Sentences with phrase «against the legislators who»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

While the Berks County legislator, a longtime advocate of limited government who billed himself as the true conservative in the primary, has neither encouraged or discouraged the nascent write - in movement, which began to take shape only a few days after the state's bruising primary election — a lopsided contest in which the heavily - favored attorney general and the GOP establishment unleashed a last - minute barrage of negative ads against Rohrer's insurgent candidacy.

Bharara, who because of the criminal cases against the lawmakers is not exactly popular among legislators, summed up his discomfort with the process in his podcast, «Stay Tuned with Preet.»

[126] Two new legislators who were thought to support the amendment voted against it, while nine who had supported it in January, seven Democrats and two Republicans, changed their votes to oppose it.

Curran, a Democratic county legislator who often railed against patronage during her campaign, has pledged to base hiring on «what you know, not who you know.»

It is certainly not an illustration of courage or leadership on the part of the council members, legislators, mayor or county executive, who have joined in the chorus of racist and incompetent Board of Ed members seeking my removal, so as to push back on me to not disclose their culpability in rigging the recent teacher's contract, or their complicity in trying to unfairly settling the Board's $ 450 million lawsuit against Lou Ciminelli, for fleecing the citizens and children of Buffalo.

I stand today not just with our legislators, but everyone who is working to push back against the scourge of gun violence in our nation.»

«It is certainly not an illustration of courage or leadership on the part of the council members, legislators, mayor or county executive, who have joined in the chorus of racist and incompetent Board of Ed members seeking my removal, so as to push back on me to not disclose their culpability in rigging the recent teacher's contract, or their complicity in trying to unfairly settling the board's $ 450 million lawsuit against (developer) Lou Ciminelli for fleecing the citizens and children of Buffalo.

Cohen didn't stop there, claiming Gov. Andrew Cuomo is threatening state employees, and even legislators, who might want to speak out against the move.

Holmquist, who voted against the bond authorization, said county legislators needed more time to evaluate the finances of the amphitheater.

In New York, it is not against the law for legislators to take outside income — and it was a major factor in the case of Mr. Silver, who prosecutors said had traded state grant money and influence on tenant legislation in exchange for legal referral fees.

Cuomo has at least one card up his sleeve to use against those who would punt on the issue of marriage equality: He can force legislators back for an emergency conference to deal with the issue.

Disgraced ex-Assemblyman Nelson Castro, who worked as an undercover informant against his fellow Albany legislators, is considering running for his old office, The Post has learned.

Legislators who voted against the plan say it will take too long to tax homeowners at a fair market value.

The case — along with the conviction of former Senate leader Dean Skelos, who is to be sentenced May 12 — was a capstone of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's crusade against Albany corruption, and prosecutors asked for more than 14 years in prison — the highest federal sentence ever for a New York legislator.

As many local activists waved signs protesting the proposed Pilgrim Pipeline, she denounced her Republican opponent, former state legislator John Faso of Kinderhook, as a lobbyist for an energy company dealing in fracked gas and promised to «stand up against big polluters who want to pollute our waterways.

Legislator Tom Barraga (R - East Islip), who spent over 20 years in Albany as an assemblyman, voted along with legislators Jay Schneiderman (I - Montauk) and Tom Cilmi (R - Bay Shore) against the county Legislature's budget — pointing to past bailouts in New York City and Nassau County as evidence the legislation would not be much of a risk at all.

A spokesman for the Assembly Democrats, who are in power in that house, also says the legal fees went to redistricting related court action, as well as for the Assembly's legal challenges against Cuomo's Moreland Commission's efforts to look at outside income from legislators.

John Ciampoli — an attorney representing the state Republican Party, an intervener in the case that is against closing the LLC loophole — suggested that if the loophole were closed by the judiciary, every legislator who failed to pass a bill could run to the court seeking relief.

There was heavy lobbying on both sides of the issue — with yellow cab drivers who were against the legislation surrounding the Capitol with their cabs and livery drivers who spent hours debating legislators in the halls.

«I was surprised and shocked,» said the legislator, who ran unsuccessfully against Mr. Levy in 2003.

Cuomo, who endorsed Curran in her Democratic primary last month against County Comptroller George Maragos, will headline a fundraiser for the Baldwin legislator Thursday at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury.

«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.

On Monday, an anonymous Cuomo administration official trashed legislators who have begun talking about more oversight hearings and a firmer stance against him.

Later, after Nixon and Mozes split and she and Marinoni began dating, Nixon became devoted to the fight for LGBTQ rights in New York, co-founding an organization to oust state legislators who had voted against gay marriage.

