Sentences with phrase «number of those aides»

A number of those aides received campaign bonuses that represent considerably more money than the 5 percent haircut they took on the public payroll.

Cuomo, who has raised his profile by increasing his travel, hiring a number of aides who worked for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and pushing a number of liberal positions, has not signaled that he is running for president but has also seemed happy to see the rumors float about.

Not exact matches

In a new book, «Believer: My Forty Years in Politics,» veteran campaign and White House aide David Axelrod described in detail a number of interactions between the two then - senators during the 2008 Democratic primary.

«In a very few number of days, the acting director has done a great deal of damage,» Aaron Klein, a fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution and former Treasury Department aide, recently told me.

«In a very few number of days, the acting director has done a great deal of damage,» Aaron Klein, fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution and former Treasury Department aide, recently told me.

For months, Trump aides have claimed they have given Mueller's office an unprecedented number of documents.

The Rubio aide was arguing for increasing the number of low - skill guest workers in the construction industry despite high unemployment among low - skill Americans and noncitizen residents.

CAS conducts grower seminars and provides a number of tools, including the grower handbook, to aide California growers in improving their production practices.

A number of names have already been floated, including (but not limited to) Assemblyman Ed Braunstein and WFP legislative director Austin Shafran, a former Cuomo administration aide and Senate Democratic spokesman who lost a close Council primary to Paul Vallone last fall.

Cuomo's office interviewed a number of lobbyists and people with business interests before the state with whom Bruno said he met, including Ken Riddett, a former top aide to Bruno; former US Sen. Al D'Amato (a longtime Bruno ally and GOP donor); and Pat Lynch, a former top aide to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and employer of Darren Dopp, Spitzer's former chief spokesman who was the first Troopergate victim.

Because she is not God, former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman - Rawlings can not claim infallibility as far as her views on the number of «NHIS voters» is concerned, a former spokesperson and aide to the Rawlingses, Mr Kofi Adams has said.

As an immediate response to Labour's losing a considerable number of those middle - class voters, Tony Blair and his close aides, such as Peter Mandelson and David Miliband attacked Ed Miliband for ditching their policy of aspiration.

A number of other names have been floated by members of the party as possible attorneys general, including 2014 candidate John Cahill, state Senator Andrew Lanza and former George Pataki aide Joe Holland.

It stands to reason that Malpass would adopt a page from Pataki's playbook, since Capitol Public Strategies, a consulting firm based in Albany and founded by a number of former Pataki aides, is working on Malpass» campaign.

Challenges enough, particularly with a brand new team in number 10 Downing Street and without the support of her only real trusted aides Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill.

«Meetings were quite discursive, because there were a large number of views in the room,» one senior campaign aide recalled.

An aide to Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has feuded publicly with Cuomo a number of times since taking office, accused the governor of doctoring the photo to show the correct colors in a since - deleted tweet.

Mangano aides contend the sinking job - approval numbers are a result of a report that surfaced as the poll was conducted of an exchange of sexually suggestive texts between Mangano and a female county contractor.

A number of key members of Ed Miliband's team did that early in his leadership, including Lucy Powell, his first chief of staff, and Polly Billington, his senior communications aide.

The aide said this was simply a «first installment,» and refused to offer details on the number or amount of future installments.

There are a number of former Pataki administration aides here in Florida, including: Dave Catalfamo, Ryan Moses, Bob Bulman and Bill McGahay.

His number of supporters has grown by over 1,000 people an hour since the Twitter feed launched, and the team of aides help track down individuals who request help or have a complaint about government services or institutions.

A number of current and former senior aides to Cuomo have been caught up in an investigation by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara into possible contract bid - rigging and kickbacks, while Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D - Bronx) has said his use of campaign funds is also being looked at by the FBI.

The list includes a number of current and former Cuomo aides and associates: Howard Glaser, Cuomo's former director of operations; Joseph Rabito, the current secretary of intergovernmental affairs; Gil Quinones, the president and CEO of the New York Power Authority; Aimee Vargas, Cuomo's director of downstate governmental affairs; and Andrew Kennedy, Cuomo's former deputy director of operations.

The GOP has screened a number of candidates, including Southold Councilman Chris Talbot, former Ed Romaine aide Bill Faulk of Manorville, Southold Trustee Bob Ghosio, Mattituck attorney Stephen Kiely, New Suffolk attorney Anthony Palumbo, Mount Sinai attorney Raymond Negron and John Kreutz, Brookhaven Town deputy receiver of taxes.

In his previous capacity as a gubernatorial aide, Maloney worked with Quinn on a number of issues and said he always found her helpful and effective.

