The commission advises creating another new criminal offense of undisclosed self dealing
by elected officials who don't tell the public they may have a financial interest in a particular bill or policy.
Despite rising criticism of social media companies and growing
scrutiny by elected officials, the trade in fake followers has remained largely opaque.
These solutions must be structural — they must come from the top —
generated by our elected officials crafting and implementing reasonable legislation that creates order, consistency, and fairness.
de Blasio was
joined by elected officials including Staten Island Borough President Jimmy Oddo, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Public Advocate Letitia James, State Senator Diane Savino and Council Members Brad Lander, Debi Rose, Vanessa Gibson and Robert Cornegy.
However, the Court ruled that the government's objective in preventing quid pro quo
corruption by elected officials in return for contributions received supported the establishment of base limits.
Sponsored by the City of New York, the Mayor's Fund to Advance NYC, The Cooper Union, and Lebenthal Asset Management, the event is expected to be
attended by elected officials including Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer.
Despite the harsh charges leveled in the lawsuit, Benjamin said seeking to have the courts take over a governmental body
run by elected officials — even a government steeped in allegations of fraud — is fraught with legal questions.
«We must continue with our efforts to increase transparency and accountability to provide all New Yorkers with information about actions
taken by their elected officials.»
The bundling of campaign contributions
by elected officials for fellow candidates in New York City is not new or illegal, but it raises questions about an unexplored area of campaign finance law, especially as the City considers updates to the rules of its heralded campaign finance system.
By the succession laws, the next person in line is the Speaker of the House, which is a semi-elected position (elected
by elected officials from elected officials, plus being elected from their district), as is the next person, the President pro Tempore of the Senate.
Update: In this excerpt George McDonald criticizes Anthony Weiner and Vito Lopez, and laments the lack of voter participation as enabling improper
conduct by elected officials.
Today Oneida County Executive was joined by Chairman of the Board of Legislators Gerald Fiorini and
surrounded by elected officials, tenants of Griffiss International Airport and the Business and Technology Park as well as representatives of... Read more
Thursday at City Hall, there will be a Student Voter Registration Day press conference
held by elected officials, advocacy groups, and school representatives.
I was
hounded by elected officials, threatened with violence and more — after a single study I co-wrote a decade and a half ago found that the Northern Hemisphere's average warmth had no precedent in at least the past 1,000 years.
In addition to the comments of 90,000 Planned Parenthood supporters, opposition was also voiced through official comments to
HHS by these elected officials at the federal and state levels:
Industry's election - year message is one of opportunity and a call for leadership — opportunity to simultaneously add to U.S. economic and environmental progress, and leadership
by elected officials on energy policies and approaches that will foster safe development going forward.
The WACC is
governed by elected officials designated by all seven regions of the world — a truly democratic body where the third world has at least as much say as Europe and North America.
In particular, local media attention matters: it's often easier to get than national coverage, it lets you leverage your local activists and it can lead to much broader distribution of your story if it gets on a newswire (even local blogs can help, since they may be disproportionately
read by elected officials and other opinion leaders and can also serve as a source for national blogs — see this article for details).
Today, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and public officials from our community meet with him behind closed doors to decide the fate of our Puerto Rican Day Parade (which is less than 4 months away) and we in the Puerto Rican community are being double -
crossed by our elected officials, once again.»
This, in the senator's mind, is tantamount to «double crossing» of the
community by its elected officials, whose names he has pledged to make public — just as soon as he figures out who has met with whom.