Sentences with phrase «of the elected officials wanted»

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If my moral code is Bible - based, then I want to see elected officials who share that same moral code, and I'd encourage others of like - faith to do the same.

You're right Chad, we are protected from government imposition of religion, and allowed to believe, or say whatever we want, including elected officials.

Our 300,000 + signature count alone wasn't going to change anything in Congress, but that huge outpouring of grassroots support helped elected officials like Congresswomen Rosa DeLauro and Chellie Pingree get the language we wanted in the 2015 Appropriations Bill.

In a previous interview, Leno also said: «If you want to be an elected official of a taxing body with a $ 25 million operating budget, then everyone should dot their I's and cross their T's.»

«If you want to be an elected official of a taxing body with a $ 25 million operating budget, then everyone should dot their Is and cross their Ts,» Leno said.

Apparently, these messages go out pretty much daily to activists at all levels of the party, from local organizers to pundits and elected officials, and they're remarkably simple: three or four bullet points, which represent the message that the party wants to get out that day.

New York City wants elected and community officials to speak up about potential locations for new homeless shelters in their neighborhoods as it enters the second year of its effort to build 90 citywide.

Of the 712 elected officials and party leaders who can support any candidate they want, 469 have already said they will support Hillary.

«It's going to be ironic and I look forward to the day to call out the hypocrisy of these elected officials who are going to end up defending that one percent when they've spent an entire career saying that's who they're wanting to demand play their fair share,» he said.

«New Yorkers are tired of telling pollsters, elected officials and community leaders that they want ridesharing in their communities — it's time for Albany to ignore NYC special interests and act,» said the company's New York general manager, Josh Mohrer.

«If you want to fundamentally and dramatically change the culture of Albany, then you need to limit the amount of time our elected officials are in office,» Griffo said in a statement.

And I want his constituents to know today that he is a man of conscience, he is a man of integrity, he is a man of courage, and that's what you want in an elected official — especially in Albany,» said Governor Cuomo.

If Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants congestion pricing in New York, he had better not include tolling any of the city's free East River bridges, Queens elected officials warned Sunday morning.

So you can bounce between parties as much as you want in the United States until you decide to run for office... than you better be prepared to part with the party only on pain of death or (worse of an elected official) future political career.

«We realize that people want elected officials who they feel had issues to not get a pension, but I think there's a difference of opinion with the Senate about who should be included and who shouldn't,» Heastie said late Tuesday.

Martins also wants to reform the county's troubled property tax assessment system and restore faith in government after the indictments of several elected officials, including GOP County Executive Edward Mangano.

«All elected officials want to avoid uncertainty and risk and you're going to introduce more of that when you bring a bunch of people in and you have this live conversation at which the media is usually there,» said Grant Reeher, a political science professor at Syracuse University and host of WRVO's Campbell Conversations.

He says people want elected official to listen and serve «in a way that brings people together instead of continuously divides.»

I want to offer some information on our early organizing work to help engage existing soil - based as well as other community - driven urban ag growers, activists, and leaders as local elected officials begin to consider the development of urban ag policy...

Our elected officials should want people to report crimes no matter if they're a victim, witness, regardless of their immigration status.

On Tuesday the city of Oswego will decide whether it wants to bring back a five percent property tax cap, but many of the city's elected officials warn that it could come with some unintended consequences.

Maisano is one of those special elected officials in Westchester who can run and get re-elected as long as he wants.

«I want to thank the unprecedented alliance of elected officials, led by Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio, as well as the representatives of organized labor and New York's advocacy groups, for campaigning so effectively that the will of the people be properly recognized,» she said.

If a developer with a corporate structure similarly wanted to funnel money to an elected official, the developer could simply pay the official $ 5,000 annually from each of dozens of legally distinct clients and never appear on a disclosure form.

Advocates and elected officials want the mayor to designate 2,500 a year to move homeless families out of city shelters...

«I want to send a signal to two audiences — one are the elected officials in the state of New York — we're going to raise the bar on public integrity, public trust,» Cuomo said in July 2013.

