Sentences with phrase «county leaders pledged»

He later said the state awarded the money to the area because Syracuse and county leaders pledged to merge their two governments, according to Syracuse.com.

Cuomo previously said the state awarded money to the area because city and county leaders pledged to merge the two governments, and also said the leaders will have «a serious problem» if they are unable to advance the consolidation, according to Syracuse.com.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo says that he awarded $ 500 million to Central New York because Syracuse and Onondaga County leaders pledged they would pursue merging their governments.

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Former Council Speaker Christine Quinn, a leader of the WEQ — an effort created at least in part as a Cuomo campaign tactic to highlight the Westchester county executive's socially conservative views — said she would be delivering the pledge to Mr. Astorino this afternoon, putting him in the position of likely rejecting a promise to pass legislation that would strengthen pay equity and abortion laws.

The agreement comes after Flanagan, a Long Island lawmaker, had pledged to upstate members and Republican county leaders, to enact SAFE Act in part to alleviate concerns he had supported the measure in 2013.

Cuomo's comments were similar to those he made Jan. 6 during a brief news conference in Liverpool when he said leaders of Syracuse and Onondaga County had agreed to consolidate, and said Syracuse should follow through on that pledge if it can't afford to fix its crumbling water system.

In this race Brooklyn Democratic boss Frank Seddio, who took over the party from embattled ex-Assemblyman Vito Lopez, broke with his fellow county leaders after pledging to stick together and united his 16 members behind Mark - Viverito at de Blasio's behest on Wednesday.

That pledge, if it can genuinely be carried out, represents a fundamental challenge to the county Democratic leaders.