Sentences with phrase «governor said the point»

UPDATE: Gov. David Paterson signaled «defeat,» according to CapCon's Jimmy Vielkind, who reports the governor said the point of the session was to «clear my conscience.»

Not exact matches

You never overreact to a single data point,» said Bank of England Governor Mark Carney.

Moderator Anderson Cooper then asked Sanders, «To Secretary Clinton's point, there are a number of Democratic governors in many states who say that fracking can be done safely, and that it's helping their economies.

At this point, Hill says, he and Nevada's governor asked themselves, How much do we want this?

«The question from a financial stability point of view is whether or not those measures, to the extent they encourage more credit and more investment, may not buy some more growth today, but increase the risk of some disruption in growth further down the road,» Carolyn Wilkins, the Bank of Canada's senior deputy governor, said at least week's press conference.

In the next fiscal year, New Jersey's pension system will reach a «tipping point» to where it will pay more for retiree health premiums than active employees, a first in the state's history and «unsustainable,» the governor said.

The Swedish Krona has fallen to fresh 9 - year low versus the Dollar, down almost one percentage point, after the Riksbank Governor said the central bank was not out of tools to raise inflation.

On point, as usual, was the Governor of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi who said in much more elegant words that the United States was now involved in manipulation of their own currency.

Thus we can not resolve the abortion confusion because «the Bible says...» In their contentions during the 1984 presidential campaign, New York Governor Mario Cuomo and Cardinal John O'Connor came to this point.

For the present it is enough to say that the first and primary point of Paul's preaching, the point on which all else depends, is not the Messiahship of Jesus, or his resurrection, or his coming again, but the reality of the living God, the Lord of creation, the governor of history, the saviour of men.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver downplayed the possibility that he has lost his ability to override any gubernatorial vetoes without GOP assistance, saying he doesn't intend to get to that point with Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo, despite the looming budget battle.

«Their point was that they modified the governor's budget — they put in more taxes, they restored education aid... The governor now says: I'm going to veto all the modifications they made: 6900 vetoes.

People who would adopt the Governor's point of view would be inclined to say that after Republican Senate Majority Leader negotiated in good faith for several weeks, he ultimately could not sell the deal to his members.

Speelman specifically pointed to the governor's work strengthening the Wage Theft Prevention Act, which he said Local 1500 led efforts to pass in 2010.

The lieutenant governor pointed out there are always challenges in trying to balance a $ 168 billion budget, but she said the state is very aware of the importance of historic tax credits — specifically to upstate cities like Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse.

The union in its endorsement initially said the special election would be held April 17 — a date that some operatives have pointed to as when the governor would called the election.

«Your other ally is me,» the governor said, pointing out he is a native of the city.

Cuomo actually does come up in the allegations, very tangentially: At one point in the U.S. attorney's complaint, Smith is quoted as having said to an undercover F.B.I. agent, as part of an explanation for why the Republican county chairmen were unlikely to go back on a bribe - based bargain with him, «I got them already asking me about judgeships, because judgeships now come through here, it comes through the governor.»

«Anybody who wants to be interviewed for our line and wants to fill out a questionnaire, we're open, we're going to consider everybody,» said the chairwoman, Susan Zimet, before pointing to the governor's «Women's Equality Agenda,» pieces of which have been passed and which Cuomo is trying to expand.

Governor Cuomo, in a speech to the county leaders that repeated many of the points of his budget presentation, says he's working on mandate relief that will help the counties live within the recently imposed 2 % property tax cap.

«We feel there was a victory here because both houses passed a bill that sent a very strong message to the governor that they were not willing to negotiate on his specific points,» Lewi said.

«The governor's executive budget is a starting point,» said Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.

The governor has repeatedly called for Indian Point to be shut down, saying it is too dangerous to have a nuclear plant so close to a metropolis.

And spokeswoman Abbey Fashouer says as soon as the Governor learned that his former top aide was charged with corruption, he hired an outside firm to assess any weak points and corrected the system to «to increase transparency and accountability.»

«The governor believes at this point that either both will pass or neither,» DeRosa said.

«Governor Cuomo is absolutely right that the dangerous Indian Point nuclear plant poses a grave threat to New Yorkers and must be shut down,» he said in a statement.

After Cuomo was elected, Howe said he was interacting «with the administration almost on a daily basis,» talking to Percoco, Glaser, other staff members, Malatras, «and other folks that were in the governor's office at that point.»

