Sentences with phrase «side as a state senator»
Schneiderman represented the Upper West Side as a state senator.
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As the forum was set to start, Senator Brad Hoylman, an out gay West Side Democrat, circulated a letter he had sent to Cuomo urging that the state reverse course and double its Runaway and Homeless Youth expenditure from $ 2.35 million to $ 4.75 million.
Yet instead of uniting with us to resist this assault, our State Senator Marisol Alcantara — elected as a Democrat to represent much of Upper Manhattan and the Upper West Side — has turned on us by joining the IDC, a coalition that empowers Trump - supporting Albany Republicans and stymies efforts to pass truly progressive legislation.»
A longtime GOP staffer and former chief of staff on the Assembly side, Elizabeth Watson now serves as a key member of State Senator Mark Wyland's all - star team.
Schneiderman served as the state senator for the 31st District since 1998, and spent more than a decade representing parts of the Upper West Side, Inwood, Washington Heights and Riverdale in the Bronx, before moving on to the Attorney General's office.
«As president of the COBA and knowing full well of the backroom politics that has continued to plague the citizens of this state and municipal workers, I am proud to support Senator Jeff Klein for his leadership in reaching out to members of both sides of the aisle,» he told the press.
On the Republican side, Cuomo is facing challenges from state Senator John DeFrancisco, Erie County executive Joel Giambra and Joseph Holland, who served as housing commissioner under former Gov. George Pataki.
«It's so devastating on so many levels because he did great things in office, as a state senator, as attorney general,» said Linda Rosenthal, a Democratic assemblywoman from the Upper West Side, who has known Mr. Schneiderman since before his political career began.
WFP leaders and their allies have denounced the WEP as a «fake party» and a «sham,» and female elected officials like Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and Upper East Side State Senator Liz Krueger have assailed it for doing little to advance women's issues.
Lest anyone think that acts of deception regarding Common Core have come only from only one side of the political aisle or from only state departments of education, perhaps the greatest act of deception is the preposterous claim about the thrust of the recent re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, known as the Every Student Succeeds Act, by its major author Senator Lamar Alexander.
I served as the expert witness for the plaintiff's side, along with other witnesses including lawmakers (e.g., a state senator) and educators (e.g., teachers, superintendents) who made various (and very articulate) claims about the state's teacher evaluation system on the stand.
A year ago, he jumped into the teacher tenure debate with a breathtakingly one sided column that could have read as a press release from Campbell Brown's anti-tenure lawsuit — shocking, given his personal friendship with Ms. Brown — and relied upon precisely ONE former Teach For America alum and current State Senator from Colorado as a source.