Sentences with phrase «as backers said»

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- A proposal to make it easier to sue over police stop - and - frisks is setting the stage for an unusual drama in New York City politics, as backers said Wednesday they would press to get it passed despite opposition from City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.

Not exact matches

Milrad said he saw the populist rhetoric as a sign that Clinton «has been listening» to backers such as himself who want her to embrace some of the economic policies pushed by Senator Elizabeth Warren, a hero of liberal Democrats.

Junior creditors led by Appaloosa Management remain the biggest hold - outs in the CEOC bankruptcy, and have said they have as much as $ 12 billion in claims against Caesars Entertainment and its private equity backers, Apollo Global Management LLC and TPG Capital LP.

«They're running scared,» said Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the main backer of Prop 61, also known as «the California Drug Price Relief Act.»

Backers say it could cut out the middleman and help fight corruption, as the process by which the data is secured makes it virtually impossible to tamper with.

Backers of the petro could be viewed as extending a line of credit to the Venezuelan government, said a spokesperson who went on to state, «The Venezuelan petro currency could therefore expose US persons to legal risk.»

It was clear even before Kraft Heinz came right out and said as much Tuesday that liberal Madison Mayor Paul Soglin and conservative Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and their respective backers had little reason to bash each other for not doing enough to keep Oscar Mayer's Madison plant open with taxpayer - backed financial assistance.

Will it continue, as backers insist, or is the bitcoin price rise a sham investment, as some industry veterans say?

If Arsenal's * billionaire backer's supported their team more and made it known like Abramovich by putting the money where their mouth is (rhetorical saying) then perhaps talented players wouldn't continue to use arsenal as if we're a stepping stone to go to somewhere else.

«I'm hopeful that as they integrate and incorporate new reforms, they'll allow legislation like this to the floor for a vote,» said Sen. Joe Griffo, a Republican who is the main backer of the bill in his chamber.

I have spoken to at least one of Mermel's backers, Rochester's Bill Reilich, who says his support won't last if the party's gubernatorial nominee — assuming there is one — picks someone other than Mermel as his running mate.

Backers say Gregory has the capacity to make news as Suffolk's legislative leader, and would be the first black House member from a majority - Long Island district.

«They saw him as an individual connected to the community,» Yandik said, repeating the plaudits his backers use to describe him.

Stuart Appelbaum, the head of the retail workers» union who is a Kathleen Rice backer in the AG primary, says he got a robocall this weekend from state Sen. Eric Schneiderman's campaign denouncing the Nassau County DA as a former Republican and saying he's «one of us.»

One former party backer says that and it's regarded as worthy of a spread?

However, Paladino's support looks a little stronger as 62 percent of his voters say their mind is made up, compared to 42 percent of Lazio backers.

Backers say he also feels a large part of his appeal is based on his hometown recognition as a former high school quarterback who took Great Neck to its only undefeated football season ever.

And Republican backers of the bill like Ortt say they want to strike an agreement on the repeal legislation — not use it as a bargaining chip in holding up passage of the state budget.

«We have highlighted this injustice over the past month as part of our Corporate Backers of Hate campaign, which has exposed the corporations who are locking up members of our community, like CoreCivic and the Geo Group — and those that are financing them, like JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo,» said Javier H. Valdés, Co-Executive Director of Make the Road New York (MRNY) in a statement.

Labour's biggest union backer says the Labour leader should govern as a minority government in the event that Labour does not win the 2015 general election outright but is the biggest party.

Charter - school backers ripped Mayor de Blasio as a «disgrace» Wednesday after he said their sparkling state exam scores stemmed from a misguided fixation on testing.

(CNN)-- Former President Bill Clinton, a stalwart backer of President Barack Obama who's already helped the incumbent Democrat raise funds for his re-election bid, said Thursday that Mitt Romney had a «sterling business career» as chief executive of Bain Capital.

But as the clock ticks, backers of the measure say they fear that if the bills fail, it will be difficult to muster such support again.

The Senator speaking after a public forum, where backers of the minimum wage increase testified, says he views it as a moral issue.

He said he has backers from a cross section of the criminal justice system, «as well as citizens who want politics out of the DA's office and law enforcement.»

Charter - school backers ripped NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio as a «disgrace» after he said their sparkling state exam scores stemmed from a misguided fixation on testing.

