Sentences with phrase «other elected officials do»

Other elected officials don't have to do that.

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Mr. Anglin has a habit of saying what he thinks — which, despite the claims of the Wildrose Party and other right - wing Western Canadian political groups that's how elected officials should act, doesn't really go over that well in the real world of politics.

Congressman Tom Emmer, on the other hand, fired shots at «elected officials who don't have any concept of what we're dealing with here and how exciting it is talking about, «Oh my gosh, we've got to run in and regulate and create more government infrastructure.»»

If my moral code is Bible - based, then I want to see elected officials who share that same moral code, and I'd encourage others of like - faith to do the same.

Spew and hate, read the same article you did I don't recall Mr Cathy using those words it sounds like you are the one ready to use those words when you don't like what you hear, as for the other I did misspell and I do understand that officials are the ones ready to discriminate against those whoever they are were elected to serve with their own opinion.

«And Eliot Spitzer did more to protect women's health and our right to choose than almost any other elected official anywhere

Panepinto certainly wasn't alone in opposing the changes other elected officials, activists and members of organized labor did so as well.

One doesn't have to agree with the Bloombergian technocratic principle that a businessman will always make the best elected official to find it weird that so many people run for office on the basis of having carried water for other elected officials.

«When we allow for the editorials in New York City to tell our story, when we allow for columnists and other individuals and elected officials who honestly are doing a disservice to their community by not understanding election law,... [to be] going out there and blasting the hardworking men and women at the Board of Elections, we think it's appalling,» he argued.

Ms. Velázquez did not immediately return request for comment, but sources close to the race for the overwhelmingly Democratic and liberal district see a divide between elected officials close to the Working Families Party, which has endorsed Mr. Sikora, and others that owe less to the labor - backed party.

Menchaca is doing quite well in terms of institutional endorsements himself: he's been backed by many labor groups and elected officials, including the local union chapters for transportation, auto, and communications workers; SEIU 32BJ, RWDSU, the Teamsters Joint Council 16, the Hotel Trades Council, and others.

Local Law 28 requires City department and agency «advertising and other materials pertaining to public events to include information regarding accessibility for people with disabilities» but it does not include elected officials or Community Boards.

The other countywide elected official, Ciarpelli, makes less than he does.

I've got to prove myself to the other elected officials in this community and in this city, just like I do the voters,» Weiner said.

Many of the elected officials who came to the event thanked those honored and other black Americans for their accomplishments and what the civil rights movement had done for their own minority groups.

However, the travel ban, which is currently on hold because of a decision by the federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, has other elected officials in the county, specifically Democrats, worried about Astorino's support for the ban and that it does in fact unfairly target Muslims.

More of us should listen and make certain elected officials, bankers and other decision makers do the same.

Part of being an elected official is telling people things that they don't want to hear, and when they have it in their mindset that there are other politicians who are lying or not being honest or are under the veil of corruption, it makes it much more difficult for all of us to do our job in a time when it is very difficult to be an elected official.

I can't speak for the other elected officials, [but] if [Urban American] wants us to work with them to build trust with the residents, [the lawsuit] does not help,» she said.

While the reforms put forth by DiNapoli could help ameliorate corruption in the state government, said Nicole Gelinas, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the other moderator at Wednesday's event, «How do you convince other elected officials to tie their own hands and in effect not give themselves these opportunities for corruption?»

So I can't help but ask myself if the Democratic chair is saying this, then do the Democratic Elected Officials that I and many others voted for, have our best interest at heart?

Though he vowed to be independent in his own relationship with the mayor, Mr. Stringer did not opt to criticize by name any other elected officials who might historically serve as a check or a critic to the mayor's policies, who have rarely been out of step with Mr. de Blasio.

They're trying to portray him as an outsider — I don't know how much more inside you can be than never having had a job other than an elected official for your entire life,» DeFrancisco told POLITICO.

«I'm hopeful we can get something done for other statewide elected officials as well as the legislature before the end of the session.»

«I don't think anyone is happy in the political establishment given the repercussions to other members of the Legislature and other elected officials in high positions,» Arzt said.

«I didn't want to use taxpayer dollars for this and so there was a precedent for other elected officials before me who used resources the same way that I did,» he said.

«I will help them establish a trust or an account so that other elected officials receive the same professional development that I did, because there's no question I'm a stronger CFO because of it,» he said.

