Mr. Bloomberg, a billionaire who financed his own campaigns, did not take contributions from labor.
It's bad enough that those in our executive and legislative branches can take contributions from people who have business before them to finance elections quarterbacked by spinmeisters and filled with phony attack ads.
And she infuriated many liberals last year when she told an audience at the Yearly Kos convention of bloggers that she would continue to take contributions from lobbyists because they "represent real Americans".
Mr. Cuomo said that it was all right for him to take contributions from companies that do business with the state because he is not in a position to do anything for them.
In the call, Mr. Edwards said that beyond trade, he would draw attention to other differences between the rivals, including "the fact that I don't take contributions from Washington lobbyists".
He observes that Mr. Gore continued "to take contributions from cigarette manufacturers and grew tobacco" on his Tennessee farm for seven years after his beloved sister, Nancy, died of lung cancer, though he would later memorialize her at the 1996 Democratic convention as a victim of the cigarette industry.
K. MADHAVA SARMA Nairobi, Kenya SIR: Does Drayton's group, Ashoka, take contributions from the public?
Going forward, the Kendo UI team will also take contributions from the community, and it has already set up a GitHub repository for taking suggestions and filing bugs.
The SDL Consortium will host its code on GitHub and will take contributions from anybody (though the technical committee will then evaluate all those changes before accepting new code, of course).
He also refused to take contributions from registered lobbyists or political action committees.
