Sentences with phrase «also as an assemblyman»

Not exact matches

Not only is Wright Gov. Andrew Cuomo's handpicked state party co-chair (along with Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner), but he is also an assemblyman and serves as chair of the Manhattan Democratic Party.

Also at 10 a.m., state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, state Sens. Jeff Klein, Leroy Comrie and Martin Golden as well as Assemblymen Luis Sepulveda and Felix Ortiz participate in the 14th annual Charter School Advocacy Day, Empire State Plaza, Convention Center, Empire State Plaza Concourse Level, Room 130, Albany.

Farrell also challenged Cuomo's desire to kill member items for good, noting the governor has plenty of economic development cash to dole out on his own — or, as the assemblyman put it: «The governor has people who walk around with money in their pockets.»

Diaz, as it happens, is also a former assemblyman.

It is «illogical» to suspend an organizer and assemblyman in a rival party's stronghold, Afoko fired the top hierarchy of the party, even though as Chairman he sacked a Deputy Communications Director of the NPP, Perry Okudzeto, who also hails from the Volta Region.

This effort is being cast as a show of respect for the late assemblyman, but if he wins, it would also be a boon for local GOP leaders.

Kremer draws from extensive history back to the convention of 1894 and three others after that for his damning analysis, but also from witnessing as a young assemblyman our last con - con in 1967, which accomplished absolutely nothing yet cost taxpayers $ 47 million ($ 336.5 million in 2016 dollars).

In addition to dumping $ 25,000 into the campaign directly through his own leftover campaign cash from his political days, and through an environmental PAC which lists him as the contact, Karben also helped LaCorte attract some major donors that had helped the former assemblyman in the past.

He was, for the record, collecting more from his pension that he was in state salary, but I think the point here is that taking away his pension that dates back prior to his crime (recall that he was an assemblyman and also NYC comptroller prior to his election in 2002) strikes some people as unfair.

Also Thursday, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver says that although mistakes were made in handling sexual harassment claims against the Brooklyn assemblyman, he isn't responding to a call for him to step down as leader.

At this meeting, which was also attended by assemblymen Pete Lopez and Kevin Cahill, as well as senators Seward and Bonacic, Turner said he learned that «legislators want state ed to fix the issue, or they will take the unprecedented step of creating education policy.

Ms. Cancel also brought on her husband John Quinn — a local clubhouse leader close to the old assemblyman — as campaign manager.

And Bronx Assemblyman Eric Stevenson, a former aide to Council Speaker Christine Quinn with a grandfather who also served as a Bronx assemblyman, has deep family roots in the borough's politics.

Spitzer also attacked Stringer over his time as a state assemblyman, when he was part of «the most dysfunctional state legislature in the country.»