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Clyde Vanel, an intellectual property lawyer, received 21.8 percent of the vote, Joan Flowers, an attorney, who served as an aide state Sen. Malcolm Smith, got 21.3 percent.

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The comments from Cruz and Lee suggest MacManus will likely face a nasty confirmation battle that will touch on the role he played as Clinton's top aide in the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi attack, as well as during the scandal over her use of a private email account while serving as secretary of State.

On the night of Sept. 11, as the Obama administration scrambled to respond to the Benghazi terror attacks, then - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a key aide effectively tried to cut the department's own counterterrorism bureau out of the chain of reporting and decision - making, according to a «whistle - blower» witness from that bureau who will soon testify to the charge before Congress

Immediately prior to that position, he served as Assistant to the Senate Majority Leader for the Minnesota State Senate, where he was a policy aide to then Majority Leader Roger D. Moe.

Lere Olayinka, media aide to Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has mocked President Muhammadu Buhari for appointing human rights lawyer Festus Keyamo, as his campaign spokesman...

Decide What Care You Need Finding respite care can be as simple as asking friends and family to help out, or as thorough as hiring a special needs caregiver or senior care aide, contacting a state agency or finding help thorough a local volunteer group, local councils on aging, senior center or your faith community, says Edgar.

The State Department can find no emails to or from a former Clinton aide who worked for the agency and also managed her private computer server while she served as secretary of sState Department can find no emails to or from a former Clinton aide who worked for the agency and also managed her private computer server while she served as secretary of statestate.

As questions continue to dog Clinton about her use of a private email account, a spotlight has landed on Huma Abedin, the aide so often at her side that she has been called the former secretary of state's «surrogate daughter.»

An aide to state Sen. Simcha Felder recently told a constituent that the man who mowed down a counterprotester with his car during the Charlottesville hate rally might actually have been a Hillary Clinton supporter posing as a neo-Nazi.

«Our government will spare no effort in its bid to reposition the state most especially the education sector as we are bent and irrevocably ready to provide necessary facilities and equipment to aide teaching and learning process through conducive atmosphere,» The governor pointed out at the site.

The presidential aide also faulted those who had raised concerns on the state of health of the President, wondering whether they would know better than the President's wife, Aisha Buhari, who had said her husband's health was not as bad as being reported.

Below you will find, compliments of the TU's CapCon, the Troopergate - related memo Gov. Andrew Cuomo so desperately wanted to keep from public view that he sent two top aides to the state Archives to remove it from the cache of documents there that date back to his four - year term as state attorney general.

Maloney, a former top aide in the Spitzer and Paterson administrations, played a role in the aftermath of the Troopergate scandal (he was the former governor's internal counsel), which Cuomo investigated in his former role as state attorney general.

A former Cuomo aide, Joe Percoco, has received payments from two companies linked to state contracts, while lobbyist Todd Howe, who represented those firms linked to development, is under investigation as well.

The changes come as lawmakers have sought to push for returning power to DiNapoli's office for procurement oversight following the arrests of prominent upstate developers, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the ex-president of SUNY Polytechnic stemming from an alleged effort to rig state bids on lucrative economic development projects.

A number of other names have been floated by members of the party as possible attorneys general, including 2014 candidate John Cahill, state Senator Andrew Lanza and former George Pataki aide Joe Holland.

A former top aide to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Damien LaVera, has taken a new gig with the powerful state teaches union, NYSUT, as its communications director.

Following the abrupt firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, President Donald Trump signaled he's prepared to dismiss aides with whom he's clashed — including national security adviser H.R. McMaster — as he works to surround himself with advisers more aligned with his populist agenda and freewheeling style.

Prior to that he worked as an aide for a variety of New York State politicians.

Ms. Briccetti's notable career achievements include serving as assistant counsel to the New York State Senate majority, as a legislative aide and counsel to the New York State Assembly majority committee on Racing and Wagering, and special counsel in the New York State Attorney General's office.

A former top aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo — described in court papers as his «right - hand man» — was charged Thursday with taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from companies looking to score state - funded contracts.

Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, has hired Jim Malatras to work as director of state operations, a post occupied until last month by Howard Glaser, according to an email written by the governor's top aide, Larry Schwartz, and provided to The Wall Street Journal.

The @POTUS account — named for the in - house acronym derived from «President of the United States» — would «serve as a new way for President Obama to engage directly with the American people, with tweets coming exclusively from him,» a White House aide wrote that day.

«For us, the biggest distinguishing factor is that every major newspaper in the state endorsed Gelber, so that's a message we could get to voters in a few words in an ad, catching their attention on their phones as they're going into the polls,» Christian Ulvert, Gelber's campaign aide, told us.

State Senate GOP Majority Leader John Flanagan recently fired three aides as he looks to re-make his operation heading into a key election year in 2018.

Former state GOP executive director and Pataki aide Ryan Moses signed on, too, after serving for nearly three years as Director of Government Relations for the Wladis Law Firm.

