Sentences with phrase «father was the majority leader»

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BO is the leader of the «immoral majority» i.e. those voting «mothers and fathers» of 35 million aborted babies.

And BO is the leader of the Immoral Majority, the largest voting bloc the US i.e. in 2012, the ~ 78 million voting «mothers and fathers» of aborted womb babies and that is the reason BO will win in 2012 unless the Republicans somehow nominate a «pro-abortion» candidate something very unlikely considering the conservative «pro-life» voting bloc within said party.

Cornyn, who met with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress Parkland father calls out Trump, McConnell, Ryan after Santa Fe shooting Overnight Finance: House rejects farm bill in conservative revolt NAFTA deal remains elusive as talks drag on Dodd - Frank rollback set for House vote MORE (R - Ky.)

Credo political director Murshed Zaheed called Schumer «the worst negotiator in Washington» and said he got «outmaneuvered» by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress Parkland father calls out Trump, McConnell, Ryan after Santa Fe shooting Overnight Finance: House rejects farm bill in conservative revolt NAFTA deal remains elusive as talks drag on Dodd - Frank rollback set for House vote MORE (R - Ky.).

But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress Parkland father calls out Trump, McConnell, Ryan after Santa Fe shooting Overnight Finance: House rejects farm bill in conservative revolt NAFTA deal remains elusive as talks drag on Dodd - Frank rollback set for House vote MORE (R - Ky.)

Lawyers in the office were delighted, for example, when the son of Dean Skelos, the Senate majority leader and an only slightly less august figure than Silver, was caught on a wiretap complaining to his father about the culture of rectitude newly created in Albany.

The press shop for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress Parkland father calls out Trump, McConnell, Ryan after Santa Fe shooting Overnight Finance: House rejects farm bill in conservative revolt NAFTA deal remains elusive as talks drag on Dodd - Frank rollback set for House vote MORE (R - Ky.)

Commisso also turned aside the speculation from some quarters that his father, County Legislature Majority Leader Frank Commisso, was only in the race as placeholder for him, a scarecrow of sorts to dissuade others from entering the race.

McCoy is a Sheehan ally, while Commisso Jr.'s father Frank Commisso Sr. is the majority leader of the county Legislature.

Commisso, whose father Frank Commisso Sr. is the majority leader of the Albany County Legislature and a longtime Democrat, has represented the 15th Ward since 2010.

When Adam Skelos felt that he was being «picked on» at his seldom - show job at a medical malpractice insurer, he called his father, then senate majority leader Dean Skelos, to help sort it out.

Former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, were convicted on all counts Friday for shaking down more than $ 300,000 in payoffs by trading on the father's political influence.

Defense attorneys focused on the lack of a stated arrangement between the senator and Adam's employers, suggesting that the majority leader was simply an attentive father trying to look after an adopted son who had struggled professionally.

Interestingly, Liberty Title Agency once employed Adam Skelos, who along with his father, Dean Skelos, the ex-Senate Majority Leader, was recently convicted on corruption charges.

Ex-state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - LI) and his son Adam were arrested in May on charges they used the father's powerful position to in exchange for cash and work for the ne'er - do - well son.

Her father is former east Tremont Councilman and current Assemblyman Jose Rivera and brother is Council Majority Leader Joel Rivera.

Attorneys for former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos are minimizing his talks with AbTech, an Arizona - based company that employed his son, Adam, saying they were merely the outgrowth of a «proud» son's wanting to introduce his boss to his father.

Adam Skelos, the former Senate majority leader's son, who is also on trial, believed he knew how things got done in Albany: Don't hire a New York City lobbyist to influence the Senate Republican majority, which was led by his father until earlier this year.

Senate Minority Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerSchumer: GOP efforts to identify FBI informant «close to crossing a legal line» Patients deserve the «right to try» How the embassy move widens the partisan divide over Israel MORE (D - N.Y.) has called on Senate Democrats to be on the floor at 9:30 Wednesday morning to hear what, if anything, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress Parkland father calls out Trump, McConnell, Ryan after Santa Fe shooting Overnight Finance: House rejects farm bill in conservative revolt NAFTA deal remains elusive as talks drag on Dodd - Frank rollback set for House vote MORE (R - Ky.)

In responding to the ad, Cuomo spokesman Richard Azzopardi referenced state Party Chairman Ed Cox's late father - in - law, President Richard Nixon, as well as former Senate Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who is appealing his conviction on felony corruption charges.

In the last three years, the Long Island Nine has become the not - so - solid seven with the conviction of ex-GOP Senate Majority leader Dean Skelos on federal corruption charges and the election loss of freshman Sen. Michael Venditto after federal charges were leveled against his father, former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto, who is now on trial.

Now, Skelos and his father, State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre), face federal extortion, conspiracy and bribery charges in what prosecutors call the senator's «monetizing» of his office to «take care of Adam's needs.»

Rink, who conceded that he hired Adam, in part, because his father was then the powerful Senate majority leader, responded: «Well, that sounds even better.»

The president has tweeted his support for Flake's GOP primary challenger in 2018, putting him at odds with Senate majority leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress Parkland father calls out Trump, McConnell, Ryan after Santa Fe shooting Overnight Finance: House rejects farm bill in conservative revolt NAFTA deal remains elusive as talks drag on Dodd - Frank rollback set for House vote MORE (R - Ky.)

There's still a wariness in the air, though, a fear that the whinings of Adam Skelos are not the final embarrassments to be yielded by Preet Bharara's tapes (and new corruption details could arrive as soon as next week, when Skelos and his father, Dean, the former Senate Republican majority leader, are expected to be formally indicted).

Commisso is a brand name in the 15th Ward, where his father, Frank Commisso, is the Democratic ward leader and also majority leader of the Albany County Legislature.

Simpson also echoed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress Parkland father calls out Trump, McConnell, Ryan after Santa Fe shooting Overnight Finance: House rejects farm bill in conservative revolt NAFTA deal remains elusive as talks drag on Dodd - Frank rollback set for House vote MORE (R - Ky.)