Sentences with phrase «cut backroom deals»

Some of her remarks give fresh fuel to liberals» worst fears about Clinton, namely that she is a political moderate, happy to cut backroom deals with corporate interests and curry favor with Wall Street for campaign dollars.

«The GOP Majority is cutting backroom deals and doling out special interest giveaways to the state's worst polluters.

Then, when Democrats still won a majority, he cut a backroom deal that allowed Republicans to take over the State Senate through the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC)-- a group of breakaway Democrats who voted with the Republicans to hand them control, and with it, the power to block almost all of our key Democratic legislative priorities.

But they needed to be said if party leaders were going to cut a backroom deal and throw their support to Cuomo, which is precisely what happened.

«Term limits: We voted for them twice to make sure no one in this city could serve more than two terms in office — until Scott Stringer decided to overturn it, cutting a backroom deal to hand Mayor Bloomberg a third term,» the ominously voice spot said.

«If Andrew Cuomo hadn't cut a backroom deal that put Republicans in power, the Child Victims Act would have passed years ago,» the spokeswoman said.

In addition, the script adds enough plots to fill a whole rack at the airport Barnes & Noble: looming epidemics, African civil wars, sinister businessmen cutting backroom deals, even a nebulous threat that may destroy all life on Earth if Pitt doesn't save the day.

The Fiscal Code contains language that distributes new state funding for schools through the bipartisan Basic Education Funding Commission's (BEFC) funding formula and brings to an end the era of powerful lawmakers cutting backroom deals to dole out new funding to schools.

Kamp goes on a hunting trip, where he sees the Judge cut a backroom deal with local captains of industry.

«Angela Merkel's nuclear deal is driving people into the streets because it is a stimulus program for political disaffection when the head of a government cuts a backroom deal with four energy bosses that's worth hundreds of billions of euros and safety issues for old nuclear plants are sorted out on the side,» Gabriel said.

Not exact matches

Members of the New York County Democratic Committee, upset about a backroom deal their chair, Keith Wright, cut to choose a candidate for a vacant state Senate seat, will push a resolution at a meeting tomorrow night that would prohibit county party officials from also working for firms that lobby.

ERIE COUNTY, NY — Today, Michelle Schoeneman, candidate for the Erie County Legislature's 10th District, criticized her opponent, Joseph Lorigo, and his party - boss father, Ralph Lorigo, for cutting a political backroom deal that put the current West Seneca leadership in office.

Sliwa called Long's comments «the old - school way of thinking» and said he's not looking to cut a «backroom deal.»