Sentences with phrase «culture of corruption up»
«It is absolutely needed to sort of scrub down the Democratic culture of corruption up here,» the Republican gubernatorial candidate said of the plan in a news conference outside the state Capitol.
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«It's cleaning up the culture of corruption.
Inez Dickens, born when her father was already a wealthy and well - established senior political figure, grew up steeped in slumlordism and a culture of political cronyism which, should she attain the Speakership, would likely mire the Council in a stew of corruption that would make the last 8 years seem tame.
«Tonight sends a clear message that Nassau County is ready to chart a new path — that we are ready to put an end to the culture of corruption and make our government live up to the greatness of the people of this County,» Curran said in a news release late Tuesday.
«I have decided to seek re-election in the House so that I may continue my mission to clean up the VA, where my position as Chairman of the House Veterans Oversight and Investigation Subcommittee has allowed me to shine a light on the culture of bureaucratic incompetence and corruption,» Coffman said in a prepared statement obtained by the Post.
News reports indicate that the staffer was eventually fired for so - called performance issues and that supposedly the allegations did not involve Avella directly but rather «management staff» but given Avella's own claims regarding Albany's culture of corruption and predilection to cover things up can we really rely on this?
«The culture of corruption does not just affect the perpetrators, but average New Yorkers end up paying a stealth corruption tax as a result of these insider deals.
AG Andrew Cuomo pulled no punches at at his gubernatorial campaign kick - off today, condemning fellow Democrats and Republicans alike for contributing to Albany's culture of corruption and pledging to do whatever it takes to clean up the Capitol.
«We call on Senator Flanagan and the Long Island Republican Senators to stand up for real reform and to restore the confidence of the residents of Long Island by enacting campaign finance reform efforts by instituting a system of publicly funded elections that will stop Albany's culture of corruption,» said Lisa Tyson, executive director of the LIPC.
One day after charging one of New York's leading lawmakers with exploiting his office to obtain millions of dollars in kickbacks and bribes, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York delivered a stinging condemnation of the culture of corruption in Albany and said the system was set up to breed misdeeds.
In order to change the culture of corruption which puts democracy up for auction, we need wholesale campaign finance reform, built around a system of small dollar matching funds, to hold elected accountable to their constituents.
Will she clean up the «culture of corruption» or based on her past record just add to it?
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«Tonight's the first step in cleaning up the Republican culture of corruption and bringing real reform that saves Nassau tax dollars,» said Schnirman in an election night celebration in Freeport.
«The sentencing of Hank Morris serves as a strong signal that it's time to clean up Albany and the culture of corruption must and will end.
On the contrary, these actions speak to a broader, more fundamental reason as to why I ran for office in the first place — to clean up the culture of corruption that pervades our politics.»
Tim is the best candidate to clean up the culture of corruption we've seen in the district attorney's office,» Lipton said.
But if the GOP really wants to clean up Albany and not merely take political pot shots in between taking big campaign checks, Senate Republican Leader John Flanagan would declare, this Monday morning, that he and his conference are ready to end one of the most flagrant tools of the culture of corruption they so decry.
Speaking more broadly about the culture of Albany, Bharara said that the number of legislators who've been arrested recently for corruption should serve as a wake - up call.
Hawkins said it was time to «clean up the culture of corruption in Albany.
The independent arm, which vets complaints before sending them to the ethics committee for action, was established after the House passed ethics rules in 2007 to clean up what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dubbed the «culture of corruption.»
US Attorney Bharara also challenged other New York politicians to «step up to the plate» to fight what he says is the pervasive culture of corruption rife with «dirty politicians».
In their follow - up study, the researchers are investigating whether public corruption is symptomatic of a local «culture» in which corruption is endemic in both public and private spheres.
The result is that communities often end up dealing with governments or companies interested mainly in taking advantage of the vacuum created by the culture of corruption to extract as many resources as possible at as low a price as they can.
Whether the artist is making a statement about the corruption of religion, about genocide in Darfur, or simply about American pop culture, art has the ability to slap people in the face and wake them up, lull them into a sense of peace and tranquility, or inspire them to take up arms and march to war.