Sentences with phrase «as assemblyman for»

The 69 - year - old served as assemblyman for the downtown Flushing area from 2005 - 06 and has remained an influential political force ever since.

McLaughlin said he would continue to be independent and work across the aisle, as he has as an assemblyman for the last seven years.

Even if Silver loosens his grip on the legislature, it looks like he's a long way from letting go; there's no talk of him resigning as assemblyman for Manhattan's Lower East Side.

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.

«William F. Boyland Jr., the four - term assemblyman representing the 55th district in Brooklyn, went on what for him might be described as a bill - drafting binge during the legislative session earlier this year — introducing a total of three measures in Albany.»

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.

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

It is funny: back in August of 2011 when Micah Kellner was making the case for his compromise bill, a spokesman for Mayor Bloomberg said, «we didn't realize that [Kellner] had quit his job as an assemblyman and become a spokesman for the medallion owners.»

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.

Terry studied at Queens College and St. John's Law School, working as a staffer for a Democratic state assemblyman.

Levy noted he has been in public service for «25 of my 51 years,» serving 15 years as a Suffolk County legislator, three as a state assemblyman and seven as county executive.

(For the most part, they were talking about George Amedore's right - of - center voting record as an assemblyman.)

As DiNapoli seeks his first full term this fall — the former Democratic assemblyman was picked for the post in 2007 — his party's leaders have made divestment a political issue.

For the Democrats, State Assemblymen Michael Cusick and Peter Abbate, as well as lawyer Stephen Harrison, have been mentioned.

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

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.

In 2005, a task force I appointed (as Rockland's state assemblyman) reported that casinos then proposed for the Catskills would dramatically increase traffic passing on Rockland's portion of the Thruway — with real consequences for air quality, traffic safety and law enforcement activity.

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.

Bharara once again condemned the «pervasive corruption» of Albany as he announced that Bronx Assemblymen Eric Stevenson had been charged with selling the most basic functions of his office in exchange for envelopes stuffed with cash.

«I've been involved in New York state politics as an observer and a participant for 50 years,» said Tony Casale, a former assemblyman and current adviser to the state GOP.

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.

«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.

Republican Assemblymen Jim Tedisco and Steve McLaughlin and Sen. Hugh Farley held a news conference just before Memorial Day asking for a «three strikes» law that would hit multiple offenders with lifetime revocation, although that concept encompassed all forms of dangerous driving as opposed to crimes specifically related to drunken or drugged operation.

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.

Putting aside that new state Sen. Cecilia Tkaczyk trounced GOP assemblyman George Amedore in Ulster County by an official 8,804 on major - party lines, the hard - working Working Families Party came out a clear winner, its line providing the Democrat almost twice as many votes as the Conservative Party and Independence Party lines (for Amedore) combined.

ALBANY - A former assemblyman is the latest top - level Cuomo administration staffer to leave for a job in the airline industry as Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo plans a $ 4 billion overhaul of LaGuardia Airport.

As a state assemblyman, he drew criticism in the community for voting to pass the same - sex marriage bill in New York.

Hoyt left the Assembly when Cuomo hired him for a post at Empire State Development that paid $ 154,000 — almost double his $ 79,500 base salary as an assemblyman.

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.

As I reported yesterday, two Assemblymen — David Weprin and Rory Lancman — have emerged as frontrunners for the Democratic nod in NY - As I reported yesterday, two Assemblymen — David Weprin and Rory Lancman — have emerged as frontrunners for the Democratic nod in NY - as frontrunners for the Democratic nod in NY - 9.

Eliot Spitzer in 2007 (a move widely seen as designed to get Grannis out of the running for the state comptroller's post, which eventually went to another former assemblyman, Tom DiNapoli).

Assemblymen Al Stripe and Bill Magnarelli continue to support Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver even as he's criticized for his handling of the Vito Lopez sexual harassment scandal.

Jurors in the federal corruption trial of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver heard from the defendant for the first time on yesterday, as the government introduced into evidence audio recordings between the assemblyman and various political reporters — including yours truly.

Before becoming an assemblyman himself, Weprin served as a City Council member for eight years and led an unsuccessful run for city comptroller in 2009.

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).

Michael Blake, a Bronx assemblyman viewed as a rising star in the Democratic Party, drew scathing reactions from good government groups and reformers after he announced on Friday he was going to work for Hilltop Public Solutions, a campaign and public relations firm closely tied to Mr. de Blasio, while serving in the Assembly.

He claims Democratic operatives misrepresented themselves as Conservatives while carrying petitions for the Conservative opponent of Kearns — an official pariah at Democratic Headquarters after the Democratic assemblyman accepted the GOP line in his run for county clerk.

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.

Silver's action immediately led to calls for Lopez's resignation as chairman of Brooklyn's Democratic Party from Lincoln Restler, a state committeeman and longtime opponent of the assemblyman.

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.

For former assemblyman Pete Lopez, now EPA regional administrator, returning to family roots in Puerto Rico, was, as Yogi Berra used to say, deja vu all over again.

«With all the votes accounted for I have, with your support and faith, come out ahead.Thank you for your vote and belief in me; it has been the most difficult and most humbling experience of my life... As I've said since the first day of my campaign, I will be leaving my 25 - year career at Cobleskill Stone to be your full - time assemblyman.»

The assemblyman, running for state Senate, was flanked by 10 supporters as he challenged his opponent Chris McGrath to a debate.

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.

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.

Molinaro was a state assemblyman, but has served for the last seven years as county executive in Dutchess.

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.