Sentences with phrase «most dysfunctional state»

Spitzer also attacked Stringer over his time as a state assemblyman, when he was part of «the most dysfunctional state legislature in the country.»

Buffalo is HALF the size it was in 1960 where its population was 530,000 — today its 239,000 (Thank the most dysfunctional state government in America for this sad fact and the rest of NY's outward resident and business migration)....

Albany, the most dysfunctional state government in America.

Not exact matches

Roger Scruton seems to believe, as do most of those who deplore the welfare state, that «welfare policies may lead to the creation of a socially dysfunctional underclass.»

«Quite frankly the leadership that's currently in existence here in Erie County has created an embarrassing situation where it's the most dysfunctional party in the state of New York,» said Kennedy.

This is the most dysfunctional Legislature in the United States of Ameria»).

[19] Since 1984, New York State has only passed a budget on time once, in 2005, leading Paterson to call for an «end to the dysfunction in Albany» in his speech, echoing a 56 - page study from the nonpartisan New York University School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice, which referred to the legislature as «the least deliberative and most dysfunctional in the nation.»

[5] In a letter to his supporters, Ball stated that the job of reforming Albany had not been completed, saying, «From property tax reform to corruption in government, the job I set to do in 2006 is still incomplete, and it can only be accomplished by continuing to tackle our nation's most dysfunctional legislature.»

After all, the Brennan Center for Justice once famously called New York home to the most dysfunctional legislature in the United States.

The most endearing, functional dysfunctional family in all of TV gets off to multiple good starts in the new season of Showtime's The United States of Tara.

It has the potential to undo nearly all of the mischievous, dysfunctional, intrusive, big - government features of NCLB and return most education responsibility and authority to states, just as the Tenth Amendment prescribes.

A veteran of the sharp - elbowed politics of New York's infamously dysfunctional state legislature (called the worst in the nation by the Brennan Center for Justice in 2004), Carroll assembled a team of equally determined and savvy colleagues, most of whom had honed their political skills in those same tough trenches.

Whenever big entities have pushed their way into small firm solicitor services, the public has been badly hurt in every way with the title insurance experience in the US being a prime example (they took over most of the conveyancing and promptly set about screwing the public — «a dysfunctional industry in which the public pays too much» according to the government of the State of California).

Low self - esteem and a related dysfunctional cognitive style were the personality variables most clearly linked with PBI scores, with links persisting after partialling out state levels of depression.