Sentences with phrase «decades as a legislator»

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When Tom Davidson served as a state legislator for a small district in southern Maine two decades ago, he became intimately familiar with the byzantine, bureaucratic, and often, frankly, subpar sausage - making that goes into bankrolling education at a local level.

The Democrat who ousted Sen. Frank Padavan (R - Bellerose) from the seat he held for nearly four decades, Avella has unofficially begun his stint as an Albany legislator.

It was also advertised as a way to end the horse - trading that's been a part of pay raises for decades — in 1987, Mario Cuomo linked a salary increase to ethics reforms, and the 1998 pay hike was accompanied by the creation of the state's first charter schools, a bill pushed by dairy farmers, and an agreement to give the comptroller authority to withhold legislators» paychecks in years when budgets are late.

In the decade since Eliot Spitzer resigned as governor amid reports he had solicited and slept with a prostitute, more than two dozen New York state legislators have stepped down or been convicted in a variety of corruption cases, including former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

By Thursday morning, Silver was handcuffed and under arrest for allegedly taking almost $ 6 million in bribes and kickbacks over the last decade based solely on his power as a legislator.

ALBANY — Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, one of the most powerful New York politicians over the past two decades, will vacate his post by Monday, said Democrats, who last night appointed a Rochester legislator as an interim replacement until Feb. 10.

The economy was running smoothly, so state legislators spent as if there were not going to be tech or housing bubbles looming in the next decade.

German legislator Hermann Scheer, known as the chief architect of Germany's green - energy laws, has spent the past two decades as the driving force behind IRENA's creation.

Our interest in early childhood development is rooted in our own experiences, personal and professional: We're both fathers and former legislators — in fact, one of us is raising seven kids and the other served for a decade as chairman or ranking member of the House Education and Labor Committee, witnessing firsthand how government could work to help expand opportunities for children.