Sentences with phrase «further than governor»

He would go further than Governor Scott Walker, who has curtailed, rather than eliminated, teacher collective bargaining in Wisconsin.

The Assembly measure goes further than the Governor's and Senate's proposals.

Make no mistake, the gravity of this agenda has shifted away from the majority party; one need not look any further than the Governor's riff on charter schools and their importance to the minority community.

DeFrancisco says Cuomo, a moderate Democrat, might have an easier time getting along with Republicans in the Senate, rather than with a chamber controlled by Democrats who might want to go further than the governor when it comes to raising the minimum wage, raising taxes on the wealthy, banning hydrofracking and other issues.

Not exact matches

«We need to look no further than our nation's 20 million veterans, 20 % of whom, according to a 2017 American Legion survey, reportedly use cannabis to self - treat PTSD, chronic pain, and other ailments,» said Boehner and former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld, a libertarian who is also joining Acreage's board of advisors.

The general consensus of the day is that Governor Mitt Romney showed up far more prepared than anyone expected and President Barack Obama's generally reliable polish was mysteriously absent in Wednesday night's first presidential debate.

The resulting death is far worse than any brutal earthly governor could inflict.

This demonstrates thatGovernor Patrick follows on Twitter far more aggressively than Governor Markell, which is likely why Governor Patrick has a comparatively larger following.

The former governor said he had taken his limited resources that year and «pretended» to push candidates in far more districts than he actually could afford to fight for.

Pataki has a good fiscal record as governor (better than anybody else so far in the GOP mix), a compelling personal story, an ability to raise tons of money fast, and with a squeaky clean record that's been under scrutiny for nearly 20 years...

Further confusion surrounded which Afghan government actors were supposed to provide the services, as PRTs often focused on governors» offices rather than national ministries.

More than a decade after the state's highest court ordered New York lawmakers to spend billions of dollars more a year on schools, Governor Cuomo and his top aides are moving further away from ever fulfilling the order, say critics.

This is a far more vexing and dangerous political threat than the governor faced in the likes of other rivals, like Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Mayor Bill de Blasio, each of whom he has bullied and belittled without much trouble.

He said, for instance, that it's great that Cuomo wants to extend the extra tax on millionaires, but he'd like to see the governor go further and agree to a plan by Assembly Democrats to add higher tax brackets for those making more than $ 5 million and $ 10 million, topping out at $ 100 million.

The measure contained the governor's earlier allocation of $ 143 million for a downsized Environmental Protection Fund — far less than the $ 168 million the Assembly is proposing, not to mention the $ 222 million the Senate wants.

California's governor's office, for instance, requires employees to save far more than in New York, including official correspondence, memos, scheduling requests and other documents.

Our representatives in Albany are also far too dependent on a few large donors, but the Governor's plan would give regular New Yorkers are stronger voice than they have now.

Democrats say it doesn't go far enough, but say in some aspects it is better than a proposal by Governor Cuomo, who has asked that anti-sexual harassment measures be considered as part of the state budget.

Cuomo has a 64 - 16 percent job approval rating, which is higher than any other governor in any state where the Q poll has conducted surveys so far this year.

Uboh further revealed his findings and interaction with Alamieyeseigha showed that the amount recovered from the former governor was far more than what the EFCC declared in its reports.

The APC candidate noted that the activities of all the aspirants in the past few months had further strengthened the party, adding that any of the aspirants would have made a better governor than any candidate the PDP could present.

Though far drier than the governor's State of the State addresses last week, the budget plan made clear that Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, remained intent on casting his 2017 agenda as an answer to the concerns of the middle class and the economic struggles of upstate New York, a formula that some observers have taken as the prelude to a possible presidential run in 2020.

Cuomo's opponent in the Democratic primary, Fordham law school professor Zephyr Teachout, says the governor should resign immediately, and says Cuomo's public indiscretions are far worse than the private indiscretions that led one of his predecessors Eliot Spitzer to resign.

And Cuomo's opponent in the Democratic primary, Fordham law school professor Zephyr Teachout, says the governor should resign immediately, and says Cuomo's public indiscretions are far worse than the private indiscretions that led one of his predecessors Eliot Spitzer to resign.

New York's lieutenant governorship, however, has far more power in theory than reality, with a huge percentage of the position's time spent promoting the governor and his agenda.

The reform groups have been speaking out every week, but concede that they've so far had little impact, other than to anger the governor, whose spokesman recently turned tables and accused the groups of being a source of the Capitol's problems, something they deny.

But Ms. Moskowitz has far more power outside the political machine than she ever did within it, forging a close bond with the governor that allowed her to secure unprecedented protections for charter schools in last year's legislative session.

