Sentences with phrase «fight over the governor»

Not exact matches

As Kentucky and Louisville, the only two universities in the state, fought over Beard's services, nearly everyone took sides from the governor on down.

Further proof of my assertion not long ago that education is developing into a serious sticking point between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver came in the form of a statement from the governor that blames «Assembly - led» legislation passed in 2010 for the current fight between the teachers unions and school districts over the creation of teacher evaluation systems.

The disagreement between the RGA and the RNC over who to back for governor in New York has been a subtext of the party's fight over the top of its ticket, which just seems to grow stranger as the convention draws near.

Jim Dwyer says the «spitball fights» between the mayor and the governor over who's responsible for the MTA are not going to fix the subway for beleaguered riders.

What the governor is saying, what the mayor is saying, all of that is accurate, because if we don't win some of these battles in Washington, then we're going to be back home fighting each other over a diminished pot.»

Rather than fight over teacher - evaluation details, though, the governor needs to keep his eye on the larger issue: work rules and excessive job protections teachers enjoy.

(As published in Gotham Gazette) The big news is that Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio have stopped fighting over who should pay what, and reached a deal to close a huge gap in the MTA's vital $ 26 billion five - year capital plan.

Faced with losing the ballot line to a challenger who tapped into resentment over his estate tax cuts, charter - school championing and failure to deliver campaign finance reform, Governor Andrew Cuomo won the party's designation only after promising to fight for Democratic control of the state Senate and deliver a progressive policy wish list.

Unfortunately, the governor's laudable efforts will be squandered if he gets drawn into a narrow fight with the unions over details, like points and weighting percentages in teacher evaluations.

But the fight over the decision was a public one, and ended in a humiliation for the governor, who was forced to appear in a hostage - like video at the convention, in which he reluctantly acceded to the WFP's demands.

Legislative leaders are fighting the governor in court over the scope of the Moreland Act Commission probes.

The fight over the archived document, John Kaehny of Reinvent Albany told NY1, hardly befits a governor «who vowed to transform Albany culture from one of secretiveness to one of transparency.»

Lasher confirmed the fight was over a bill to significantly expand the Loft Law, which passed both houses and was headed to Gov. David Paterson for a signing until Bloomberg yesterday released a letter calling for the governor to veto it.

At the same time, the governor and the WFP are currently feuding over his recent comments knocking the public education system as a «monopoly» and pledged to fight next year for more charter school protections.

Repeating the governor's claim that state cuts to education do not require layoffs, Mulgrew said it was clear that Mayor Bloomberg's priority «is not to get money for the schools; he would rather fight over who to lay off than fight on behalf of children.»

There are also raw, long - term battles being fought on new fronts: The teachers» unions, for instance, hate Cuomo's proposed tax breaks for private schools, and the governor disdains the unions» power over public schools.

«The governor is fighting to reform a system that spends more money per student than any other state in the nation while condemning hundreds of thousands of children to failing schools over the last decade,» said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

All over country, Democratic governors have gotten involved and fought for their congressional delegations, and in New York State, a Democratic governor in a Democratic state allows a court map?»

Barbara Bowen, a CUNY English professor who is president of the Professional Staff Congress, the union that represents 25,000 CUNY faculty and staff, said she was happy to see the governor acknowledge the need for money to cover the retroactive raises that the union has been fighting for but was worried over the $ 485 million cut in state spending for CUNY.

Governor Rick Scott and state lawmakers hope a new law will end fights between hospitals over establishing new trauma centers.

Many of the proposals have trickled out over the last two weeks, but the governor made news by fleshing out his agenda for public ethics and fighting homelessness.

New York State United Teachers President Karen Magee, whose union fought bitterly with the governor over the initial proposals, calls it a «momentous development.»

«The governor brought up a number of issues that he wanted in his bill, and we didn't want to fight with him over it.»

The ads released on Monday and airing this week call Astorino the «ultra-conservative» choice for governor given his long and complex fight over enforcing a federal affordable housing regulations in the suburban county.

Sixteen local government chairmen in Ekiti State have sued the Attorney General of the Federation and governors of the 36 states over the approval of $ 1billion from the Excess Crude Account of the federation for the fight against insurgency.

In an interview recorded today with WABC's Diana Williams, Mr. de Blasio accused Mr. Cuomo of creating «distractions» in an ongoing fight over a real estate tax break and said the governor was «not acting like a partner.»