Raskin, the son of John F. Kennedy aide and Institute for Policy Studies co-founder Marcus Raskin and husband of Deputy Treasury Secretary Sarah Bloom Raskin, faces a number of experienced state legislators and former Marriott executive Kathleen Matthews, MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews» wife, in the primary.

Stewart Jackson, who resigned as a ministerial aide to the Northern Ireland secretary Owen Paterson last October after rebelling against the government on whether to hold a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU, said: «An increasing number of people are very frustrated at the compromises that are necessary with coalition.»

He also endured a brief stint in Number 10 as May's press secretary in the immediate aftermath of the general election, when many aides were jumping ship.

While the number of calls from David to JCOPE is not overwhelming, the timing of several calls made 16 months ago raises questions about the frequency of contact between the governor's office and the state's independent ethics panel, especially at a time when former aides and supporters of Cuomo were in the crosshairs of a U.S. Justice Department investigation.

LG Bob Duffy and a number of top gubernatorial aides did the same.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo just released a statement in response to the public corruption charges brought by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara against a number of individuals with close ties to his administration, including his former top aide, Joe Percoco, whom he once described as like a third son to his late father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo.

George Pataki, who is supporting Rick Lazio for governor, as are a number of other former Pataki aides.

The federal investigation into economic development programs was sweeping in its scope — included the use of subpoenas and search warrants to gather the banking, email and phone records of a number of close aides to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

MTA Chairman Joe Lhota said that only press aides to the governor were involved in creating a higher number of subway delays attributed to «power - related» problems.

Mercury is home to a number of former Pataki administration aides — McKeon, Kieran Mahoney, Tom Doherty.

Percoco and other former Cuomo aides and associates have been accused of federal corruption tied to a number of upstate economic development initiatives.

With Cuomo heading into his second term with a number of his top aides either having left or planning to do so, Percoco agreed to come back, sources said.

The lawsuit alleges that Espada stocked the non-profit's board with a number of family members, close friends and political allies, many of whom were also used to aide his campaign efforts.

There are a number of other payments to campaign aides in Cuomo's Jan. 15 expenditure report, but an administration source informs me these are not bonuses.

David Plouffe, a former aide to Barack Obama now working for the ride - sharing company, has claimed de Blasio is simply thwarting its progress because he received campaign contributions from taxi medallion owners, who have warily watched the number of Uber drivers eclipse their own ranks.

In addition to the former aide, Joseph Percoco, the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan intends to bring public - corruption charges against a number of other individuals in connection with the wide - ranging investigation, these people said...

Conyers, who represented the Detroit area for 52 years, yielded to mounting pressure from Democratic leaders to step aside as a growing number of female former aides accused him of unwanted advances and mistreatment.

Albany insiders predict that state Board of Elections Chief Enforcement Officer Risa Sugarman's days are numbered if Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. doesn't agree with her recently leaked finding that Mayor Bill de Blasio and several political aides broke the law by raising large sums of campaign cash for state Senate candidates.

A number of city and state elected officials told The Post they left a meeting at City Hall Friday angry after mayoral aides said the reason it was too late to honor the holiday next year was because the school calendar had already been published.

Question topics included the recent rollout of the City's municipal ID program, an internal PBA meeting reported to have degenerated into yelling and shoving over PBA President Pat Lynch's demands for an apology from the mayor and whether that provided «consolation» to the mayor, whether he takes comfort from the low number of PBA members reported to have signed «stay away from my funeral» statements, Bratton's comment that the «well was poisoned» by de Blasio's bring of former Sharpton aide Rachel Noerdlinger, a potential Teamsters strike at Hunts Point market, Governor Cuomo's consideration of legislation allowing public access to grand jury minutes, the mayor's objections to a City Council proposed bill outlawing police use of chokeholds, a reported Cuomo / Lynch meeting and what role the governor should fill in the Lynch / de Blasio dispute, whether the mayor is willing to acknowledge «missteps», the reports of Legionnaire's Disease in Co-op City, de Blasio's reaction to a possible 2016 Mitt Romney candidacy and when he last spoke with the Rev. Al Sharpton.

Former top gubernatorial aide Joe Percoco is seeking to have the federal case against a number of current co-defendants severed from his own upcoming criminal trial, with his lawyer arguing that he had nothing to do with charges faced by six of them.

Even his two closest aides, Anji Hunter and Alastair Campbell, for reasons best known to themselves, have clearly decided to give a minute - by - minute account of the chaos behind the scenes at Number 10 when Peter Mandelson was forced to resign.

She is one of a number of Corbyn's close aides to feature in a new BBC Daily Politics film about his inner circle.

«Horrified Tory aides regarded such an admission as potentially devastating, the kind of detail that could trigger a tsunami of ridicule, and begged her not to mention her fondness of Japanese number puzzles ever again.»