Sentences with phrase «against taxpayers funding»

He is against taxpayers funding all PhDs regardless of their quality.

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Camden Fine told CNBC that comments by JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon on the economy and regulation «reflect Wall Street's inability to take responsibility for the economic crisis it caused and the taxpayer - funded guarantee against failure it continues to enjoy....

CEO Vikram Pandit Kenneth Lewis Company Going Against Him Slow to cut costs, snowballing losses, spins all results positively, voracious consumer of taxpayer funds Bad acquisition of Countrywide, worse deal for Merrill, bonus scandal, gorged on i - bankers at peak of market Going For Him Engineering background, Suaveness.

I could understand being «anti-event» if this was taxpayer - funded, but in that case, I would be against it purely because of that, not because it's a religious event.

Do students and taxpayer's really want their tuition or tax dollars funding any religious group, especially those that want to actively discriminate against people?

Madison, chief architect of the Const.itution and eleven of the Amendments, on more than one occasion, wrote that it was a mistake and against the principles of religious freedom achieved through the separation of church and state for the taxpayer to fund chaplains for the nation's congress.

Local farmers and grape growers are vehemently against fracking and the region is a safe Liberal seat that became more complicated when the sitting Liberal Party MP, Troy Bell, resigned from the party in August after being charged with allegedly misappropriating $ 2 million in taxpayer funds.

The campaign fights such «license to discriminate» bills on the state and federal level and builds support for the Every Child Deserves a Family Act, a federal bill prohibiting child welfare agencies that receive taxpayer funds from discriminating against LGBTQ youth or prospective foster and adoptive parents.

Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson commented, «People from across the political spectrum, representing a range of different religions and beliefs, are united on this one point: whatever your views on faith schools themselves, it can not be right for taxpayer - funded schools to divide and discriminate against children.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who got the ball rolling against Pedro Espada Jr. during his stint as state attorney general, clearly feels vindicated by the jury's conviction today of the former Senate majority leader on four counts of theft from his taxpayer - funded Bronx health clinic.

The plan does not offer funds to pay for the shift, and Cuomo, in a third day of attacks against the plan, said anyone who believes it's a savings for taxpayers «is being taken for a ride.»

The $ 103,080 taxpayer - funded payment authorized by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to settle sexual harassment claims against Assemblyman Vito Lopez this year may have gone to two women and been increased by additional cash from Lopez himself.

And, as a reader pointed out, it was produced and posted by the Senate Democrat - controlled (and taxpayer - funded) media services unit just two weeks before Espada faces off against his two primary opponents: Gustavo Rivera (who is being backed by a number of the majority leader's colleagues and labor unions) and Dan Padernacht.

«The federal government has come out pretty strongly against using taxpayer funds, too.

Since then, it has become clear that there was at least one and perhaps more additional complaints lodged against Lopez, which were quietly settled through a $ 103,080 payment worth of taxpayer funds.

«I've kept my promise to fight for Long Island by voting over 175 times against raising taxes, delivering a $ 20 million increase in aid for South Shore schools, and passed a plan to prevent corrupt pols from receiving taxpayer funded pensions.

Taxpayers will receive the same net benefit, but SOF spending growth appears lower.3 Other substantial changes include shifts in workers from payrolls in the general fund to those paid by capital funds, reclassifying the Sales Tax Asset Receivable Corporation (STARC) funds from a miscellaneous receipt to an offset against spending, and shifting expenses off - budget as shown in Table 3.

«Silver used taxpayer - funded hush money to keep the victims of sexual harassment from rocking the boat in the Assembly and he brushed off serious allegations that his counsel had committed multiple rapes against women who worked there.

NYC Public Advocate Letitia James burned through nearly all of the more than $ 750,000 in taxpayer matching funds in a lopsided race against a poorly funded opponent — spending $ 500,000 on a single Election Day expenditure, public records show.

Maloney also supported giving Congress taxpayer - funded health care for life, while voting against efforts to stop Congress from flying first class on our dime.

A secretive, multi-million dollar taxpayer - funded slush fund used for years to pay off victims of sexual misconduct was tapped to settle a lawsuit against Queens Democratic Rep. Gregory Meeks.

Also on Tuesday, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver admitted an error in judgment for secretly using taxpayer funds to try to settle sexual harassment allegations against Lopez earlier this summer.

Federal investigators say Christopher St. Lawrence «cooked the books» to fund Provident Bank Park against the wishes of the town's taxpayers.

Cuomo, who is positioning himself for a potential 2020 presidential run, wants to prohibit taxpayer funds being used to settle harassment allegations against individuals, bar secrecy of such settlements, create a uniform sexual harassment policy for all parts of state and local government and create an anonymous whistleblower tip line for individuals to report misconduct.

24 hours after the Derek Conway report was published David Cameron took decisive action against the disgraced MP and he has kept up the momentum over the last week with welcome requirements for greater openness from his frontbenchers with regard to their taxpayer - funded expenses.

«It's not sustainable, and what they do is they keep pushing the cost down to the local taxpayer, saying, «We cut at the state level», which is true, but somehow it has to get funded, which really pits the taxpayer against the school district,» Brown said.

