Sentences with phrase «republican pols»

BTW, Republican pols have been in the business of scaring and fooling the electorate since 1960.

Mayor Bloomberg just defended aide Andrea Batista Schlesinger for tweeting that Sarah Palin is «racist» in connection with the Republican pol's own tweets in opposition of the ground zero mosque.

Why am I not surprised that Nixon's son - in - law thinks a corrupt Republican pol is someone deserving of praise?

«Democrats: Sunshine Summit speaker Dan Bongino is bad, too» via Danny McAuliffe of Florida Politics — The Florida Democratic Party criticized Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent and Republican pol who has tried — and failed — to capture high - profile elected seats in Maryland and Florida and is scheduled to speak at the Orlando GOP conference this summer.

Sharing a business - friendly outlook and a large donor base with Cuomo — not to mention a common enemy in Thomas Suozzi, the Democratic county executive Mangano unseated in 2009 — the Republican pol reportedly struck a pact with the governor.

Not exact matches

ESPA Executive Director Ross Levi said Cuomo has not confirmed to speak at or attend the event — a must - do for Democratic pols that even draws some Republicans, including then - Gov.

Ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver ended the career of a fellow pol, Republican former Assemblyman Dan Burling, by redistricting him out of office because Burling had an affair with the powerful Manhattan Democrat's mistress, former Assemblywoman Janele Hyer - Spencer.

Brooklyn Congressman Hakeem Jeffries and a coterie of other Democratic pols called Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump a «two - bit racial arsonist» who's making a «desperate» claim that the presidential election next month will be rigged to save his flailing campaign.

A relatively new member of the New York delegation and a Democrat in the Republican House, Mr. Jeffries has long reportedly eyed other pols» jobs — including Mr. de Blasio's and Ms. Gillibrand's.

For pols, nothing succeeds like failure; former Governor George Pataki appointed Republican pal Al as Deputy Director of the Governor's Office for Small Cities.

Charles Dorego, chief counsel for luxury developer Glenwood Management, testified how the Nassau County Republican used heavy - handed threats to extract political contributions during election years while the industry lobbied the pol on key issues — and all while the legislator and his son incessantly pestered him for employment opportunities.

GOP pols from states slammed by Superstorm Sandy say they'll back a massive federal aid package for victims of Hurricane Harvey — even though Republican lawmakers from Texas fought against...

Then in December, Smith jumped off of his party's ship, joining forces to caucus with Independent Democrats, a group of four other pols who aligned with state Republicans, the Post said.

It is clear that the maps drawn by both the pols and the judge reflect a strong bias towards getting rid of conservative Republicans and protecting liberal Democrats, especially downstate reps, many of whom are in the Socialist Caucus of the House or the Democrat Party leadership.

While national Republicans and even some local ones desert Mr. Grimm, others like Mr. Ignizio are closing ranks around the controversial pol.

A juror cut loose Friday from the corruption trial of ex-Councilman Dan Halloran said he would have found the accused pol guilty of brokering bribes to get Sen. Malcolm Smith on the Republican mayoral ballot last year.

Mike Catalinotto, a savvy old pol and former town Republican chairman, was one of many surprised at the virulent response to the obvious joke.

The former Democrat is also known as a powerful fundraiser, and has contributed to pols on both sides of the aisle, including failed Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, Rep. Charlie Rangel and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

Let's face it: Most pols here are Democrats looking to bleed taxpayers dry; the rest are Republicans looking to do precisely the same thing.

Mr. Lhota, the Republican candidate who lost to Mr. de Blasio in 2013, slammed the mayor today for supporting Mr. Silver — who was arrested on charges of mail fraud, wire fraud and extortion — despite previously calling for the resignations of pols like former Gov. David Paterson for what Mr. Lhota deemed lesser indiscretions.

The Bronx Democratic Party is now united behind Bill de Blasio's campaign for mayor, but Republican Joe Lhota is not the only pol lying in the cross hairs of the Democratic machine.

Any district that is as reliably Republican as this one is sure to produce its fair share of ambitious pols looking for a step up the food chain.

Senator Phil Boyle: The snazzy boy from Bay Shore lets us know at first glance that, yes, Republicans can have that clean look of a well dressed pol.

Even if the Democrats pick up a few seats on Nov. 8, they will likely need to strike a co-leadership deal with a group of breakaway pols known as the Independent Democratic Conference, or IDC, that has been aligned with the Republicans since 2011.