Sentences with phrase «favor with»

Ms. Mark - Viverito vociferously protested the decision, at one point accusing outgoing Council Speaker Christine Quinn of engineering the move to curry favor with Mr. Heastie and the rest of Bronx county in advance of her mayoral run.

The details of what, if anything, Litwin hopes to gain by currying favor with the state's most powerful politicians have always been vague.

Prosecutors alleged that Dorego, an executive at Glenwood Management, directed a $ 20,000 check to the younger Skelos from title insurance work that he never did to curry favor with his father.

But Quinn refused, Mark - Viverito charged, in order to gain favor with partly leaders in The Bronx to help her mayoral bid.

Defense lawyers in the Percoco trial have said that Howe would alter emails he sent to associates for various reasons, but mostly to curry favor with his bosses.

5) Who is Cuomo trying to curry favor with or reward with Ms. DeRosa's appointment?

Yes, it's that time of year again, time for campaign - weary politicians to seek the healing powers of the sun, sand and surf while also currying favor with a key voting block for future electoral runs.

He clearly wants to curry favor with the Republicans, and helping to keep them in power in the Senate — their last toehold in state government — certainly would win him Brownie points.

Though member items are frequently derided as political gimmes that legislators use to curry favor with voters, many groups depend on them.

The Skeloses» defense, however, argues that Bonomo would have had a different motive for currying favor with politicians than passing the legislation: His «past and ongoing misconduct» at PRI that «exposed him to potential debarment and criminal prosecution.»

The executive committee vote was 23 in favor with 4 opposed.

Others said Senate Dems could be currying favor with incoming Gov. Andrew Cuomo by leaving open positions so he can fill them.

«Guys like Rove need the spotlight — need to be the guy, and after the 2012 debacle, I think it's pretty apparent that he's out of favor with donors and trying to rebuild,» says Drew Ryun, political director of the Madison Project, a Tea Party political action committee.

A number of City Council Members who are jockeying to replace Melissa Mark - Viverito as the next Speaker of the City Council seem to be stepping up efforts to curry favor with their colleagues and other elected officials through strategic campaign donations.

«Not luring in big businesses with taxpayer money that sound really impressive, then all they do is just curry favor with politicians.

The dynamics of the state primaries are also a sign of how far the proposal has fallen out of favor with Democratic candidates and voters alike, after a time in which it was pro forma for some party leaders to praise the proposal, at least conceptually.

Mahoney has so far found favor with Democrats.

«They don't want to lose favor with some politicians.

Candidates who would have been stymied because they are out of favor with the local political establishment now find themselves free to run in open primaries, which typically determine city elections.

In the US Senate, he has backed a handful of Democrats, including Harry Reid, Joe Sestak, and Michael Bennett for the US Senate, probably to gain favor with Democratic leaders who will likely maintain control of the US Senate.

Former US Sen. Alfonse D'Amato is pleased Cuomo is finally «free» of the need to curry favor with the AFL - CIO and NYSUT, which didn't endorse his re-election.

But we do know that Kim Jong Nam fell out of favor with his father in 2001 when he was caught trying to travel to Japan to visit Disneyland using a fake passport from the Dominican Republic.

«Joe Lhota is trying to downplay his ties to the right wing of the Republican Party, but the truth is he was pandering to the Tea Party throughout the Republican primary, and he continues to try and curry favor with them in the general election,» said de Blasio's campaign manager Bill Hyers.

AT&T and Wells Fargo are trying to buy favor with Rump so they played along... AT&T to advance merger plans and Wells Fargo to avoid penalties.

The former congressman fell out of favor with national Democrats after he voted against President Obama's Affordable Care Act in 2010 — it's not clear yet that if Mr. McMahon ran again, the DCCC would offer the same robust financial support they gave Mr. Recchia.

East Harlem Councilwoman Melissa Mark - Viverito, who was not at the rally, has accused Quinn of altering the lines to curry favor with the Bronx political establishment for her run for mayor.

At the time, Cuomo was facing sharp criticism for abruptly shutting down his Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, amid accusations that the dismantling of the panel was done to curry favor with then - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

We can only hope that this year the Mayor spends more time listening to the families he promised to serve than he does currying favor with his political allies.»

When asked if his pondering of a primary against Ms. Savino was a way to curry favor with Cuomo, Cappelli said, «My record with the MTA speaks for itself.

COR also worked to curry favor with the Cuomo administration, putting on a fundraiser in a garage full of Corvettes owned by a COR partner, Jeff Aiello.

He suggested the Quinn, who is hoping to run for mayor in 2013 with at least tacit support from Michael Bloomberg, saw the bill through to win favor with the adminisration.

The immense distaste for the war and the fact that all of the candidates on the current top 5 list supported it are a HUGE point in Feingold's favor with party activists.

That Sampson had fallen out of favor with his fellow Democrats was the worst kept secret in Albany.

Prosecutors unveiled a damning e-mail that shows a Columbia cancer doctor steered asbestos victims to then - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to curry favor with him.

De Blasio defended donations to his political nonprofit from conservative donors who had reasons to curry favor with City Hall, saying that in the «real world,» people give to Democrats and Republicans all the time.

Who is it that tried to curry favor with a certain segment of NYC voters last year by out - of - the - blue giving every welfare recipient a $ 200 check out of the state till (i.e., our tax dollars)?

Currying favor with Dadey, who also happens to hold the No. 2 post in the state GOP, might the first step for Flanagan on the road to making peace with upstate GOPers — both local party leaders and grassroots activists.

Andrew Cuomo back in his AG days, has fallen out of favor with the administration — and how.

He wants to curry favor with every subgroup of NYC liberals under the sun... in hopes of getting reelected for a third term.

Heading into the 2010 election, some Orthodox leaders openly urged voters in the community to support Donovan as a way of currying favor with the mayor to ensure that the voucher program is renewed, sources said.

Editorial pages have generally been in favor with the Daily News in particular saying that the opposition from elected officials is a good reason to support the Con Con:

As noted before, this success isn't winning them any favor with the Miami Herald, but in the halls of the U.S. Capitol and the Florida Legislature, it's good to be king.

From that fact, a jury could conclude that Glenwood was motivated to curry favor with Silver.»

Prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a damning e-mail that shows a Columbia cancer doctor steered asbestos victims to then - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to curry favor with him.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has gained favor with Republicans.

While Quinn's «fingerprints» are on several bills, the power to coax another colleague to introduce her legislation mitigates any backlash from core voting blocs and curries favor with fellow Council members, according to Quinn's spox.

Without good candidates to rally around, parties find it tough to win favor with the local communities.

Prosecutors also say Adam Skelos was paid over $ 100,000 by a medical malpractice insurer seeking to curry favor with his dad.

Unsurprisingly, the plans for reform did not find favor with the state's teachers union, New York State United Teachers, nor with Mr. Cuomo's liberal primary challenger Zephyr Teachout, who both insisted the true crisis was inadequate and unfair state education funding.

Elected officials curry favor with this Brooklyn megachurch pastor.