Sentences with phrase «new bully pulpit»

Opinionated former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton has found a new bully pulpit — as a cyber-columnist for the law - and - order Internet service APBnews.com.

Not exact matches

As she takes the oath of office on New Year's Day, in front of the Nassau County office building named after Theodore Roosevelt, Curran should embrace the bully pulpit on behalf of a purposeful governing agenda for Nassau County.

1) Repeal the Triborough Amendment; 2) State pick - up of Medicaid costs from counties; 3) Roll - back of Medicaid entitlements / coverages to median national levels; 4) Major reform of SEQR process which blocks projects Upstate; 5) Repeal NY's participation in RGGI; 6) Cut 50 percent of staff at DOE, DOH, DEC in order to let the other half do their jobs, which means serving the people instead of feeding the bureaucratic monster; 7) Support expansion of nuclear plants at Oswego, construction of new plants elsewhere; 8) Tort reform to allow doctors to practice medicine, instead of fleeing NY; 9) Use the bully pulpit to support natural gas drilling and tell the envirowackos to grow up.

«The governor has got to use the bully pulpit to make sure everyone understands this is about all New Yorkers,» he said.

Donohue criticized the governor's scorched earth pursuit of his political ambition for giving new meaning to the term «bully pulpit.»

Mission No. 1 for the next New York State attorney general is Albany reform through solid law enforcement and use of the bully pulpit to win higher ethical standards.

But once possessed of the bully pulpit, the same policies that would have not reassured in opposition (eg Ed Miliband advocating an apprenticeships levy) become varnished with a new seal of authority (eg George Osborne introducing an apprenticeships levy).

I'm assuming that he was merely using the bully pulpit to promote a pet idea, not suggesting a new federal mandate.

State Superintendent Tony Evers on Monday called for the new U.S. secretary of education to use her bully pulpit in the Trump administration's Cabinet to advocate for all schools, not just the charter and voucher schools she has championed.

In many cases, the most powerful tool the new president has will be his ability to utilize his bully pulpit to promote such legislation.

Early this year, during the Aspen Environment Forum, I asked Ira Magaziner, a senior policy adviser to President Bill Clinton for six years, whether a new president, with that bully pulpit and all, could make a sustained «energy quest» — from the living room to the laboratory to the boardroom to the classroom — a prime goal for Americans.