Sentences with phrase «backed by good government groups»

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The legislation, backed by good - government groups, was initially proposed in the wake of the corruption charges filed against former SUNY Polytechnic President Alain Kaloyeros, former close gubernatorial aide Joe Percoco and upstate developers.

The good - government group Reinvent Albany on Monday issued a memorandum in opposition to a bill backed by Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein that would create a chief procurement officer to oversee economic development spending.

While a majority of Moreland Commission members backed a recommendation in a preliminary report to create a public financing system, seven members joined a dissent that argued against the proposal, which is backed by labor groups and good - government advocates.

The ballot proposition is backed by non-partisan good government groups, including the League of Women Voters and Citizens Union.

His director of communications, Melissa DeRosa, subsequently insisted that the governor wasn't backing away from public financing, which is supported by many in the progressive wing of the state Democratic party and numerous good - government groups.

During this year's budget negotiation, Cuomo took criticism from good - government groups — including Horner — for his failure to use the bully pulpit to press his ethical agenda despite the «Watergate moment» presented by the back - to - back convictions of Silver and Skelos.

At the high level conference organised on the side of to the UNFCCC negotiating session in Bonn, Germany, co-hosted by the government of North - Rhine Westphalia and The Climate Group, the States and Regions called for bold action to progress the UN negotiations, highlighted the core role of sub-national governments in global climate action as well as confirmed their own commitments to climate action and to reporting back on their progress at COP 16 in Cancun, Mexico.

They've written letters to the government demanding that Ottawa stop a swarm of activist groups backed by foreign billionaires from hijacking — as the prime minister himself put it — the hearings over the Canadian Northern Gateway pipeline that would carry our oil from Alberta to B.C. Canadians have been calling into radio shows and writing blogs, and spreading the word in their communities about the fact that this crucial decision over Canada's national energy policy is being infiltrated by what are essentially the well - paid lobbyists of wealthy and powerful foreign interests.