Sentences with phrase «of back room deals»

The story is not quite as black - hearted as the TV series but the representation of modern politics being the product of back room deals, manipulation and blackmail certainly retains its flavour.

«After four decades of back room deals and the culture of corruption that led to the well deserved conviction of Shelly Silver, the voters of the 65th Assembly district don't want another professional politician who is a product of the same Democratic clubhouses that gave us Shelly Silver, «he said during his acceptance speech.

Kremer, with the school boards, says without an agreed upon means for distributing school aid, it goes back to the old days of back room deals.

Ironically the only way Pellegrino holds this seat in a general election with generic turn out is if she gets a pass in terms of an opponent because of a back room deal.

The certificate also does not recognize that Brooklyn County Committee members were shut out of the process, their voices suppressed the backroom deals that led to today's shameful conclusion... Although erstwhile reformer Daniel Squadron himself asked for a full vote upon his resignation, he clearly fostered and approved of the back room deal to benefit his friend and chosen successor.

While this move, the result of back room dealing between the GOP and Big Oil, has alarmed farmers, environmentalists and concerned citizens who have spent the last six months publicly organizing and peacefully fighting against the proposed project, there's reason to believe it could be a blessing in disguise.

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With a nearly 16 percent stake in Dell and ties going back three decades to the creation of the company out of his college dorm room, Michael Dell is seen as having much more at stake in the deal going through than Silver Lake, a financial investor that often walks away from deals.

By contrast, conservative American evangelicalism seems to have replaced it with ecumenism by stealth or default — fronted by celebrities, driven by branding, and governed not by honest and open theological discussion but by back - room deals and the needs of maintaining market share.

Thats one of many of many problems with our political system we get the choice of the party, (made in back room deals), for the candidate not the choice of the people.

Tension was in the air as a good deal of back - room discussion took place.

There's all these stories of politicians making deals in this mysterious back room, and people shooting guns, and rock stars hanging out after the shows.

Good news though diaby will be back soon, to sign his new contract, photos of the deal will be taken and a live stream available from the treatment room!

The left - back is going to move to Juventus in an # 8.5 million deal, meaning there will be room in Diego Simeone's squad for the return of the 29 - year - old.

Arsenal may well not get as much back in terms of a transfer fee from this deal if it went ahead, but with the German champions Bayern Munich showing real reluctance to pay Alexis Sanchez the sort of wages he is said to be after, the only other options open to Arsene Wenger are selling to a Premier League rival or keeping him with the risk of having an unhappy and disruptive player in the dressing room for a year before he swans off for nothing anyway.

A more nuanced deal he also revealed came in simple things like kicking the ball long; academy footballers of all denominations are increasingly encouraged to play short passes and build from the back, but there is scarcely room for subtlety lower down the professional ranks, meaning he was now hitting as many as 40 or 50 long balls per game.

Since my kids are not yet in middle school, I have yet to fully experience the impact of «competitive» food in the public school setting — i.e., beverage vending machines stocked exclusively with Coca - Cola products (thanks to a multimillion dollar deal Coke struck with our district a few years back — more on that to come), snack vending machines, branded products like Papa John's pizza in the lunch room, and more.

«They are fed up with the back room deals and pay - to - play mentality that has become standard operating procedure in halls of Congress.

I have covered enough of these (S) elections to know that anything can happen when the consummate back - room - deal - people all end up in the same room together.

As befits the corrupt image of Albany politics, her late husband Steve «inherited» her seat through a back - room political deal.

«The lesson of the last election is that voters are hungry for politicians who stand for something, not for opportunists who say one thing and do another, or for power brokers who wheel and deal in back rooms,» says Thomas Gokey of True Blue NY - 53.

«The lesson of the last election is that voters are hungry for politicians who stand for something, not for opportunists who say one thing and do another, or for power brokers who wheel and deal in back rooms,» says Thomas Gokey of

Jacobs addresses the confusion and reports of back - room deals made in the race for attorney general, and why that race was open to all candidates while others were not.

No stranger to capturing media attention with gimmicks and protest, Avella seems to have gotten this one right when he stated, «The culture in Albany of «What happens in Albany stays in Albany» has to stop... Assembly Member Silver... is now seen as the classic example of the dysfunction and back room deals that has plagued Albany for decades.

You see a lot more drama, back - room deals and blockades in the 150 - strong Belgian chamber than among the 600 members of the French Assemblée nationale or the German Bundestag.

City Council members introduced such a bill today at a press conference that featured some of them blasting what they deemed a «back - room deal» between City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and the NYPD over the Right to Know Act, with one advocate even asking for her to step down.

«This N.Y.P.D. bill being advanced by Torres is neither the Right to Know Act nor a compromise, but political back - room dealing and a surrender of legislative independence to the N.Y.P.D. and the mayor,» Monifa Bandele, a spokeswoman for Communities United for Police Reform, said in a statement.

