Sentences with phrase «elected official acted»

A NY1 / Marist poll conducted just hours after Rep. Anthony Weiner's bombshell press conference yesterday finds New Yorkers are actually fairly forgiving of elected officials acting badly — up to a point.

As I watch our elected officials act like children, and our culture's obsession with youth, I wonder: How might we (as first - world citizens) confer meaningful rites of passage to our students to help them embrace maturity?

Not exact matches

Rick Arney, co-author of the proposed California Consumer Privacy Act, said support for the measure widened when federal officials opened an investigation into how a data firm, Cambridge Analytica, accessed the personal information of millions of Facebook users without their knowledge to help elect President Trump.

The Stockton initiative is an important and courageous act of leadership by a local elected official.

Municipal Affairs Minister Doug Griffiths is expected to introduce amendments to the Local Authorities Elections Act, which would extend terms for municipal elected officials from three years to four years.

Mr. Anglin has a habit of saying what he thinks — which, despite the claims of the Wildrose Party and other right - wing Western Canadian political groups that's how elected officials should act, doesn't really go over that well in the real world of politics.

Polling shows that Americans trust members of the medical sciences to act in the public interest more than they trust religious leaders, elected officials, or business leaders.

This can best happen if individual Christians act by writing their elected officials, by voting justly, and by praying.

We can expect of our elected officials (and ourselves) integrity — the idea that we can act as honorably in the locker room as we would from the stage of the political rally or the seat in the Oval Office — without requiring perfection.

• The existence of a shadow government of unelected officials, acting independently or at times in cooperation with elected officials, presents the United States with a serious constitutional crisis:

Some of our elected officials may be religious, but we expect them to act as Humanists, not religionists.

This morning in Austin, our state's newly elected Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is holding a press conference to announce his first official act in office.

«New Yorkers are tired of telling pollsters, elected officials and community leaders that they want ridesharing in their communities — it's time for Albany to ignore NYC special interests and act,» said the company's New York general manager, Josh Mohrer.

«You look at why people are upset; you look at the way some people act, and it's certainly not becoming of them as an elected official and not becoming of them in the job that they're supposed to doing.

The actress took to Twitter to urge her followers to directly call the elected officials and tell them to stop protecting predators and pass the Child Victims Act:

Due to the fact that the press does not have much love for elected officials, the media has helped to create an aura about these two prosecutors, making Rudy Giuliani the Mayor of the City of New York, and making Preet Bharara arrogant enough to confront the President of the United States of America in what appears to be an act of insubordination, when he said that he would not return his boss» phone call.

At a time when the struggles and hardships of women and children who have been sexually abused and harassed are becoming more apparent as victims find the courage to come forward, it is baffling these elected officials are acting as a roadblock.

Lisa Polyak, acting board chair for Equality Maryland, said support from Mikulski would «round out the complement» of statewide elected officials in Maryland who've voiced support for same - sex marriage.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER LGBT rights advocates and elected officials gathered outside City Hall on March 12 to press the case for enactment of the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA) in Albany this spring.

In lower Manhattan on Tuesday, the day before Cuomo's scheduled State of the State address, Vance stood with other elected officials, advocates and survivors of child sex abuse in front of the «Fearless Girl» statue at Bowling Green, calling on the Governor to include the Child Victims Act (CVA) in his 2018 budget.

The news is significant, not only as it temporarily exonerates Silver — once one of the state's most powerful elected officials — though he can be retried, and the acting U.S. attorney has indicated he will, in fact, seek to take another legal crack at the former Manhattan Democratic lawmaker.

As an elected official and a religious leader I know the pain of such acts.»

«Anyone who waited in line, anyone who had trouble voting, needs to make their voices heard to their elected officials,» Kallos said, «and Albany needs to finally make these changes even if it isn't in the interest of incumbents... Ultimately in 2017, we will have a vote on the Constitutional Convention, and if Albany won't act then the electors might.»

It is time for our elected officials to have an honest and open discussion on the SAFE Act and why states with less restrictive gun laws do not have these problems.»

A group of about 30 local elected officials, activists and concerned residents gathered Tuesday afternoon outside Rep. John Katko's (R - Camillus) office in downtown Syracuse to protest his support for the controversial Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

But in a 2016 ruling in a Virginia case, the high court said «official acts» by an elected official had to include specific use of government power, rather than acts that could be perceived as «constituent services.»

