Sentences with phrase «more as the assemblyman»

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During this year's negotiations over 421 - a renewal, the assemblyman introduced legislation that would have required recipients of the tax break to pay these contractors a prevailing wage, a proposal critics derided as unnecessary and counterproductive in an industry where workers are already paid substantially more than an average worker's salary.

The candidacy of a 34 - year - old Bronx assemblyman — and veteran of President Barack Obama's presidential campaign and White House — to become a vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee has drawn more enthusiasm nationally than in his native borough, where party leadership perceives him as an overly ambitious interloper using his local office as stepping stone on his way to glory in Washington.

He was, for the record, collecting more from his pension that he was in state salary, but I think the point here is that taking away his pension that dates back prior to his crime (recall that he was an assemblyman and also NYC comptroller prior to his election in 2002) strikes some people as unfair.

Alongside nearly 600 volunteers across the tri-county region, the state assemblyman spent the day doing volunteer work as part of the United Way more

Ruben Diaz Jr.: Bronx borough president and former assemblyman, Diaz could help bring in the more liberal wing of the party, as well as solidify turnout with Latino voters.