Sentences with phrase «backroom dealings in»

Through a constitutional convention, we can demand transparency to backroom dealings in Albany by mandating public oversight of budgetary decisions and requiring narrow, set purposes for all money funneled into the budget.

Expected to last four to six weeks, the trial will have plenty of details about backroom dealings in Albany right under Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's nose, court filings suggest.

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The trial, expected to last four to six weeks, will have plenty of seamy detail about backroom dealings, court filings suggest — from jokes about wanting more «zitti» in alleged coded references to bribes taken from «The Sopranos,» to using clout to influence state agencies and routing more than $ 300,000 in alleged payoffs to Percoco through his wife.

While secrecy and backroom dealings are hardly the qualities of a well - functioning democracy, they represent business as usual in Albany — a place that 89 percent of New Yorkers believe has a serious corruption problem, according to a recent Quinnipiac poll.

While the accused are certainly innocent until proven guilty, these sort of backroom double dealings are exactly why I have been pushing to bring open and honest governance to this county, with the same ethical leadership I have demonstrated in police departments and the corporate world.

This November, New Yorkers have a once - in - a-generation opportunity to create a better state government and a healthier democracy — one that prioritizes honesty and integrity over special interests and backroom dealings and makes voting in New York state easier and more accessible.

Transparency, backroom dealings, they talk about this in Albany all the time.

If you like paranoid thrillers filled with backroom dealings and hidden agendas that make you question how much information is out there that is too dangerous for the general public to know, Closed Circuit could have you looking at major events with a slightly more cynical point of view than you might have had going in.