Sentences with phrase «of local pols»

Not exact matches

Brodsky's rationale — that bankruptcy would leave local pols in charge while forcing bondholders to «share the pain» of eliminating deficits — also highlights the risk that multiple bankruptcies would lead to higher borrowing costs for all New York localities.

Which is why it's laughable to hear the NAACP and local pols (both of whom have gotten money from the teachers union) blame its woes on a lack of resources.

A host of big - name local pols may be endorsing Pete Sikora's bid to replace retiring Assemblywoman Joan Millman, but the area's congresswoman is not following suit.

Actor Mark Ruffalo joined local pols Tuesday to warn of the potential dangers hydrofracking could pose to New York.

It was the fallen pol's lackeys on the local county committee — including his wife and his former chief - of - staff — who secured the longtime district leader the Democratic line in the special election to succeed him, boxing out an array of rivals.

NEW YORK CITY — New Yorkers want local pols to keep their hands off Chick - fil - A sandwiches, regardless of the fast food chain's president's anti-gay marriage stance, according to a poll out Wednesday.

He also enjoys the support of former Minneapolis Mayor and retiring DNC Vice Chairman DNC Vice Chairman R.T. Rybak — the man he aims to replace — and David Pepper, chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party, as well as local pols like Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres and Bronx State Senator Gustavo Rivera.

The Democratic county committee — the local panel of party insiders that selects candidates in special elections for state offices — that picked Ms. Cancel for the seat was heavily stocked with the fallen pol's allies.

The US attorney didn't make any specific recommendations about how to purge the state of dirty pols, but he did make clear that the growing list of cases against elected officials at the state and local levels brought by his office indicate that the problem is far from solved — despite claims to the contrary by any number of self - appointed «reformers.»

Now we know what it takes for Gov. Cuomo to sacrifice from his campaign war chest: a parade of other top local pols letting go of gifts from a donor suddenly in the news for decades of alleged sexual harassment.

Mr. de Blasio, after an onslaught of TV ads and political pressure from members of Congress and local pols, was forced to temporarily back away from his plan to cap the ride - sharing industry's growth.

The candidate quickly picked up the support of virtually all other local pols — a level of institutional support alien to Sanders and most of his acolytes.

In the county where Dee lives, the district attorney, a slimy pol named Calvin Beckett (Michael O'Keefe), has long made local African Americans the target of indiscriminate drug sweeps, assuming that poor black people in the projects will plead out even if they're innocent just to get out of jail, not realizing that the guilty plea brands them as felons and opens up a host of other troubles in getting housing, jobs, etc..

It's the perfect present for your local pols, representatives, senators, children or a climate bedwetter you know who is losing sleep over the end of the climate.