Sentences with phrase «as backroom deals»

The potential for corruption is huge as backroom deals are made between politicians, the OLG and Good Fellas from Vegas.

While known as a backroom deal maker, Edwards's public appearances are rare, and always a hot ticket.

«No disrespect to Senator Boyle, but he was selected as a backroom deal... and it didn't sit well with voters,» Mr. Zacarese said in an interview this week.

ALBANY, NY (03/27/2012)(readMedia)-- CSEA President Danny Donohue today blasted the new state budget agreement as another backroom deal that puts politics before people.

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It's hard when they lie to us straight out, Arsenal's drop in form last season was meant to be a catalyst for change, we where told the back room was going to be overhauled for a smooth transition when Wenger finally left, we were told we where getting a D.O.F and then a week off the season finishes Wenger signs a new deal and the whole backroom staff got new contracts as well.

Swansea manager monk has confirmed the deal that Roberts will be joining his backroom staff as head of goalkeeping coach.

As former cabinet secretary Lord O'Donnell has pointed out, the main impact of minority government is an increase in backroom political deal - making.

In 2013, NPR's Allan Greenblatt listed a few: It's effectively a one - party state, with the Democrats so dominant that there is no political competition and machine politics set the agenda; the elections are expensive, making candidates reliant on donors; many key decisions, such as the shape of the state budget, are made in backroom deals between a few power players; the local media is so focused on national events that it ignores what's happening in the state (especially upstate); and there's no anti-corruption movement to challenge the existing culture.

She's also questioned Cuomo's economic development programs and criticized the newly approved state budget as another product of Albany's backroom deals.

Unless of course the outcome is already decided as the result of a cynical backroom deal.»

While it's likely that many of the earlier bills dealing with salaries were signed as a result of backroom - deals between governors and legislative leaders, this sort of trading had become fully public.

Looking ahead was better than looking back on a week of outrage from Democrats like Manhattan Sen. Liz Krueger, one of many who described the coalition as «another Albany backroom deal.»

Then director of The Metropolitan Council on Housing, he needed a way to get regular New Yorkers interested in the backroom dealing that he saw as having continually allowed the real estate industry power to weaken rent laws every time they were up for renewal.

As today's actions show, we will not tolerate the graft and backroom deals that have corrupted this proud institution.»

He should step down from his office immediately... The culture of corruption is pervasive as pay - offs, backroom deals, and cronyism are business as usual in Albany.

A team of men, led by the slimy W.N. Bilbo (James Spader) is tasked by Secretary of State William Seward (David Strathairn) with essentially buying the votes of lame - duck Democrats, while abolitionist firebrand Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones, in a performance just as central and Oscar - worthy as Day - Lewis») coordinates backroom deals within his own party.

McConaughey wears his roguish role as if it were bespoke; it's a treat watching his Haller slither through backroom deals and elevator - ride negotiations.

This uncertainty is leading to the sorts of behaviours more akin to political backroom deals than schools: heads promising their schools will go in with each other as long as everyone agrees to keep out a competitor school, over-generous financial offers to primaries with lovely intakes, a shunning of schools with buildings too expensive to maintain.

AF also made a backroom deal to further the Booker T. Washington charter effort, which would garner benefits for AF — not only did Dacia Toll's husband Jeff Klaus write a letter praising «Dr.» Michael Sharpe as an educator of vision, but Klaus advocated for the Booker T. charter without revealing his connections to AF.

In Bridgeport, the Dunbar School was handed over to Sharpe through a backroom deal that included education reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas and Reverend Kenneth Moales, Jr., the Malloy and Finch ally who was then serving as the Chairman of the Bridgeport Board of Education when the lucrative contract was given to Sharpe.

No esoteric «human» decision process (no buying of oversized positions compared to other asset holdings (such as KO in the 90's), no shorting of the dollar (early 2000's), no buying of oil stocks at a $ 120 oil price, no backroom «deals» involving bonds and preferreds during times of crisis.

Last week, the HSUS came this close ««to selling out the hard work of those fighting against puppy mills by working a backroom deal that would have allowed pet stores in the state to continue to do business as usual.

The report goes on to list groups such as the American Lung Association and the Union of Concerned Scientists as «agenda - driven far - left elites» obsessed with using «secretive backroom deals and transfers» to hide their agenda from the public.

We shouldn't, as Fithian suggests, do backroom deals to prop up the status quo, snuff out innovation, and continue to stuff down the throats of consumers what we think is best for them.