Sentences with phrase «dysfunctional state»

It also reminds me of how dysfunctional our state government still is and how hard it will be to fix it.

The notoriously dysfunctional state board of elections was allocated the responsibility for managing this program.

Given its current dysfunctional state, I'm not holding my breath.

Albany, the most dysfunctional state government in America.

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

The verdict marks a historic turn for Albany, which has long held the reputation as one of the most dysfunctional state capitals in the nation.

And yet Trump seems to be moving the country as a whole in the right direction vs. Cuomo continues to run a very dysfunctional state.

Today's Q poll finds New Yorkers are split on whether Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo can fix the terminally dysfunctional state government, although they're generally optimistic about the state's prospects when he takes office.

Paterson wants to highlight an example of what he wants that the legislature stalls over that even the other dysfunctional state gov «ts get done.

Bayside attorney Steve Behar said he would focus on reforms in Albany's dysfunctional state Legislature if elected this fall to replace state Assemblywoman Ann - Margaret Carrozza (D - Bayside).

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.

Race to the Top initiated a long - overdue debate over how to improve teacher quality in the United States and highlighted a number of dysfunctional state practices around teacher training, placement, evaluation, tenure, and dismissal.

[UPDATE, 1/20/10: As United States Marines fanned out to aid in recovery efforts in Haiti and American Air Force personnel managed traffic at the Port - au - Prince airport, their efforts resembled some of what was envisioned in this session on international options when dysfunctional states fail their citizenry.]

While still a candidate in 2010, he called the notoriously dysfunctional state government a «joke» and warned that if legislators refused to police themselves via tougher ethics requirement, he would establish a commission and do it for them.

ALBANY — Newly announced Democratic gubernatorial contender Andrew Cuomo offered private and public olive branches to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver yesterday, insisting he had no plan to oust the longtime power broker whom many associate with New York's notoriously dysfunctional state government

Besides the Presidential debate, today McCarthy analyzed the Collins - Hochul Congressional race and examined the near - dysfunctional state of the Erie County Democratic Party.

Buffalo is HALF the size it was in 1960 where its population was 530,000 — today its 239,000 (Thank the most dysfunctional state government in America for this sad fact and the rest of NY's outward resident and business migration)....

But equally wretched is the current state of politics in America, where Congress can't do anything about the nation's never - ending string of mass shootings or our massive federal debt or the dysfunctional state of U.S. health care or, well, anything important.

The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East (HarperCollins), Lewis addresses contemporary anti-Western attitudes and the dysfunctional state of many Muslim lands today.

Cuomo said he's just as angry over the dysfunctional state government as the mad - as - hell Buffalo businessman, but insisted he has the experience and disposition to channel that emotion into something positive and build the coalitions he says are necessary to change Albany.

Sampson's statement didn't name names, but did accuse Koch of «chasing headlines» with his campaign and not being involved in an «honest» effort to fix the dysfunctional state government.

Steve Levy: I am Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, and I am running for Governor to radically reform our dysfunctional state government.

In the 60 - second spot, which a source close to the Levy campaign says cost in the «mid-five figures» to run (another source with ties to the media buying market says it's a week - to - week buy, unlike Carl Paladino's buy, which is «significant» and will run up to the convention), the county executive touts his tax - cutting record and pledges to «radically reform our dysfunctional state government.»

We're uniquely positioned to continue advocating for systemic change in our often - dysfunctional state and local governments, to move Brooklyn toward a more progressive future.

Brodsky has taken issue with Rice's «career Albany politician» line, noting that it could just as easily apply to Cuomo himself — even as the AG strives to put some distance between himself and the dysfunctional state government that has been entirely run by members of his party since 2008.

«I am grateful to all those who are supporting my campaign to clean up the most dysfunctional state government in America,» Mejias said in a press release.

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.

That's one reason why City Hall began, early and often, to place responsibility and blame on a dysfunctional state capital.

Democrats did have a rocky record during the brief two years that they held the chamber, including a coup attempt by some Democrats, along with the republicans, that led to a month long stand off, and helped earn New York's legislature the title from NYU's Brennan Center of the most dysfunctional state government in the nation.

The dysfunctional state Board of Elections is inadequately prepared to implement a public financing program for the comptroller's office this election cycle.

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 budget deal would likely be welcomed by Mr. Cuomo, a second - term Democrat seeking re-election in the fall, who has made much of his reputation of being an efficient steward of an often - dysfunctional state government.

But the Governor succeeded in passing an on - time balanced budget without tax hikes — quite an accomplishment in our dysfunctional state capital.

The Dems attack CP's political correctness while ignoring the corrupt and dysfunctional state government; totally under their control for the past two years.

He says for the last several years, New York was considered to have «the most dysfunctional state government in the country».

«I couldn't sit back and watch Kemp Hannon do nothing about fixing the most dysfunctional state government in America,» said Mejias.

With them we hope to crack the puzzle of consciousness, and perhaps correct the dysfunctional states of the brain we now call mental illness.

«What we have to recognize... is that if cancer is a mitochondrial metabolic disease and you get cancer because of mitochondrial failure in certain populations of cells and certain tissues, if you prevent your mitochondria from entering into this dysfunctional state... [then] the probability of getting cancer is going to be significantly reduced.

Bowen re-balances the body with gentle stimulating activations that support the body and bring it back into equilibrium and out of a dysfunctional state.

In arguing the merits of charters vs. vouchers, the candidates mentioned the dysfunctional state of the D.C. school system.

The dysfunctional state of the Senate has damaging consequences that extend into virtually every corner of American politics.