Sentences with phrase «all over the governor»

The legislature in July enacted a fiscal 2018 budget that included the bond authorization, as well as an income tax hike over the governor's vetoes.

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For Madison, such designs were dangerously anti-republican, making it far more difficult for the people to maintain a vigilant watch over their governors.

In early betting, President Obama opened as a huge favorite over Governor Mitt Romney, with William Hill listing the incumbent as a -700 favorite.

This year, the WFP nearly nominated its own candidate, Fordham Law School Professor Zephyr Teachout, after party activists raised alarm over the governor's economic record.

Astorino's comments come after weeks of attacks from Hochul over the Governor's Buffalo Billion initiative.

Heastie, in the interview, sounded a note of alarm over the governor tying policy such as income disclosure proposals to spending in the budget.

NYC took over Governor's Island — an achievement by Mayor Bloomberg that eluded his predecessors.

The Working Families Party endorsed Cynthia Nixon for governor and Jumaane Williams for lieutenant governor, rejecting its 2014 path of political accommodation and instead supporting Nixon and Williams over Governor Andrew Cuomo and Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul.

School aid, up $ 202 million over the governor's original proposal for next year, and $ 2.2 billion across the four - year plan, accounts for most of the difference.

Those still in the WFP say it makes it more likely that the activist groups remaining in the party will endorse Cynthia Nixon over Governor Andrew Cuomo in a party meeting on Saturday.

A Siena College poll found that the teachers unions have a slight edge over the governor in public support.

A mini war has sparked between Gov. David Paterson and the Senate Democrats, who are incensed over the governor's veto of a bill that would establish a 30 percent rent cap people on public assistance who are living with HIV or AIDS.

Assembly Democratic Majority Leader Ron Canestrari said that the chamber's Democratic conference was almost evenly split over the governor's plan.

ALBANY, N.Y. — State lawmakers in Albany are grumbling over Governor Andrew Cuomo's hardball approach to the ethics this year.

Even this year, when a number of lawmakers threatened to disrupt his annual State of the State address with protests over the governor's refusal to go along with legislative pay raises, Cuomo didn't plead with them or negotiate.

Zephyr Teachout, Democratic challenger to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, celebrated her latest legal victory over the governor on Monday with a party at the Hollow Nickel on Atlantic Avenue, not far from the courthouse.

However, lawmakers in both chambers have chafed at the play, and so far have refused to introduce the budget amendments, a maneuver that allows them to retain some leverage over the governor during the budget talks.

«CSEA has already filed an Improper practice charge with PERB earlier this week over the governor's threats which are a violation of the agreement and the Taylor Law.»

Kornacki pointed out that the WFP has now bargained away whatever leverage it might have had over the governor by agreeing to endorse him at last night's convention.

Several labor groups left the Working Families Party as the organization prepared to endorse Cynthia Nixon over the governor in his Democratic primary.

The suit concludes that a «dispute exists» over the governor's constitutional authority to force the Legislature to pass non-revenue items in a revenue bill and this «requires a judicial determination of the score of non-apportionment or non-revenue lanuague in Article VII bills.»

There's skepticism over the governor's motives.

An argument erupted between the Cuomo Administration and the State Comptroller over the Governor's budget plan, in a dispute that underscores existing tensions between the two.

The media should be all over the governor over the crime statistics.

A new poll finds Governor Cuomo's popularity has dipped to a near record low, and the reason could be dissatisfaction in New York City over the Governor's handling of the mass transit system.

Sponsors of a medical marijuana bill continued to negotiate with Gov. Andrew Cuomo over the governor's objections to many of the measure's provisions, but say they are hopeful that a deal can be reached in the next couple of days.

A new poll finds Governor Andrew Cuomo's popularity has dipped to a near record low, and the reason could be dissatisfaction in New York City over the governor's handling of the mass transit system.

The aspirants could not hide their displeasure over the governor's unfettered movement all over the election venue, including where the delegates were seated.

Meanwhile, investigations at the state and city level continue to swirl, including over the governor's signature economic development program, the Buffalo Billion.

This isn't the first protest over the governor's fiscal priorities.

Senator - elect Gustavo Rivera is the latest Democrat to express concern over Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo's call for an expedited process to declare winners in the three cliffhanger races that will determine who controls the chamber for the next four years.

... That was lead of David Rubin's column in today's Syracuse Post-Standard, in which he sided with the city's mayor, Stephanie Miner, in her ongoing verbal battle with Gov. Andrew Cuomo over the governor's controversial pension smoothing proposal.

Cuomo declined to endorse in Miner's primary race following a year of very public disagreement over the governor's pension smoothing proposal.

Legislative leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo appear close on a budget deal, but there's consternation among Assembly Democrats over the governor's plan to find some $ 250 million in Medicaid savings, much of which would come from New York City.

As a law professor, currently at Fordham, Ms. Teachout has focused on anti-corruption, and her anger, shared by so many, over the governor's failed promises to eradicate the carousel of bribery and pernicious influence in Albany has been central to her campaign.

Former Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala has called on the Federal Government to call Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole to order over the Governor's recent efforts to tarnish her reputation by linking her...

Frequent helicopter flights over Governors Island disturb visitors, the park superintendent said.

Another huge question hovering over the governor is whether Percoco, privy for years to the intimate workings of the Cuomo administration, might have information that would be of interest to Bharara — which he might be willing to trade for leniency.

DeFrancisco backs other reform measures, including a bill to provide greater oversight over the governor's economic development projects, which are at the root of the Percoco trial and other corruption trials for additional former Cuomo associates scheduled for the spring.

It is unfair, and unreasonable to hold residents» holiday plans hostage over the Governor's and the legislature's inability to meet the budget deadline,» Democratic Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle said.

In 2003, over the Governor's vetoes, the Legislature closed the state's budget gap in a much more balanced manner than New York State had pursued in the early 1990s, and the state is now enjoying the benefits of those choices.

Lawmakers at this point have taken the unusual step of not introducing Cuomo's ethics measures as a way of preserving some leverage over the governor during the negotiations.

WFP activists had seized on a Siena College and later Quinnipiac University polls that showed an unnamed liberal challenger would draw votes away from Cuomo as discontent grew over the governor's economic record.

There has been zero discord at the NYS GOP convention, which is a big switch from four years ago, when an internal battle over the governor's race divided the party.

Some members of the region's state delegation disagree over Governor Cuomo's $ 145 billion budget, though the reactions are generally mixed along party lines.

The organization, of which Schneiderman had been a member before his resignation, has had a prickly relationship with Cuomo over the governor's 2015 executive order that gave Schneiderman the authority to intervene as a special prosecutor in cases involving fatal encounters between police and unarmed civilians.

Several legislators — already angry with Cuomo over the demise of a special session that was expected to include a salary increase, as well as over the governor's decision to drop the normal State of the State presentation in Albany — attacked his plans.

Heastie says that's an improvement over the governor's initial plan, which directly linked school aid increases to the new plans, and would have held up the additional school aid until the teacher reviews were completed.

Some in the WFP, a union - controlled New York City - based party, even fear that with Cuomo at the top of their ticket, they won't get the 50,000 votes needed for legal recognition because of voter anger over the governor's refusal to support Mayor de Blasio's plan to tax high earners to fund universal pre-K.