bankroller

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But they’re the easiest to hit up by voters — and in this case also by a special interest: ride-hailing Lyft, the initiative’s big bankroller.

From Los Angeles Times

It would raise state income taxes on the richest Californians, mainly to help motorists buy electric vehicles — including drivers for ride-hailing Lyft, the measure’s big bankroller.

From Los Angeles Times

Ride-hailing Lyft is the big bankroller of Proposition 30, investing about $35 million in the measure so far.

From Los Angeles Times

Lyft has been Proposition 30’s bankroller, kicking in nearly $16 million so far.

From Los Angeles Times

The jab underscored an unusual and consequential feature of the nation’s new digital public square: Technological change and the fortunes it created have given a vanishingly small club of massively wealthy individuals the ability to play arbiter, moderator and bankroller of not only the information that feeds the nation’s discourse but also the architecture that undergirds it.

From Washington Post