| An independent candidate also has to obtain an additional 20 backers from the two parliamentary houses or local councils. |
| When they approached their angel backers for more money, the investors balked. |
| This has always been an unlikely, one-time shot by Dr Brash and his supporters and backers. |
| But in the desperate search for publicity, money and television interest, his agents and backers are trying to make him run before he can walk. |
| She is struggling to frame herself as being different from her minority party backers by hopping into welfare mums. |
| Her firm support for the tracking program has divided some of her most ardent backers. |
