Sentences with phrase «to clean up corruption»

This Pope seems like a good guy, interested in cleaning up the corruption in the RCC.

«Todd Kaminsky has a long history of cleaning up corruption so that government can work for New Yorkers.

So far Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Zephyr Teachout has focused her campaign on cleaning up corruption in Albany, education, and the economy.

Topping Cuomo's campaign platform were promises to clean up corruption at the Capitol, rein in out - of - control spending and put a lid on sky - high state and local taxes.

Russo said the «very serious» charges brought against the majority leader by AG Andrew Cuomo «compromise Senator Espada's ability to serve in the State Senate, and once again show Democrats aren't serious about cleaning up the corruption in Albany.»

The former «Sex and the City» star, holding her first capital city news conference since declaring her bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, said Cuomo has failed to clean up corruption as promised.

He doesn't clean up corruption he aids and abets it and does political hits on a radio show for Paterson who should be in jail but like Steve Rattner Cuomo doesn't send rich and connected folk to jail and Dave's dad is too connected.

As the newest voice in this race for Attorney General, I've used my time and resources to talk directly with voters about my plans to clean up corruption rampant throughout state government, protect Main Street by policing Wall Street and keeping our communities safe.»

Governor Cuomo has taken a bold step towards cleaning up corruption in Albany by putting public financing of elections in the budget.

Brian Foley is a reformer who cleaned up corruption in Brookhaven and has proven he can compete and win in his heavily Republican district.»

Tim Sini, the Democratic police commissioner in Suffolk County, scored a resounding victory in the race for district attorney, convincing voters that he would clean up the corruption engulfing the county's law enforcement agency.

Cuomo once uttered the same phrase to me, vowing he was «as serious as a heart attack» about letting the Moreland Commission clean up corruption — not long before he pulled the plug on it.

Obama needs to agree to clean up the corruption if he wants to put Texas into play in 2012.

The effort to clean up corruption begins with the little campaign in the smallest borough in the city,» he said.

To Deng, it meant cleaning up the corruption that inevitably occurs in a mixed system — socialism typically has a lot of corruption.

DeFrancisco promised to be more ethical and ridiculed Cuomo's campaign promise to «clean up Albany»: «He came in as being the king of cleaning up corruption, and I think this trial is really showing... exactly what he does and what his M.O. is,» DeFrancisco said.

So far, all Anthony Palumbo of New Suffolk and party leaders have offered in the early stages of his campaign is a few sound bites on cleaning up corruption in Albany that sound like they were written by state Republican officials.

«You're not serious about cleaning up corruption and strengthening the state's ethics laws if you can't even comply with the laws that are on the books now.

47 % think Cuomo is taking steps to clean up corruption in state government while 33 % believe he and his administration are adding to the problem at the state level.

Clean up Corruption in Washington Act.

Therefore, on the first day of my term of office, my administration will immediately pursue the following six measures to clean up the corruption and special interest collusion in Washington, DC:

«Cleaning up corruption is never easy,» Kim said, «and that is certainly true for corruption in New York State government.

From tighter campaign finance rules to term limits to a full - time Legislature barred from working outside jobs, there's no shortage of proposals to clean up the corruption that has long plagued New York state government.

«This is meant as a vehicle to clean up corruption, get rid of Common Core, get term limits in there — these are the things that the Reform Party stands for,» Astorino said.

Significantly, Akufo - Addo is partly to blame for this abysmal record chalked under the Kufuor administration because he, namely Akufo - Addo, as an influential cabinet member in the Kufuor government who jointly held the portfolios of Attorney General and Minister of Justice, failed to act in cleaning up corruption in the government.

«Cleaning up corruption is never easy, and that is certainly true for corruption in New York State government.

«I was approached to run against Andrew Cuomo, and I said, «hell yes,» because I had supported Andrew Cuomo four years ago when he stood on the steps of the Courthouse in Manhattan and said that he was going to clean up corruption and restore dignity to the office of governor.»

«[Cuomo] said that he wanted to clean up the corruption that would make Boss Tweed blush,» Teachout said.

But she said if lawmakers agreed to close campaign finance loopholes, it would go a long way to cleaning up corruption.

«Four years ago, Andrew Cuomo stood on the steps of a courthouse named after Boss Tweed and promised to clean up corruption in New York State.

Pluralities of New York City residents think both Mayor de Blasio and Governor Cuomo are taking steps to clean up corruption in the city and state, respectively.

Voters divide about whether or not Cuomo is trying to clean up corruption in state government.

He promised then that during his first term in office, he would clean up corruption in the Capitol and enact ethics reform.

Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino replied with a 200 - word ethic lecture, starting with the pretty strong pronouncement: «Governor Cuomo saying he's going to clean up corruption is like O.J. saying he's going to find the real killer.»

Significant headway has been made to clean up corruption that has long plagued Niagara Falls government.

The survey of more than 1,000 New York voters by Quinnipiac University shows that although Cuomo appears for now to be in a strong position to win re-election in 2014, 52 percent of the state's voters say he has done a «not so good» or «poor» job of «cleaning up corruption» in Albany.

But it might make it harder for the group, and other government reformers, to band together with smaller interest groups to try to change government and clean up corruption.

«Cleaning up corruption is never easy, and that is certainly true for corruption in New York state government,» Kim said in a statement.

Susan Lerner, with Common Cause, says it's astounding that so far, Cuomo and lawmakers have been unable to agree on any ethics reforms to clean up the corruption.

Sixty - seven percent say Albany government is dysfunctional and 75 percent say legislative leaders are not doing a good job at cleaning up corruption.

Young, politically astute and coming from the right part of the state, he assumed the newly created position of Cuyahoga County executive in 2010 with a mandate to clean up corruption in the Cleveland area (and to run for governor in 2014).

Cuomo has run other ads, but they focused on issues — the property tax cap, cleaning up corruption in Albany.

New Yorkers recently told a Siena poll that cleaning up corruption was their number one priority.

This spring, I promised to fight against new taxes, fund our schools, and clean up the corruption in Albany — and I've kept my promise.

What took the past and present governors so long to clean up the corruption in Albany that has long either been suspected or known?

I am 100 % behind Carl who will clean up corruption, and give the state back to the people.