«I'm hopeful we can get something done for other statewide elected officials as well as the legislature, before the end of the session,» Klein said recently.

And I don't go along with the flow just because other elected officials endorse any particular candidate.

Earlier in the weekend, on Saturday, the mayor delivered remarks at Kehilat Rayim Ahuvim, a synagogue in Manhattan, and delivered remarks at the UFT Spring Conference, as did other elected officials including Comptroller Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Letitia James.

Syracusans don't want to hear «political baloney» and «he said, she said,» but want to see elected officials fix the roads and make other improvements, Cuomo said.

Jewel Jones, who works with WE ACT, has been reaching out to constituents, organizations and other elected officials in East Harlem to try to pressure Mark - Viverito into a meeting where she can explain why she doesn't support the bill.

On Friday, prosecutors said in court papers that Ms. Huntley's recordings of a senator and two other elected officials «did yield evidence useful to law enforcement authorities.»

The story notes that the city's conflict of interest law does not bar an elected official from hiring a cousin, though it does prohibit them from benefiting other relatives — spouses, domestic partners, children, parents or siblings.

While Mayor Bill de Blasio did not directly criticize the decision, Ms. Rose, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and other minority elected officials angrily denounced the outcome, echoing reaction that came after a grand jury decided not to indict a white police officer for shooting a black teenager in Ferguson, Mo..

Lopez suggested that other block associations push for new lampposts with elected officials, as his did.

Two months and a losing lawsuit later, they are still trying to work out issues of whether elected officials should have to sign the same policy every other city employee does.

The City Council last December pressured de Blasio to sign into law a bill prohibiting anyone with city contracts or who does other types of city business from donating more than $ 400 a year to nonprofits tied to elected officials or their staffers.

But I think one of the things that scientists and other people concerned about science education in the country need to do is make it clear to publishers that as citizens and voters, wherever they live, whatever state or town that they live [in], they will make sure that their elected officials know that textbook X, Y or Z is not to be used in this district because of its bad science.

It did not take long for Risk «s analysis and central findings to win acceptance among the general public, editorial writers, business leaders, governors, and other elected officials at the national, state, and local levels.

In light of this, we recognize the collective responsibility to register our dissent publicly, to call upon elected officials and demand that they oppose her appointment, and to encourage others to do so as well.

No school can succeed for long without doing so, but, especially for community schools, success depends on the quality of the relationships that school and district staff maintain with various partners, including teachers, counselors, social workers, parents, clergy, elected officials, business leaders, volunteer tutors, and others.

In an era of partisan gridlock at all levels of government, we would do well to remember the moment a half century ago when local leaders, elected officials, civil rights pioneers, and others came together to ensure equal access to the ballot.

Hartford's elected and appointed officials didn't even suspend Capital Prep Magnet School Principal Steven Perry when he used his Twitter Account to make threats that would get students, teachers, or other administrators arrested, suspended or fired.

Rather than use the event to congratulate each other on the destruction of our public schools, Connecticut's elected officials should be explaining to Duncan that the Common Core and Common Core Testing scheme is a fiasco that needs to be repealed and that Connecticut must be allowed to develop its own effective teacher evaluation system that doesn't rely on the use of unfair, inappropriate and faulty standardized test scores.

So while Malloy and Jumoke congratulate themselves about their education reform achievements, parents in every other Hartford school would do well to remember, smaller class sizes, having a teacher and an instructional assistant in every classroom and providing more support services is not a result of Malloy's education reform efforts but a result of Malloy, the State of Connecticut and the City of Hartford actually stepping forward and providing the resources necessary to make appropriate changes --- changes that should be being made at every Hartford School if only elected officials would address the broader issue inadequate funding for Connecticut's schools.

So, in the face of all that accomplishment, and with nothing else seeming to occupy their legislative agenda, what could responsible elected officials do other than reward DPS?

We need to do a better job of communicating — with the public, with elected officials and with each other.

We must seize the grass roots momentum that started last year, and like Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the grass roots organization that placed the wrongfulness of drunk driving into the minds of everyone, we must let legislators and other elected officials know that we do not want lip service and a mysterious end to animal welfare legislation; we want meaningful change for companion animals in Oklahoma.

Now, I and so many other Americans are waiting to see what our elected officials will do — and we are especially watching President Obama.