Sentences with phrase «black legislators objected»

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

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He knew he had a problem with black and Latino city legislators, who were bristling from Cuomo's previous cuts to education and Medicaid, so he included $ 62 million for inner - city jobs programs; he held a much stronger hand with Senate Republicans who might object to tax increases on the wealthy — if they weren't so scared of Cuomo's redistricting them out of their narrow majority.