Sentences with phrase «legislative director»

As legislative director, I have developed strong writing and editing skills.

His professional experience includes being Chief of Staff for Senator Suzi Oppenheimer and working as Legislative Director for State Senator Jeremy S. Weinstein.

We discuss the contenders with Legislative Director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, Blair Horner.

It's his top aide on trial,» said NYPIRG Legislative Director Blair Horner.

«The last time they had a pay commission, it was basically controlled by the governor and the legislative leaders,» said NYPIRG Legislative Director Blair Horner, «and because of some other deal, it blew up.

WCBS 880's Alex Silverman reported the leaker is John Conklin, the spokesman for the Board of Elections and a former legislative director for Senate Republicans.

- Alex Taurel, Deputy Legislative Director at the League of Conservation Voters

Then, we talk with Maggie Garrett, national legislative director with Citizens United for the Separation of Church and State.

«Bump stocks played a major role in turning a Las Vegas concert into a tragedy,» Nico Bocour, state legislative director of Giffords, said in an email to supporters.

New York Public Interest Research Group Legislative Director Blair Horner joins Alan in the studio today to talk about the budget.

«Whatever side you come down on, Democrat or Republican, we don't make it easy for people to go out the same day because they're enthusiastic and want to participate to actually get registered and vote,» League of Women Voters of New York Legislative Director Barbara Bartoletti said.

«At the highest levels of government, people viewed economic development and energy policies as a gold rush,» said Blair Horner, the longtime legislative director for the New York Public Interest Research Group.

But White House legislative director Marc Short shot back on MSNBC: «I'm not sure honoring the military is a waste of money.»

«I think it's part the Democrats agenda to try to obstruct the legislative agenda,» said White House legislative director Marc Short.

«Any plans to reorganize need to be seen in the wider context of Zinke's crusade to downsize and change Interior's mission by handing over our public lands and waters to oil companies and other special interests,» Alex Taurel, deputy legislative director of the League of Conservation Voters, told Earther in a statement.

His remarks follow the answers below, along with reactions from Corey P. Saylor, National Legislative Director of the Council on American - Islamic Relations and Ahmed M. Rehab, Executive Director, CAIR - Chicago.)

After law school he moved to Washington to be communications director at the National Corn Growers Association and then legislative director for one of his Senate predecessors, Wayne Allard.

A longtime and familiar face at the Capitol is retiring: League of Women Voters Legislative Director Barbara Bartoletti says she's hanging it up.

Communications director Erin Dennin, legislative director Scott Solomon, and executive aide Stephen Papas» departure off payroll was due to a staffing overhaul -LSB-...]

«We're going to be doing phone banking and also labor to labor walking door to door just like we do in election campaigns,» said Communications Workers of America Legislative Director John O'Malley.

Legislative Director John Mulvey and Chief of Staff Chrissy Voskerichian both stepped down as Halloran staffers soon after the councilman's arrest in April.

«The staff has been cut dramatically over the years,» said Leo, who was formerly legislative director of a statewide correction officers union.

«Pruitt seems to be using these visits to launch his political career,» Sierra Club legislative director Melinda Pierce told Reuters.

«The fact that the Trump administration is trying this new small - scale coal push isn't surprising,» Sierra Club legislative director Melinda Pierce told Yahoo News, «since the Trump administration has always had a difficulty with facts, standards and basic economics.

«CARB is allowing BMW to game the system by accruing the maximum number of ZEV credits with the least amount of effort,» says Plug In America legislative director Jay Friedland.

-- Christopher J. Duryea, a veteran lobbyist and former Assembly legislative director, has joined the Albany - based lobbying firm Marsh, Wassermann & McHugh.

Another candidate, Micah C. Lasher, 34, is a former chief of staff to the state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman (who held the Senate seat before Mr. Espaillat), and also served as the city's legislative director in Albany when Michael R. Bloomberg was mayor.