(4) The independent panel shall report as approved for each judicial position all highly qualified persons who make application to the panel, provided that if the number of highly qualified applicants exceeds three times the number of existing vacancies to be filled in such position (determined as of the time the panel renders its report), the independent panel shall report as approved the most highly qualified applicants in a number equal to three times the number of vacancies to be filled in such position, provided further that if the number of highly qualified applicants is less than three times the number of vacancies to be filled in such position the independent panel shall report as approved the most highly qualified applicants in a number equal to not less than two times the number of such vacancies, provided further that the following categories of applicants who are eligible for reelection or reappointment shall be reported as approved if their performance during their term of office merits continuation in office, and no other applicants shall be reported as approved for their vacancies: (a) a judge or justice completing a full term of office seeking re-election to that office, or (b) an interim Supreme Court justice who has been appointed by the Governor to fill an existing vacancy no later than the previous June 1 after approval of the Governor's screening panel, who has been confirmed by the State Senate and has assumed office no later than the date the panel renders its report, and who otherwise would not be required to make application to the independent screening panel pursuant to the provisions of sub-paragraph (3).

The governor said the federal government must provide more than the out - of - pocket expenses that the Federal Emergency Management Administration that has been provided for so far.

The governor did not publicly campaign for several candidates in swing districts, and the State Democratic Committee spent far less on the Senate Democrats» races than it did on Cuomo's own re-election campaign.

The hope for Governor Andrew Cuomo is to draw tourists further upstate, rather than New York City.

At the same time, the governor acknowledged the developers have so far made it clear they're not interested in relocating, and he lamented the fact that his offer to mediate a compromise solution seemed to further the controversy rather than tamp it down.

How can the governor negotiate with two buffoons who have no clue of how to balance a budget other than levy more taxes or put us further in debt?

As usual, the revenue picture presented by the Assembly and Senate are far rosier than the projections from the governor.

For now, America Rising is mostly building up its research file on the governor and has filed more than 50 requests for public records so far this year.

The federal oversight board has called for a debt moratorium even further reaching than the one Puerto Rico's governor had sought, in hopes of using the savings to rekindle its shattered economy.

The governor was criticized last year when he disbanded a Moreland Act Commission on corruption in exchange for a reform package that was far weaker than what Cuomo had originally sought.

Cuomo's address — far shorter than his father's in order to fit into a jam - packed program, and delivered to a distracted room that at times forced him to bellow — offered a reprise of a concept that the governor had been field - testing all week: that New York, the home state of both 2016 major - party candidates, was the laboratory and proving ground of progressive ideas.

Governor Cuomo's second legislative session was far less dramatic than his first legislative session in 2011, when he convinced the legislature to authorize same sex marriage, instate a 2 % property tax cap, and close a massive $ 10 billion dollar budget deficit.

The pledge unanimously passed and signed by the Town Board at its April 11 meeting went on to ask «the New York State Legislature to commit to these same clean energy goals, which would represent a 20 percent increase over the current New York State Energy Plan targets» and to urge «Governor Cuomo to adopt a statewide minimum energy efficiency target of three percent per year of annual energy savings for New York's utilities as part of his comprehensive energy efficiency program, to be announced on Earth Day 2018, and further urges that this program be implemented through a centralized planning process rather than in separate utility rate cases.»

Today, a Siena College poll of New York State found that most New Yorkers are aware of Governor Cuomo's email policy, and Siena's press release further notes that «by an overwhelming margin, 80 - 16 percent, voters say state emails should be retained significantly longer than 90 days, including more than three - quarters of voters from every region, party, gender, race, religion, age.»

The next governor's race is not until 2018, so Cuomo's influence will have far less effect than the Presidential candidates.

Today, a Siena College poll of New York State found that most New Yorkers are aware of Governor Cuomo's email policy, and Siena's press release further notes that «by an overwhelming margin, 80 - 16 percent, voters say state emails should be retained significantly longer than 90 days, including more than three - quarters of voters from every region, -LSB-...]

But the mayor also said that his outburst last year, in which he accused the governor of shortchanging his political agenda out of a desire for «revenge,» was far from spontaneous, calling the diatribe the result of more than a year's worth of mounting tensions and slights by the governor against de Blasio.

Of course, Governor Cuomo's background in this area is far deeper than mine.

But Gov. Andrew Cuomo is holding budget talks even further out of public view than in previous years, taking them from the Capitol to the governor's mansion.

Despite his enormous financial and political resources, Governor Andrew Cuomo's campaign has been upstaged by candidates to the left and right, especially Zephyr Teachout, who performed far better than expected in the democratic primary, winning 35 percent of the vote.

Although that is not especially noteworthy, it is far better than the only other instance when the Libertarian Party ran a candidate for Governor.

Mr. Astorino, for reasons that aren't clear, refused to participate in the radio debate, which at the least would have attracted heavy newspaper coverage of the one opportunity the Governor was offering him to go one - on - one on equal footing rather than taking body blows from Mr. Cuomo's far superior campaign war chest.

The job carries far less public prominence than governor or attorney general, the post from which Spitzer earned the nickname «Sheriff of Wall Street» for his battles with American International Group and the New York Stock Exchange, among others.