Sentences with phrase «call for elected officials»

«The devastation we have seen in the last month not only from massive hurricanes but from record heat waves and wildfires should be a wake - up call for elected officials.

Advocates will call for elected officials to honor their commitment and raise the age before it is too late.»

It served as a wakeup call for elected officials across the country.

Malliotakis has been a vocal critic of the Parade Committee's decision, calling for elected officials and sponsors to boycott the parade this year.

And we called for elected officials to do right by Sandy survivors and expedite getting them back in their homes.

Not exact matches

Whether you like them or not, we are called to pray for our elected officials and I don't mean pray that they die.

The councilman said Ragusa's defense of Queens GOP First Vice Chair Stephen Graves is a «slap in the face» to rank - and - file party members, and he called on fellow elected officials and GOP leaders to boycott the Queens Republican Party dinner, which is scheduled for April 18.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, who says she is considering a run for governor in 2018, called on all elected officials to return donations from billionaire Dan Loeb, who recently made headlines with racially charged comments.

Elected officials from across the state are strengthening their calls for the state pension system to divest from fossil fuels.

Oneida County corrections officers and elected officials protested the shut down of their local facility earlier this week and called for Cuomo to explain why he had singled it out.

Ulrich's call for a boycott puts a number of elected officials in a tight spot, including Rep. Bob Turner (an Ulrich ally), who is running for the US Senate, and NYC Councilman Dan Halloran, who is running for congress in NY - 6.

The state Democratic Party teamed up today with LGBT leaders and openly gay elected officials to slam Republican AG candidate Dan Donovan for his opposition to same - sex marriage, saying his position calls into question his ability to serve as the state's top attorney.

Gillibrand, as you might recall, was one of the first Democratic elected officials — and definitely the first member of the NY congressional delegation — to call for former Gov. Eliot Spitzer to resign if the allegations about his involvement in a prostitution ring proved true.

Several Sanders surrogates and campaign aides — including state Sen. Bill Perkins, of Harlem, who is one of the few New York Democratic elected officials to break ranks and endorse Sanders over Clinton — held a conference call with reporters today, calling Clinton out for waffling on the license issue, while also attacking Sanders» own record on immigration reform.

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer on Monday became the latest elected official to call for federal hearings into the water contamination issues in Hoosick Falls.

Not surprisingly, the number of first time candidates outnumber the incumbents (10 to 7; the full list appears after the jump), and the highest - level elected to sign on is Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, who has been calling for many of these changes for some time and probably stands to gain if redistricting is indeed taken out of the hands of elected officials.

At 10 a.m., NYC Councilman Mark Treyger is joined by other elected officials and advocates to call for free diapers for low - income families, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

De Blasio — who has resisted including the «Fair Fares» (city - funded half - priced Metro Cards) measure in his budget — was massively outnumbered by an army of city elected officials, district attorneys and labor leaders who called on him to pony up $ 212 million for it in his executive budget.

Democratic Sen. Liz Krueger has called for legislation to end spending by dead and former elected officials.

The letter comes after elected officials, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, called for an independent investigation into the claim, alleged to have occurred in March 2015.

Of course, Christie is hardly the only elected official who balked at Stringer's call for the tax on people who work in NYC but live elsewhere.

Also at 11 a.m., state Sen. James Sanders and other elected officials, community groups and advocates for a Community Peace March and Call to Action Summit in light of recent killings of teenagers in Far Rockaway, Far Rockaway High School, 821 Bay 25th St., and Ocean Bay Community Center, 57 - 10 Beach Channel Drive, Queens.

They mobilized and organized, and successfully pressured their local elected officials who are now calling for nothing short of a 100 percent affordable project.

The Queens District Attorney's Office has resisted any calls for substantive criminal justice system reform, because no elected official dares to stand up to District Attorney Brown or the powerful Democratic Party county committee that supports him.

Three elected officials joined an environmental group Monday in calling on the New York state Department of Environmental Conservation to revoke or suspend an essential permit for a natural gas power plant in Orange County.

One elected official said the timing of the news that Weiner's wife is pregnant seemed designed to counter the calls for his resignation.

Senate Majority Conference Leader John Sampson (D - Brooklyn) announced the committee Tuesday following five days of calls for his resignation from various elected officials at the -LSB-...]

