Sentences with phrase «longtime leader of the state»

Tuesday's rhetoric is the same as Cuomo's position earlier this year after Silver — the longtime leader of the State Assembly — was indicted for pocketing $ 4 million in legal fees that prosecutors proved were little more than bribes for official favors.

Not exact matches

The State Department faces backlash for nominating a longtime Samaritan's Purse leader as the next director general of the United Nations» International Organization for Migration (IOM) last week.

Mondello, a former state Republican Party chairman and longtime leader of the Nassau GOP, is the first party leader to announce his support of Maragos's US Senate run.

Over the next months, the former speaker of the state Assembly, former leader of the state Senate, the former president of the State University of New York's newest college campus and a longtime and influential political operative in Western New York will stand accused of wrongdoing ranging from bribery to extortion to fraud to illegal campaign contributions to rigged state Assembly, former leader of the state Senate, the former president of the State University of New York's newest college campus and a longtime and influential political operative in Western New York will stand accused of wrongdoing ranging from bribery to extortion to fraud to illegal campaign contributions to rigged state Senate, the former president of the State University of New York's newest college campus and a longtime and influential political operative in Western New York will stand accused of wrongdoing ranging from bribery to extortion to fraud to illegal campaign contributions to rigged State University of New York's newest college campus and a longtime and influential political operative in Western New York will stand accused of wrongdoing ranging from bribery to extortion to fraud to illegal campaign contributions to rigged bids.

After moderate success in that election, Schneiderman quarterbacked then - State Senator David Paterson's effort to unseat longtime Senate minority leader Marty Connor, seen as an important step in changing the culture of the Democratic Party in the Senate.

That case involved campaign contributions and also led to the overturning of the corruption convictions of two former powers in New York State politics — Sheldon Silver, the longtime Democratic speaker of the State Assembly, and Dean Skelos, the former Republican majority leader of the State Senate.

The powerful leader of the state Senate Independent Democratic Conference tried to preempt sexual misconduct allegations against him by holding a conference call with his longtime girlfriend, state Sen. Diane Savino, denying forthcoming allegations.

But leaders of the party said Saturday they would not play into Cuomo's «divide and conquer» tactics, instead nominating longtime state committee member Kenny Schafer as a placeholder candidate — a move, POLITICO reported Thursday, that gives them the option of backing whomever is picked by the Democratic Party during its convention in the coming week.

A benefactor of the wealth of Republican and Democratic candidates could be Oz Griebel, the former banker and longtime leader of the MetroHartford Alliance who is bypassing the convention process and traveling across the state to collect the 7,500 signatures needed to run on his own ballot line in November.

A longtime State University at New York leader, who is familiar with leading colleges in trouble, has been appointed Interim President of Niagara County Community College.

The forum was held by Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb (R - Canandaigua) and featured a panel that included longtime Ontario County Sheriff Phil Povero and Tom King of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association.

After a 16 - month stretch during which a longtime state Senate leader was indicted, the public learned of Gov. Eliot Spitzer's proclivity for prostitutes, and the Senate spent a summer in chaos, the idea of holding an early convention to fix state government garnered more attention that it had in decades.

A longtime friend of state Sen. Dean Skelos testified at the former majority leader's corruption trial Thursday that he couldn't fire the powerful politician's son for not showing up to the cushy job he'd arranged because he feared he'd «have a problem in Albany.»

Joe Bruno, the former boxer and longtime State Senate Republican majority leader who gave Spitzer fits, is finally gone, having retired in the midst of an F.B.I. investigation that eventually revealed (what else?)

Former New York state Sen. Majority Leader Dean Skelos was sitting in his own public - corruption trial Monday afternoon when he learned that a federal jury across the street convicted his longtime colleague, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, of trading his political influence for financial gain.

Longtime state Sen. Eric Coleman, D - Bloomfield, is in a battle with Hartford city council leader Shawn Wooden for the nomination in a district that includes parts of Bloomfield, Hartford and Windsor.

Lincoln Restler, a leader of the New Kings Democrats, announced his candidacy for unpaid state committeeman spot on Tuesday, setting up a battle against the longtime incumbent and Downtown Brooklyn attorney for this little - known, and low - powered, elective office.

