Sentences with phrase «issues as an assemblyman»

«It's hypocritical of him to ask for their vote to be their senator, when he can't show up for work and represent them on important issues as an assemblyman,» said McGrath spokesman Marcus Povinelli.

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As DiNapoli seeks his first full term this fall — the former Democratic assemblyman was picked for the post in 2007 — his party's leaders have made divestment a political issue.

Mariano spoke at length about how she called Buchwald during his first term as an assemblyman when she was having a problem with Medicaid, and said that his office's attentiveness to her issue was the start of a «great working relationship» between the activist and the elected official.

But Moya's real target was Cuomo, who the assemblyman said needs to «show true leadership and to bring Senator Dean Skelos back to the table to open up talks on the Dream Act, just as [the governor] has in the past with tough issues like marriage equality and the SAFE Act.

Elected officials such as Assemblymen Keith Wright, Council members Robert Jackson, Gale Brewer, Inez Dickens and Senator Bill Perkins said attacking the NAACP over this issue was silly given the civil rights group's history of fighting for equal education.

At this meeting, which was also attended by assemblymen Pete Lopez and Kevin Cahill, as well as senators Seward and Bonacic, Turner said he learned that «legislators want state ed to fix the issue, or they will take the unprecedented step of creating education policy.