Sentences with phrase «dysfunctional state legislature»

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.

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

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

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

Not exact matches

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

[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.»

«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.

[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.»

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

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