"It sends a message to political donors that this is a serious operation."

One major priority should be ending pay to play, in which political donors are awarded city contracts.

Calls from political donors to elected officials have been rebuffed.

Among other provisions, the legislation would require public disclosure of political donors that give $10,000 or more.

A major political donor, his greatest concern is to protect Israel.

He lost the race by 56% to 44% and returned to the private sector, but has remained active as a Republican political donor.

This allows companies to deny they are political donors.

The guest list included dozens of the city's most influential power brokers and political donors.

Nevertheless, due to federal investigation into some of his political donors, he withdrew himself from the nomination on January 4, 2009.

The fund was controlled by a top political donor, the Fisher real estate family.