As The Guardian reports this morning, Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs are set to join forces to vote against Harriet Harman's attempts to exempt MPs from provisions of the Freedom of Information Act - all in a bid to keep some details of their taxpayer - funded expenses secret.

To provide staff to all private — meaning mostly religious — schools without a proper review of which facility has a need for this kind of security is an expensive way of going around constitutional prohibitions against using taxpayer funding for religious institutions.»

Just a day after state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed suit against State Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada for «looting» his taxpayer - backed Soundview Health Clinic for more than $ 14 million to fund his own lavish lifestyle, state and federal authorities appeared at the facility with criminal search warrants.

Gjonaj has received criticism from women's rights groups for sending taxpayer - funded mailers touting his support for the ten - point women's equality agenda, a suite of bills he voted against.

The feds say that arrangement was part of an illegal quid pro quo in which Silver funneled $ 500,000 in taxpayer - funded research grants to Taub, who is avoiding prosecution by agreeing to testify against the Manhattan Democrat.

Republicans are increasingly nervous that self - funding Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino, whom recent polls have shown on the move against Lazio, will be able to defeat their designee in the Sept. 14 primary, leaving the party deeply fractured with Lazio on the Conservative line and Paladino (maybe) on a third party Taxpayers line.

JCOPE is the latest agency to launch an investigation into the allegation of nepotism and misuse of taxpayer funds against embattled Assemblywoman Rivera.

The criminal complaint against the three men accuses them of conspiring with two others — Alain Kaloyeros and Todd Howe — to defraud the Buffalo Billion, state's taxpayer funded development program.

Voters also narrowly voted against The Bronx's Rivera, who is under investigation for allegedly stealing from her own non-profit and hiring two former boyfriends for well - paid taxpayer - funded positions.

State officials have taken a big step in the fight against public corruption, as the Legislature has approved a proposal to enact a constitutional amendment that would strip taxpayer - funded pensions from state and local leaders who commit felonies in connection with their office.

And though he wasn't accused of any crime, Brooklyn Assemblyman Vito Lopez was forced to resign his seat in May in the wake of a scathing report about his bullying and sexually inappropriate treatment of female staffers — now the subject of state and federal lawsuits against Lopez and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who apologized for quietly settling earlier complaints against Lopez with a taxpayer - funded confidential settlement.

The politicisation of Safe Schools has now prompted the Australian Christians party to hold a rally against the program, labelling it «taxpayer - funded sexual grooming» (just 20 of its members have publicly committed to attending the rally).

Needless to say, when a public education cabal uses a communication system funded by taxpayers to lobby against those same taxpayers while helping create PACs dedicated to electing tax - and - spend educators, any action in opposition becomes like screaming into the wind.

Since taking office, Team Malloy / Wyman have dumped over $ 450 million in scarce taxpayer funds into charter schools in Connecticut, although these schools consistently discriminate against children who require special services, children who aren't fluent in the English language and children who won't adhere to the charter school's abusive «no - excuses» disciplinary policies designed to push out children with behavioral issues.

The school system and public education advocates believe the county commissioners — by way of the local taxpayers — are the «last line of defense» against reduced state and federal funding and other unfunded state mandates.

And should taxpayers be funding schools that openly discriminate against children and families based on sexual orientation or gender identity?

«Going forward, we need to find a state funding formula that does not pit taxpayers against the public schools,» she said.

«I voted against HB 4 because it establishes an entitlement grant program that will place an increasingly heavier financial burden on Texas taxpayers and decrease the State's ability to adequately fund public education,» she added.

As the Trump administration seeks to expand school choice nationwide, the academy was thrust into the national spotlight last month as part of a heated debate over whether schools that receive money from taxpayer - funded vouchers can discriminate against certain groups of students, such as LGBT children or students with disabilities.

The truth is that Malloy has not announced a moratorium on additional charter schools until mechanisms are developed and put in place that will ensure that taxpayer funds are not being misused, wasted or stolen and that charter schools must not discriminate against Latinos, non-English speaking students and students with special educational needs.

This includes sending taxpayer dollars to fund private and religious schools through voucher programs and fighting against effective charter school policies in favor of a charter sector with little public oversight and accountability.

Again, even though the local board of education voted against the proposal and testified against the project before the State Board of Education and the Connecticut General Assembly, less Connecticut taxpayer funds will be going to public schools and instead, a Bronx charter school company will be getting millions so that it can open a charter school in the Governor's hometown.

«People from across the political spectrum, representing a range of different religions and beliefs, are united on this one point: whatever your views on faith schools themselves, it can not be right for taxpayer - funded schools to divide and discriminate against children,» said Humanists UK chief executive Andrew Copson.

They fail to mention that Connecticut's Attorney General George Jepsen, a former state representative and state senator from Stamford, is fully aware of the problems with Connecticut's school funding formula and yet is spending massive amounts of public funds and staff time in an immoral and unethical fight against the interests of Connecticut's children and property taxpayers.