Sentences with phrase «as an assemblyman who»

Miller described himself to the audience as an assemblyman who stands up for the rights of seniors.

In his endorsement, Weiner described Miller as an assemblyman who in tough financial times makes sure that while the budget is tight, he cuts only the excess and not important services.

Not exact matches

trader from whom Captain Maxwell Mahama bought snails, was the one who informed the assemblyman of Denkyira Obuasi that the young military officer was an armed robber, after she had seen the sidearm of the now deceased officer as he took money from his pocket to pay for the snails, police have told journalists at a joint press conference with the Ghana Armed Forces at the Police Headquarters in Accra on Friday, 2 June.

Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr., who is reportedly mulling a primary challenge to his fellow Bronx Democrat, Rep. Jose Serrano, is using the modern - day targeting of the Puerto Rican Day Parade by AG Eric Schneiderman to re-visit what he says was the «selling out» of the Latino community in connection with the same event by the congressman back in his days as an assemblyman.

Maurice Hinchey, who served the Hudson Valley for 38 years as a state assemblyman and congressman, has frontotemporal degeneration, a rare and terminal neurological disorder, his family announced.

But there has been political tension between the governor and Mr. Klein, who may face a primary challenge from Oliver Koppell, a former assemblyman and City Council member from the Bronx, who served as state attorney general for a year during the administration of Mr. Cuomo's father.

Rob Walker, a former Republican state assemblyman from Hicksville who served as chief deputy to former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, was indicted on federal charges of obstructing justice and lying to FBI agents on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018.

Silver is the New York assemblyman who served as speaker of the house for two decades until Monday at noon.

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.»

It has been a determined and successful road to the top for Schumer, who was elected as a 23 - year - old state assemblyman from Brooklyn in 1974 before going to Washington as a congressman.

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.

We are so grateful to have such strong leaders as Assemblymen Tedisco and McLaughlin who recognize the precarious state of our aging underground and forgotten infrastructure, and who understand how we can incorporate cost effective, new technologies — such as UV cured - in - place pipe lining — to provide New Yorkers with safe solutions to what is possibly the greatest challenge to our life - sustaining underground infrastructure that we have seen in generations,» said Mara Killburn, Managing Member, Precision Trenchless.

Camara's endorsement comes just hours before district leaders will gather to vote on a successor to Lopez, who announced late last month he would not seek another term as chairman, thanks to the burgeoning sexual harassment scandal that has now enmeshed not only the once - powerful assemblyman, but three top state leaders, too: Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.

A Democratic assemblyman who spurned his own primary this year and will run on the GOP and Conservative lines, Kearns looms as a major Zellner target.

He is a former state assemblyman in New York, who was elected by the state legislature as New York State Comptroller on February 7, 2007.

Vito Lopez, the former assemblyman and Brooklyn Democratic boss who was forced from office after being accused of sexually harassing his staffers, filed petitions to run again for his position as a district leader and state committeeman, according to Board of Elections documents.

After all, the former assemblyman's staff is still getting paid, as it works to field calls from constituents who have no elected representative.

In a shocking twist, the feds used a state assemblyman, who was indicted in The Bronx for multiple felonies, as a snitch to help take down Stevenson, a former legislative researcher for City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, according to the complaint.

In September, Behar will face off against three Democrats in the primary election, including Edward Braunstein, who works as a legislative assistant for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan); John Duane, a former assemblyman in the district and brother of Sen. Tom Duane (D - Manhattan); and Whitestone attorney Elio Forcina.

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.

Republicans have targeted the district, which was carved out by the G.O.P. during the last round of redistricting to favor Amedore, who represented part of the district while serving as a state assemblyman.

«Today we look at that as it was, the Red Scare,» said Jack McEneny, a former Democratic assemblyman who acted as a historian for the chamber who agrees there was a legal question to expelling Lopez.

While Long did not come anywhere close to defeating Gillibrand — the incumbent Democrat broke a statewide record held by Schumer when she secured 72 percent of the vote — she is the highest profile Republican candidate to emerge as a potential challenger for Schumer, a former assemblyman from Brooklyn who is in line to become the Democratic leader of the U.S. Senate.

In 1994, the «obscure» and «soft - spoken» assemblyman, as the Times Union described him at the time, took over as speaker from Saul Weprin, who suffered a stroke in January of that year and died weeks later.

Mr. Stringer, who was an assemblyman in 1999 and voted against the repeal, will describe his plan in a speech on Tuesday at a meeting of a prominent civic group, the Association for a Better New York, a regular stop for the city's presumptive mayoral candidates as they try to define themselves amid a crowded field of left - leaning progressives.

The assemblyman, who started his political career as a Black Panther, was referring the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, a lawsuit brought by New York City parents against the state in the»90s.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> Maurice Hinchey, who served the Mid-Hudson Valley for 38 years as a state assemblyman and congressman, has frontotemporal degeneration, a rare and terminal neurological disorder, his family announced Tuesday.

«I'm willing to put my pension on the line and go back to Albany and vote a second time to strip it if I do anything wrong,» said Ceretto, who has 21 years in the state pension system as a local officeholder, State Parks employee and assemblyman.