«In the context of all that's going on, as reported in the Times, I don't think that the governor should be running for reelection,» said tate Sen. Bill Perkins, an early Obama backer who is the first prominent African - American official to call for Paterson to end his bid, in an interview.

The councilman and other backers of the three - year bill, such as co-sponsor Margaret Chin (D - Manhattan), say the fee would reduce 60 to 90 percent of the more than 9.3 billion plastic bags New Yorkers throw away annually by promoting the use of reusable bags.

Some senior Labour figures who know the inner circle well say that nothing will happen until Len McCluskey, his most powerful union backer, has secured re-election as the leader of Unite, in April.

PITTSFORD — As more than a dozen states investigate energy companies over an alleged global warming coverup, Vermont RICO 20 professor Alan Betts says backers aren't engaged in an anti-free-speech witch hunt.

And Bloomberg, who has been seen as a likely and important backer for Quinn in the mayor's race, said he was glad Quinn disapproved of an idea he thinks is terrible.

And council members Peter Koo and Peter Vallone of Queens say they haven't endorsed Hizzoner, even though they were named as backers in an August press release from de Blasio's campaign.

Backers have said Buffalo is the nation's largest city without ride - hailing, an absence that visitors from other areas, attending such recent events as the NCAA basketball tournament in Buffalo, that was especially noticed.

It shows how much the Republican dynamic has changed in the East, he said, considering that GOP governors such as former New York Gov. George Pataki were among the initial backers of RGGI.

Every since the 1990s, Clinton has expressed support for charter schools, but in Saturday's remarks, she said something that is likely to irritate her supporters within the Democratic Party who are avid backers of charter schools as a principal means of reforming public education: that most charters don't accept those students who are the most difficult to educate, or, if they do, they «don't keep them.»

But state officials and charter backers say high turnover is to be expected right now, particularly given many parents are expected to take on a demanding role as a «liaison» between their children and the virtual program, which serves students in kindergarten through high school.

Backers say it would require voters to approve guaranteed pension benefits for new workers, as well as benefit increases for current ones.

On April 16, Howard Blume reporting for the Los Angeles Times said, «Austin Beutner has emerged as a leading contender to run the Los Angeles school district, with backers saying he is smart enough and tough enough to confront its financial and academic struggles.»

«I always cite Florida as, really, the furthest along in terms of providing the widest range of choices and the greatest access to those choices of any state in the country, and from a political standpoint, having real bipartisan support for these choices,» she said in an interview last year with Ed Pozzuoli, a South Florida attorney who's a big backer of charter schools.

Backers of what is known as the education reform movement embrace charter schools because the flexibility inherent in their structure is said to allow innovation.

Reports from Venezuela say that the government, previously a major backer of motorsports teams, has «frozen all disbursements of hard currency to automobile and motorcycle racers who compete abroad as they investigate a corruption scandal,» according to the Associated Press.

Mr. Lynn makes the case that Amazon's dominance isn't just a story of an industry disrupted by online commerce and digital upheaval, it's about the abandoning of New Deal era protections of retailers in 1975 (promoted by backers as a means to fight inflation, says Mr. Lynn) and what he portrays as a shift in 1981 in the Justice Department's interpretation of antitrust law based on «Chicago School» theories of efficiency and consumer welfare.

Backers of increased restrictions on dog breeders in North Carolina recorded a conversation with a state Senator who opposes the bill at a meeting earlier this month and, as a result, some Republican leaders say there will be no vote on a proposed puppy mill law this year.

Brand, say Capitol insiders, portrayed the bill's backers as «animal rights wackos» who would next want to free all the dogs, cats and cows in the state.

As we said earlier, physical rewards are making it out to backers of Mighty No. 9.

I have to say, as a backer, I'm getting more and more disappointed by what's been going on lately.

Revolution said to all backers of the project that they were, «so excited, as for the first time ever, we have full creative control of a Broken Sword game, and it's all down to you.

«They want me not as a backer, as that weakens any legal action that I initiate or become a part of, since I'm the only person on the planet capable of completely destroying their dev nonsense with regard to the game,» he said.

The funding chart, long suspected to be inaccurate, and which various sources have said they are willing to testify under oath as to how it's being manipulated, is claimed by CIG to only track backer money.

«I am a little concerned, as there are a fair number of successfully funded campaigns that still haven't delivered their games to backers,» Brooks says.