Sentences with phrase «against a governor with»

On her newly launched campaign website, Nixon vowed not to accept any corporate donations as she goes up against a governor with more than $ 30 million in his campaign war chest.

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Smith, previously Minnesota's lieutenant governor, was appointed to serve as her state's senator following the resignation of Al Franken, who became embroiled in controversy after several women came forward with sexual harassment allegations against him.

Faced with boycott threats from giant businesses, including Nike, Apple, Angie's List and Salesforce.com, Indiana's Governor Mike Pence has vowed to alter the language of a controversial, religious freedom bill he signed into law just last week, to ensure businesses can't use it to discriminate against LGBT customers.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker wrote on Twitter Tuesday, with a link to a National Review story that detailed the allegations against Facebook.

A massive campaign aimed at forcing Switzerland to make billions available in «compensation» was launched by the WJC, with the governors of four American states threatening economic sanctions against the Swiss, and the City of Los Angeles withdrawing millions of dollars of pension funds from a Swiss bank.

The demonstrations against the Christian governor, along with a January 2016 high - profile ISIS bombing in Jakarta, have led to fears that Indonesia is becoming more radicalized, even though the country remains home to one of the world's largest, most peaceful Islamic organizations.

It's a little too late for praying, it's Mrs.Clinton's call to be @ the helm; now, with her hubby Mr.Clinton as VP; and one of you out of all of you, need to tell Romney he's committed fraud, for leaving the Post of so - called gov.that theirs a 2 yr.interval that must be met; the same fo Obama; whom is worst off then Bush Jr.then for none of you to have no Allegiance to be nothing but commander of thieves, since April 4th, 1968 to presently; in the killing of Dr.King Jr.must still go under Oath to all you perjurers; that mustn't go unpunished to the array of charges I have stored up against each of yo on every job, on every public premise; that Obama didn't praywhen he lied to GOD ALMIGHTY in perjury; to have left the seat of sen.to jump to the office; knowing he hadn't a clue what to do; so he got Joe, which is Cheney all over; whom should of been out of public; and he knows that and all the fugitives, even in the Italian led court in DC; that will have to answer to what is -LCB- H.R. 7152 -RCB-; and why they let Olsen for Bush Jr.waste the American's People's time, not to mention all the lives that's been lost; for the tyrannies since 1968 to presently has cost; Vote I, Edward Baltimore; to confirm I; Governor of DC; as of 2/16/12; cause DC; has been a State, already; and all you slaves from State to State; need to snap out of your peonage which is prohibited by Federal Laws; on anybody!!!!!!!

The New Mexico State Legislature and Governor King quickly passed Senate Joint Memorial 5, which stated, in part and with considerable exaggeration: «Whereas, despite New Mexico's long and rich chile history and prehistory, with solid archaeological evidence indicating the continuous use of both red and green chile since the time of Folsom Man some twelve thousand years ago [this is not true], we now find «Texas Man» claiming the noble chile as his; and whereas despite the facts, we hear boasting from east of the Pecos that «The Lone Star State» is the chili capital of the Southwest... and Texas chefs malign the noble «red and green» by blending it into a slurry of kidney beans and onions called chili; now, therefore, be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of New Mexico that the Land of Enchantment bets the «whole enchilada» and its reputation as the Chile Capital of the World against the Lone Star State in the Mother of All Chile Wars Festival to be held May 29 - 31, 1993 at the Doña Ana County Fairgrounds.»

I can't see having my name associated with a place like Alabama, where they really haven't faced up to - problems, or a school like Georgia in a state where Governor Maddox actually seems to be against progress.

Iowa Governor Terry Branstad appeared with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in Des Moines, Iowa, at a press conference and said consumer activists were conducting a «smear campaign» against meat producers.

«That is why I can not agree with the rumour that governors are lobbying against it even though lobbying is democratic and normal.

«Apparently Governor Cuomo knew that this tactic of divide and conquer could be used with skill to appoint one of his friends, knowing that she is not the most qualified and does not have the necessary experience compared to others, but knowing that any non-Hispanic who would vote against her would create the perception that he or she was Anti-Hispanic,» Diaz Sr. wrote.

The governor said he is «highly disappointed» with the new law, expressing concern it «may pit neighbor against neighbor, and threatens the fundamental principles on which this country was founded.»

Albany has the ultimate say, and Governor Cuomo has now stood with the unions in favor of their more generous bill and against the Mayor and the City Council Speaker.

Actress Cynthia Nixon started the Democratic primary campaign against Cuomo with a huge fund - raising disadvantage, but her ability to use her celebrity to attract free media can help her counteract the powerful benefits of the governor's incumbency, political experts agree.

After keeping mum for days about his plan to end his LG run and jump into the governor's race, Republican businessman M. Myers Mermel let loose with both barrels against Democratic gubernatorial contender, Andrew Cuomo, saying the AG should resign immediately because he is «responsible» for the Albany mess.

Teachout also opened a new front against Cuomo with criticism of his own choice for Lieutenant Governor, Kathy Hochul, who is best known in the state for her 2007 battle against a plan to issue drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants.

In another sign of heightened tensions, Newsday reported that GOP Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who has been at odds with Cuomo recently, might even run for governor against him.