He won re-election in 2014 against former Capitol Hill aide Amanda Renteria — a top recruit who is poised to serve as former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's political director.

But it has been said that the Americans are likely to vote for the experienced Mrs. Clinton, who was once an aide worker, former First Lady, a Senator and a Secretary of State in the Obama administration, and Nana Addo, knowing the influence the American elections has on the Ghanaian one, is clearly distancing himself from Mr. Donald Trump, who is being described as belligerent, anti-black, anti-Islam, anti-Mexico, among others.

Andrews represented Brooklyn in the state Senate for four years before taking a string of political plums, including a stint as a top aide to Gov. Paterson.

Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway, aides to President Donald J. Trump, are seen on the West Front of the Capitol after Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States in 2017.

Cuomo aides made a point of rolling out a diverse team over the course of the two - day convention, starting with the announcement that former Governor David Paterson, who quietly rivaled with Cuomo in 2009 and 2010 as Cuomo edged him out for the Democratic Party's nomination, would take over the Democratic State Committee.

Beyond Rounds and Weiland, a former Daschle aide, are two independent candidates previously elected as Republicans, former Sen. Larry Pressler and former state Sen. Gordon Howie.

She served as an aide to former Gov. George Pataki, working on New York City issues, and also worked as a staffer to late Staten Island state Sen. John Marchi, who twice ran for mayor.

A former aide to Gov. Tom Wolf and former Gov. Ed Rendell, Democrats say McGinty has a strong base of support as she seeks to take on GOP Sen. Patrick J. Toomey in a state Democrats have won at the presidential level since 1992.

Over the past several months, Cuomo has hired Chris Christie's former chief of staff, a move widely seen as further burnishing his own bipartisan credentials; his aides have reached out to out - of - state donors about a possible fundraising swing later this year.

Most recently, this focus on secrecy was shown in the extraordinary efforts of the governor's aides to shield some of his records from public scrutiny in the State Archives, where a top Cuomo lieutenant spent nearly eight hours screening documents from Cuomo's years as attorney general that were sought by the Times Union under the Freedom of Information Law.

That's according to the Tax Foundation, once derided as a «right - wing think tank» by a top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, which gave credit to changes made in the 2014 - 15 budget to the state's corporate tax structure that reduce the rate and simplified the code.

That investigation exposed a nonprofit set up by, as the AG's press release put it, «a New York state senator,» which allegedly funneled about $ 30,000 in member item funds to those associated with it, including the senator's aide and an individual who shares a residence with the senator.

Mr Sola Fasure, media aide to Gov. Rauf Aregbesola, said in a statement issued in Osogbo that a patient who died at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile - Ife, as a result of the fever, was not from the state.

Political watchers and other pundits, had projected Americans to vote for the experienced Mrs. Clinton, who was once an aide worker, former First Lady, a Senator and a Secretary of State in the first Obama administration, and Nana Addo, knowing the influence the American elections had on the Ghanaian one, clearly distanced himself from Mr. Trump, who ahead of the American election, was described as belligerent, anti-black, anti-Islam, anti-Mexico, among others.

The Doe Fund's George McDonald (he's a big Cuomo donor who got his start in Democratic politics working for Sen. Ted Kennedy and was wearing a Kennedy / NY pin on his suit lapel today), state Democratic Party Executive Director Charlie King (he ran as Andrew Cuomo's LG candidate in 2002), and Paul Francis, a former aide / campaign advisor to ex-Gov.

The letter, written by a top Cuomo aide, says the student test scores are «unacceptable,» and asks Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch and outgoing Education Commissioner John King what to do about an evaluation system that rates just 1 percent of all of the teachers in the state as poorly performing.

The breaking point came with the revelation as to why Governor McGreevey had appointed Golan Cipel, an obscure aide, as head of the state's Homeland Security office.

Vladimir Putin brushed aside Western sanctions against his closest aides yesterday by recognising Crimea as a sovereign state.

The lawmaker, who spoke through his media aide, Austin Oniyokor, said it was true that he was renovating the health facility as part of his constituency projects, only for the state government to claim it was not informed.

If the governor and state legislative leaders are really serious about curbing corruption, then they should prioritize meaningful reform next year — especially as two of the governor's former aides are scheduled go to trial on charges related to bribery and bid - rigging some of the state's keystone economic development projects

Walzak is a political veteran who has served as a senior aide on the 2012 Senate campaign of Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin, the first woman to represent the state in the Senate and as the first openly gay member.

After leaving the startup, she was hired as an office manager and legislative aide to New York State Assemblyman Marc Alessi.

As an Advance Aide to President Bill Clinton and then - First Lady Hillary Clinton, David traveled across the country and world representing the United States.

Two weeks ago, as the Occupy Wall Street forces openly debated setting up a camp, top Cuomo aides made it clear that they intended to enforce a curfew in the state - owned end of the park.