The distinction in disability pensions was created by former governor David Paterson as a cost - saving measure in 2009, and has become a flashpoint in a broader feud between de Blasio and the city's police and fire unions — one that Cuomo has seized on as he and the mayor fight over a host of other issues.

The governor and mayor have squabbled over everything from subsidized housing to a dead deer in a Harlem park, with Cuomo usually picking the fight and de Blasio responding with eye - blinking befuddlement.

The Democratic governor, who has been positioning himself as a potential 2020 candidate, made fighting the federal government a central plank of his agenda this year, announcing during his 92 - minute speech that he would sue President Donald Trump's administration over the just - passed tax overhaul, H.R. 1 (115).

Patrolmen's Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch sent a letter Friday to the governor asking that he intervene in a fight with de Blasio over a union push to provide newer cops the same disability benefits as older ones.

She embarrassed the administration during a public fight over charter school space in the spring of 2014 by enlisting the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo, and she undermined the mayor on his frustrating bid to extend mayoral control over city schools in the latest legislative session.

«The fight is over this real estate program, but really it comes to something deeper, which is that the forever - fraught relationship between de Blasio and Cuomo — and indeed the fraught relationship between any mayor of New York City and any governor of New York really is at a low point with just nine days left in Albany's legislation session and with several items on the mayor's agenda sitting in Albany's lap,» Jimmy Vielkind, who covers the state government for Capital New York, told WCBS 880.

Pennsylvania's Democratic governor is fighting over the state budget with the Republican - controlled legislature.

Cuomo may get his way over de Blasio or the Legislature in the fights over housing and schools, but these are, to borrow from the governor's own words, simply the «have - to» items.

The former mayor and the former governor have been on one side of an internacine fight within the GOP over the future of the party, with state Chairman Ed Cox and the current leadership on the other.

The drama over 421 - a unfolded in the background of another housing fight in Albany — the fate of $ 2 billion the governor previously allocated for low - to moderate - income and formerly homeless New Yorkers throughout the state.

Gov. Ernie Fletcher and former Rep. Anne Northup are exchanging televised body blows over ethics in advance of the May 22 Republican primary, while two former lieutenant governors and a past gubernatorial candidate are fighting to make it to the June 26 runoff on the Democratic end of things.

The governor did not mention charter schools, but Cuomo took a shot at teachers and their unions, who he's been at odds with over school policy, saying the teacher's fight is not about education.

«The governor is fighting to reform a system that spends more money per student than any other state in the nation while condemning hundreds of thousands of children to failing schools over the last decade,» Azzopardi said.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo seems to have gained the upper hand and some new allies in his policy skirmish with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio over how to fund pre-kindergarten, as the fight threatens to turn into an upstate downstate split.

But Cuomo spokeswoman Dani Lever said the governor is fighting to reform a system that has condemned 250,000 children to failing schools over the last decade.

New York's government was structured in the days of Tammany Hall for upstate Republicans to control the Senate, and over the last century, as New York has turned an ever deeper shade of blue, the G.O.P. has fought to hold onto the chamber, which gives it one of the three legs (the other are the Assembly and governor's office) on which budgets and policy are built.

While praising the votes in Albany, the advocacy organization declared the «fight is not over» until Governor Cuomo agrees, in negotiations, to restore the funding.

«Ultimately, [the U.S. Attorney's office] is going to be far more interested in that than in a fight between the Times and the governor over whether or not it was really independent.»

He told The News that the governor, who has been fighting with Faso over health care issues, is not behind his run, though he admitted he gave the administration a heads up a few weeks ago that he was considering a run and another to say he's decided to enter the race.

ALBANY, NY (01/09/2013)(readMedia)-- «Just weeks after communities were ravaged by Superstorm Sandy — the third massive and deadly storm in just over 12 months — Governor Cuomo showed true leadership by speaking up on the need to fight climate change.

When asked to weigh in on the political fighting between the mayor and the governor over NYCHA following a visit to the NYCHA's Albany Houses in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn on Wednesday morning with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, she said that she would not be fighting as much as governor.

After fighting at the state capitol nearly every day over a four - month period, they saw eye to eye with the governor on very little.

With an anti-Common Core governor - elect and an anti-Common Core state chief, Arizona is probably the most precarious state, but we should expect another round of bruising legislative fights this spring all over red America, particularly in states with emboldened Republican legislatures.

New York State United Teachers President Karen Magee, whose union fought bitterly with the governor over the initial proposals, calls it a «momentous development».