Sentences with phrase «from top elected officials»

None of the sites have yet been classified as a federal Superfund site, though calls to do so have come from top elected officials.

The simultaneous announcement of endorsements from the top elected officials in the party is a way to send a signal that the party has chosen its candidate.

Not exact matches

The fire started when a spark from the unauthorized fireworks show ignited a separate batch of fireworks that were being stored at the Puttingal temple complex in Paravoor village, a few hours north of Kerala's state capital of Thiruvananthapuram, said Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, the state's top elected official.

In recent weeks, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has slowly built support among New York Republicans, rolling out endorsements from the party's top state - level official (Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos) along with a wide array of current and former electeds, operatives and county GOP leaders.

Schumer last week told The Daily News he was taking a wait - and - see approach on whether he'd recommend Bharara, who has led successful prosecution efforts against top state elected officials from both parties, for another term in the new presidential administration.

Proposals from Erie County's Salary Review Commission for substantial pay raises for four of the county's top elected officials crashed and burned unanimously on the floor of the Legislature Thursday afternoon.

«As both an elected official and candidate for attorney general, I am proud to support this long overdue effort to reform state government from top to bottom.»

Weinstein is a prolific Democratic donor, putting the top elected officials who have received contributions from him over the years in an awkward position of disavowing him.

These barriers, and the subsequent victory of Donald Trump, a historically unpopular president, have spurred renewed interest from New York's top elected officials in modernizing the state's electoral system.

Elected officials and political observers from across New York are focused on Gov. Andrew Cuomo today, waiting to see if he will explain how a former top aide pulled off a bribery and extortion scheme while working for the governor.

Cohn is well - liked and has a long track record of community involvement — and is best known for his annual fall breakfast at Junior's that draws top elected officials from every strata of the political world with the possible exception of the White House.

«The property tax cap enacted in 2011, with support from the LIA and the statewide business community, is working,» wrote Kevin Law, the Long Island Association's president and member of the state's casino siting board, in a letter to the state's top elected officials on June 18.

Rebuffing efforts Donald Trump to cast doubt on Russian interference in the presidential election, top intelligence officials and senators from both parties issued a forceful affirmation of the findings, and took relentless aim at the president - elect's public skepticism and suggested he had negatively affected morale in the intelligence community.

The state Democratic chairman, Jay Jacobs, predicted that Democrats running for local office would benefit from the widespread popularity of the party's top elected official, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

Thursday night, word began circulating of a «framework» agreement reached between the so - called «three men in a room» — Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan — that would satisfy at least the minimum requirements for both: The Democratic - dominated Assembly would agree to the first passage of legislation paving the way for a constitutional amendment that would allow for the stripping of public pensions from elected officials and other top officials convicted of public corruption, and the Republican - led Senate would approve a one - year extension of mayoral control of New York City's schools.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A top aide for Gov. Andrew Cuomo responded this afternoon to a letter from more than 100 elected officials — including Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner — defending a proposal to tie property tax relief to local government consolidation.

Also calling for Democratic unity is the Working Families Party, which organized rallies outside the district offices of IDC members on Wednesday, top officials from the Democratic National Committee, and a variety of other Democratic elected officials and activists.

Developers, members of the business community and elected officials are absorbing the election results from Amherst, Erie County's most populous suburb, where Kulpa defeated his Republican opponent, Town Clerk Marjory Jaeger, and where the two Democratic board candidates finished at the top of a five - person field.

Pressure from two of the state's top elected officials — remember, schools chief is an appointed position in Florida — could help Bennett make a decision.

But analysts and researchers caution that American elected officials and educators need to take a nuanced approach to interpreting test scores and lessons from abroad, one that considers the full basket of educational, societal, and cultural factors that shape school practices in top - performing nations, and in the United States.

As many readers know, it seems that every day thousands of Connecticut activists receive emails from top Democratic elected officials and the leadership of the Democratic State Central Committee asking for donations to help bolster the Democrat's campaign fund.

Cambridge Analytica used its own database and voter information collected from Facebook and news publishers in its effort to help elect Donald Trump, despite a claim by a top campaign official who has downplayed the company's role in the election.

These solutions must be structural — they must come from the top — generated by our elected officials crafting and implementing reasonable legislation that creates order, consistency, and fairness.