The new year for the state legislature has begun in discord, with Republicans in the Senate vowing to take a harder line against Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo.

He says he considers his true opponent to be The Buffalo News and that he's excited at the prospect of campaigning with the Republican nominee for governor — whoever it is — against Cuomo.

With James out of the running, one likely candidate for the WFP nomination for AG is law professor Zephyr Teachout, who ran for governor against Cuomo in 2014.

The announcement came the same day that actress Cynthia Nixon announced she would challenge the governor with the backing of the last woman who ran against him, Zephyr Teachout.

«This executive order clearly demonstrates the discriminatory nature of BDS against the State of Israel and we are proud that the governor of New York State has taken this historic action to stand with Israel and reject the BDS movement,» he added.

The new year for the state Legislature has begun in discord, with an absent governor and Republicans in the Senate vowing to take a harder line against Democrat Andrew Cuomo.

And the mention of Astorino and the Governor is ironical considering the word is that Latimer agreed to run against Astorino as a favor to Andrew Cuomo with the promise of a job in the Cuomo Administration (hopefully not running the DMV) after he loses.

ALBANY — After months of listening to Gov. Andrew Cuomo assail him as responsible for a bill he voted against, U.S. Rep. John Faso closed a letter to the governor on Thursday with an especially cutting observation: He's not the man his late father was.

In 1996, Kerry faced a difficult re-election fight against Governor William Weld, a popular Republican incumbent who had been re-elected in 1994 with 71 % of the vote.

The governor revealed that with N1.5 bn from federation account, the state still had to borrow to pay 40,000 civil servants against over three million people that needed to be catered for.

Meanwhile, the chairman of the Convention Planning Committee, CPC, Governor Nyesom Wike has vowed to go ahead with the election of a new national chairman irrespective of a court order against it.

A federal judge has officially «severed» the corruption trials against eight individuals in a case that began with an alleged bid - rigging probe of the Cuomo administration's Buffalo Billion program — setting one of the trial dates in the midst of the governor's expected re-election bid.

By joining with the New Jersey governor, they'd already expressly taken sides against him.

Meanwhile, as Cuomo defends himself against de Blasio's remarks, the governor has stressed his working relationship with Senate Republicans, which he says has led to achievements at a Capitol infamous for gridlock.

At the time, Perry posed with Astorino, then a candidate for governor in New York, after Perry's 2016 Republican presidential rival Chris Christie referred to the GOP candidate's bid against Cuomo as a lost cause.

Sources close to Cuomo say he fears the notoriously aggressive and egocentric Spitzer would use the position of comptroller to settle old political scores with the governor, second - guess the new mayor, and wage a public - relations war against Wall Street, the single greatest source of revenue to the state.

During his press conference, meanwhile, de Blasio also blasted Gov. Andrew Cuomo for allegedly threatening unions whose affiliates were lining up with Cynthia Nixon, who is running in the Democratic primary against the governor.

With Cuomo speaking out against the plan, Collins said «it's better later than never» that the governor joins the opposition to Plan 2014.

As Governor Cuomo has turned his attention to how the state would deal with Ebola, Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins appeared in Buffalo Friday campaigning against charter schools, Common Core and Fracking.

(Airs 12/21/17) WAMC's Alan Chartock speaks with New York State Republican Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb about his newly announced run for Governor against Andrew Cuomo.

In a statement, Zephyr Teachout, who is running against Cuomo in a Democratic primary, faulted the governor for working with Senate Republicans, who have refused to hold a vote on the abortion plank, which none of their members publicly support, but twice passed the nine other women's equality items as separate bills.

A top Democratic strategist who knows the speaker well said, «Every year for over a decade, the hospitals and 1199 have sided with Silver against the governor, until now.

This year, the governor downplayed the issue, listing it with a number of other steps he wants to take, including stricter penalties against bribery, creating an independent agency to police campaign filing violations and greater disclosure by lawmakers of their private law clients who have business before the state.

Environmental activists protested outside a Cuomo fundraiser in Manhattan on April 13, with signs against various local projects and fliers urging the governor to «Stop all fracking infrastructure.»

«We are so thankful to the Governor for sticking to his word and listening to the science,» said Julia Walsh, with New Yorkers Against Fracking.

Gipson briefly flirted with another run against Serino and a primary for governor, but has abandoned both.

We know that some people are kicking against it but it was done in the overall interest of the people of the state because in a situation whereby the governor has been running the affairs of the state in line with his policies, people should encourage him.

But Duffy's value for the governor is that he is a western New Yorker who can connect with voters in an area of the state in which the Cuomo campaign was vulnerable against Republican and Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino.

Governor, you have railed against high taxes, you've called for fiscal restraint and yet you attempt to saddle Suffolk County taxpayers with an individual whose tax hiking, job killing agenda is polar opposites of yours.

Before I saw him, Christie was meeting with Phil Murphy, the next governor and a former Goldman Sachs executive who cast much of his campaign on a referendum against Christie.

She is facing a challenge from Brooklyn Councilman Jumaane Williams for lieutenant governor, as Cuomo deals with his own Democratic primary against Cynthia Nixon.

Among those mayors backing Cuomo's push against the law is New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat who has feuded with the governor on a variety of issues.