Marching in support of a lawsuit that eight employees of the Vegas Auto Spa have filed against the owner of the car wash, the elected officials blocked traffic and were removed by the NYPD in what Lander called an act of «civil disobedience.»

«We were just joking in our office that everyone on the second floor should resign and become a volunteer paid by the campaign, because we don't know of any laws that prohibit volunteers from acting on behalf of an elected official,» said John Kaehny, executive director of good government group Reinvent Albany.

«Elected officials from the Governor on down touted the supposed benefits to public safety the SAFE Act would bring,» NYSRPA President Tom King said.

In the video, elected officials such as Public Advocate Letitia James and U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez, says a vote for the WFP is a vote for women's equality, as well as campaign finance reform and the Dream Act.

He also urged elected officials to stand up on the issue, saying the passage of the SAFE Act hurt his own political standing.

LGBT advocates have pressed state elected officials to take up measures that would bolster rights for transgender New Yorkers, including the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act.

While some officials who took part in the meeting voiced support for Schumer afterward, others said they would consider it a strike on his record if the provision is left out, noting that he voted for the Defense of Marriage Act and was the last of New York's major elected officials to voice support for gay marriage.

Standing with elected officials, good government groups, union members, and voting reform advocates outside Federal Hall in Manhattan, Schneiderman released the legislation, called the New York Votes Act.

He became immersed in the political life of New York's sleepy capital city, acting more like a small - state governor than one of the most powerful elected officials in the nation.

«We elected our elected officials, including our governor, to act rational and to act on their best judgment,» Bailey said, «not to delegate to a group of people — particularly since he disagrees with them.»

«As elected officials, as community leaders, as religious leaders, as ordinary citizens, we must stand together to condemn these acts of hate against our Muslim and Jewish communities.

If you agree, you can send a message to our local elected officials telling them you will no longer tolerate their decision to act as willing co-conspirators with the DEP as that agency continues to engage in its long - held practice of profligate spending, this time in our community, as it proposes to spend $ 1.8 million on a parcel of land carried on our assessment roll at $ 165,500.

«The women of New York deserve a vote on the entire Women's Equality Act and have a right to know where their elected officials stand on these important issues,» Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said in a statement.

Governor Andrew Cuomo stated that he is ready to sign the Child Safe Products Act to protect our kids if it gets to his desk this legislative session — now all we need is the support of elected officials like you,» the letter to lawmakers states.

At 10:30 a.m., Rep. Joe Crowley is joined by elected officials, civic organizations, advocates and community members to announce the Silent Skies Act to address aircraft noise pollution in communities surrounding airports in Queens; LaGuardia Airport's Marine Air Terminal Rotunda.

We reached out to the remaining members of The Mount Vernon City Council, Council President Roberta Apuzzo (D), Acting President Pro Tem, Marcus A. Griffith (D), and Deborah Reynolds (D) as well as The Commissioner of the Westchester Board of Election and Westchester Democratic Chairman, Reggie Lafayette (who I believe is also Mt. Vernon Democratic Chairman as well - sound like a conflict of interest to me, but I digress) and other local elected officials who have yet to respond to our request for a comment.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and a host of elected officials called on Congress to get their act together and vote on a bill that would bring hundreds of millions of...

An author and one - time elected official under New York Gov. George Pataki, McCaughey has made her name largely with blistering attacks on health care reform efforts offered by Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 1990s and then eventually passed into law as the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare.

The elected officials and Jewish community leaders spoke out against these reprehensible acts and called for unity.

The local elected officials are hoping the President will declare the increased lake levels a major disaster under the federal Stafford Act, which would make federal emergency funding available.

Since the repeal debate began, protesters have made direct confrontations with elected officials a central part of their opposition to the Republican bill — copying what worked for tea party activists, who packed Democratic town halls during the lengthy 2009 - 2010 Affordable Care Act debate.

Sixteen families within Alfred E. Smith Houses could be without gas on Thanksgiving, prompting elected officials to act and the residents» association to raise funds for food.

A spokesman for the Democratic mayoral nominee said he was acting as an elected official responding to the needs of constituents in both instances.

While stating that the party remained in intact, Maku described Agbaso's leadership of APGA as void, adding that Oye and other party officials were elected through a properly organised convention of the party duly monitored by INEC and other appropriate agencies in line with the party's constitution and the Electoral Act.