Sentences with phrase «against legislators»

Its commissioners are appointed by the governor and legislative leaders and effectively have veto power over actions taken against the legislators who appointed them.

And if Cuomo opens New York to hydrofracking — as we expect he will — we will demand that the Legislature ban fracking and run candidates against legislators who don't vote for the ban,» Hawkins said.

In 2004, he vetoed the entire state budget and threatened to campaign against any legislator who voted to override.

I am against legislators bringing back pet projects.

The reality is more complicated, he would face conflicts of interest as he was fired by Trump and brought cases against legislators and Cuomo's inner circle.

After describing the charges against the legislators as well as a prominent lobbyist and hospital executives, Bharara inventoried other recent corruption cases — against Assemblymen Tony Seminerio and Brian McLaughlin, Queens Democrats, and Sen. Vincent Leibell, R - Putnam County.

There SHOULD be a blanket rule against legislators dating / having sex with people on their payroll.

A well - spring of indictments against legislators, a session in which experienced negotiators were missing from the table and an increasing willingness by traditional Democrats, now led by de Blasio, to call Cuomo out have all contributed to a slide in the governor's approval rating.

Kaminsky said Sunday that he also favors term limits but that his main solution to corruption would be a prohibition against legislators collecting outside income, to root out potential conflicts of interest.

«Your job as a staffer is to, at all cost, protect your boss and protect their career,» said one of the former staffers who tried to bring a sexual harassment claim against a legislator.

To other Republicans, the transformation of the debate into a series of personal attacks against a legislator they viewed as making racist comments ran afoul of the chamber's rules of decorum.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo suggested he would campaign against legislators if they continue to resist his calls for changes in disclosure and campaign finance laws, he said during a radio interview.

De Blasio will travel onto Cuomo's turf on Monday to testify at a state budget hearing in Albany — an annual ritual that will pit the mayor against legislators.

The stinging fine from the Legislative Ethics Commission, which met behind closed doors at the Capitol Tuesday, represents the largest ever issued by the agency against a legislator.

The Silver case, along with others he has pursued against legislators, shows that Albany is a «cauldron of corruption,» he said.

At the state level, Wisconsin and Illinois Republicans suffered substantial electoral defeats during the 1880s, when Catholic and Lutheran voters joined forces against legislators who voted for laws that cramped parochial school operations and forbade instruction in any language other than English.

During that time, JCOPE's significant enforcement actions against legislators have been limited to a fine against former assemblyman Dennis Gabryszak for sexual harassment that was issued two years after he resigned and a critical examination of former assemblyman Vito Lopez's own sexual harassment violations that was released nine months after he was censured by the Assembly.

And if Cuomo opens New York to hydrofracking — as we expect he will — we will demand that the legislature ban fracking and run candidates against legislators who don't vote for the ban,» Hawkins said.

Members of the Citizens Council on Women's Education (ccwe), a project of the National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education, also endorsed the civil - rights act of 1984 — the measure tabled by the Senate last week — and urged participants to vote against legislators who failed to back that and other legislation affecting equity in education.

Even worse Sen. Dean Skelos said, «A «witch hunt» against legislators would be «totally inappropriate.»

Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos (R - Nassau) said it would be «totally inappropriate» if the investigation became a «witch hunt» against legislators.

Skelos said a «witch hunt» against legislators would be «totally inappropriate.»