Sentences with phrase «back room deals»

They engaged in back room deals, gossip, half - truths and outright lies.

I have never and will never abandon my values to cut back room deals with corrupt party leaders, but my opponent has.

When you think of wildlife trafficking, it's easy to imagine back room deals or secret rendezvous.

While this move, the result of back room dealing between the GOP and Big Oil, has alarmed farmers, environmentalists and concerned citizens who have spent the last six months publicly organizing and peacefully fighting against the proposed project, there's reason to believe it could be a blessing in disguise.

Turns out, the dirty tricks and back room deals didn't stop while Gekko was incarcerated.

@revkin @nygovcuomo The fact that we didn't let the big greens come in and make back room deals was also important to note.

I would hazard an educated guess that if Moody's has determined that Chicago is regarded as below investment grade, the stark reality is that Chicago is likely on the verge of collapse barring some likely smoke - filled back room deals cut between Obama and his former puppet - master, Rahm Emanuel (Mayor of Chicago).

And How old is Stanley Schein, the Real Estate Lobbyist, back room deal maker who got her the BRONX endorsement.

While explaining on - air that the Congressional candidates for Grimm's replacement would be decided by their respective county leaders, she also called for the process to be «open and transparent» and «without back room deals.»

An executive (the great Sylvia Chang, who also wrote the source play) begins to see her power slip away while a hard - working young assistant (Wang Ziyi) tries to get his foot in the door, and everybody seems to be making a different back room deal or keeping a different secret.

I wouldn't be surprised if there was some sort of back room deal where BA and AA share some of the «fuel surcharge» revenue in exchange for pushing all award availability to BA.

Decades ago, the games industry was far more shifty and back room deals for positive coverage may have happened.

To the membership it looks like back room deals and self promotion and a mirror of Wall Street having tea with Senators.

Why don't we just admit that a billionaire and his foundation is doing back room deals with the Mayor and the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, deals which require taxpayer funds to be expended, and schools to be shut down, and this is going to happen whether the taxpayers like it or not because Mayor Segarra gets to appoint a majority of the BOE.

Kremer, with the school boards, says without an agreed upon means for distributing school aid, it goes back to the old days of back room deals.

I believe in competition — something that you clearly didn't want, which is why you cut back room deals to get everybody else out of this race,» he said.

The Public Accounts Committee and National Audit Office raised serious concerns about the legality of the health department contract, describing it as a «back room deal» which had been «handed to Dr Foster on a plate».

Thats one of many of many problems with our political system we get the choice of the party, (made in back room deals), for the candidate not the choice of the people.

Ironically the only way Pellegrino holds this seat in a general election with generic turn out is if she gets a pass in terms of an opponent because of a back room deal.

«They are fed up with the back room deals and pay - to - play mentality that has become standard operating procedure in halls of Congress.

It may take a convention floor fight — or back room deal — to sort this mess out.

That said, the GOP convention is still several days away (the vote on the governor's race won't be held until next Wednesday), which leaves plenty of room for jockeying and back room dealing.

Boss Cox is throwing a «REAL» Convention with «REAL» candidates and «REAL» wheeling and dealing, parties, back room deals.

No stranger to capturing media attention with gimmicks and protest, Avella seems to have gotten this one right when he stated, «The culture in Albany of «What happens in Albany stays in Albany» has to stop... Assembly Member Silver... is now seen as the classic example of the dysfunction and back room deals that has plagued Albany for decades.

Labour's shadow Scottish Secretary Lesley Laird, said there should be «no back room deals done with RBS».

But one of Faso's half dozen rivals for the Republican nomination cried foul: Heaney knocked the endorsement as essentially a back room deal.

Schlag was active in leading the opposition to the Haddam Land Swap, a scheme to trade public conservation land to developers in exchange for other land in a back room deal.

Maggie, the reason Steve Levy did not get the nod is because the political party organization made a back room deal, that Cuomo is buying the governors seat at the highest bid, Lazio will take the fall and lose as he always does, Mayor Robert Duffy who is really a Republican is on the Cuomo ticket, and it's business as usual in our very dysfunctionally New York State.

[8] His nomination was seen by some as a back room deal.

It's all clear in this race: intimidation, counter-intimidation, allegations of fraud, criminal misdeeds, back room deals, anti-Asian sentiment, the list goes on.

In a move the chairwoman of its local [East Hampton] chapter, Elaine Jones, characterized as a «back room deal,» Zachary Cohen has been replaced by Bill Wilkinson [registered Republican] as the Independence Party candidate for East Hampton Town Supervisor.

It is too important for its future to be determined in a back room deal which would then be bounced on MPs with precious little scope for proper debate let alone public consultation.

Considering Time Warner was a large donor to Cuomo, was this a back room deal in the snow for him to be interviewed?

The ad, entitled «Albany Tom», slams DiNapoli for being a career public servant («23 years on the public payroll»), and says he landed his job in a «back room deal».

Answer that and then maybe answer how «insider» Schneiderman hired the ultimate sleazy fixer Stanley Schlein to do some back room dealing at the convention.

«The SEEC and Gov. Malloy have completely violated the spirit of Connecticut's clean election laws with this back room deal... But for a few hundred thousand dollars all is forgiven by the SEEC and the governor's efforts to kill transparency triumph.»

He derided Mr. Stringer as part of the «political establishment» and attempted to make an issue of Mr. Stringer's support for lifting term limits in 2008, saying in an advertisement that Mr. Stringer had cut «a back room deal to hand a third term to» Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.

In that situation these plans would add layers of process and confusion to legislating and lead to back room deals being made far away from the voters eyes.

In a move the chairwoman of its local chapter, Elaine Jones, characterized as a «back room deal,» Zachary Cohen has been replaced by Bill Wilkinson as the Independence Party candidate for East Hampton Town supervisor.

It is clear to me that this culture of intimidation, back room deals, and working for your largest donors is one of the biggest problem facing our democracy.»

«After four decades of back room deals and the culture of corruption that led to the well deserved conviction of Shelly Silver, the voters of the 65th Assembly district don't want another professional politician who is a product of the same Democratic clubhouses that gave us Shelly Silver, «he said during his acceptance speech.

So don't begrudge us for knowing somebody that we always knew, and that was there in the trenches with us,» Mr. Sharpton said, saying he had never asked for favors or back room deals — only access and policy changes.