, Congress made its views of the relationship between corporations and campaigning clear: It banned them from contributing to candidates.

The city's Campaign Finance Board also determined that a majority of those contributing to candidates in the city's 2009 elections were first-time contributors, more than 80 percent of whom gave less than $175.

Citizens may be contributing to candidates with their checkbooks, but the real value is the buying, selling and trading of their personal data.

As a company that held contracts worth more than $100,000 with the city, Psomas was barred from contributing to candidates for city office under a campaign finance law that Garcetti himself wrote as a councilman.

The program has already enabled a large number of people who would otherwise be incapable of affording political donations, including homeless people, to participate in the political process by contributing to candidates.

Many corporations, in fact, contribute to candidates and even more to political parties as such "soft money" contributions are subject to fewer regulations.

Examining the special interests that contribute to candidates.

(A News Corporation subsidiary also contributed to candidates).

Money can be given to charities, contributed to candidates or transferred to political parties.

Mr. Hogan, a trial lawyer, said he would contribute to candidates but could no longer stomach helping the committee.