Sentences with phrase «republican said the topic»
The downstate Republican said the topic is dead for now but he would like to see something done in the remaining months of session.
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The Republican candidate for Slaughter's seat, Gates Town Supervisor Mark Assini, said he can't believe the topic's come up again.
And we are hopeful that this progress includes forward movement on many of the major items that have been the topic of recent discussions that have taken place in the Governor's office,» Kelly Donnelly, a spokesperson for Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said after Democrats and Republicans met Friday.
In remarks to business leaders meeting in the Adirondacks, the Democratic governor took the Republican president to task for what Cuomo said is a long string of divisive comments that distract attention from more important topics.
«I think that they're hoping that it wasn't introduced, because it's a topic they don't want to talk about — even on the Republican side,» said Poloncarz.
Question topics included what he'll say to Rob Astorino if he bumps into him locally, what he has to say to the anti-fracking protestors, what was most surprising in the campaign, whether he'll be disappointed if he wins by 10 points rather the 20 points that public polls predict, for whom and on what line he and Lee voted, what he'll do to affect the state senate leadership should there not be any single majority conference, what he'll do in a second term concerning state mandates to local governments and what effect Republican control of the United States Senate will have on New York and his administration in a second term.
(CNN)-- The day after President Barack Obama publicly endorsed same - sex marriage, and later issued a call for donations, his Republican rival said the hot button topic shouldn't be used to raise campaign cash.
In a statement, Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos said his conference takes sexual assaults on college campuses seriously and he looks forward to working with LaValle, who released a report on the topic and plans to hold further hearings, «to ensure that students at all New York college campuses are kept safe.»
State aid to schools also was still an open topic in talks with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Senate's Republican leaders, Heastie said.
DeFrancisco, a Republican from Syracuse, says if no agreement is reached on some of the unrelated topics by the budget deadline, lawmakers will likely oppose any attempt by the governor to force through the policy changes in the form of extender bills to keep the government running.
After the second incident, Krueger, who is known for her bluntness on the topic, said she urged then - Senate Leader Joe Bruno, a Republican from the Capital Region, to create mandatory sexual harassment training for all senators.
Bijoy Datta, the Broome County Republican chairman, thinks «there's a lot of anger especially in the rural parts of the district,» but says the topic hasn't been a «huge issue in terms of debate or news coverage or direct voter contact throughout the campaign.»
Until late last week, however, I thought education would itself play a minor role in the 2012 election, as in 2008, partly because other issues loom larger but also because Duncan and Obama stole so much of the traditional GOP ed - policy thunder as to leave Republican candidates with little to say that's fresh or differentiating on this topic.
For more on this topic, please see «The 2012 Republican Candidates So Far: What they've said and done on education in the past, and what they might do about our public schools if elected,» by Allison Sherry, which will appear in the Fall 2011 issue of Education Next and is now available online.
Again and again, Republicans or conservatives who say they know more about the topic, or are more educated, are shown to be more in denial, and often more sure of themselves as well — and are confident they don't need any more information on the issue.
In interviews with InsideClimate News, economists, analysts and state officials say that conversations on the topic are generally taking place quietly and under the radar in a few governors» offices and in state legislatures, where both Democrats and Republicans dominate.
«Rather than empower scientists and researchers to expand the public discourse on climate science and other environmental topics, the [Democrats»] letter could be viewed as an attempt to silence legitimate intellectual and scientific inquiry,» the Republicans» letter said.