Sentences with phrase «control of the state»

The battle for control of the state senate is a serious battle for Republican survival.

And indeed the district did turn out to be decisive in the battle between candidates of the two major parties for control of the state's upper chamber.

We both have totally unpredictable, demanding jobs where we are in charge and fully in control of the state of the union, so to speak.

Our goal is to gain understanding of the underlying causes of your thoughts and emotions, and to teach you strategies to take control of your state of mind.

A lingering concern with our results may be that party control of the state government is related to the decision to file a school - reform lawsuit.

This must surely be an embarrassment to the churches in question, though it certainly helps explain why they are so desperate to keep control of these state schools.

The bill would have given the elected state superintendent executive control of the state education department, with power to set its budget and policy.

The comptroller's office has almost total control of the state's $ 124 billion pension fund.

Table 1 lists the cases used in our analysis and the configuration of partisan control of the state government at the time of the court decision.

Meanwhile, many embraced a not altogether compatible reform, school accountability, that has extended the regulatory control of the state and federal governments over public schools.

Are these differences we saw above merely a reflection of poverty or other factors beyond the immediate control of the state?

Topics include campaign finance reform, pay raises for judges and legislators, control of the state senate and much more.

Sugarman's memo paints a picture of a coordinated effort by the mayor and his allies — dubbed interchangeably as «Team de Blasio» and «Team Coordinated» — to deliberately circumvent legal campaign donation limits in three upstate races in what turned out to be an unsuccessful effort to help Democrats win control of the state Senate in 2014.

The state investigation, led by Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, focuses on whether the de Blasio Administration illegally funneled big bucks campaign contributions to upstate campaign committees in an unsuccessful bid to regain Democratic control of the state senate in 2014, WCBS 880's Marla Diamond reported.

Cuomo, who likely does not want to lose the final sitting Senate Republican to back his same - sex marriage law in 2011, is considering an endorsement of Grisanti, potentially throwing a wrench into the effort to win full control of the state Senate for Democrats.

A re-privitized New York Racing Association has more or less the same directors it did while under control of the state government.

According to an article in the NY Daily News the RNC plans to open regional offices and run Victory Committees in six counties in New York State «to help the Republicans regain control of the state Senate

Mayor Bill de Blasio and administration is under investigation for political fundraising activities stemming from his effort to help Democrats gain control of the state Senate.

Republicans retained control of the state Senate with 20 seats to Democrats» 11 seats.

But in a radio interview Friday with WNYC, Stewart - Cousins said the fight over control of the state Senate isn't about her.

Since taking control of the state legislature in 2011, Republicans have raised the starting base salary for new teachers to $ 35,000 and given raises to other teachers.

Palwenty spokesman Alex Conant confirms to CNN that beginning on July 31, Pawlenty is lined up for three days of campaign events in eastern Iowa, lending a helping hand to several legislative candidates in hopes of regaining GOP control of the state legislature.

The probe marks Bharara's latest anti-corruption blitz on City Hall, which was subpoenaed in April following a state Board of Elections report that said de Blasio engineered a scheme to evade fund - raising limits in a failed bid to help Democrats seize control of the state Senate.

Republicans maintained control of the state Senate as well.

It will give control of our state back to the people

In New York, a lot of gay money was spent to help Democrats retake control of the State Senate in New York last fall.

As Senate Democrats hope to flip control of the state Senate with victories in the downstate suburbs and in the Hudson Valley, Democrats on Long Island this evening say turnout has especially heavy — a sign they believe is especially beneficial for candidates like Jim Gaughran and John Brooks.

Governor Andrew Cuomo appears to be contradicting himself about Democrats» chances to take majority control of the state Senate, currently Republicans» only stronghold in state government.

Democrat Adam Haber Thursday launched his campaign for the seat held by state Sen. Jack Martins (R - Mineola), setting up what is expected to be one of the most closely watched races in the state this year as Democrats attempt to wrest control of the State Senate from Republicans.

Two years ago, with an assist from Mayor De Blasio, Democrats vowed to take back control of the State Senate.

Senate Republicans lost control of the State Senate for the first time in decades in 2008, when Democrats rode the Barack Obama wave.

Haber faces Republican Sen. Jack Martins, a Nassau County lawmaker running in a battleground district that could decide control of the state Senate next year.

He flirted with a bid for lieutenant governor but backed down after the labor - backed Working Families Party decided to endorse Mr. Cuomo in return for a series of compromises, including a commitment to hand control of the State Senate back to Democrats.

But the governor has also promised a left - leaning minor party that he would help shift control of the state Senate away from the GOP, and help Democrats regain control of the chamber.

Opponents of the plan, who worry that the water sale would threaten the city's Town of Woodstock watershed or who simply oppose the bottled water industry on general principles have called on the DEC to assume control of the State Environmental Quality Review process.

De Blasio's vow to help the Democrats reclaim control of the state Senate in 2018 left some of his fellow Dems shaking their heads.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Ten months after the Empire State Pride Agenda abruptly announced it was folding up its tent and with a presidential election looming that will also determine control of the State Assembly and Senate in Albany, two new political action committees have stepped into what would otherwise have been a political void for New York's LGBT community.

To a great degree they control the stockgrowers» associations, and that means control of the state capitals of the West and the delegations that are sent to Washington.

He has absolute control of the state workforce.

The Republican Party held control of the State Senate for more than four decades before losing the majority in 2008.

With Republican Gov. Scott Walker in office for at least another two years, the GOP will have complete control of state government for another session.

«We're not going to cede control of the state budget to the mayor of New York City, no matter who that mayor is,» Flanagan told the newspaper.

The endorsement cames two months after the mayor agreed to help mainline Democrats re-take control of the state Senate, as part of a deal he helped engineer to secure the Working Families party ballot line for Gov. Cuomo in November.

Recently, a new party was voted into control of the state legislature, and the law was changed — police radar is now legally exact to within 1mph, and a driver is in violation if they don't travel the exact speed limit on a given roadway.

The pressure on Klein and the Independent Democratic Caucus to unify with their party brethren comes just days after Gov. Cuomo vowed to help Democrats win outright control of the state Senate as part of a deal to secure the leftist Working Families Party endorsement.