ALBANY — The Assembly's ethics committee is investigating a sexual harassment complaint against Angela Wozniak, a freshman legislator from suburban Buffalo who was elected in the wake of a previous sex scandal.

At the Jewish Center of Jackson Heights, legislators and constituents discussed the best strategy to use to pass a pro-LGBT marriage bill in 2011, partly in response to the recent suicides by teenagers who were gay or perceived to be gay and the recent hate crimes against gay people in the city: an assault of a bartender at Julius Bar in Manhattan Oct. 11 and an attack on three gay men in the Bronx by nine attackers Oct. 3.

«Only Andrew Cuomo would believe that replacing a state legislator who claimed per diems for expenses when not at work with a former Governor who was fined for shaking down the Yankees for playoff tickets is a solution to the ethical problems within the Democratic Party,» said Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate who will face off against Cuomo if he wins the Democratic Party nod for a second term.

New York (CNN)- New York state legislator Adam Clayton Powell on Monday announced his candidacy in this year's Democratic primary against 20 - term U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel, who has spent the past year battling an ethics investigation.

Leading the group is Rockland County Legislature member Ed Day, R - New City, who is running against Spring Valley Democrat David Fried, a former village judge and former county legislator, to succeed County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef, R - Orangetown.

Legislators for several weeks have said they intend to be more assertive this year against Cuomo, who has injected a growing amount of policy proposals into budget spending documents.

(3) You don't have to say that you heard this from me, but there are rumors making their way through Albany that Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan has promised absolution to those legislators who will support the Parental Choice in Education Act AND that Governor Andrew Cuomo — a most astute politician — has requested two absolutions instead of one to cover up at least two mortal sins that he has committed against the Church.

Upstate, Gianaris said the DSCC is targeting the Rochester - area district represented by retiring Sen. Jim Alesi and is pushing Chuck Swanick, a former Erie County legislator, against freshman Sen. Mark Grisanti, a Buffalo Republican who won a close race in a heavily Democratic district.

Legislator Jay Hood was the sole legislator who voted against the measure, arguing that the issue has been drawn out long enough.

Mr. Cuomo, who holds a wide lead in polls over possible challengers, has said he would even go so far as to support rival candidates against recalcitrant legislators of either party, according to people familiar with private discussions the attorney general has had with potential supporters.

Legislative Democrats — including Curran, who was then a Baldwin legislator — in July 2016 voted against borrowing.

Today's Times tells us about how Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (who has, in the past, been accused of ignoring sexual - harassment allegations against his colleagues) swiftly called for a meeting of the Assembly's Ethics Committee after an affair between a married upstate legislator and a 19 - year - old intern came to light.

He brought bribery cases against Fred Towle, a Republican county legislator from Shirley who was sentenced to 6 months in jail, and Steve Baranello, a Democratic campaign aide and the son of former Suffolk Democratic chairman Dominic Baranello.

An anti-tax group has begun an aggressive media campaign against Ralph J. Marino, the Long Island legislator who is the Senate's Republican leader.

For many legislators, there's a mix of anger at colleagues who dishonor the institution and anger at outsiders who rail against it,» Schneiderman planned to say.

He was joined by County Executive Ed Day, County Legislators Carey and Hofstein, Clarkstown Councilman Frank Borelli, County GOP Chairman Lawrence Garvey, Clarkstown Town Board candidate, John Noto who will be running against Councilwoman Shirley Lasker, and Candidate for Highways Superintendent, Frank DiZenzo.

Some of the legislators who voted against the bill expressed uncertainty about the impact it would have on the public school system and the state's general fund.

The race for the state's top schools job has long followed a familiar pattern: A state legislator, anointed by the Democratic establishment and the teachers unions, faces off against political outsiders who want to bust up the Sacramento status quo.

In the meantime, anyone who cares about the future of our students should urge their legislators to vote against House Bill 2214 when it comes up for a vote at the end of the final Special Session in 2015.

The NAACP vote came after intense lobbying against the resolution from the industry and its allies, including editorials in the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, a letter from black pro-charter legislators from California (where the sector gets almost anything it wants), and out - of - state protesters who were bused in and interrupted the NAACP's proceedings.

«With the support of the public and the legislators who helped pass the law, it is fitting for a state like Utah, which embraces no - kill through Best Friends» initiative, No - Kill Utah (NKUT), to abolish all prejudices against breed.

There are some who argue that ADR could be used as a tool to delay procedures and, therefore, diminish access to justice, i.e. going against the very goal set by the legislator in deciding to incorporate section 1 into the Code.