Sentences with phrase «longtime local congressman»

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After favorite local sons Assemblyman Michael Cusick and former Congressman Michael McMahon declined to seek the seat, the Staten Island Democratic Party spent weeks mulling who to pick as its candidate in the quixotic campaign against the popular prosecutor, before finally looking to the longtime councilman and former state senator.

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.