Sentences with phrase «lieutenant governor because»

March 16, 2018 • Amanda Renteria has called on fellow Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom to leave his post as lieutenant governor because of a past relationship he had with a subordinate.

The Post disclosed last week that Ravitch, a private - sector businessman picked by Paterson to be his lieutenant governor because of his pubic - sector financial expertise, has been angrily boycotting the leaders» meetings because the governor rejected his plan for borrowing billions of dollars to help reduce the state's massive deficit.

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«I was a lieutenant governor and became a governor because the governor had to somehow get out of office.

«One hundred twenty - one visits, most of them I have either a shovel in my hand or a pair of scissors in my hand, because a lot of those are new projects that wouldn't have happened but for the state's interest and investment and commitment,» the lieutenant governor said.

That's because his lieutenant governor, Kim Guadagno, whose entire job is to be around when Christie is not, was also on vacation, leaving the Democratic Senate president in charge.

The lieutenant governor says the message is important because women are still dealing with gender barriers, wage gaps and harassment in the workplace.

«The governor's purported appointment of Mr. Ravitch was unlawful because no provision of the Constitution or of any statute provides for the filling of a vacancy in the office of lieutenant - governor other than by election,» the ruling said.

I agreed to be the Green Party's 2014 candidate for lieutenant governor of New York because I deeply believe we need our own political representation.

In June, he told the Working Families Party that he wasn't simply chasing the honor of being called «lieutenant governor» «because I've had better titles.»

I then got on a plane and went to Buffalo, the lieutenant governor and I were doing a second inauguration because Kathy Hochul is from Buffalo.

And I would say my father's attempt to become the first black lieutenant governor, and winning the primary with 71 percent of the vote, won every county except his opponent's county of Huntington, and they wouldn't put my father's picture in the commercials because they didn't really want it known that it was a black candidate running.

«My hope is that she actually keeps to that message because our message is actually re-envisioning what the lieutenant governor's position is,» said Williams, who promises he'll reinvigorate the state's second - in - command position.

So we end up with a bill that would guarantee a fairly large number of students — a number that would be larger than the number of professors, larger than the support staff (because they're not there), and that would decrease as well the number of members appointed by the lieutenant governor in council, i.e., the government.»