Sentences with phrase «only elected state officials»

And they're not the only elected state officials to get in trouble.

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That wasn't even Olson's case, but with assists from a federal district court judge who came out as being in a same - sex relationship only after ruling and retiring, and elected officials who chose to forgo their traditional duty to vigorously defend state law, Olson and Boies did succeed in disenfranchising millions of Californians on a procedural technicality.

«The only thing we know Flanagan supports are double dipping elected officials who voted for large increases in state spending, installed Pedro Espada and Dean Skelos as their leaders and gave state grants to themselves and their families.»

Politico New York confirms that in the final stretch of the election none of New York's six statewide elected officials will speak out publicly in favor of a state constitutional convention and the only one who once did so, Governor Cuomo, has long since stopped doing so for compelling political reasons.

The news is significant, not only as it temporarily exonerates Silver — once one of the state's most powerful elected officials — though he can be retried, and the acting U.S. attorney has indicated he will, in fact, seek to take another legal crack at the former Manhattan Democratic lawmaker.

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.

«Today, what Gov. Cuomo is proposing is a revolutionary idea for higher education, and it's going to reverberate not only throughout the state of New York, but throughout this country,» Sanders told a crowd of students and elected officials at LaGuardia Community College.

The state Assembly and Senate members were not the only elected officials pressuring Cuomo to include the tunnel option in the state's study.

Council Member Eric Ulrich, the only city or state Republican elected official representing Queens County continues to support Bo Dietl over Malliotakis.

The measure, which a spokesman said would be applied only to corrupt elected officials and policymakers, would set in motion the process to amend the state constitution, which now guarantees public pensions to all public - sector workers.

«I think I'm the only elected official in New York State that's openly HIV positive,» Johnson said, «and my cell phone on a daily basis reminds me when I have to take my medicine and when I have to go to the doctor.»

City Council Speaker Corey Johnson — the city's first openly HIV positive speaker and the only HIV positive elected official in New York State — was sworn in amid a host of top New York lawmakers on Sunday afternoon.

«As the only Asian - American elected official in Albany, a public interest attorney, a grassroots political activist and a new mom balancing the demands of a busy job with parenthood, I know that Kathleen Rice is the best person for me to partner with in state government,» Meng said.

«There's only one woman in the northeast of our United States who is a federal elected official who still supports Donald Trump, and that is Elise Stefanik,» said Derrick in an early exchange that drew cheers from the standing room - only crowd at SUNY Adirondack.

Doing so, presuming Massey is their choice, may discourage Eric Ulrich (the only New York City or New York State Republican elected official representing Queens) or John Catsimatidis from entering the race or encourage Michel Faulkner to end his campaign.

As the only female Republican elected official in New York City, it is painful for me to hear the constant political mudslinging that takes place regarding which party stands up for women in our state.

Queens Republican Chairman Bob Turner described himself as «absolutely delighted» that Ulrich is running for a third term, noting that Ulrich is the only city or state Republican elected official for Queens.

De Blasio called the bill «fiscally responsible,» but State Senator José Peralta told Gay City that he and other elected officials in Queens have been begging the administration for increased funding for crossing guards — something that would demonstrably aid the safety of public and private school students — only to be told that there is no money for it.

Her spokesman, Alexander Marion, asked that Dadey not be brought up in an interview because he said the mayor only wants to respond to people on her level, elected officials or state or national party figures.

de Blasio was the only elected official to attend the service, although Stacey Pheffer Amato, just elected to the New York State Assembly and who will take office in January, also attended.

The only four major elected officials to break with the establishment are men of color: State Sens. Bill Perkins and James Sanders, Assemblyman Luis Sepulveda and City Councilman Rafael Espinal.

A number of local, state, and federal elected officials have written to FERC, including Republican Congressman Chris Gibson, who says he has serious concerns and rejects the notion that the only way to invest in infrastructure is to force price increases.

But at a time of national insecurity concerning the fate of the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, and Medicaid, and only a temporary solution in place for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), we believe it is critical for New York's elected officials to clearly share their thinking about the NYHA, one that has the support of 31 State Senators and has passed the Assembly during each of the past three years.

Currently the state can only withhold pension payments from officials first elected after 2011.

The annual disclosure forms legislators are required to submit to the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics only asks the elected officials to provide income ranges, not specific dollar amounts, for their outside income as well as the value of stock and property owned by them or their spouse.

«As young LGBT elected officials of color, the only two in New York State, we are horrified by Councilmember Cabrera's tribute to the Ugandan government, which has made homosexuality a capital crime punishable by lifetime imprisonment, and until recently, death,» their statement read.

Destiny's only public comment came in a news release in November, when it said it had committed to its lender, the state and federal elected officials to reinvest the money back into the mall expansion.

Bear in mind that the same elected officials calling for the end of state control formally passed a resolution calling for a «moratorium» on reform — this in a city where only about 40 percent of third graders are proficient in reading.

With regard to the school board term limit proposal in Amendment 8, Speaker Corcoran neglects to mention that this is one of the «bundled» amendments that will also establish a state governed charter school authorization board that can circumvent the power of our own locally elected officials in addition to establishing a parallel «public» school system that will not answer to local school boards, which is only another ploy to redirect precious, scant taxpayer dollars to entities that have little oversight or accountability.

Secretary of State Fox McKeithen was the only Republican statewide elected official.

Opting one's children out of the SBAC test not only protects those students from the negative aspects of the testing program but it sends a powerful message to the state's elected and appointed officials that parents will not stand idly by as the SBAC testing scam is used to undermine public education in Connecticut.

And not only will school districts have to put aside instructional time and give the Common Core SBAC test this year, but they will have to do it next year, and the year after, and the year after that, and every single year until this nonsense stops and the state's elected officials finally have the courage to stand up and put an end to the Common Core test scam that is designed to intentionally judge the vast majority of Connecticut's public school children as failures.

So while Malloy and Jumoke congratulate themselves about their education reform achievements, parents in every other Hartford school would do well to remember, smaller class sizes, having a teacher and an instructional assistant in every classroom and providing more support services is not a result of Malloy's education reform efforts but a result of Malloy, the State of Connecticut and the City of Hartford actually stepping forward and providing the resources necessary to make appropriate changes --- changes that should be being made at every Hartford School if only elected officials would address the broader issue inadequate funding for Connecticut's schools.

Some elected officials openly stated early efforts looked a lot like NIMBY actions (Not in my Back Yard) and were reluctant to embrace conservation that would only affect a neighborhood.