Sentences with phrase «governor kept his promise»

I hope the governor keeps his promise.»

On National Homeless Persons» Memorial Day, a coalition of faith leaders, advocates and housing providers gathered at the State Capitol in Albany to demand the Governor keep his promise to fund thousands of units of supportive housing for the homeless in communities across New York State.

In this year's proposed budget, the governor kept his promise.

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Governor Cuomo has once again kept his promise of equality for all.»

The governor's budget is based on a huge promise — that he will keep the budget growth to less than 2 %.

«So I think the governor is an elected official and I think he looked at a map and realized that there was no casino for hundreds of miles along the Pennsylvania border on Route 17 and to his credit basically asked them reopen it because I think no governor can make a promise and not keep it,» said Gural.

Also speaking, the state president of NULGE, Comrade Godwin Ayendi, said the workers were gathered to appreciate and beg Ayade to continue till 2023 as the governor has kept to his promise of not allowing any one to go to bed hungry through prompt payment of salaries and the promotion of workers.

Following the attempt by President Muhammadu Buhari to keep to his promise of paying N5, 000 monthly stipend to the poor and vulnerable people in the country, the presidency had on Wednesday condemned the Ekiti state Governor, Ayodele Fayose for criticising the move.

Cuomo also received the backing of the state's Business Council for in part, his success in working with GOP on cutting taxes and spending, but the governor says he intends to keep his promise to promote Democratic candidates for Senate.

I'm satisfied that the governor has managed to keep his promise about having a line of communication between the task force and his administration... We will begin to have that kind of dialogue about the diversity... I will keep this administration accountable and responsible for their promises and we're going to measure them accordingly.»

As our State's homelessness crisis has reached historic levels, the Governor keeps making the same promises, and keeps failing to deliver,» the group said in a statement.

After months of blaming the legislature for his failure to keep the promise he made 14 months ago, the Governor has a chance to show 88,000 homeless New Yorkers whether he intends to keep his word,» the group said.

The Employment Trust Fund, it would be recalled, was signed into law by Governor Ambode on Tuesday, according to him, was in line with keeping faith with the promise he made to the people during the electioneering campaign.

When words filtered out that Governor Ambode might not approve the staggering N500m for Christmas decoration contract this year since the economy is such that requires prudent management, many thought he would be seen as not keeping faith with his promise of continuity.

«Briefly put, the Governor's proposal endangers the pension funds by promising a stable rate of contributions over a 25 - year period, but the State is unlikely to be able to keep that promise.»

He said: «This is indeed a promise kept by the Governor.

The protesting staffers, who noted that the governor promised to pay them generous Christmas bonus for 2014 but has so far failed to keep his words, explained that he had promised them general financial incentive if they could travel to Akwa Ibom from their Abuja base to vote for his anointed candidate in the governorship election.

And he said the winners were «hand picked» by the governor, with little evidence that «lofty job - creation promises have been kept».

That is why we must continue to pressure our state legislators and new governor to keep their campaign promises and deliver the reforms we so desperately need.

«We congratulate Governor Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Heastie for passing a budget that keeps the promise to build the first 6,000 units of supportive housing for the homeless.

At 9 a.m., homeless New Yorkers and advocates for the homeless hold a press conference outside the governor's NYC office, calling on him to keep his promise to build 20,000 new supportive housing units, 633 Third Ave., Manhattan.

«It is clear that the governor has no interest in keeping his word on supportive housing, and (Thursday's) announcement is nothing but a weak attempt to divert attention as he ignores his own promises to the most vulnerable New Yorkers,» Hevesi said.

Together, we can return a strong, independent Democrat to the State Senate to work with Governor Cuomo to keep the promise of New York for families and our community.»

Despite promises otherwise, in 2012, the governor agreed to an awful redistricting plan that gave incumbents even more protection and which left New Yorkers with the only option of keeping a lousy system in place or approving a new system that offers virtually no improvements for years to come.

Fancy footwork and evasion won't change the reality that even a «reform - minded» Governor like Andy Cuomo campaigning on promises of a «New New York» is keeping the shadow government of Commissions, Authorities and off - budget quasi-public corporations in place and running a patronage mill busily dispensing 6 - figure jobs to connected people who clearly have cabbage to burn while being incredibly penurious with civil service schlubs, secretaries and clerks.

When you call Governor Christie please remind him to keep his promise to veto Port Ambrose since he vetoed the same project once before in 2011.

Please call Governor Cuomo at 518-474-8390 and remind him to keep his promise for a New York statewide solution by making sure that S7760 / A9953 the Carryout Bag Waste Reduction bill become the law for New York State.

The Governor can restore their faith by keeping his promise.»

Dadey told me: «I stand by what I said to Jimmy, but we expect if fairer lines are not created for 2012 and there is no structural reform the Governor should keep his veto promise.

«My hope is that she actually keeps to that message because our message is actually re-envisioning what the lieutenant governor's position is,» said Williams, who promises he'll reinvigorate the state's second - in - command position.

I have a piece in The 74 called «Four Education Promises New Jersey's New Governor Can't — or Shouldn't — Keep.»

Budget shortfalls will make it difficult for some newly - elected Republican governors to keep the tax - cutting promises they made during their campaigns.

The governor also noted that these programs will still keep taxes and state debt low since the Promise program is lottery - funded.

But Dorfman expects the plan to resurface after the November elections, because there will be a new governor, many new legislators, and a lot of budget - related campaign promises to keep.