Sentences with phrase «jobs as elected officials»

Knock yourself out filling in the circle for the man... Now as for Faso, word on the street is he had his constituents arrested for asking him to do his job as an elected official.

«And if we're going to do our job as elected officials, we're going to need to think about how to redesign, or as we go forward, make the modifications necessary so we don't incur this type of damage.

Your job as elected officials is to encourage scientists to give you their best understanding, fund new science if there are gaps vital for the public interest, to weigh scientific information, and then to make decisions.

Not exact matches

«You look at why people are upset; you look at the way some people act, and it's certainly not becoming of them as an elected official and not becoming of them in the job that they're supposed to doing.

Many upstate elected officials have signed on in support of Uber, saying their cities would benefit from the competition to existing cab companies, as well as the jobs the company says it will be creating.

«I believe that our local elected officials have already been elected to do their jobs,» Marchione said at a news conference on the issue, «and to put something out as simple as shared services I think that the local governments can certainly make those decisions on behalf of their community.»

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY (02/15/2013)(readMedia)-- Community Voices Heard and a number of allied organizations will host a public meeting in Poughkeepsie with federal and state elected officials to discuss issues important to low - income residents of the Hudson Valley, including affordable housing, youth issues, raising the minimum wage, immigration reform, safety net programs, job creation, instituting a Fair Elections system in the state, as well as the federal and state budget.

Democratic elected officials aligned with the city and state teachers unions see charters as a thinly - veiled, well - moneyed effort to erode job protections for teachers.

As my investigative reporting focuses almost entirely on New Rochelle public sector employees managed by appointed and elected officials, my targets for investigation are often people who owe their jobs to Democrats.

«As the end of the job approaches, we thank local elected officials and community members for their patience, which will be rewarded with a more reliable water supply and sewer system, and reconstructed roadways that will serve the public for years to come.»

The father and son are accused of using Dean Skelos» influence as one of the three most powerful elected officials in the state — alongside the Assembly speaker and governor — to pressure companies into giving Adam jobs for which he either wasn't qualified or just didn't do.

«As the only Asian - American elected official in Albany, a public interest attorney, a grassroots political activist and a new mom balancing the demands of a busy job with parenthood, I know that Kathleen Rice is the best person for me to partner with in state government,» Meng said.

They're trying to portray him as an outsider — I don't know how much more inside you can be than never having had a job other than an elected official for your entire life,» DeFrancisco told POLITICO.

And she noted that a colleague at her first city government job in 1987 made $ 5,000 more than her despite the fact that they were in the same divisions and had the same title because «he had family to take care of» — an experience that made her more conscious of pay equity issues as an elected official.

Duffy, who's publicly been Cuomo's biggest cheerleader, privately may have become disenchanted with the job as New York's number two elected official.

Outgoing Police Commissioner Bill Bratton formally bid farewell to members of the NYPD, elected officials and the City of New York on his last day on the job this afternoon in the most classic way possible: embracing his wife as they stood atop a vintage police car.

Local leaders pulled no punches as they criticized the PSC and even some local elected officials for supporting the deal, which puts local jobs — and the largest taxpayer in Niagara County — in jeopardy.

As Karen DeWitt reports, Duffy, who's publicly been Cuomo's biggest cheerleader, privately may have become disenchanted with the job as New York's number two elected officiaAs Karen DeWitt reports, Duffy, who's publicly been Cuomo's biggest cheerleader, privately may have become disenchanted with the job as New York's number two elected officiaas New York's number two elected official.

Elected and appointed officials, as well as rank and file staff members must be mindful of the public trust they hold when looking for a new job.

Our focus as elected officials needs to be centered on jobs for our region.

Addressing an audience of labor leaders, local elected officials and autoworkers, Mrs. Clinton singled out companies that she said had received tax benefits as they shipped jobs out of the country.

When Mr. Levy's successor as Suffolk County executive, Steve Bellone, was elected, Mr. Spota recommended Mr. Burke, then working for the district attorney, for the police chief's job, county officials said.

«People often ask me «How do your two jobs fit together, as a scientist and as an elected official?»

When I was 22, I got what I considered a great job as a personal assistant / communications coordinator to a statewide elected official.

Scalia saw such efforts not as the job of judges following the abstract theories of academic experts but of elected officials and the administrators appointed by them.

I've been intrigued with them as symbols, but also in asking if the institutions are doing the job that the elected officials are slated to do.

He was founding executive director of the Apollo Alliance for good jobs and energy independence and has served as an energy and economic advisor to the AFL - CIO, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell's Energy Advisory Task Force, and numerous other federal, state, and local policymakers and elected officials.