Sentences with phrase «dysfunctional legislature»

Today New York is a laughingstock because of its chronically dysfunctional legislature and its recent nonfunctional governors.

After all, the Brennan Center for Justice once famously called New York home to the most dysfunctional legislature in the United States.

GR: You've often talked in the past, when you first ran, of New York having a dysfunctional state political system, a dysfunctional legislature.

A dysfunctional legislature could make securing those wins more difficult for the governor ahead of a race against Nelson.

For one thing, Albany insiders say, Silver is widely viewed as the most competent leader in the dysfunctional legislature.

[5] In a letter to his supporters, Ball stated that the job of reforming Albany had not been completed, saying, «From property tax reform to corruption in government, the job I set to do in 2006 is still incomplete, and it can only be accomplished by continuing to tackle our nation's most dysfunctional legislature.»

«Mayor Koch and New York Uprising remain committed to educating voters across the state as to who is truly committed to cleaning up our dysfunctional legislature in these tumultuous times — and who is satisfied with the status quo,» said NY Uprising's Mark Botnick.

Hein didn't use the word «dysfunctional,» since he's looking for favors from the original dysfunctional legislature inAlbany.

«New York became the most dysfunctional legislature in the country.

He noted that a Con Con could add further protections and reform our expensive and convoluted court system and dysfunctional legislature.

«What you're seeing is a lot more legislation that more well - thought... more bipartisan, not a dysfunctional legislature.

What we experienced [before] was a dysfunctional legislature.

Yesterday, we wrote about Shafran's role in excuse - making for the corrupt and dysfunctional legislature up in Albany, but what wasn't discussed is that Shafran also worked as the goto political spinmaster for Senator Malcolm Smith — the same Senator that was arrested in a statewide FBI corruption probe that alleges he attempted to rig the Mayoral election through fraud and bribes early this morning.

On the other hand, the US Senate is one of the most dysfunctional legislatures in the free world.

Not exact matches

Cuomo tried unsuccessfully to get the legislature to enact reforms to the state's dysfunctional campaign finance system.

The New York legislature already has the dubious reputation of being the most dysfunctional in the nation.

By forcing insurers to compete for our business, the legislature would improve a notoriously dysfunctional system and transform the health care industry.

[19] Since 1984, New York State has only passed a budget on time once, in 2005, leading Paterson to call for an «end to the dysfunction in Albany» in his speech, echoing a 56 - page study from the nonpartisan New York University School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice, which referred to the legislature as «the least deliberative and most dysfunctional in the nation.»

It also seems that bringing up a pay raise this year, when all must stand for re-election, may not be the wisest thing to do, considering the legislature has a «dysfunctional» tag hung on it.

I think you are on to something here — more likely it also the symbolism of breaking free from the dysfunctional state legislature.

Blame, again, a dysfunctional state legislature which leftNew York the last state to reapportion.

[34][35] The first time Ball rose to speak in the Assembly chamber, he called the legislature «dysfunctional», and withstood boos from his colleagues.

Going «cold turkey» or slamming door on the legislature would have accomplished nothing but further dysfunctional government.

It has become fashionable in the age of county executive government to demean the old legislature as myopic, dysfunctional, parochial and ineffective.

Spitzer also attacked Stringer over his time as a state assemblyman, when he was part of «the most dysfunctional state legislature in the country.»

A veteran of the sharp - elbowed politics of New York's infamously dysfunctional state legislature (called the worst in the nation by the Brennan Center for Justice in 2004), Carroll assembled a team of equally determined and savvy colleagues, most of whom had honed their political skills in those same tough trenches.

Anyone wanting to see just how dysfunctional politics in B.C. has become should check out Bob Simpson's recent Private Members» statement in the provincial legislature.