Sentences with phrase «number of elected officials who»

OK, as things stand now we have a President, a party in congess and a number of elected officials who have lied and continue to lie to the american public, those who own this country are those that are the sevrvants of the people and they want to bully a minor servant to take the peoples minds off of the foul work they are doing to our country.

«There are many good and decent state legislators with high ethical standards, but the rapidly growing number of elected officials who have left office because they violated the public trust is a big unaddressed problem.

But then you start to tally up the number of elected officials who have been treating incumbency like the keys to the treasury.

Ulrich, who was one of a number of elected officials who protested when the de Blasio administration tried to open a shelter in a hotel in Maspeth, Queens last fall, did not go into detail about what he would do differently from de Blasio to curb the homelessness problem.

Not exact matches

Ulrich's call for a boycott puts a number of elected officials in a tight spot, including Rep. Bob Turner (an Ulrich ally), who is running for the US Senate, and NYC Councilman Dan Halloran, who is running for congress in NY - 6.

Rivera, a 34 - year - old Democratic operative who has worked for a number of elected officials but never held an office himself, said he had established his new campaign committee Tuesday in preparation for this move, which he will formally announce next week.

Not surprisingly, the number of first time candidates outnumber the incumbents (10 to 7; the full list appears after the jump), and the highest - level elected to sign on is Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, who has been calling for many of these changes for some time and probably stands to gain if redistricting is indeed taken out of the hands of elected officials.

Perhaps sensing growing Dominican clout, Espaillat is now backed by a number of elected officials, some of whom backed Rangel the last time: the City Council speaker, who represents East Harlem and was born in Puerto Rico, and the Bronx Borough president.

Also on hand will be a number of Republican elected officials who represent pieces of Fossella's old district, NY - 13, including Rep. Peter King, Sen. Andrew Lanza, Assemblyman Louis Tobacco, and NYC Council Minority Leader James Oddo.

A number of black elected officials» names had been circulating as potential No. 2s for Cuomo, including Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, whose local troubles were deemed too toxic for the AG's reform platform; and Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who is well - regarded but lacks executive experience and isn't considered a heavy hitter.

He was joined by a large contingent of constituents (including the local «Red Hats» group shown ^ with the Senator and with members of the Morris Park Community Association shown >), largely from the Morris Park area where Klein grew up and currently lives, as well as a number of sitting Bronx elected officials and former Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer, who all resoundingly disputed Koppel's critique of the Senator and pledged their support to challenge other Democrats from other areas of the city and state.

The cap proposal has been criticized as faulty and flawed by a number of New York City and state elected officials, including city Comptroller Scott Stringer, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat from Brooklyn who is rumored to be mulling a run against de Blasio in 2017.

Trump is meeting Wednesday with Peter Ward, the president of the city's hotel trades council and Vincent Pitta, an influential lawyer and lobbyist in the city who is close to a number of municipal elected officials, according to a transition spokesman.

A number of Democratic elected officials will be attending the debate, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who also has an event earlier in the day (10:30 a.m.) at Madison Square Garden at which he will sign a bill lifting New York's MMA ban into law.

A number of City Council Members who are jockeying to replace Melissa Mark - Viverito as the next Speaker of the City Council seem to be stepping up efforts to curry favor with their colleagues and other elected officials through strategic campaign donations.

Paterson, who was in Queens to announce $ 30 million in state funding for the borough's hospitals and health clinics, was accompanied by a number of state elected officials, including Assemblywoman Grace Meng (D - Flushing), who is pregnant with her second child.

The new school discipline measures were praised by a number of elected officials and advocates on Friday, including New York Civil Liberties Union director Donna Lieberman, who wrote that New York was officially charting a different path from South Carolina by embracing restorative justice and aiming to lower suspensions.

A number of local, state, and federal elected officials have written to FERC, including Republican Congressman Chris Gibson, who says he has serious concerns and rejects the notion that the only way to invest in infrastructure is to force price increases.

The ethics agreement will also expand disclosure requirements by political consultants who do work for elected officials as well as for clients with business before the state or local governments, and increase the number of donors to groups that perform lobbying who will be required to disclose their identities.

When the CCJEF v. Rell school funding lawsuit was filed 11 years ago, Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy was a plaintiff in the case, one of a number of local elected officials who decried the fact that Connecticut's system of school funding was unfair, inadequate and unconstitutional.