«Creating another layer of regulation through a state license issued by an agency [the state Labor Department] with no experience regulating the elevator industry is duplicative, serves only to confuse, and does not constitute sound public policy,» said the mayor's Albany legislative director, Sherif Soliman.

Mass Audubon President Gary Clayton, Director of Public Policy Jack Clarke, and Legislative Director Karen Heymann met with Senator Edward J. Markey and other groups to brainstorm strategies for working with the incoming Presidential administration and new Congress on critical environmental issues.

Advocacy Staff at This Location: Jack Clarke, Director of Public Policy & Government Relations Karen Heymann, Legislative Director Christina Wiseman, Advocacy Associate

«I think because it is in New York City and because we are in the process of the budget hearings, the budget negotiations are overshadowing this trial by a longshot,» said League of Women Voters Legislative Director Jennifer Wilson.

A number of names have already been floated, including (but not limited to) Assemblyman Ed Braunstein and WFP legislative director Austin Shafran, a former Cuomo administration aide and Senate Democratic spokesman who lost a close Council primary to Paul Vallone last fall.

Cohen told several media sources that Wozniak's former Legislative Director Elias Farah filed the complaint.

«After seeing the Peter Hart (NYSUT) poll conducted in three Senate districts we wanted to see if the rest of the state shared the same feelings,» said AFSCME political and legislative director Brian McDonnell.

In a sign of the gulf between them, Glaser and a leader of one of the largest state unions, CSEA Legislative Director Fran Turner clashed over the salaries of state workers.

The panel is expected to include environmental advocates and academics, including Environmental Advocates of New York Executive Director Peter Iwanowicz, Urban Program Legislative Director Richard Schraeder and SUNY Albany Professor David Carpenter, who leads the Institute for Health and the Environment.

Also at 5:30 p.m., the NYS League of Women Voters is holding a «small celebration» in honor of its retiring legislative director, Barbara Bartoletti, Center Square Pub, 32 Dove St., Albany.

Legislative Director Julia Walsh said opponents to a state decision to allow hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, are worried the DEC may be giving short shrift to the 66,000 public comments received on a proposed state roadmap for hydrofracking.

The company hired former Cuomo secretary Larry Schwartz as its chief strategy officer in March 2015; retained lobbyist David Weinraub, a former legislative director under Gov. Mario Cuomo, and plans to add New York Racing Association chairman Michael Del Giudice, a former chief - of - staff to Mario Cuomo, to its board.

Roughly a dozen have ties to the organizing group Citizen Action; both executive director Karen Scharff and legislative director Jessica Wisneski are elected delegates.

«In terms of media buys, it's a least 3 - to - 1 advantage from this corporate hedge funds who are backing this astro turf campaign across the state,» said NYSUT's legislative director Steve Ellinger.

Thomas started out as a special assistant for Comptroller Scott Stringer back when he was Manhattan borough president, then become legislative director for then - Councilmember Leroy Comrie, who was land - use chairman at that time.

Daren Jaime sits down with Jona Kerluku, USS Vice Chair for Fiscal Affairs, and Donavan Borington, USS Legislative Director, to discuss Governor Cuomo's tuition plan and what it really means for students.

«On every placard is a story about an actual case in New York, where the public defense system failed a person's right to counsel,» said Bob Perry is the New York Civil Liberties Union legislative director.

A longtime good - government advocate, she has been the LWV Legislative Director since 1988 and is a go - to «goo - goo» for reporters that cover the State Capitol.

By Domenic Giandomenic, Legislative Director Today, President Obama announced new plans for higher education, outlining an agenda to make college more affordable.

HLS SALDF also addressed the popular issue of wild animals in captivity through talks by Chris Green, former ALDF legislative director (and current executive director of the Animal Law & Policy Program at Harvard Law School), who spoke about legal developments in this area, and Death at SeaWorld author David Kirby, who spoke on the plight of captive orcas.