Sentences with phrase «one's political supporters»

But, it says a lot about the power of random political supporters (and by extension, opponents) to build up networks of excited people outside of a campaign's direct control.

The grants, known as «member items,» are seen by many as pork - barrel spending, tools elected officials use to repay political supporters.

Civil rights groups are some of her most important political supporters and the groups believe they benefit from federal rules requiring universal testing and accountability.

The union is a longtime political supporter of de Blasio and Cuomo, who both got behind its campaign to boost the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour by 2019.

Lanza also has numerous friends, family members and political supporters on the borough GOP's executive and county committees, which would make him a formidable foe in a battle for the party endorsement.

The result was patronage for political supporters and partisan investigations of political opponents.

While floor time was dominated by political supporters of the coal mining industry, environmental activists Maria Gunnoe and Bo Webb got a chance to represent the real voices of families who have to live with mountaintop removal coal mining every day.

In September, town concessionaire and longtime political supporter Harendra Singh was indicted on 13 federal charges that included allegedly bribing an Oyster Bay official to get the town to guarantee $ 20 million in loans.

Sen. Robert Menendez (D - N.J.) was indicted on federal corruption charges Wednesday, accused of using the influence of his office to advance the business interests of a longtime friend and political supporter in exchange for luxury gifts, lavish vacations and more than $ 750,000 in campaign donations.

Isn't this the very definition of a 421a tax subsidy: «New York State taxpayers have enough problems, like crumbling roads and bridges and soaring taxes, without having to subsidize Cuomo's political supporters who would rather be handed the work than learn to compete within the confines of public bidding law and an open market,» said Josh Reap, the government affairs director for Associated Builders & Contractors.

Republican Superintendent of Highways Wayne Ballard and Democrat Lasker are strong political supporters of each other, which might seem surprising to the average voter, but not to anyone that follows Clarkstown politics.

Gov. Cuomo's Republican opponent, Astorino, is your typical, promise breaking conservative who engages in using his office to reward political supporters.

Meanwhile, another competing developer in the Town who was an active political supporter of the Mayor continued to routinely receive Certificate approval in 1999 for developing buildings that were nearly identical to the Developers» buildings (which were being denied permits at that time).

Political supporters include former Mayor Anthony M. Masiello, whose political fund gave Brown $ 1,500, and Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples - Stokes, whose campaign fund contributed $ 2,500.

Pointing to Chiquita's chequered past as the United Fruit Company, the website and its opportunistic political supporters, including Wildrose leader Danielle Smith and a handful of Conservative Party Members of Parliament have joined the fray pledging personal boycotts.

Repeatedly, according to the 43 - page complaint against Dean Skelos and Adam Skelos, the father arranged potential job or commission opportunities for the son with political supporters and companies who had or wanted government business.

In a remarkable public break with one of his earliest political supporters, Trump said that he never would have appointed Attorney General Jeff Sessions had he known Sessions would recuse himself from overseeing the Russia investigation that has dogged his presidency, calling the decision «very unfair to the president.»

The money continues to be handed out at the discretion of the majority party in each house with no competition among similar projects, little concern for a group's financial need and often a nod toward political supporters.

«We've seen a disturbing series of cash - for - policy transactions by the Cuomo administration that benefit the governor's billionaire political supporters to the detriment of the public, and this seems to be part of that pattern,» Michael Kink, executive director of the Strong Economy for All Coalition, said.

Those include, on one hand, the use of investigations or wiretaps for illegal purposes, such as spying on or deliberately targeting rivals or perceived enemies, while, on the other hand, ignoring complaints against people such as political supporters and people in the district attorney's office who are close to Spota.

Prominent political supporters now include both U.S. Senators, and the city's Public Advocate, Comptroller and Council Speaker.

The inquiry revolved around two of Mr. de Blasio's big - money political supporters and appeared to extend into his fund - raising efforts more broadly.

And last week, when they voted to axe the SSC once again, the collider's political supporters finally admitted defeat.

That view is in stark contrast to last year's comments from the union, which represents 325,000 California teachers and is a deep - pocketed political supporter of Democratic lawmakers.

While «school choice» - advocating Republicans have repeatedly made more of them available in more places, Democrats see them as a way to strip funding from public education and undermine one of their main political supporters.

The list allegedly was used by Johnson's political supporters in the school board election in which Stith defeated Figueroa.

«New York State taxpayers have enough problems, like crumbling roads and bridges and soaring taxes, without having to subsidize Cuomo's political supporters who would rather be handed the work than learn to compete within the confines of public bidding law and an open market,» said Josh Reap, the government affairs director for Associated Builders & Contractors.

Miner created jobs on the SURA payroll for her husband's grandson, her top aide's nephew, her campaign manager and several of her strongest political supporters, The Post-Standard reported in May.

If a newspaper reports that the mayor of a big city is using his control of federal stimulus funds to reward political supporters, it helps to know whether this information comes from «a source within City Hall», «a former staff member», «a press conference by an opposing candidate», or «an official involved in the Justice Department investigation.»

«I've had nothing to do, except they've been political supporters of mine.»

After what many considered a weak response to the violence in Charlottesville over the weekend, President Donald Trump is apparently losing appeal among corporate leaders and former political supporters.

Late President Evans Atta Mill was described as «a peacemaker who never made a disparaging comments in public» despite intense criticisms and vilification from his political supporters and opponents alike.

The wave of support and matching hashtag was more likely to have been organically grown by a political supporter on Twitter.

Ideally, if we were trying to find out what would motivate customers (for a brand) or political supporters (for a campaign), we'd ask them one - on - one what they care about.

Pedro Espada founded the clinic in 1978 and had used it as his political base, doling out jobs to pals and political supporters.

Hillary Clinton is allegedly at the center of another cyber attack — except this time it involves a startup that's trying to become something of a social network for her political supporters.

A committee backed by de Blasio's political supporters, the Campaign For One New York, is also being eyed by investigators.

Peebles told The Associated Press that he gave the sum because he was a political supporter and believer in pre-kindergarten education, not because he expected favors in return.

A defendant can, for example, organize large groups of political supporters to attend a trial, he said, adding that it can be «palpable when there is community support in the courtroom.»

For years, human rights advocates and political supporters have demanded Rivera's liberation, saying he is being held simply for his political beliefs.

Just swap out «Cuomo's political supporters» with «deBlasio's real - estate mogul buddies» and it's the same thing.

«The worst moment of all came when Mr. Cuomo blocked the progress of the independent commission he set up to investigate corruption after the panel began to look into issues that may have reflected badly on him and his political supporters,» the editorial declared.

Sen. Eric Adams sent a message to his political supporters — including one who passed it along to me — saying that he is confident he was not taped by ex-Sen.

«After careful consultation with members of my family, friends and political supporters, I have decided to forgo a race for Congress next year,» Antonacci, a Republican from the town of Onondaga, said in a statement.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Boughton's dramatic collapse at a campaign event on Thursday was caused by dehydration, according to his political supporters.

«New York State taxpayers have enough problems, like crumbling roads and bridges, and soaring taxes, without having to subsidize Cuomo's political supporters, who would rather be handed the work than learn to compete within the confines of public bidding law and an open market,» said Josh Reap, director of government affairs for Associated Builders & Contractors, Empire State Chapter.

Peebles, who's reportedly worth $ 700 million, told The Post in August he's giving serious thought to a run, saying, «I was a political supporter of [de Blasio]. . .

Reforming his own practices might also help restore his reputation after his sudden shutdown of the anti-corruption Moreland Commission, which had started looking into issues that may have involved his political supporters.