Sentences with phrase «issue against the governor»

Abortion is also a political wedge issue against the Governor's republican opponent Rob Astorino who Cuomo has attempted to portrayed as an «ultra conservative».

Abortion is also a political wedge issue against the governor's Republican opponent, Rob Astorino, who Cuomo has attempted to portray as an ultra-conservative.

Not exact matches

This is potentially helpful for the governor in a possible primary campaign against Cynthia Nixon, an actress known for her advocacy on pubic education issues.

In a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Enyinnaya Appolos, the governor said he had faith in the judiciary and the rule of law, adding that he would appeal against the judgement.

Teachout also opened a new front against Cuomo with criticism of his own choice for Lieutenant Governor, Kathy Hochul, who is best known in the state for her 2007 battle against a plan to issue drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants.

The governor's office issued a statement Saturday saying that in nine of the 10 deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history, the shooter had a record of committing or threatening violence against women, or harassing or disparaging women.

The Commission completed its report on Governor Cuomo's $ 8.6 billion worth of economic development programs just before U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara issued criminal complaints against nine people, several of them close to Governor Cuomo.

Mr. Brindisi, a well - regarded member of a younger, progressive bloc of Democrats in Albany, noted that he had publicly criticized the Cuomo administration's economic development plans, and had voted against the SAFE Act, a 2013 gun control bill that has been a galvanizing issue for the governor's opponents upstate.

«UJA - Federation of New York applauds Governor Cuomo for being the first governor in the nation to issue an executive order directing state entities to divest all public funds supporting the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel,» said UJA Federation of New York CEO Eric S. Goldstein in a stGovernor Cuomo for being the first governor in the nation to issue an executive order directing state entities to divest all public funds supporting the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel,» said UJA Federation of New York CEO Eric S. Goldstein in a stgovernor in the nation to issue an executive order directing state entities to divest all public funds supporting the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel,» said UJA Federation of New York CEO Eric S. Goldstein in a statement.

(Metro PSA, NYSLSA and the Retailers Alliance lobby together as Last Store on Main Street, the single - issue front against the governor's proposal.)

State employee unions CSEA and PEF are vehemently against the Governor's furlough plan and contend the Governor lacks the legal authority to force the issue.

Schneiderman's predecessor, now - Governor Andrew Cuomo, filed a lawsuit in 2010 against the groups and their president, Edward Juarez, who for three decades has been a nationally recognized expert on immigration issues.

This year, the governor downplayed the issue, listing it with a number of other steps he wants to take, including stricter penalties against bribery, creating an independent agency to police campaign filing violations and greater disclosure by lawmakers of their private law clients who have business before the state.

Although Governor Andrew Cuomo has publicly vowed to campaign against the ruling coalition in the senate unless headway is made on some key issues, Democrats in the chamber are not optimistic about legislative progress.

At the same time, the push against the law showcases an especially New York issue for the governor, pitting him against Republicans in what could be a wave year for Democrats in November.

Among those mayors backing Cuomo's push against the law is New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat who has feuded with the governor on a variety of issues.

Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello has issued out a stern warning to anybody or group of miscreants and troublemakers against any attempt to breach the relative...

In his press release, Mr. Astorino also alluded to a recent scandal in which former Democratic Assemblyman Vito Lopez of Brooklyn, who owns a second home in Peconic, was fined for allegedly sexually harassing an intern on his staff as a knock against the governor's record on women's rights issues.

The Minister insisted that she has absolutely nothing to do with the issue noting that it is an abuse of public office, the judicial process and her human rights for Governor Oshiomhole whom she stopped from taking a «highly suspicious N15 billion loan'to make false allegations against her while hiding behind the constitutional immunity granted state governors.

That pits him against Governor Andrew Cuomo on yet another education issue; the governor has said he hopes to break the public - school «monopoly» by encouraging more competition from charter Governor Andrew Cuomo on yet another education issue; the governor has said he hopes to break the public - school «monopoly» by encouraging more competition from charter governor has said he hopes to break the public - school «monopoly» by encouraging more competition from charter schools.

Governor Cuomo won the Democratic primary, but more than one third of Democrats who participated voted against him, and he lost more than half of the counties upstate, where fracking is a controversial issue.

He vowed to reinvent the lieutenant governor role into a public advocate position representing the «people's voice in Albany» and that he would take on the «issues that pit a tiny concentrated interest against the broader interest.»

SYRACUSE — Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday called the charges against Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos «deeply disturbing» but said he would keep negotiating end - of - session issues — including housing programs mentioned in the criminal complaint against him — if Skelos keeps his Senate post.

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, the Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, his predecessor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and the Chairman Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Professor Itse Sagay, on Friday made attempts to answer questions about the knotty issue of restructuring the nation.

Heastie says he hopes that there can be a «three - way agreement» between the Assembly, Senate and governor on another key end of session issue - increasing oversight of the state's economic development contracts, in light of a scandal that's led to corruption charges against several of Governor Andrew Cuomo's former assgovernor on another key end of session issue - increasing oversight of the state's economic development contracts, in light of a scandal that's led to corruption charges against several of Governor Andrew Cuomo's former assGovernor Andrew Cuomo's former associates.