In a move the chairwoman of its local [East Hampton] chapter, Elaine Jones, characterized as a «back room deal,» Zachary Cohen has been replaced by Bill Wilkinson [registered Republican] as the Independence Party candidate for East Hampton Town Supervisor.

Though the race will not be decided until January, the looming vacancy is already swathed in all the bare - knuckled, back - room intrigue of old - time New York: Promises are offered; deals are made.

With both the governor and Assembly Democrats pressing for $ 15 as part of the fiscal 2017 state budget due for adoption by April 1, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan apparently hopes for a back - room deal on something less, although he has no visible strategy for accomplishing it.

«The SEEC and Gov. Malloy have completely violated the spirit of Connecticut's clean election laws with this back room deal... But for a few hundred thousand dollars all is forgiven by the SEEC and the governor's efforts to kill transparency triumph.»

In practice, fusion has become a game for the political elite, with endorsements by «paper parties» like the Working Families Party, Conservative Party, and Independence Party usually earned in back room deals with implicit — or explicit — trades of political favors and campaign cash (a recent NYPIRG investigative report found that the Working Families Party gets most of its money from the Democratic Party).

I believe in competition — something that you clearly didn't want, which is why you cut back room deals to get everybody else out of this race,» he said.

He derided Mr. Stringer as part of the «political establishment» and attempted to make an issue of Mr. Stringer's support for lifting term limits in 2008, saying in an advertisement that Mr. Stringer had cut «a back room deal to hand a third term to» Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.

«Unity» is the trending word in New York politics, ever since Gov. Andrew Cuomo stepped into the back room of a Manhattan steakhouse and put together a deal to end the Independent Democratic Conference, a breakaway group of Democratic senators who collaborated with Republicans to control the state Senate.

In that situation these plans would add layers of process and confusion to legislating and lead to back room deals being made far away from the voters eyes.

Just days after receiving our demand to repeal the SAFE Act from Senator Kathy Marchione, and what amounted to a small patriot army, the governor, exhibiting a lack of respect, wisdom and discretion, cut a closed - door, back - room deal with Senator Dean Skelos, who then opened NY's Senate floor for a vote on a bill that would divide Republican Senators upstate from downstate and create a separate, unequal class of citizens: the law enforcement officer class.

But the trial's depiction of the way that Albany operates — with bullying, back - room deals and sophomoric nicknames, has not been flattering.

In his seven days on the witness stand in Federal District Court in Manhattan, which ended late Thursday afternoon, Mr. Howe described a medley of back - room schemes and deals that have long been a stereotype of New York state politics.

Each time the party has paid the price of tolerating run - down local parties, or cynical back - room deals, or lousy candidates, or some mixture of these.

ALBANY — What started as an innocuous invitation to a Republican family picnic exploded this week into an email battle among the county party's leaders, exposing — awkwardly — the turmoil within, including allegations of «dirty back - room deals» with Democrats.

It is clear to me that this culture of intimidation, back room deals, and working for your largest donors is one of the biggest problem facing our democracy.»

As a former nominee for public office in Rockland County for the position of Ramapo Town Supervisor 2007, U.S. Congress, 17th District 2010, and nominated for Rockland County Republican Party Chairman 2012, I deeply understand what happens to candidates who wish to serve with core principles; I understand the price that can be paid for standing on principle by an independent candidate who refuses to deal with the back - room bosses.

A deal made between two party bosses in the back room of Junior's Restaurant is an appalling replacement for a public vote — and is a stain on the Democratic Party in New York.

«Back - room political dealing in Albany is exactly what New Yorkers are tired of and what Andrew Cuomo has perfected over nearly 30 years in Albany,» said the spokesman, Barney Keller.

Political arm - twisting and back - room dealing lead to plenty of intrigue in Steven Spielberg's film about the 16th president's efforts to pass the 13th Amendment.

His naïveté is all too obvious when he obliviously delivers the officials a mish - mash of disconnected fragments that nonetheless captures the pompous arrogance and back - room deals of the office.

As Governor Malloy sits on top of one of the largest unfunded state and teacher pension systems in the country, an unfunded liability that will cost Connecticut taxpayers more than $ 20 billion to resolve over the next two decades, leave it to back room politics of the Malloy administration to wheel and deal a way for Steven Adamowski to boost his pension at taxpayer expense.

While he was dealing with a couple students who showed up high, another student in the back of the room threw a potted plant out an open window... which nearly hit security guards 2 stories down.

Why don't we just admit that a billionaire and his foundation is doing back room deals with the Mayor and the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, deals which require taxpayer funds to be expended, and schools to be shut down, and this is going to happen whether the taxpayers like it or not because Mayor Segarra gets to appoint a majority of the BOE.

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