Lauren Bush's FEED bags, made to support her foundation to bring food to Africa, definitively de-frumpified the notion of the charity or nonprofit tote, lifting the unbleached satchel off the arms of middle-aged people carrying fund-drive contribution giveaways onto the shoulders of the young and glamorous.
Our revolving door, campaign contribution driven political system has lost touch with the "ordinary" citizens it is supposed to serve.
Corporate watchdogs suggest another cause for concern: campaign contributions driven by corporate executives might harm the long-term interests of their shareholders.
The Berman bill will pass overwhelmingly because that is how things work in a city where policy is driven by campaign contributions — and not just on this issue.
The country's biggest retailer has adroitly used millions of dollars in campaign contributions, charity drives, lobbying campaigns, and its work for popular causes like childhood nutrition and carbon emissions to build support in Congress and the White House.
Citizens are affected every day — not just in the weeks before an election — by the decisions of their elected representatives, and have the right to know when those decisions are being driven by large campaign contributions.
Even though he all but secured the Republican nomination by mid-February, Mr. McCain has so far managed to enlist only a fraction of the heavyweight bundlers of campaign contributions who helped drive President Bush's two runs for the White House, an examination of Mr. McCain's fund-raising network shows.
The goal of the initiative, which they're calling LeadingGreen, is to drive $5 million in direct campaign contributions to pro-environment candidates in 2014.
But the history of House ethics points beyond, or below, the nation's resounding ideals to the workaday reality of a Congress driven by big-money campaign contributions and temptations toward quid pro quo sellouts.
It's part of a larger trend in state, federal and even global politics, says author Jeff Goodell, who also argues the more or less unmitigated explosion of the use of coal is driven as much by campaign contributions as its status as the world's cheapest fuel.
That would suggest that the growth in balances has largely been driven by contributions.
