Sentences with phrase «governor fielded questions»
During an event on Long Island, the Democratic governor fielded questions about the political storm regarding his top aide Larry Schwartz's alleged efforts to stop the Moreland Commission from issuing subpoenas to groups linked to the governor.
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Even former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, one of the most articulate Christian political leaders, seemed uncomfortable as he fielded questions from moderator Tim Russert that hinted there is something nefarious about religious groups receiving government funds for programs that serve the public.
During his Thursday stops in Western New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo fielded questions about issues still pending in the State Legislature, which is scheduled to conclude its current session next week.
The Governor, who was fielding questions from journalists, party men and telephone callers at the OgbeniTillDayBreak, an audience participation programme, held in Osogbo the state capital, said «I will spend time with my wife,» to which the fully packed hall responded with a loud laughter.
The governor fielded a hodgepodge of questions on topics that included the Middle East (he offered sympathy to the family of James Foley) and his position on natural gas hydrofracking, which is stalled pending a long - delayed state review («There's nothing new,» Cuomo said).
Spitzer, a Democrat, leapt into the fray for city comptroller Sunday and has spent the last few days scrambling to get the necessary signatures while fielding questions around his return to politics five years after resigning as New York state governor amidst a prostitution scandal.
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The witness had while fielding questions from Kalu's lawyer, Prof. Awa Kalu (SAN), told the court that the EFCC was not aware that former President Olusegun Obasanjo wrote ex-American President, George Bush, over a $ 1.7 m Potomac house which a former governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu, purchased in 2003.
The state governor, Samuel Ortom while fielding questions from newsmen in Makurdi, said the case will cover the 73 persons first killed by herdsmen in January this year.
Following Governor Andrew Cuomo's State of the State address last week, members of his cabinet are being dispatched across New York to review the plan before local and regional officials and field questions.
The governor tried to turn the question — posited by a public radio reporter, Karen DeWitt — into a broader discussion of sexual harassment in journalism and other fields.
«One of the things that preceded the failure of the nation - state of Syria and the rise of ISIS was the effect of climate change and the mega-drought that affected that region, wiped out farmers, drove people to cities, created a humanitarian crisis that created the symptoms — or rather the conditions of extreme poverty — that has now led to the rise of ISIL and this extreme violence,» the former Maryland governor said, fielding a question about foreign policy from Bloomberg.