The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has lampooned the state House of Assembly over threat to issue warrant of arrest against former Governor Kayode Fayemi if he failed to appear before it.

Chief Magistrate Olusegun Ayilara, the chairman of the Coroner's Inquest set up by the State Governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, to uncover the circumstances surrounding the death of Senator Isiaka Adeleke, has threatened to issue a bench warrant against the Divisional Police Officer DPO, of Dugbe Police station, Osogbo and the Officer in charge of Homicide, for shunning the sitting and refusal to testify before it.

This is just as she also threatened to take legal action against the governor of Edo state Adams Oshiomhole for his recent efforts to link her name to the alleged $ 2.1 billion arms issue.

Calls against the US allowing any more Syrian refugees into the country reached a fever pitch yesterday, as Republican lawmakers began drawing up legislation to prohibit the move and the number of governors promising to prevent Syrians from entering their borders grew as many Democrats played wait - and - see on the issue.

The governor's office issued a response to Nixon, who in an interview with The Today Show earlier in the morning did not rule out running against Cuomo in a Democratic primary next year.

And, while this is a long way off, shows that a GOP challenger in 2014 against Cuomo will have a difficult time trying to devise a line of attack on fiscal and taxation issues, unless the Democratic governor forces through a tax increase in the next three years.

The issue, which came to a boil during a Council hearing on Friday, has pitted de Blasio against the city's uniformed unions and Governor Andrew Cuomo.

But if the RNC — officially neutral — tilted toward Lazio, the officially neutral Republican Governors Association seems to be tilting the other way, brushing off concerns about Levy's Democratic past and liberal views on abortion and other issues, and buying the impression among many New York observers that Levy might have a real shot against Andrew Cuomo.

Alhaji Danladi Wada, who is the chairman of one of the factions, said on Sunday «This briefing is sequel to 48 hours ultimatum / query and warning issued to the state governor to explain and defence himself against the allegations leveled against him which he failed to respond.

But, Governor Ahmed in a press statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Abdulwahab Oba, said the allegations levelled against him by the people of Tsaragi, was a shocking, unfair and inappropriate representation of what transpired during a peace meeting he had with the people of the community.

Prosecutions and convictions for corruption have come from the federal government, like US Attorney Preet Bharara, who oversaw the conviction of the former legislative leaders and who has issued criminal complaints against nine people involved in Governor Cuomo's economic development projects.

James Coll, who is also the founder of ChangeNYS.org, says he isn't necessarily arguing against the pay raise, but that constitutionally it's up to the governor and Legislature — not a commission they created — to decide the issue.

On Monday, Cuomo allies speaking on background threatened that the governor would campaign against Senate Republicans if they did not come around on the issue.

And, as Gay City News reported in its last issue, those committed to the fight against AIDS are pressing the governor and legislative leaders for at least $ 50 million in the coming fiscal year out of a $ 2 billion pot of money Cuomo has pledged for state housing needs overall.

The Commission completed its report on Governor Cuomo's $ 8.6 billion dollars worth of economic development programs just before US Attorney Preet Bharara issued criminal complaints against nine people, several of them close to Govern Cuomo.

Executive use of state aircraft has been a politically contentious subject in New York, and «Air Cuomo» was a campaign issue used by George Pataki in his 1994 campaign against Mario Cuomo, the current governor's late father.

The statement read in part, «The so - called Imo stakeholders can only «cage» Governor Rochas Okorocha like they have claimed in the media in the offices of the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Oyegun and the National Organising Secretary of the Party, Chief Osita Izunaso, who are on vendetta mission against the governor over his innocent and patriotic stand on the issue of tenure eloGovernor Rochas Okorocha like they have claimed in the media in the offices of the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Oyegun and the National Organising Secretary of the Party, Chief Osita Izunaso, who are on vendetta mission against the governor over his innocent and patriotic stand on the issue of tenure elogovernor over his innocent and patriotic stand on the issue of tenure elongation.

The issue also caused friction between de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo, who fashioned himself a champion of charter schools to pit himself against the mayor as the two were locked in a battle of funding for universal pre-kindergarten.

Molinaro also takes issue with some of Governor Cuomo's strong language against the tax overhaul measure.

The governor, in his final pitch to voters, defined his GOP opponent Astorino as an «ultra conservative» who he says is against many social issues that Democrats are for, including a woman's right to choose abortion.

But the governor's office had never been implicated, until the criminal compliant was issued against long time former Cuomo associates Joe Percoco, Todd Howe, and SUNY Polytechnic leader Alain Kaloyeros and six others, by Bharara.

But the Governor's office had never been implicated until the criminal complaint was issued against long - time former Cuomo associates Joe Percoco, Todd Howe, and SUNY Polytechnic leader Alain Kaloyeros and six others, by US Attorney Preet Bharara.

The role played by Governor Cuomo's son, Andrew, in the state's rental of a downtown building has become a major issue in a politically charged suit filed against the state by a Manhattan thrift institution.

And last month, Governor George Pataki issued highly publicized threats against the International Freedom Center and the Drawing Center for their display of «anti-American art.»

Eternal optimist Nevada's Governor Sandoval issues a response on Thursday against naysayers, stating «the state and taxpayers are fully protected should Faraday not meet its $ 1 billion investment.»