Sentences with phrase «backroom deals with»

Meanwhile, Global Witness has exposed how the company has repeatedly struck backroom deals with tyrannical regimes, fuelling instability around the world.

Did you report on Obama's backroom deals with drug and insurance companies to sell out Americans healthcare?

Some of her remarks give fresh fuel to liberals» worst fears about Clinton, namely that she is a political moderate, happy to cut backroom deals with corporate interests and curry favor with Wall Street for campaign dollars.

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.»

Or Ed Miliband, a man so desperate for power he is ready to barter away our nuclear deterrent in a backroom deal with the SNP.»

Labour's only hope of staying in office is a backroom deal with Nick Clegg.

When parents, teachers and the Clark School community rose up in anger, even Governor Malloy's close ally, Mayor Pedro Segarra, were forced to back off the backroom deal with Achievement First, Inc..

Kamp goes on a hunting trip, where he sees the Judge cut a backroom deal with local captains of industry.

«Angela Merkel's nuclear deal is driving people into the streets because it is a stimulus program for political disaffection when the head of a government cuts a backroom deal with four energy bosses that's worth hundreds of billions of euros and safety issues for old nuclear plants are sorted out on the side,» Gabriel said.

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The new backroom staff is all good movements by the club behind the scenes, along with the New Record Club Deal with Fly Emirates, just shows that off the field we are run the right way — but have the wrong manager doing the business on the field.

«It's for my representative and the backroom staff to deal with.

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.

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.

While Graziano works in conjunction with Senator Tony Avella and Queens Crap to cast aspersions on me, we here Queens - Politics are disgusted with the level of shadow politics, backroom deals, and now, an illegal gathering meant to kickoff a phony campaign for City Council.

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.»

He also accused Koch of striking a «backroom» deal to amend the bill to address partisan concerns during a private meeting with the governor last week.

«No disrespect to Senator Boyle, but he was selected as a backroom deal... and it didn't sit well with voters,» Mr. Zacarese said in an interview this week.

Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins is (not surprisingly) displeased by the fact that she and her fellow minority leader, Assembly Republican Leader Brian Kolb, are being left out of the backroom budget talks that again include IDC Leader Jeff Klein, even though he no longer has a power - sharing deal with the Senate Republicans.

While it's likely that many of the earlier bills dealing with salaries were signed as a result of backroom - deals between governors and legislative leaders, this sort of trading had become fully public.

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.

«The governor's backroom deals have left us with a situation where Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the leader of the Senate Democrats, the highest - elected woman in New York state, is not in the room, but the king of the eight - member IDC — Jeff Klein, who is accused of sexual misconduct himself — is,» Nixon said.

«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.

Cuomo, a Democrat, said Cappuccilli, a Republican, had corrupted the important cultural institution with graft and backroom deals to his own personal benefit, in part, when he threw his daughters» two weddings at the fairgrounds.

He and Silver once epitomized Albany's backroom political culture by hammering out deals on the state budget and legislation in closed - door negotiating sessions with Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

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 expect this week will be critical in efforts to entice the IDC to end their deal with Republicans — partly due to backroom efforts by union heads, activists and «heavy hitters» in the Democratic Party and partly due to intense protests planned by activists in IDC member districts.

Two legislative sources told The Alt they expect this week will be critical in efforts to entice the IDC to end their deal with Republicans — partly due to backroom efforts by union heads, activists and «heavy hitters» in the Democratic Party and partly due to intense protests planned by activists in IDC member districts.

Mayor Bill de Blasio delivered his most blistering criticism to date of Governor Andrew Cuomo, telling reporters inside his City Hall office Tuesday that the governor was more concerned with backroom deals than with serving New Yorkers.

Morano yesterday said other candidates should follow Donovan's lead «and reject the endorsement of the Independence Party, which has become far more synonymous with backroom political deals than good government.»

A team of men, led by the slimy W.N. Bilbo (James Spader) is tasked by Secretary of State William Seward (David Strathairn) with essentially buying the votes of lame - duck Democrats, while abolitionist firebrand Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones, in a performance just as central and Oscar - worthy as Day - Lewis») coordinates backroom deals within his own party.

Worse still, Chase discovers that the military, while doing some illegal backroom deals, also has a killswitch with the chips.

VF.com will be covering all of Cannes — from the films to the parties to the backroom deals — throughout the festival, so continue to check in with us for reviews, reports, and exclusive photos from the world's premier cinematic event.

It's a fictional story of hostage negotiation, but Tony Gilroy's screenplay is filled with so many backroom deals, backchannel talks, and instances of parties giving and receiving the runaround that the story feels like it could have happened.

While AB 934 was once an honest attempt to support effective teachers and prioritize quality in California's education system, the bill is now the product of backroom deals in the state capital with the state's most powerful special interest groups.

Backroom deals on teacher evaluations that threaten to render tenure meaningless and that will drastically change the working conditions of teachers with no input from rank - and - file union membership.

This uncertainty is leading to the sorts of behaviours more akin to political backroom deals than schools: heads promising their schools will go in with each other as long as everyone agrees to keep out a competitor school, over-generous financial offers to primaries with lovely intakes, a shunning of schools with buildings too expensive to maintain.

But in 17 years of working with policy makers on both sides of the aisle, Maass, a former superintendent and principal in Milwaukee, says he's never seen anything like last week's backroom deal to bring voucher schools to his community.

Barbara Beasley, whose 9 - year - old daughter receives a Gardiner scholarship, says it has dramatically improved her daughter's life, but she said that «lawmakers sold us down the river with their backroom dealing on the education bill.»

Publishers Weekly Senior Editor writes an eBook to report the antitrust suit and backroom deals involved with the major eBook vendors.

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Those have been replaced with the darker CGI side of a revolution, with hard fought battles, backroom deals, and betrayal at the heart of things.

We had a dream — that the President would understand the commonality of solutions for energy security, national security and climate stability — and that he would exercise hands — on leadership, taking the matter to the public, avoiding backroom crippling deals with special interests.

The report goes on to list groups such as the American Lung Association and the Union of Concerned Scientists as «agenda - driven far - left elites» obsessed with using «secretive backroom deals and transfers» to hide their agenda from the public.

With PR, legislative progress could only be achieved backroom inter-party deals, in which case it becomes extremely difficult for Canadian voters to hold one party or one majority responsible.