Sentences with phrase «money state legislators»

I wonder how much money state legislators were raking in as they confirmed Comer?

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Spending boatloads of money on professional lobbying and a massive postcard campaign to legislators, the organization and their deep - pocketed friends like PepsiCo, Coca - Cola, Con Agra and Schwan's killed the state school nutrition bill, ensuring many more years of junk food for New York's schoolchildren.

We need U.S. Senators, members of Congress and state legislators who have the guts to take on the big money interests whose greed is destroying the American middle class.

Hundreds jammed the City Council chambers and spilled into adjoining hallways, including a slew of Long Island mayors, town officials, state and county legislators and others who will depend on Suozzi to bring federal money to local projects.

But the governor called out the region's legislators for wanting to shift control of state economic development funding away from the regional economic development councils that Cuomo created and put the money back in the hands of the Senate and Assembly for them to dole out individually.

All that money did produce a rarity: Ceretto was the only incumbent legislator in the entire state to run for re-election and lose.

Right now, the top news in the New York politics is the story of the State Senate's lulu payments, the extra money that legislators in leadership positions earn.

Other state legislators on both sides of the aisle were surprised by the amount of public money spent on the settlements.

Gov. David Paterson and legislators quietly borrowed state money in 2010 to give to their favorite baseball clubs, veterans halls, museums and even a racetrack casino at the same time they were cutting jobs and support for schools, health care and other basic public services.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- Reform advocates, most voters and Governor Andrew Cuomo want to help clean up scandal - scarred Albany by prohibiting the state's 213 legislators from making serious money on the side.

In preparation for the launch of the Fair Elections for New York campaign, a series of events in Albany and across the state are being held to call attention to state legislators» reliance on out - of - district campaign contributions — further evidence of the need for a state public campaign finance system that relies on small donors and local money.

Also last week, the governor and state legislators essentially neutered the «M.T.A. lock box» bill, which would have required policymakers to issue a public impact statement before taking money intended for the M.T.A. and spending it elsewhere.

In New York, it is not against the law for legislators to take outside income — and it was a major factor in the case of Mr. Silver, who prosecutors said had traded state grant money and influence on tenant legislation in exchange for legal referral fees.

State lawmakers said a few years ago they would no longer permit the controversial member item program to continue, but critics said the old system, which gave taxpayer money to legislators» pet projects, is being revived in a new form.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — While the state considers a proposal to prohibit using taxpayer money for sexual harassment settlements, an Erie County legislator said there's no reason for local governments to wait.

-LSB-...] now, the top news in the New York politics is the story of the State Senate's lulu payments, the extra money that legislators in leadership positions earn.

State and federal legislators seem more sympathetic to Miner, but so far no money has come through.

Yilin Hou, a public administration and international affairs professor at Syracuse University, said legislators have over-promised the amount of money that can be allotted to the state, which has created an unsustainable climate in New York for many years, not just recently.

Now is the time to institute these reforms, which include oversight of the grants process and conflict of interest statements, as well as now disallowing legislators to set up private not - for - profit entities with this state money.»

«Casinos have always given to some degree, but once they have a physical presence in this state the money will just explode and legislators going forward will get a lot of money from them.

Howard Zemsky, head of Empire State Development, told legislators at a budget hearing that the governor's $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage proposal would be an economic booster because it would raise people out of poverty who will spend and circulate that money.

State legislators in downstate New York are looking to divert money planned for upstate economic development for their own projects, according to Cuomo.

Their priorities: closing the campaign finance loophole that allows limited liability companies to donate like individuals, rather than businesses; limiting legislators» ability to earn money for jobs held outside the Legislature; and making the state budget process more transparent.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner told state legislators during a budget meeting today that her city needs state money to fix its water system and other aging infrastructure.

Earlier in the day, former State Assemblyman William Boyland was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for taking bribes and stealing public money, the latest state legislator sent to prState Assemblyman William Boyland was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for taking bribes and stealing public money, the latest state legislator sent to prstate legislator sent to prison.

