Sentences with phrase «governor said the goal»
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Since launching his campaign, the former Florida governor has said his goal is to return the U.S. economic growth rate to at least 4 percent, primarily through a tax overhaul.
The Democratic governor and other officials, speaking at a news conference in the state capital of Olympia two weeks ahead of the opening of the state's first marijuana stores, said their primary goal is to keep...
Richard K. Sullivan, Jr., Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs, which oversees all state land conservation, said, «Since taking office, Governor (Deval) Patrick has made a historic $ 230 million investment in land conservation focused on three goals: investing in urban parks, preserving working farms and forests, and protecting large natural landscapes for habitat.
«We have always made it clear that we want Democrats to unify and just today Senate Democratic Leadership had a meeting with the Governor exactly about this goal,» he said.
On Thursday, Governor Andrew Cuomo celebrated achieving the full funding goal for the emergency action plan to fix the subway, but also used that moment to criticize the city, saying repairs would have gone a lot faster if the city had contributed sooner, the Wall Street Journal reports.
But Zimet says that despite the past criticism, she believes the governor deeply cares about the party's feminist goals.
«Not only is Jerry Nadler bucking the unity agreement that Governor Cuomo, Senate Democrats and labor leaders have worked for, he is working to unseat the only Latina and first Dominican woman in the State Senate, which only demonstrates how out of touch he is with the goals of the Democratic Party and it's leadership,» said Barbara Brancaccio, spokesperson for Alcantara's campaign.
Saying he agrees with the goals of the Common Core educational standards but believes their implementation by the New York State Education Department has been botched, Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday announced a «comprehensive review.»
Pressed later on in a gaggle with reporters in Henrietta, Cuomo said he plans to run for a third term as governor in 2018 and that he has longer - term goals he wants to accomplish in New York.
«Governor Cuomo has one of the most ambitious energy standards in the nation,» the NRDC's Jackson Morris said, calling NY - Sun and RGGI «nation - leading» programs and commending Cuomo's goal to develop offshore wind energy.
(Solomon declined to be interviewed, and said in an e-mail that, «I have no comment other than the goal of our commission is to respond to the governor's mandate.»)
«I'll be filing an exploratory committee for statewide office with the goal of running for governor,» Harris said.
He says Cuomo listed three major reform goals during his campaign for governor, ethics reform, redistricting reform and campaign finance reform.
Governor Cuomo listed public campaign financing as a goal in his State of the State message, says he hopes to pursue the issue with legislative leaders during the final two months of the legislative session.
The governor has said he's a progressive, but a broke one, and at the Democratic state convention last year, declared his goal was «government that creates jobs and advances justice.»
In 2005, the state called for, and the EPA agreed, to establish a goal of reducing or eliminating dredged materials in open waters of Long Island Sound, the governor said.
Hochul was reported to have stated that this was not the role of the Lieutenant Governor and Tim Wu said that he would strive to make this one of his goals if elected.
After the ribbon cutting, Governor Cuomo made his case for his budget proposal, re-iterating much of what he said during his state of the state address and emphasizing his goals for Niagara Falls.
Corruption - busting remains a top goal for Democrat Zephyr Teachout as she scales back her political ambitions from the governor's office to Congress, and she has a knack for steering a conversation back to the handful of powerful corporations she says have a grip on federal policy - making.
While alluding to the fact that his career success was as a result of his resilience to become an Accountant and achieve his life goal, the Governor said he had made up his mind to give back to humanity for the rest of his life.
REBNY's Steve Spinola joined me on CapTon last night, and said the Committee to Save NY is already more than halfway to its goal of raising $ 10 million to help Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo in the upcoming budget battle and might not stop when it hits that target.
«God bless them — shoot for the stars,» the governor said sarcastically during a speech in Rochester, suggesting their goal is unrealistic.
Remember: This is a governor who, when he initially ran in 2010, promised to establish the most transparent administration in modern history — a goal I think many would say he not only hasn't met, but has upended completely.