NEW YORK --- A Bronx state assemblyman showed up late for the start of his New York bribery trial Tuesday and then shook his head repeatedly as a prosecutor described him as a politician who sold his office for thousands of dollars in cash from four businessmen.

«The fact that the witness interprets it as «to get what I want I have to pay» is not necessarily what Silver was intending,» said Quijano, who represented former assemblyman William Boyland last year in a bribery case.

The officials who received sentences that mirrored the government's recommendations — former assemblyman Anthony Seminerio, and former state senators Carl Krueger and Efrain Gonzalez, Jr. — were convicted of «conduct... less serious than here because they did not approach the level of power that Dean Skelos had as Majority Leader,» prosecutors wrote.

Mr. Espaillat had personally campaigned for Ms. Alcantara as well as another candidate of Dominican descent, Carmen De La Rosa, who was trouncing an incumbent assemblyman, Guillermo Linares, in his Inwood district, 46 percent to 32 percent.

The source close to Sepulveda said the assemblyman views Diaz, who has often been at odds with his own Senate Democratic conference, as a mentor.

The son, a former Bronx assemblyman and City Council member who was voted out of office twice, started last week as «deputy director of intergovernmental relations,» a $ 120,000 - a-year job, according to Austin Shafran, a Senate spokesman.

But Moya's real target was Cuomo, who the assemblyman said needs to «show true leadership and to bring Senator Dean Skelos back to the table to open up talks on the Dream Act, just as [the governor] has in the past with tough issues like marriage equality and the SAFE Act.

State Sen. Simcha Felder, a Democrat who conferences with Republicans, has both lines as do Assemblymen Michael Simanowitz and Mickey Kearns.

Mulrow will definitely bring a different style to the job than Schwartz, just as Jim Malatras, a wonky policy expert who cut his teeth in the office of former assemblyman Richard Brodsky, has to the position of director of state operations, which he took over after the departure of a longtime Cuomo confidante, Howard Glaser.

One is a public - corruption squad that helped investigate Eliot Spitzer, the former governor, as well as two Queens assemblymen, Anthony S. Seminerio and Bryan McLaughlin, who were convicted on corruption charges in recent years.

«He may actually have a conflict because as a member of the City Council, his first obligation is to the people of the city,» said Richard Brodsky, the former assemblyman who led a successful effort to reform the state's public authorities.

The race's Democrats include Edward Braunstein, who works as a legislative assistant for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan); Bayside attorney Steve Behar, who ran in the race to replace former City Councilman Tony Avella last year; John Duane, a former assemblyman in the district and brother of state Sen. Tom Duane (D - Manhattan); and Whitestone attorney Elio Forcina.

«The world is changing and, as always, elected officials will be the last one on the train,» said Richard Brodsky, a former Democratic assemblyman and now a senior fellow at the Wagner School at New York University who has been at Occupy Wall Street.

Keith L.T. Wright is a state assemblyman who represents Harlem and serves as the co-chair of the state Democratic Party.

MirRam boasts as a partner of Roberto Ramirez, a former assemblyman and Bronx Democratic chairman who actively helped Heastie (D - Bronx) with his transition to speaker.

The 27 - member team (oddly, the executive order that formed it says Cuomo would appoint up to 25 voting members, and it's not clear who won't be voting), includes four state lawmakers — Assemblymen Richard Gottfried and Joe Giglio and Senators Tom Duane and Kemp Hannon — as well as representatives from all over the health care sector (Ken Raske of GNYHA, 1199 — both current president George Gresham and his predecessor, Dennis Rivera, Dan Sisto of HANYS etc..)

Richard Brodsky, a former state assemblyman who attended the 1984 convention as a delegate, said the power of Mario Cuomo's speech was that it made a «spiritual» case for Democratic principles.

Other candidates who have looked at the race previously, and may do so again, include Joyce Johnson, whom the New York Times endorsed; Assemblyman Keith Wright, the chairman of the Manhattan Democratic organization, who is close to Rangel and could be a leading candidate to replace him should Rangel step down or not seek re-election, as is often rumored to be the case; Adriano Espaillat, a newly elected state senator who could appeal to the growing Hispanic population in the district, depending on what happens with redistricting; and Adam Clayton Powell IV, the former assemblyman and the son of the legendary congressman whom Rangel unseated 40 years ago, who has run and lost against Rangel twice in the past.

In September, Forcina will face off against three Democrats in the primary election, including Edward Braunstein, who works as a legislative assistant for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan); Steve Behar, an attorney who ran last year in the race to replace then - City Councilman Tony Avella; and John Duane, a former assemblyman in the district and brother of state Sen. Tom Duane (D - Manhattan).

Dinowitz singled out two Democratic assemblymen in particular as the «loudest opponents» of the bill: Ways and Means chairman Herman Farrell, who represents Washington Heights, and Rochester - area Assemblyman Joseph Morelle.

Democrats running for Carrozza's seat include Edward Braunstein, who works as a legislative assistant for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan); Steve Behar, an attorney who ran last year in the race to replace then - City Councilman Tony Avella; Elio Forcina, a Whitestone attorney; and John Duane, a former assemblyman in the district and brother of state Sen. Tom Duane (D - Manhattan).

Ms. Niou, who worked for nonprofit groups and as a legislative aide in Washington State, fighting predatory lending, has been chief of staff to a Queens assemblyman.