Numerous senior sources inside the Republican Party hierarchy tell Rockland Voice that many of the petitions collected for Clarkstown Republican
Committee positions handed in by Legislator Sparaco have discrepancies of such a serious nature that they are being reviewed and have been referred to the Rockland County D.A. and the U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of New York for examination.
Not exact matches
City Councilman Rory Lancman (D - Hillcrest) came up empty -
handed when the Council speaker was doling out
committee chairmanships last week, but the Queens Democratic Party loyalist did get a seat on all three public safety
committees, a vantage point he said puts him in a unique
position to ensure the city's safety.
In the scathing 68 - page report, Mr. Lopez — who was stripped of his powerful
committee chairmanship and his
position atop the Brooklyn Democratic Party after sexual harassment allegations first surfaced last year — engaged in such acts as hanging mistletoe in his district office and forcibly kissing a staffer, shoving his
hand «all the way up» the inner thigh of another staffer and more.
Tony Sinagra, an old
hand at city politics who recently stepped down as chairman of Kingston's Republican
Committee, said the problem was less with mayors
handing out existing jobs to supporters, but with mayors creating new
positions in city government as a means of increasing their patronage powers.
Cheryl Tomayer held the
position from 1999 until she
handed it over to Jamie Klein who is the current chair of the Health
Committee.
Here, however, the AGC was named as a respondent by ACJ Douglas, which meant that the AGC was placed in a fundamental conflict «between two public interest
positions — on the one
hand, defending the process and the
Committee's decision... and, on the other, abandoning that responsibility in deference to the direct role of the AGC as Minister of Justice in the disciplinary process for superior court judges» (para. 7).
[82] Accordingly, there is a difference between, on the one
hand, the view of three international
committees, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and the minority members of the Parliamentary
Committee, and, on the other
hand, the
position of the government that introduced the amendments.
First, there is an inconsistency in the propositions underlying the
Committee's argument that, on the one
hand, the impact of the confirmation provisions are minimal in that they merely confirm the common law
position, and on the other
hand, that the confirmation provisions are necessary to provide certainty where the
position is otherwise unclear.