Sentences with phrase «for legislative vacancies»

This «final» product is weak on ethical standards and comprehensive oversight, and despite language that made my key issues — term limits, an enhanced «two hat» rule and special elections for legislative vacancies — more palatable, they were still ignored.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo will call a special election for the 11 legislative vacancies in the Senate and Assembly for April 24 in the coming days, a source with knowledge of the plan said Tuesday.

Allowing a vacancy in a legislative seat for a year is not constitutional.

In theory this could be interpreted to support an argument that a parliamentary party ought to have the power to elect their party leader directly, and indeed, at least historically, parliamentary system parties» leadership electoral procedures usually called for the party's legislative caucus to fill a leadership vacancy by electing a new leader directly by and from amongst themselves, and for the whole succession process to be completed within as short a time frame as practical.

Perhaps it would be easier for the governor to fill the increasing number of vacancies in his administration if he and legislative leaders reach a pay raise deal.

Steiner said Cuomo was obliged to set a special election date for a congressional seat under federal law, but state law allows the governor to set one for a state legislative vacancy at his discretion, so a court challenge might not be successful.

Governor Andrew Cuomo recently set April 24 as the date for special elections to fill eleven legislative vacancies, eight in the Assembly and three in the Senate.

-- AG SCREENINGS BEGIN — POLITICO's Bill Mahoney: A joint legislative panel seeking to fill the vacancy in the state attorney general's office interviewed six candidates for the job on Tuesday.

On another issue that's atop the legislative agenda, the Post's Fred Dicker reports that there is a deal afoot to pass rent reform, with the minimum rent for vacancy decontrol likely to be hiked up to $ 2,500 from $ 2,000.

I don't believe that's correct — for state legislative vacancies, the governor has leeway on whether or not to declare a vacancy.

Yet, writes the Wall Street Journal quoting Paul Gordon, senior legislative counsel for People for the American Way, «If every single vacancy were filled by this afternoon, that still wouldn't be enough to get the work done.»