Sentences with phrase «dysfunctional state government»

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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)....

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.

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.»

Albany, the most dysfunctional state government in America.

Not exact matches

In no particular order these included: a dysfunctional bankruptcy framework; an immature domestic capital market; withholding taxes on foreign capital; corruption (particularly at the state level — the Modi government has made progress at the federal level); policy and renegotiation risks (a number of legacy and high profile tax eases are yet to be resolved); land acquisition costs (and legal risks); and, the need for tax reforms.

This structural deficiency of what government spends its resources on and who are the real beneficiaries thereof, is worsened by another structural problem - the structure of Nigeria's pseudo-federation with one overwhelmingly large and not surprisingly wasteful and inefficient federal governments; 36 handicapped states; and 774 almost utterly useless local governments which are now de facto area offices of the handicapped states and therefore doubly - disabled and dysfunctional.

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.

ALBANY — Andrew Cuomo is a governor of ends, not means, and has changed public perception of the state's notoriously dysfunctional government by pushing legislators into harmonic action and minimizing scandals.

Expressing concern over the widespread perception of state government as dysfunctional.

We have transformed the state government from dysfunctional to highly functional, a deficit to a surplus, and losing jobs to gaining jobs,» Mr. Cuomo said.

Can Cuomo lead a state with an out - of - control budget, a deadlocked, corrupt and dysfunctional government and a private - sector economy that has fallen prey to parasitical public - employee unions?

In a new poll released Thursday by Quinnipiac University, the majority of voters surveyed — 55 percent — indicated that they believe New York State government is dysfunctional.

[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.»

With the convictions of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, the use of «Albany» as shorthand for «dysfunctional and corrupt state government» has exploded.

He faulted him for spending 20 years in government, 12 of which were in a «dysfunctional» state assembly.

This state government is so dysfunctional its pathetic.

The poll surveyed 2,477 registered voters in New York and found that 78 percent believe state government is dysfunctional and the recent logjam in the state Senate makes 42 percent of those polled embarrassed to be New Yorkers.

I think that New Yorkers have lost democracy in this state and, for every reason, they've lost faith in a state government that has exposed itself for being dysfunctional, bloated, arrogant and corrupt,» Molinaro said.

«When Governor Cuomo took office, New York faced a $ 10 billion deficit and state government was dysfunctional.

But he tried to distance himself from the state's dysfunctional government, saying,» I understand the disgust at Albany and I share it.»

It has the potential to undo nearly all of the mischievous, dysfunctional, intrusive, big - government features of NCLB and return most education responsibility and authority to states, just as the Tenth Amendment prescribes.

It will be yet more dysfunctional if states and municipalities ask the US Government for aid.

There are those, and there are many, that would like to prevent the moving power from a dysfunctional massive government; I think we can all agree government is dysfunctional, back to the states and the people, as was originally intended.

Whenever big entities have pushed their way into small firm solicitor services, the public has been badly hurt in every way with the title insurance experience in the US being a prime example (they took over most of the conveyancing and promptly set about screwing the public — «a dysfunctional industry in which the public pays too much» according to the government of the State of California).