Sentence examples for corrupt campaign from inspiring English sources

The fat cats came to symbolize what many Americans regard as a deeply corrupt campaign finance system riddled with loopholes.

Absent only the filibuster — even while leaving untouched all the other monkey wrenches (committee chairs, corrupt campaign money, safe districts, Republicans, etc).

The Greens have a strong argument that a vote for a Democrat, even a liberal Democrat, validates a corrupt campaign finance system.

"Her super PAC, part of the corrupt campaign finance system in this country, has taken, we found out last night, altogether $15m from Wall Street," Michael Briggs, a spokesman, told The Independent.

Still, his administration has been accused of nepotism and cronyism over the hiring of children of senior officials and an unqualified campaign supporter.In the past the mayor has denied running a corrupt campaign, claiming ignorance of his aides' misdeeds.

Here are a few of Mr. Paterson's best ideas: To clean up one of the nation's most notoriously corrupt campaign finance systems, he proposes encouraging much-needed competition by phasing in public financing of campaigns.

The reason was a corrupt campaign-finance system, he said, and super PACs, and hundreds of millions of dollars in pharmaceutical lobbying.

"What the American people have said," Sanders said last night, not just declaring a victory, of sorts, but trying to sum it up, "is we can no longer continue to have a corrupt campaign-finance system".

Sanders is addressing indisputably valid concerns about money and politics when he talks, as he did in Santa Monica, about "a corrupt campaign-finance system," and when he says that "democracy is not about billionaires buying elections".

The timing of the dinner so close to the House debate was not lost on groups that have advocated change in what they describe as a corrupt campaign-finance system.

Watt said the laws that "protect against corrupt campaigning practices" needed to be imposed.