But fewer than half think the governor is doing a good job in office, and, if the state's Working Families Party follows through on threats to run a progressive leaning candidate on a third party line, Siena's Steve Greenberg says the race becomes much closer, to just a 15 point lead for Cuomo.

«As the subway crumbles from decades of neglect, Governor Cuomo continues to point fingers instead of coming up with a credible plan to fix the MTA,» the Riders Alliance said in a statement.

He pointed to a recent Quinnipiac University poll showing 59 percent of voters were optimistic about the next four years with Cuomo as governor, though only 45 percent said he would be able to fix government.

The Governor made it clear that he planned on calling a special session at some point, saying he wanted to hand off a balanced budget to Andrew Cuomo before he takes office on Jan. 1.

«Everything I'm hearing from the Governor's office indicates that he remains committed to raising the minimum wage, campaign finance reform, and shutting down Indian Point, replacing it with safer alternatives,» said Gipson.

«The governor has said that he will not sign a bill that's done in the traditional way with legislators from both houses deciding what their own lines should look like, but we're getting to the point of a bit of a crisis,» Morelle said.

In a Facebook post, Wilson said he realizes that a campaign for governor «would be a 24/7 endeavor through Election Day,» and he says «This is a level of family time and commitment that would not be possible at any point during the campaign, in my first year in office and perhaps not at all throughout my time as governor.»

But spokesman Rich Azzopardi, in a statement, says the governor makes «no apologies» for trying to lift people out of poverty with a higher minimum wage, and he points out that paid family leave will be funded by the workers.

Greenberg said the biggest decline in those numbers came once again from downstate, where the percentage of people who want Cuomo to serve a third term as governor dropped by 27 points.

State GOP spokesman David Laska said that the figure was inaccurate and that the party had spent considerably more — but would not provide a figure or point to any markets where state GOP ads in the governor's race were running.

But spokesman Rich Azzopardi, in a statement, said the governor makes «no apologies» for trying to lift people out of poverty with a higher minimum wage, and he pointed out that paid family leave will be funded by the workers.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has more than $ 30 million in his campaign fund, and a recent poll shows him with a 30 - point - lead over his likely Republican opponent, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, but the Republican says if the past is any indication, he can win the gubernatorial race this year.

Cuomo's job approval rating stands at 50 percent, down 8 points just from last December, before the legislative session began and the governor began a more public feud with the state's teachers unions, said Quinnipiac University spokesman Mickey Carroll.

«The governor and the state legislature have been promising mandate relief; they really haven't delivered at this point,» he said.

«At this point the governor doesn't need to be involved,» Pretlow said.

When I asked if that included former New York governor George Pataki Donovan modified his answer, pointing out (correctly) that Pataki says he's not yet a candidate despite repeated recent visits to New Hampshire and Iowa.

«That decision also made clear there's a point at which a governor can go too far,» Gianaris said.

When I pointed out that if Levy had been governor at this moment, we might very well be facing yet another gubernatorial investigation that could have cost the state its top executive — something that might very well drive scandal - weary New Yorkers right over the edge, Cox said:

One source familiar with the negotiations said a 2 p.m. announcement was originally in the cards, but Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos were still deep in talks with the governor at that point.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said at the time of the Indian Point closure announcement that up to 1,000 megawatts of power could come from the planned $ 2.2 billion Champlain Hudson Power Express project, which would bring hydropower from Canada to the New York metropolitan area.

«Once again, the flyers and robo calls will point out the issues the Senators have failed to deliver on, including increasing the state's unemployment benefit, failing to stand up to the Governor when he shut down hundreds of construction jobs, and a failure to reform our broken economic development system,» the group said in a press release out this morning.

Speaking at the certificate presentation ceremony of the TBAs held at the Adeyemi Bero Auditorium, Alausa Secretariat, Governor Ambode said that one of the cardinal points of his administration was to make traditional birth attendants a relevant factor in child care delivery, hence the urgent need to improve the skill of the traditional health attendants to reduce maternal mortality.

Governor Fayose, who said the Information Minister was fast assuming the position of the «Liar - General» of the federation, having lied to gain power and still lying to sustain it, pointed out that «more than 20 months after he claimed that 55 Nigerians stole over N1.34 trillion from the country's treasury from 2006 to 2013, Lai Mohammed is yet to tell Nigerians who the 55 people are.»