Sentences with phrase «black legislators»

«I think a lot of white legislators come with a certain network that black legislators just don't have.»

Because African - Americans were overrepresented on this list — they account for more than a fourth of its members — the typical black legislator earned more from state pension payments than their colleagues.

«A lot of black legislators realize they have to dot their i's and cross their t's where white legislators don't,» Greer said.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, who in 2015 became the first black legislator to head the chamber, said before Obama's election in 2008, he didn't know if he'd ever see a black person elected as president in his lifetime.

With the Black Caucus opposed, the few black legislators» «Yea» votes Jindal secured were not enough to change the outcome.

For the first time, black legislators from New Orleans, Rep. Austin Badon and Sen. Ann Duplessis, sponsored the voucher bill.

Calling the program «scary,» black legislators objected that it would endanger minority children who are more likely to be punished at school.

But the argument devolved into a nasty debate over who was more racist: the Jewish members who run East Ramapo's school board or the black legislators who were trying to impose the monitor on behalf of the black and Hispanic kids who attend East Ramapo's public schools.

Black legislators» households, in contrast, made only 4.8 times their region's living wages, and Latinos, 4.5 times as much.

Black legislators were also said to be consolidating their voting bloc, but it remained unclear whether they would throw their support to Keith Wright of Harlem, Heastie, or Jeff Aubry of Queens — who is technically the leader of the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus after Governor Andrew Cuomo tapped Assemblyman Karim Camara for a role in his administration.

Billionaire hedge fund manager Dan Loeb will remain the chairman of Success Academy's board of directors despite an incendiary racial remark he made about a black legislator, a spokeswoman for Success said Friday.

Between this and Cuomo's recent acknowledgment that there are black legislators and even black communities in New York, I wonder if the governor is trying to beef up his outreach to the Democratic base after a year of winning over Dean Skelos and Mike Long.

Jeffries stepped down before Success board chairman Dan Loeb's recent racial remarks about a black legislator set off a public relations crisis for New York City's largest charter network.

The decision to feature the two black legislators, Hubbard and Hoskins, was a political one.

Polly then worked with State Senator Gary George, a Black legislator who represented the north side of Milwaukee, to get the new program and financing for it included as part of the state budget bill.