Sentences with phrase «bigger than governor»

«Frankly, this is an issue that is bigger than Governor Cuomo.»

said that his latest book advance was actually bigger than the governor's, netting him $ 200,000.

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Big pharma is a popular target for righteous anger from many quarters, but Governor Brown's defense of the law rests on reducing income inequality rather than sticking it to the man for its own sake.

-- Phillip Stutts, CEO of Go Big Media and author of Fire Them Now: The 7 Lies Digital Marketers Sell and the Truth About Political Strategies That Help Businesses Win, who has contributed to more than 1,000 election victories of senators, governors, representatives, and two U.S. presidents

Everything is bigger in Texas, but is a big Texas governor bigger than the other candidates running for the Republican presidential nomination?

With a population smaller than that of Washington, D.C., and a governor whose home number is listed in the phone book, Wyoming often feels like America's biggest small town.

Last year the Yates Center News frequently printed stories about its teams on Page One with thick black headlines that were two or three times bigger than other front - page headlines such as GOVERNOR TO BE IN COUNTY or SHERIFF»S CAR GOES OUT OF CONTROL or HORSE KILLED ON HIGHWAY.

«This November, we'll need a bigger than ever vote on our ballot line than ever — voting on the WFP line for Governor Cuomo means voting for that progressive vision,» Lipton continued.

The new regulations, agreed upon last month as part of a much bigger budget compromise between legislative leaders and the governor, will do little to halt the erosion of middle - income housing in New York City, and are more dangerous to landlords in principle than in practice.

The circuit - breaker unavoidably delivers bigger average savings to downstate suburbanites than to upstate homeowners, as reflected in the governor's estimate that the average savings will reach $ 1,200 on Long Island, compared to $ 781 upstate.

To critics, this appears to be a case of the Governor focusing on big - ticket items rather than the less flashy — but ultimately, extremely necessary — issues that plague many commuters.

The battle between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio rages on, with the governor delivering a shot at City Hall by claiming he and state lawmakers have done more to aid Big Apple schools than the mayor and the NYC Council.

COR is the Democratic governor's single biggest contributor in Central New York, according to the Syracuse Post-Standard, which tallied more than $ 300,000 in donations since 2010 from COR affiliates, executives and their family members.

«There is no one else bigger to blame than this Governor,» said City Councilmember Jumaane Williams.

HURIWA said the decision of the Imo State government to proceed with the demolition amounted to the institutionalisation of impunity even as it warned the Imo state governor not to assume that he is bigger than the collective citizens of the State nor is he above the laws as stipulated by the Constitution.

«It kinds of reminds me of the party and Big Brother — when they want people to be confused, they tell them something totally other than what reality is; there is a crisis,» the governor said.

«After years of stagnation and stunted ambition, we are building across the state bigger and better than before, and the energetic felling of the old bridge to make way for the new, on budget and ahead of schedule bridge, showcases our renewed commitment to building new, inspiring infrastructure for the future,» Governor Cuomo said.

The governor defended the Buffalo Billion, saying that the ambitious economic redevelopment program is bigger than those accused of corruption.

A new governor will appoint people who are more attuned to the needs of the state — more interested in preserving the environment rather than selling it to developers, more interested in finding alternatives to the ever - expanding road building, more interested in serving the little guy rather than big business, and less interested in legislating social policy than planning economic development.

COR has been the governor's biggest contributor from the Syracuse region since Cuomo was elected governor in 2010, giving him more than $ 300,000.

During more than 20 years as Assembly speaker, Silver played a major part in creating state budgets and policies as one of Albany's «three men in a room» when big decisions are made: the governor, the Senate majority leader and the speaker.

Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul felt Slaughter's influence more than most, saying the late Congresswoman was a big part of her winning a seat in the heavily Republican 26th district during the special election in 2011.

Addressing a world press conference on Friday at Eko Hotels and Suites, Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, said adequate preparations have been put in place to ensure a successful event, assuring that the marathon had been designed to be bigger and better than the previous edition.