As part of the newly adopted state budget, legislators approved the reappropriation of $ 28 million to fund a gun database and another $ 3.2 million in new money for SAFE Act staff.

These portions of the budget are decided behind closed doors by a select group of politicians, with no oversight, public input or guarantee that New Yorkers, not state legislators, derive benefit from the distribution of this money.

When Governor Paterson announced that, in order to save money, he would add a one - day - a-week furlough for 100,000 state workers to the next emergency budget bill, legislators had a choice: vote for the bill and pass the furloughs they opposed, or vote against it and shut down state government.

ALBANY — Mayor Bill de Blasio's annual pilgrimage to make New York City's financial case before skeptical state legislators in the Capitol usually follows a predictable pattern: He asks for money; Republican lawmakers scoff.

Though these have yet to be given out because the state has yet to pass a budget, legislators generally know how much money they're expected to get, she said.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has said he would assent to a salary increase for himself and legislators — likely delivered through a supposedly independent commission — in exchange for funding for a new hate crimes task force, an agreement to release affordable housing money, changes to state procurement processes and, possibly, extending Uber outside of New York City.

They also are hoping to persuade state legislators to provide money for rewards and to safeguard witnesses who supply information, as well as to get illegal weapons off the street.

But it is money that state legislators are warning the city needs to spend now.

Republican state legislators Tuesday blasted a state Democratic Party plan to pay for part of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's re-election effort with money raised for federal congressional campaigns, saying it would destroy the «last remnants of «clean campaign laws»» in Connecticut.

«The influence of outside money, and the way in which people can be associated with outside firms in a way that makes it very difficult to figure out what they're getting for that pay when they're otherwise legislators that are supposed to be answering only to the people of their district and their state, is a really serious problem,» he added later.

A bipartisan group of legislators is pushing for money in the upcoming state budget to help fund refugee resettlement agencies.

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The bill, introduced in January and passed by the Senate in March, would still save taxpayers money by consolidating election days but because it calls for an August election day, it would allow state legislators to avoid the conflict between working and campaigning.

State lawmakers said a few years ago that they would no longer permit the controversial member item program to continue, but critics say the old system, which gave taxpayer money to legislators» pet projects, is being revived in a new form.

But pork - barrel spending has crept back into the state budget in the form of capital grants doled out at the discretion of the governor and favored legislators — to the tune of $ 1.1 billion over three years, with no competitive bidding or disclosure of which politicians requested what money.

Bristol will need state money to complete the stalled downtown revitalization, and needs Democratic legislators to get it, he said.

Education leaders from around the state will come to Albany next week for budget hearings, where they'll ask legislators for more money, and they'll likely get it.

Both Addabbo and Stavisky were optimistic that the money would come through, which is why state Assemblywoman Marge Markey (D - Maspeth) hoped that legislators and the governor would stop threatening the seniors at Maspeth Senior Center with the prospect of closure.

Also, commissioners are concerned that several legislators could be «double dipping» by leasing or buying expensive vehicles with campaign money at the same time they are being reimbursed for travel by the state.

The commission first convened in February to provide an independent recommendation on whether state legislators, who haven't had a raise since 1999, deserve more money.

Gov. David Paterson of New York has finally gotten so fed up with the failure of legislators and the unions to deal with the state's budget crisis that he wants to do something revolutionary — make them shoulder part of the burden of saving taxpayers» money.

Unlike the state's traditional earmarking program — member items — requests from legislators must be approved by the Cuomo administration, which is borrowing the money for improvements through the state's Dormitory Authority.

Still, New York state governors and legislators have given the show an infusion of taxpayer money to stay in New York.

A couple dozen state legislators were on the commission's radar screen because their campaign finance disclosure reports didn't document some expenses or failed to itemize their spending to detail precisely what they spend their money on.

That money is coming under greater scrutiny after complaints from state legislators over a lack of transparency in how it's given out, criticism from state oversight agencies, and the indictments of top state officials and developers involved in projects in Buffalo, Syracuse, and Albany.