The remarks come a week after de Blasio issued a stinging public rebuke of Cuomo and his style of politics, saying the governor obstructed many of the city's legislative goals in Albany.
But the governor said the measure was introduced with the goal of having an «informed debate» over the issue.
The governor said the state is on track to meet that goal by 2018.
«Psychologically, the governor is a guy that's goal - oriented,» a senior state Democrat says.
«New York State is leading the fight against HIV and AIDS, and these results display extraordinary progress toward our overall goal of ending the epidemic,» Governor Andrew Cuomo said in a July 13 press release.
«Over the last six months, the Governor has repeatedly expressed support for the goals of the legislation and also said he wanted to make certain changes in the form of a chapter amendment.
Governor Cuomo says he has some goals for the rest of the legislative session, including reforming the campaign finance system and possibly raising the state's minimum wage.
«We're going to coordinate the entire campaign, we're going to coordinate the congressional campaign with the Assembly campaigns, with the U.S. senatorial campaign, with my gubernatorial efforts, with the Senate efforts — all one because we all have the same message and we have the same goal,» the governor said.
«My goal is to get a budget that will be passed by the General Assembly and be signed by the governor,» Looney said.
Audrey Zibelman, Chair of the Public Service Commission, said: «I am thrilled to see Governor Cuomo's commitment to turn the State's clean energy goals into an enforceable mandate.
However, in a statement from Durst released by the governor's office, the developer said his goal «has always been the completion of the park» and that today's agreement was «a major step in that direction.»
As the state plans to implement the governor's goal for double the amount of renewable energy on the market, a new study says losing upstate nuclear power plants would be a major set back for the initiative.
The Governor made the remarks during the commissioning of 61 primary healthcare centres at Ijebu - ijesa, Osun State, in partnership with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), saying his administration had been consistent in contributing 50 per cent counterpart fund in every project.
Assistant Commissioner of the Governor's Traffic Safety Committee, Chuck DeWeese, says the goal is to minimize crashes involving teenage drivers during Prom and graduation season.
The announcement may sound familiar — in 2014, the governor set a 30 percent goal after he said the state exceeded a 20 percent goal set in 2011 and his counsel oversees the state's MWBE program.
«The governor moving the goal post doesn't make it any easier for meaningful, comprehensive reform to pass,» said Horner.
Environmental groups are overjoyed, saying it's been a goal for years to fully finance the fund, which was created by the current governor's father, former Governor Mario Cuomo, 23 yegovernor's father, former Governor Mario Cuomo, 23 yeGovernor Mario Cuomo, 23 years ago.
«It may be that we don't get pipeline projects in the future if we achieve the governor's goal of moving to 50 percent renewables,» he said.
«Reducing carbon pollution from electric power plants is a good start, but the goal must be phasing out coal, oil, and natural gas as our energy sources,» said Howie Hawkins, Green candidate for Governor of New York (http://www.howiehawkins.org).
Governor Andrew Cuomo says his chief goal will be to get an extension on what's known popularly as the millionaire's tax.
«The governor said one of his goals is to provide more and better health care to New Yorkers, and addressed the healthcare crisis in Brooklyn, calling it a «serious situation.»
Governor Andrew Cuomo says he has some goals for the rest of the legislative session, including reforming the campaign finance system and possibly raising the state's minimum wage.
«Governor implemented a 2000 person workforce reduction plan and said layoffs could be used to reach that goal.»
«The goal this year has got to be, to get out of the legislature a constitutional lockbox with the required support to allow it to be on the ballot this year,» said the Democratic governor.
«We are committed to providing high speed internet to unserved and underserved areas throughout the Adirondacks in support of Governor Cuomo's broadband goals,» Lynch said in an email.
But he also sat next to the governor at a joint press conference as the two men emphasized their common goal, and said they had time to reach an agreement on the best method of realizing it.