Sentences with phrase «key aide»

Several people predicted that key aides in the governmental administration would, as in previous campaign years, take leave from the public payroll and join the campaign.

The probe began a year ago and appears to have honed in on Joseph Percoco, a former key aide and longtime family friend of the governor.

He faces an Electoral Commission inquiry after Channel 4's Dispatches said key aides worked for him during the 2004 election while on the public payroll.

After breakfast and a brisk horseback ride, he spends the morning receiving reports from five key aides assigned to look after his business interests, horses and Lyford Cay.

ALBANY — A day after Gov. Paterson revoked hefty salary increases for several key aides, he has reneged on his pledge to take a voluntary pay cut.

Cuomo relayed his readiness for such a high - stakes confrontation in conversations with key aides and state lawmakers during the past two weeks as he outlined general plans to cut the state payroll and impose billions of dollars in reductions on school districts and the Medicaid program in the fiscal year beginning April 1.

Hevesi and key aides eventually pleaded guilty in the scandal.

Key aides steps down after facing fierce criticism for their role in an election that saw the Conservatives lose their majority.

Stephen Gilbert's other key aides, Stephen Phillips and Stephen Parkinson also deserve a free drink when you bump into them next.

«Every morning at nine, Mr Cameron meets key aides and shadow ministers including William Hague, Michael Gove and George Osborne.

They also show how Annaliese Midgley, the political director of Unite and a former key aide to Mr Corbyn, wrote to officials within the union trying to drum up support for the hastily - arranged event.

When Barack Obama first became President of the United States in 2009, two - thirds of his key aides were men, and they had a habit of ignoring or talking over the ideas of their female counterparts.

The British Columbia registrar of lobbyists has fined a key aide to Premier Christy Clark for failing to comply with the province's lobbying law.

He had seen the papacy from the inside, as a key aide to Pius XII, and he had been the successful archbishop of a major Italian see: Milan.

On the night of Sept. 11, as the Obama administration scrambled to respond to the Benghazi terror attacks, then - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a key aide effectively tried to cut the department's own counterterrorism bureau out of the chain of reporting and decision - making, according to a «whistle - blower» witness from that bureau who will soon testify to the charge before Congress

«We can raise horses as good as any country in the world,» says Gil Darlington, the manager of the farm and one of Taylor's key aides.

David Paterson's security chief to pressure a witness not to file an assault charge against a key aide; and a secret attempt to slip huge pay raises for police brass into the state's deficit - plagued budget.

In 2001, he was made its chair and was widely understood to be one of Blair's key aides, credited as the mastermind behind many of the government's flagship education policies.

Yet he failed to anticipate the level of opposition, whipped up by Thatcher and her key aide Norman Tebbit in the House of Lords.

A few years ago I had dinner at Boisdale with Nigel and his key aide Gawain Towler.

Spota, the longest serving district attorney in Suffolk history, and his key aide, McPartland, were charged in October with helping to cover up the 2012 beating of a man who had stolen a duffle bag from the SUV of a protégé of the district attorney's, former Suffolk police chief James Burke.

The official spoke to Franken and key aides, MPR News reports.

The announcement comes as the White House continues to face questions over the appointment of Rob Porter, a key aide who had been accused by two of his ex-wives of domestic violence.

Gavin is a local councillor and a key aide to Lord Ashcroft's target seats programme.

Meanwhile, Silver suggested Paterson may have to resign from office because of Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's newly begun probe into the conduct of the governor, key aides and the State Police in the Johnson order - of - protection affair.

Christopher McPartland, a key aide to DA Thomas Spota, investigated by federal grand jury, sources say

What started off for former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg as an effort to provide quick emergency assistance in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where his Bloomberg L.P., co-founder Tom Secunda has a home, has turned into new kind of project for Bloomberg and his key aides, putting them at Ground Zero of efforts to rebuild the tiny U.S. territory.

A Democratic official who has spoken to Al Franken and key aides says Franken will resign his Minnesota Senate seat tomorrow, the official tells MPR News.

Almost a month after an ethics panel accused New York Gov. David Paterson of illegally obtaining Yankees» World Series tickets and lying about it, the panel questioned a key aide...

Ms. Gillibrand evinces an aw - shucks political persona, but she was born into a deeply political family, the daughter of a prominent Albany lobbyist and the granddaughter of Dorothea «Polly» Noonan, a key aide to the longtime Democratic kingmaker in town, Mayor Erastus Corning.

«This time Jeremy read the speech we wrote for him,» smiled a key aide to the leader after re-elected one improved hugely on last September's rambling victory address.

Some MPs seem to be circulating rumours that Labour would put forward one of Mr Miliband's key aides to contest the seat, but we believe that this is without foundation.

And this April, most spectacularly, he forced the resignation of Damian McBride, one of Gordon Brown's key aides, after obtaining an email correspondence between McBride and the Labour blogger and activist Derek Draper proposing a campaign of unfounded personal smears against senior Conservatives.

The 12 include Dan Carden, a key aide to Unite general secretary Len McCluskey, who is standing in Liverpool Walton.

First Daley moved two of his key aides, Vallas and Gery Chico, from City Hall to the school district, with more than 100 others in tow.