Part of being an elected official is telling people things that they don't want to hear, and when they have it in their mindset that there are other politicians who are lying or not being honest or are under the veil of corruption, it makes it much more difficult for all of us to do our job in a time when it is very difficult to be an elected official.

What everyday New Yorkers want are elected officials — whether the president, governor or the village mayor — listening to them, serving in a way that brings people together instead of continuously divides.

If you get to elect local officials, you can at least elect ones independent of higher level politicians, who might hopefully check their power («yes, Mr. Pro-Cat mayor, I know you want me to arrest all dog lovers in town.

And he wants more financial disclosure requirements for local elected officials, a campaign public financing program, and legislation to subject the Legislature to the state's freedom of information laws.

Elected officials who want permission to take extracurricular positions for nominal pay, or for no pay, must obtain the blessing of the new «charter conflict committee.»

«Most of them are appointed by individuals who have already weighed in on this race, or elected officials who have weighed in on this race, and so what we really want is a full and transparent committee vote,» she said.

«I want the people to really see that I didn't do anything wrong in terms of my legislative duties and as an elected official,» she said.

Critics of former Attorney General Eliot Spitzer say he did not pursue Albany's misdeeds as fervently as those of Wall Street because he wanted support of elected officials when he ran for governor.

«I want to send a signal to two audiences — one are the elected officials in the state of New York — we're going to raise the bar on public integrity; public trust.

Given the tenor of his report, no wonder most minority elected officials and community leaders believe the media shows disrespect (not that some of these leaders aren't wanting).

«I want to make it abundantly clear to our elected officials that they can not use the Wisconsin model of politics here in New York, and that the New York State AFL - CIO will not tolerate attempts to silence the voice of working people.»

The borough's one GOP elected official, State Senator Marty Golden, is currently trying to oust party chair Craig Eaton and Mr. McCall wanted Mr. Catsimatidis to stay out of the squabble.

Assemblymen want to stop elected officials and state employees from cashing in on frequent flier travel miles, free hotel stays gained as a result of taxpayer - funded official state travel

For his part, Councilmember Rodriguez said he wanted to focus on ensuring that the lines of communication between tenants and elected officials and community leaders were open.

Both want to modernize the county's Code of Ethics to require more extensive financial disclosure from elected officials, boost vetting of county hires to prevent nepotism and conduct more rigorous reviews of government contracts to identify conflicts of interest.

But even a mayor wants the power of someone else — you never have enough power as an elected official, but the questions becomes: What can you do with what you have?

In June, Cook began a survey seeking the opinions of residents on whether they wanted term limits, which elected officials they would apply to, and how long a term should last.

But Pataki isn't the ex-Republican elected official that Martins» Democratic opponent, Nassau County Legislator Laura Curran, wants voters to think of in connection with the former senator.

John Berenger, the chairman of the Divide NYS Caucus, wrote in an email news release on Monday he wanted to see an end to the concentration of power by the state's top three elected officials — the governor, Assembly speaker and Senate majority leader — and hopes the convention is the best way to achieve that.

This year's kick - off drew the ire of elected officials, Italian - American leaders, community members who want the statue of Christopher Columbus to stand.

«She said she wants to work to get illegal guns off the street and said it's been part of her work as an elected official to strengthen laws to keep America safe.

It certainly makes sense that the county legislature wouldn't want to take up that and underwrite essentially a discriminatory trash fee, and I think it's fortunate that the administration, when they first read the legislature's resolution, completely caused unfounded fear with residents and other elected officials in city government saying it would cost the city of Albany $ 2 million.

«I don't want to ignore fact that there's been issues amongst elected officials, but I do believe the majority of elected officials go there for the right reasons,» said Heastie, adding that «in any industry you are going to have bad apples.»

Rodriguez, D - New Paltz, said the substance of the original proposal hasn't changed in the two new proposals, but that by separating the measures, voters can decide on each issue, rather than being forced, for example, to increase the terms of lawmakers if they only want to impose term limits on elected officials.