One of the biggest challenges that Governor Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers will face in 2018 is balancing the state's budget, which already has structural deficit of more than $ 4 billion.

ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork / AP)-- With a new book, an appearance on David Letterman, high - profile trips overseas and a bigger campaign account than any other governor, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo might look like someone running for president.

He celebrated recent corporate and income tax cuts, knocked by liberals, that he ushered in as governor, insisting that a «good government» is better than a «big government.»

And in New Jersey, where local property taxes are a much bigger concern than state income taxes, incoming Democratic governor Phil Murphy and two Democratic congressmen have floated a proposal to create a charitable foundation similar to the one being contemplated for California and New York, but with property - tax purposes targeted and a new state tax credit created against property - tax liability.

«When half the children in our major upstate cities are living in poverty, how can the Governor possibly justify giving more than half of his projected $ 2 billion surplus to the state's millionaire and billionaires through dramatic reductions in the estate tax and tax breaks for big Wall Street banks,» said Ron Deutsch, Executive Director for Fiscal Fairness.

Governor of Borno state, Kashim Shettima, has said that the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) separatist crisis led by Nnamdi Kanu, is a bigger threat than...

This year the Governor's strategy, the politicians said, was to run up the biggest margin of victory possible - bigger than the 58.5 percent that Grover Cleveland ran up in 1882.

I'm not a big Andrew Cuomo fan — his father Mario was more tolerable — but the Assembly's refusing to rename the new Tappan Zee Bridge after the late governor was something more than a slap in the face, especially after a Republican Senate approved the measure.

But the investigation is clearly focusing on Cuomo's administration and contracts it has issued in some of Upstate New York's biggest projects - including some of the signature projects Cuomo boasts about in speeches while asserting he's done more for the region than any governor in decades.

Hawkins blasted Cuomo's big money contributors, saying that less than 1 percent of the governor's multimillion dollar campaign war chest actually comes from donations of less than $ 1,000.

While individual persons can't donate more than $ 50,000 to candidates for governor, LLCs associated with companies like the Durst Organization and Extell Development have given big bucks to the campaigns of Governor David Paterson and Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, respectively, according to the New York Daigovernor, LLCs associated with companies like the Durst Organization and Extell Development have given big bucks to the campaigns of Governor David Paterson and Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, respectively, according to the New York DaiGovernor David Paterson and Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, respectively, according to the New York Daily News.

That big New York Times article detailing the Cuomo administration's interference with the panel he created to investigate public corruption came a little more than two months after U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara seized the commission's records, and publicly excoriated the governor for shuttering it before its scheduled sunset.

As Clinton's housing secretary, Cuomo arguably handled a bigger executive task than a New York governor.

Governor Andrew Cuomo Tuesday unveiled a $ 168 billion budget plan that would close a more than $ 4 billion gap by reducing some spending, and imposing tax increases on health insurers, big businesses, and prescription opioid users, among others.

The governor is bigger than the mayor.

That would be far more effective in stimulating the state's economy than Governor Cuomo squandering public money on tax breaks for big business and the rich,» Hawkins said.

Sheldon Silver was the teachers unions» biggest ally in Albany, and his arrest came less than 24 hours after Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed an ambitious education reform plan in his State of the State address.

Governor Cuomo says more than $ 112 million in funding is on the way for several big projects in Buffalo including converting the Scajaquada Expressway.

Cuomo does like to make deals, and his involvement in end - of - session negotiations could signal that the annual «big ugly» of last - minute legislation could be bigger and uglier than some may have expected or the governor himself predicted.

The average age of the Big Seven is not much smaller than Brown's — and he's our oldest governor to date.

In fact, no one, other than Governor Dannel Malloy, has been a bigger cheerleader for the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core SBAC testing system than CCER.

The body builder, movie star and governor told Politico in an interview published Sunday that big oil is no different than big tobacco: both are guilty of «first degree murder,» he says.