Sentences with phrase «conduct by elected officials»

«A certain number of people are irate about illegal conduct by elected officials, but there's no big hue and cry on the streets,» Kremer said.

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While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Local elected officials, including State Senator Brad Hoylman, Councilmember Rosie Mendez, Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh and Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, signed the letter urging Toledano to meet with tenants to resolve their concerns and conduct lead testing of all 24 properties owned by Toledano, all of which are in the East Village or the Lower East Side, and a letter to the DOHMH urging the agency to take action.

Cuomo has been asked by GOP Sen. Patty Ritchie to appoint a new supervisor in Morristown so the Town Council has enough elected officials to conduct routine business, including the issuance of municipal paychecks in the coming weeks.

The law creates more transparency in local government by holding all county elected officials to a high standard of conduct and enforces stricter penalties for those who do not abide.

«Contrary to the defendant's argument that his crime was victimless,» the U.S. attorney's office added, «the people of the State of New York are victims whenever, as here, an elected official abuses the trust the public placed in him by accepting secret payoffs from lobbyists and by covering up his conduct.»

When asked about potential threats, an NYPD spokesman said, «Security for elected officials is determined based on threat assessments conducted by the Intelligence Bureau of the NYPD.

There was some karmic justice; an elected official who indulged in high - horse attacks brought down by his own tawdry conduct.

Panza also maintained that elected officials were free to speak at public hearings conducted by boards other than their own, but not necessarily at regular meetings.

Assemblywoman Annie Rabbitt blasted Silver, stating, «I find it disgraceful and unfathomable that taxpayer money was used to pay off victims of sexual harassment and sexual misconduct committed by Assemblyman Vito Lopez, criminals conduct committed by yet another elected official.»

All other states (except Washington and California) use single - party primaries followed by a general election between party candidates, each conducted by either a plurality voting system or runoff voting, to elect Senators, Representatives, and statewide officials.

Her political power in New York has already been tested over the last year, following a spate of negative press about her schools» discipline practices and internal workings, a federal investigation conducted by the Office of Civil Rights, and mounting criticism from local elected officials.

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