Sentences with phrase «back on the constituents»

It is a BFD when elected representatives turn their back on constituents — selling them out to party leadership.

In a barnstorming speech to about 80 supporters in downtown Saranac Lake, Martz touted her economic development background and criticized Stefanik for her vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and accused the lawmaker of turning her back on her constituents.

These senators should truly be ashamed of themselves for turning their backs on their constituents and instead siding with polluting special interests.

Not exact matches

Re Prentice, I agree resigning as Tory leader is defensible, to an extent... but resigning the seat he had just won back on E-Day, leaving his constituents unrepresented and putting us all on the hook for an unnecessary by - election was crass and cowardly.

That list includes Rep. Chris Gibson (NY - 20), who considers his time in D.C. a «deployment,» and eschews paying rent on an apartment or a house while he's in the nation's capital — a place he tries to spend as little time as possible in favor of being back in the district with his family and constituents.

Staten Island Borough President Jim Molinaro applied for his city pension this year — on top of his $ 160,000 city salary — but then had second thoughts about how his constituents in the city's most conservative borough would view the double - dip and pulled back the application.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in two separate venues on Thursday railed against a Republican - backed tax bill that was approved in the House of Representatives, accusing the GOP lawmakers from New York voted for it of betraying their constituents.

«Sadly, some representatives in New York have sold their vote and turned their backs on the very constituents they represent,» Cuomo said, after the House vote on Thursday.

The Senate on Tuesday expressed its backing for the embattled lawmaker representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Senator Dino Melaye, over the ongoing move by his constituents to recall him from the National Assembly.

The Tories were laughing their asses off at New labour's willingness to neglect or even bash their own constituents in the hope of a pat on the back from the Sun & the Daily Mail that might help Labour in a southern marginal.

First Fields said she would back the Democratic nominee, then she reneged while admitting «maybe it does look bad» to go back on her word, then reminded constituents she is still in office.

«It is because I know that most MPs want to see the very highest standards in public life that I am determined that we sweep away this old system and introduce a new system and in doing so move back to ensuring the focus in parliament is on the issues that affect our constituents» lives.»

«I wish to remain on the back benches and to speak up for the things that matter to me and my constituents.

With the Euro election campaign kicking in, and pretty much any Westminster MP worth their salt already clearly focused on persuading their constituents to back them at the polls in 2010 - isn't now a better time than ever to get attention for your issue?

And the GOP also got some extra breathing room thanks to Brooklyn Democratic Sen. Simcha Felder, who continues to turn his back on his own party and conference with the majority, saying he'll be sitting with whoever can help him deliver the most to his constituents back home.

The labor - backed Strong Economy for All coalition is doubling down on the millionaire's tax, despite the fact that Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos flatly declared it «dead» today, sending out another round of mailers on the topic to constituents in nine new Senate districts.

With Congress on a week - long recess, senators will grapple with the details of the health - care bill, though little consensus is yet to emerge as they'll almost certainly get input from constituents back home.

A lot of people seem to like Republican Congressman Chris Gibson «s bipartisan approach to politics, but some wonder if teaming up with Democrat Sean Patrick Maloney of Putnam at this late date to oppose significant increases in electric bills on the backs of already beleaguered constituents will have any real effect.

Despite landing back in the minority, Republicans argue they've helped their constituents by insisting on reforms to give every New Yorker a voice in the chamber.

Most of the money will go not to television and radio advertisements, but for canvassing, social media and other organizing efforts intended to bring pressure on lawmakers from their own constituents, drawing in part on lessons the teachers learned from defeating candidates backed by well - financed charter school advocates in the Democratic primary last fall.

«I'm calling on Senator Oppenheimer to think about her constituents when she goes up to Albany, not the Working Families Party and the other special interests that oppose the cap and are backing her political campaign.»

«But let's be clear — no amount of money is going to save these Congress members, who turned their back on their own constituents, raised their taxes, and conspired to take away their health care,» Berman said.

He accused some representatives in New York of having «sold their vote and turn their backs» on their constituents.

There's a widespread view among those constituents that Build It Back has, despite some progress and success when the de Blasio administration first focused on it in late 2014 and early 2015, ground down into a bureaucratic nightmare largely incapable of making broad progress in repairing and rebuilding Sandy - damaged homes.

The probes could communicate with the surface via seismic waves, sending back readings on the constituents and properties of the mantle and core.

If Common Core standards had been vetted by the Legislature, «would we be where we are today, and our constituents would have had a say in whether they are implemented or not,» grumbled state Sen. Rick Gudex, R - Fond du Lac, going on to ask Thatcher if other states had found a way to back out of Common Core.

The exhibition as a whole may appear deadpan, satirical or pathetic — in any case each of the constituent works turns its back on complacency, and, in doing so, becomes material evidence of resistance (kicking from within the sack).

A few Democrats, particularly those representing poorer industrial areas, were deeply suspicious of cap - and - trade policies to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, arguing that their constituents would be hurt when a local polluter simply paid for pollution allowances rather than cutting back on the pollution itself.

And, there is plenty of empirical data at every level: There is empirical data on the basic absorption lines of the various atmospheric constituents, there is a wealth of empirical data backing up the basic equations of radiative transfer that are applied in calculating the greenhouse effect in just the same way that engineers and scientists use these equations everyday in other calculations, there is empirical spectra looking both up from the surface of the earth and down from satellites.

Of course, Fithian and his theater owner constituents would push back on the evolution of their business model.

Most recently Hultgren urged constituents to participate in the nationwide drug «take - back» day on April 26, 2014.