Rapper Ja Rule joined local elected officials and public housing residents from across NYC at a rally Tuesday to call for investment and immediate renovations to NYCHA's failing heating systems.

New York Daily News article on BP Adams joining elected officials and community activists to denounce the murder of Timothy Caughman, calling for his alleged killer to face domestic terrorism and hate crime charges.

Due to the fact that the press does not have much love for elected officials, the media has helped to create an aura about these two prosecutors, making Rudy Giuliani the Mayor of the City of New York, and making Preet Bharara arrogant enough to confront the President of the United States of America in what appears to be an act of insubordination, when he said that he would not return his boss» phone call.

Some women serving in the Legislature have called for a new, uniform policy covering all elected officials and state employees, instead of the current patchwork of policies in the executive and legislative branches.

Elected officials, ranging from New York State Sen. Michael Gianaris (D - Astoria), New York State Assemblymember Catherine Nolan (D - Long Island City), and New York City Councilmember James Van Bramer (D - Sunnywide), attended a rally in Long Island City on Saturday, March 3, to call for responsibile real estate development.

At 2:30 p.m., state Sen. John Brooks, Assembly members Christine Pellegrino and Kimberly Jean - Pierre, along with local elected officials, call for the installation of elevators in Long Island Rail Road stations, Amityville Long Island Rail Road Station, John Street, Amityville.

As lawmakers return for a post-budget legislative session push Tuesday, the state Conservative Party reiterated its call for term limits of elected officials.

The statements come as elected officials around the country — mostly Republican officeholders — have called for a halt in bringing refugees from Syrian into the U.S. following the Paris terrorist attacks last week.

Marc Molinaro, the Republican county executive of Dutchess County who is mulling a potential run for governor in 2018, did what few elected officials in New York dare to do: call out Gov. Andrew Cuomo for mishandling the MTA.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg stood by his decision to raid Zuccotti Park Friday, arguing that no elected officials have called for the encampment's return.

Carl Paladino, who ran four years ago, said if Trump doesn't run, he will, unless Astorino takes on the so - called «RINOs» in the party, which stands for elected officials who are «Republican In Name Only,» Kramer reported.

They have contacted local elected officials, started online petitions, and called for donations.

FPI joined the rally, where ordinary tax payers, elected officials, community organizations and labor unions called for a 0.5 % New York State tax on stock buyback trades, which would mean corporations using their federal tax cuts simply to benefit their shareholders would have to pay a small New York State tax on... (read more)

Governor Joins Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Parents, Students and Local Elected Officials to Call on Legislature to Stand Up For Choice in Education

There was not a single elected official at Cuomo's hastily - called event this afternoon — not even the few legislators who stood by him during his last disastrous run for governor in 2002 like Assemblyman Joe Morelle and Sam Hoyt.

Republican Syracuse mayoral candidate Laura Lavine is calling for a countywide ban on elected officials awarding deals to people and businesses who contribute to their campaigns.

At 10 a.m., community organizations release report highlighting lack of oversight of for - profit commercial bail bond industry in New York City and call on elected officials and regulators to take immediate action to rein in predatory and illegal practices, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

But the governor also shrugged off calls from local elected officials for him to insert himself into the contract talks in an effort to resolve the impasse before the July 20 deadline, saying this is a mess that Congress needs to clean up.

Astorino has called for term limits before, and backs a plan that would limit statewide elected officials to two four - year terms and members of the state Legislature to four, two - year terms in office.

Advocacy groups and Democratic elected officials are calling for the Independent Democratic Conference to reunite with the mainline conference.

This isn't surprising, since Paterson, who has been floated from time to time as a potential replacement for Rangel, knows a little something about scandals that cause nervous Democrats to call on sitting elected officials to step aside.

Amazon is not without controversy, with the company being pushed by some to add union jobs while a coalition of liberal advocacy groups have called on elected officials to not offer tax breaks and other credits to the company in exchange for job creation.

Luckily we have extraordinary elected officials in the state of New York and we have extraordinary County Executives who I have had the pleasure to work with through these storms and I would like to at this time recognize Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone, Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente for really working above and beyond the call of duty and doing extraordinary work for the people of their counties, thank you gentlemen.