Sentences with phrase «backroom deal making»

It was one of those Albany mega-deal days when everything happens at once after months of nothing, and a week or so of furious backroom deal making.

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

Much has been made of backroom deals between the Chancellor George Osborne and Manchester City Council's chief executive Sir Howard Bernstein to deliver the most significant devolutionary settlement of Whitehall budgets in England.

But those compromises and backroom deals are precisely what might have made it an improvement on what had gone before and on what we've got instead.

But this being politics, and this being New York City, that deal is often made in backrooms long before the votes are ever cast.

NEW YORK (AP)-- A former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo was convicted on corruption charges Tuesday at a trial that further exposed the state capital's culture of backroom 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.

Asked whether she was surprised by the decision to go with a placeholder, she added, «I'm not a backroom deal person, I'm not engaged in the, sort of punditry and background — New York politics has had a lot of — many years — a lot of decisions being made behind the scenes.»

«Term limits: We voted for them twice to make sure no one in this city could serve more than two terms in office — until Scott Stringer decided to overturn it, cutting a backroom deal to hand Mayor Bloomberg a third term,» the ominously voice spot said.

Percoco was convicted on corruption charges Tuesday at a trial that further exposed the state capital's culture of backroom deal - making.

«He won't own up to the backroom deals he is making with groups like the Family Institute of Connecticut and the Connecticut Citizens Defense League that want to ban gay marriage and repeal our gun safety laws,» Connecticut Democrats said in a fundraising email.

The governor was criticized for using messages of necessity, long a staple of backroom deal - making at the Capitol, when he brokered agreements to reduce pension benefits for new public employees and change legislative district lines.

The real issue of outrage in the community is that Linares and Rangel made a backroom political deal, with Linares endorsing Rangel and, in exchange, Rangel endorsing Linares and his daughter.

They want to make the last few days» double - dealing, backroom negotiations and associated uncertainty a fixture after every future general election.

Bronx Democratic county leaders denied any backroom deal was made.

Jurors convicted a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo on federal bribery and fraud charges Tuesday in a trial that further exposed the state capital's culture of backroom deal - making.

NEW YORK - A former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo was convicted on federal bribery and fraud charges Tuesday in a trial that further exposed the state capital's culture of backroom deal - making.

«Leave it to a professional political operative like Elise Stefanik to make a backroom deal to get her opponent nominated off the ballot,» said DCCC spokesman Marc Brumer.

Espaillat spokesman Ibrahim Khan defended the mailer, arguing that it is «reflective of the community's sentiments about a politician who made a backroom deal.»

Instead, Silver's defense attorney, Steven Molo, argued that the federal government was trying to make Albany's long tradition of backroom dealing illegal.

«This is the kind of rushed policy that gets made during a backroom deal, not a careful assessment of public opinion and scientific data.

The class became so excited about playing Crisis that backroom deals were being made at recess and lunch.

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.

There is also, I believe, a real danger that part of the smoky backroom deals that the empowered traditional publishers make will be to promote their material over self - published works and even possibly deals to require the ghettoing of self - publishing in small and large ways.

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