Sentences with phrase «bar bond work»

«Pay to play» rules bar bond work for campaign contributors, yet the New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivered bond deals to his finance industry donors.

Not exact matches

Federal rules bar states from awarding bond work to parties who have donated to gubernatorial campaigns within the last two years (more than $ 86,000 of the campaign cash from the firms flowed to Cuomo in the last two years).

The Democratic governor accepted the money — and his officials handed out the government business without competitive bids — despite federal rules that bar campaign contributors from receiving taxpayer - financed state bond work.

Deals have flowed to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's campaign contributors despite federal rules barring donors from receiving bond work.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

That hypothesis would seem to be supported by the work of Ruth Feldman of Bar - Ilan University and colleagues, who in 2007 showed a correlation between the levels of oxytocin (the «love» and «bonding» hormone, which is also associated with the formation of breast milk) during pregnancy and the amount of time that mothers and infants spent gazing at one another.