Sentences with phrase «many backroom deals»

«This was not a backroom deal,» said Gavin Molloy, United's vice president for corporate real estate and environmental affairs.

Some of her remarks give fresh fuel to liberals» worst fears about Clinton, namely that she is a political moderate, happy to cut backroom deals with corporate interests and curry favor with Wall Street for campaign dollars.

While known as a backroom deal maker, Edwards's public appearances are rare, and always a hot ticket.

«For 30 years, NAFTA has been a backroom deal for those at the top.

They alleged that the words «or more unprofitable» had been added in a backroom deal by lobbyists for Enron Corporation and exceeded the mandate of the Alberta Energy Utilities Board.

Alongside this belching motorcade of backroom dealing and cronyism rides the nuclear industry, which stands to benefit from the NOPR more or less by accident.

Did you report on Obama's backroom deals with drug and insurance companies to sell out Americans healthcare?

This guy is nothing but a backroom dealing, money grubbing politician.

«Transparency is essential given that the backroom deals around HB 142 have only resulted in a status quo that continues to subject trans student - athletes, coaches, and fans to discrimination,» he said.

Just backroom deals, then smile in your face later.

Skelos said the IG report «confirms what I said in February, that the initial award of the Aqueduct VLT contract to AEG reeked of favoritism and was a corrupt a backroom deal,» adding:

Much has been made of backroom deals between the Chancellor George Osborne and Manchester City Council's chief executive Sir Howard Bernstein to deliver the most significant devolutionary settlement of Whitehall budgets in England.

But those compromises and backroom deals are precisely what might have made it an improvement on what had gone before and on what we've got instead.

I'm running for Attorney General to root our corruption and backroom deals and to get our government working for us again.

May sought to present a tone of continuity and calm, arguing there should be «no coronation brought about by backroom deals».

Koppell called Skelos» decision to block the measure «outrageous,» said said the «only reason» the GOP leader is allowed to block this and other progressive legislation «is because of his backroom deal with Senator Jeff Klein.»

«She still doesn't have the right to cheat the system and obtain the Independence party's designation in a shady and illegal backroom deal.

«The GOP Majority is cutting backroom deals and doling out special interest giveaways to the state's worst polluters.

NEW YORK (AP)-- A former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo was convicted on corruption charges Tuesday at a trial that further exposed the state capital's culture of backroom deal - making.

Without backroom deals that were struck behind closed doors?

Then, when Democrats still won a majority, he cut a backroom deal that allowed Republicans to take over the State Senate through the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC)-- a group of breakaway Democrats who voted with the Republicans to hand them control, and with it, the power to block almost all of our key Democratic legislative priorities.

In 2013, NPR's Allan Greenblatt listed a few: It's effectively a one - party state, with the Democrats so dominant that there is no political competition and machine politics set the agenda; the elections are expensive, making candidates reliant on donors; many key decisions, such as the shape of the state budget, are made in backroom deals between a few power players; the local media is so focused on national events that it ignores what's happening in the state (especially upstate); and there's no anti-corruption movement to challenge the existing culture.

She's also questioned Cuomo's economic development programs and criticized the newly approved state budget as another product of Albany's backroom deals.

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Unless of course the outcome is already decided as the result of a cynical backroom deal.»

But they needed to be said if party leaders were going to cut a backroom deal and throw their support to Cuomo, which is precisely what happened.

And when GOP voters rejected their party's nominee in favor of an outsider, they took a striking stand against cross endorsements, races rigged by party bosses, and backroom deals for Election Day patronage spoils.

Or a bill simply dies because of some backroom deal.

Or Ed Miliband, a man so desperate for power he is ready to barter away our nuclear deterrent in a backroom deal with the SNP.»

Evidence of the backroom deal began to emerge on Fri., Aug. 24, when Assemblyman Vito Lopez, of Brooklyn, was implicated in the sexual harassment of two female employees following an internal investigation by the Assembly's ethics committee.

It was one of those Albany mega-deal days when everything happens at once after months of nothing, and a week or so of furious backroom deal making.

While Graziano works in conjunction with Senator Tony Avella and Queens Crap to cast aspersions on me, we here Queens - Politics are disgusted with the level of shadow politics, backroom deals, and now, an illegal gathering meant to kickoff a phony campaign for City Council.

Asked whether she was surprised by the decision to go with a placeholder, she added, «I'm not a backroom deal person, I'm not engaged in the, sort of punditry and background — New York politics has had a lot of — many years — a lot of decisions being made behind the scenes.»

I thought backroom dealing was a thing the dems liked to do?

«No disrespect to Senator Boyle, but he was selected as a backroom deal... and it didn't sit well with voters,» Mr. Zacarese said in an interview this week.

This would intensify the already existing corporatist dynamic that exists within the EP, whereby the socialist group and the centre - right EPP group often stitch up agreements on appointments to key committees and votes on key pieces of legislation in backroom deals.

People are sick of backroom deals in the middle of night.

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- The conviction of a former top aide to Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo spurred fresh demands to address Albany's culture of backroom dealing Wednesday — calls that New York state lawmakers have shrugged off in the past.

In a nutshell, it looks like a disappointment: the ethics package approval process was another instance of Albany's opaque, backroom dealing, and the governor's «dramatic» five - point plan will do far too little to raise the veil of secrecy that contributes to Albany's pervasive culture of corruption.

Bharara didn't rule out a run for attorney general, but said he wouldn't participate in a legislative appointment process that has «the look and feel of a backroom deal.»

She said Cuomo encouraged a «backroom deal» to get a group of Democratic senators to vote with the Senate GOP so that Republicans could keep control of the state Senate and added that he allowed the Republicans to draw their own gerrymandered district maps — a move she says suppressed Democratic voters.

There was no backroom deal here,» she added.

«Term limits: We voted for them twice to make sure no one in this city could serve more than two terms in office — until Scott Stringer decided to overturn it, cutting a backroom deal to hand Mayor Bloomberg a third term,» the ominously voice spot said.

Percoco was convicted on corruption charges Tuesday at a trial that further exposed the state capital's culture of backroom deal - making.

Martins, a former state senator, called Lavine's exit a «backroom deal» and said he is «focused on restoring our faith in government, protecting our families, and putting Nassau County back on the right track.»

«The governor's backroom deals have left us with a situation where Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the leader of the Senate Democrats, the highest - elected woman in New York state, is not in the room, but the king of the eight - member IDC — Jeff Klein, who is accused of sexual misconduct himself — is,» Nixon said.

The conviction of a former top aide to Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo spurred fresh demands to address Albany's culture of backroom dealing Wednesday — calls that New York state lawmakers have shrugged off in the past.

«He won't own up to the backroom deals he is making with groups like the Family Institute of Connecticut and the Connecticut Citizens Defense League that want to ban gay marriage and repeal our gun safety laws,» Connecticut Democrats said in a fundraising email.

Cuomo, a Democrat, said Cappuccilli, a Republican, had corrupted the important cultural institution with graft and backroom deals to his own personal benefit, in part, when he threw his daughters» two weddings at the fairgrounds.

Over the years, Silver's decisive say on many of New York City's real estate projects was no secret — nor were the allegations of corruption and backroom deals.