Sen. Tom Libous, the deputy leader of the GOP conference and a longtime Binghamton lawmaker with a good working relationship with Cuomo, had urged the state to re-open the bidding process and give the fourth license to the state's Southern Tier.

Last year, federal appeals panels overturned convictions of two longtime power brokers, former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, dealing a potential blow to the legacy of former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who had earned a fearsome reputation around Albany.

State Sen. John DeFrancisco, the deputy conference leader and a longtime representative of Syracuse and some of its suburbs, said in an interview on «The Capitol Pressroom» that there is still a «big divide» among the chamber's 31 Republicans on the minimum - wage issue.

Jay Heck, a longtime observer of state government who heads the nonpartisan Common Cause in Wisconsin, thinks former leaders gravitate to lobbying because of their strong ties with both «folks in the lobbying world» and other legislators.

Labor leaders from across the city rallied on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on Sept. 9 in support of Robert Jackson, a longtime education advocate and former City Council member running for the Democratic nomination to represent the 31st District in the state Senate.

And there are the 2018 trials: the corruption re-trials of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos; the pay - to - play trial in June involving Buffalo Billion and other Cuomo administration economic development programs in upstate, and the recently concluded trial in which Joseph Percoco, a longtime confidante of Cuomo, was found guilty in a scheme of trading bribes for state action for those business executives giving him money.

The longtime congressman is seeking a 22nd term in office and is facing at least three challengers: former presidential aide Clyde Williams, who has $ 125,000 on hand; district leader Joyce Johnson, the only woman in the race; and State Senator Adriano Espaillat, who announced this morning that he had been endorsed by one of Rangel's former aides, Vince Morgan, who previously ran for the seat.

The report accuses Herbert Teitelbaum, the executive director of the State Commission on Public Integrity, of repeated leaks over several months during the commission's investigation into the Spitzer administration's handling of the travel records of the longtime State Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno, a scandal known in Albany as Troopergate.

ALBANY — In an upcoming book, longtime Capitol correspondent Tom Precious will tell the story of casinos in modern New York, including the current process of siting up to four gambling halls upstate, the pacts between Native American tribes and past governors that gave birth to Turning Stone and the three casinos operated by the Seneca Nation of Indians, as well as the video slot parlors approved by state leaders in 2001, just weeks after the September 11 attacks.

Indeed, Skandera and Ruszkowski have started to highlight those efforts, in the form of a coauthored paper on investing in teacher leadership published in December by Chiefs for Change, a group of reform - minded state and district leaders of which Skandera is a longtime member.

The pre-K plan, estimated to cost $ 200 million in the first year, would build a voluntary preschool system for Tennessee's 4 - year - olds, which has been a longtime goal for many state leaders but has never been realized because of budget constraints and a wobbly economy.

He had a longtime interest in education, serving as a member of New York State's Board of Regents, but no particular obligations to the union leaders or bureaucrats within the system.

Inspired by a lecture from Albert Shanker, the longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers (whom Reichgott Junge heard describe charter schools as «the best answer so far» to the ills of the American education system) she worked with civic leaders and fellow representatives to draft and implement a bill granting greater autonomy for a subset of the North Star state's schools.

Stephen Willoughby, who is also chairman of New York University's department of mathematics education and a longtime leader in the field, urged the nctm to take steps to see that standards are maintained and said members should approach their congressmen and their state and local officials to draw attention to the problem of poor teacher - training.

The move set off chaos in schools, which suddenly didn't know which tests they'd be using in the new year, and open warfare with Jindal's longtime allies in reform, including the state's top business leaders, a media - savvy education superintendent and a state education board that's now mulling a lawsuit — all of whom accuse him of playing politics at students» expense.

* UPDATE Carl A. Cohn, a longtime educational leader in California, was named today to be the first director of the California Collaborative on Educational Excellence (CCEE), a newly - formed state agency charged with providing advice and assistance to school districts in achieving the goals set forth in the Local Control and Accountability Plans.

Carl A. Cohn, a longtime educational leader in California, was named today to be the first director of the California Collaborative on Educational Excellence (CCEE), a newly - formed state agency charged with providing advice and assistance to school districts in achieving the goals set forth in the Local Control and Accountability Plans.

The Nissan Versa lineup, which has been the longtime sales and share leader in the competitive United States entry - level segment, gets a dramatic new look with the launch of the all - new 2014 Nissan Versa Note.