Sentences with phrase «fallen pol»

Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky captured the fallen pol's State Senate seat, despite Cuomo again refusing to get involved on a fellow Democrat's behalf.

And her campaign manager — and husband — John Quinn is another old pal of the fallen pol.

Among them was the fallen pol's ex-chief of staff, Judy Rapfogel, wife of his childhood friend and fellow felon William Rapfogel.

The Democratic county committee — the local panel of party insiders that selects candidates in special elections for state offices — that picked Ms. Cancel for the seat was heavily stocked with the fallen pol's allies.

UPDATED, 11: 26 a.m., November 14: Bernard Spitzer, papa to fallen pol Eliot Spitzer, is moving today across his block in Midtown — to rental digs at 200 Central Park South.

Lower East Side district leader Alice Cancel — the Democratic candidate for disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's seat — defended her nomination by a group of insiders close to the fallen pol, and attacked her Working Families Party opponent as a transplant and an interloper.

It was the fallen pol's lackeys on the local county committee — including his wife and his former chief - of - staff — who secured the longtime district leader the Democratic line in the special election to succeed him, boxing out an array of rivals.

Not exact matches

Instead, we have a bunch of «savvier - than - thou» pols who are falling over each other trying to show just how far they are willing to go to allow the GOP to run this country.

Since last fall, chamber pols have raised a litany of objections, from the protections afforded to driver data collected by cars to the effects they might have on the trucking industry.

The year that Eliot Spitzer tried to scratch the ego itch that's had him squirming so visibly for years, once again dipping into daddy's dollars but this time falling to a feisty machine pol that nobody outside Manhattan ever heard of six weeks ago, but who got his own nasty up at the end and slew the ogre.

Lawyers for fallen former state Sen. John Sampson have filed papers to appeal the disgraced pol's corruption conviction.

The campaign's offer also includes a 90 - minute private reception with the gov. Cuomo's not the only pol using the Fall Classic to raise campaign funds: Rep. Grace Meng has a similar scheme — for an only slightly more affordable $ 2,500 a head.

Mr. Linares fell behind Mr. Murtaugh, but the longtime pol, who hailed from the old Irish - American establishment, was representing a district undergoing rapid demographic change.

Sanitation Department «employees should not have been sitting around unwrapping gifts - they should've been unwrapping salt and getting in their trucks,» said state Sen. Eric Adams (D - Brooklyn), who was among several pols urging Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty to fall on his sword.

Maybe the poet's tired of pols and their game And so fallen back on lines that are lame.