Sentences with phrase «backroom deals allowing»

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Koppell called Skelos» decision to block the measure «outrageous,» said said the «only reason» the GOP leader is allowed to block this and other progressive legislation «is because of his backroom deal with Senator Jeff Klein.»

Then, when Democrats still won a majority, he cut a backroom deal that allowed Republicans to take over the State Senate through the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC)-- a group of breakaway Democrats who voted with the Republicans to hand them control, and with it, the power to block almost all of our key Democratic legislative priorities.

She said Cuomo encouraged a «backroom deal» to get a group of Democratic senators to vote with the Senate GOP so that Republicans could keep control of the state Senate and added that he allowed the Republicans to draw their own gerrymandered district maps — a move she says suppressed Democratic voters.

Then director of The Metropolitan Council on Housing, he needed a way to get regular New Yorkers interested in the backroom dealing that he saw as having continually allowed the real estate industry power to weaken rent laws every time they were up for renewal.

«She gave Mayor Bloomberg a third term in a backroom deal, wouldn't allow unpaid sick days and says she wants to keep the architect of stop - and - frisk in place.»

We don't allow smoky backroom deals arrived at in collective bargaining to dictate the goals, structure, or existence of the public education system, so neither should we use that process to determine compensation and work condition policies.

Last week, the HSUS came this close ««to selling out the hard work of those fighting against puppy mills by working a backroom deal that would have allowed pet stores in the state to continue to do business as usual.