Sentences with phrase «other council campaigns»
But Councilman Dan Garodnick has, like Weprin, donated tens of thousands of dollars to other council campaigns and political organizations, including a $ 500 to the Working Families Party, an $ 800 donation to the Brooklyn Democratic Party and a $ 1,700 to the Queens Democratic Party.
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The council members, always grateful for receiving campaign donations and other treats from the wealthy developers, will not challenge the inequalities and defend our children's right to an education, decent housing and recreation facilities.
James drew my attention to an email he sent to several members of the faith council, the Trump campaign liaison, and also to others who oppose Trump's candidacy.
Some good news to reflect on is we joined other campaigning groups in achieving a significant victory at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva this week: a treaty is to be drafted to hold corporations accountable for their human rights abuses.
Last October, the WFP settled a civil lawsuit charging that it skirted campaign finance laws to benefit Rose and other NYC Council candidates it had endorsed.
As the jury unanimously found, Daniel Halloran played a key role in two distinct political corruption schemes: first, for $ 20,000, Halloran was willing and able to serve as a go - between to deliver bribes to political party officials, and second he also took nearly $ 25,000 in cash and illegal campaign contributions to steer $ 80,000 in City Council money to other bribe payers.»
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Last week, Garodnick and 26 other City Council members sent a letter to Gov. Cuomo in support of his renewed pledge to support a statewide bill for public campaign financing.
What other council member could hope to have David Duke release a video endorsement of his or her congressional campaign, on the basis of shared antipathy to Zionism and belief in black self - determination?
Assemblyman Mark Gjonaj is seen as the front - runner and is not participating in the campaign finance program, allowing him to raise and spend far more than any other Council candidates.
The July filing with the state Campaign Finance Board revealed that state Assemblywoman Barbara Clark (D - Queens Village) and state Sen. Shirley Huntley (D - Jamaica) will be facing competition during this fall's primary from upstart Democrats Clyde Vanel and Lynn Nunes, respectively, who challenged other longtime incumbents in last year's City Council races.
New York City Council Speaker Cory Johnson and Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo announced the package of 10 bills on Sunday and said the measures would be introduced this week... The proposals include: Requiring businesses with more than 15 employees to provide lactation spaces and refrigerators to store breast milk, Requiring lactation rooms in all schools, police precincts, and jails that house women or allow women visitors, Assessing the need for free and low - cost doula services in the city, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTiAtZ
The departures come at the end of a heated election season, during which the firm, which is headed by Scott Levenson, worked for a host of campaigns, including the «Anybody But Quinn» effort on behalf of New Yorkers for Clean Livable And Safe Streets and other donors, which has been credited with helping to bring down former City Council Speaker Christine Quinn in the mayor's race.
Other meeting attendees included Mr. Cuomo's top aide, Melissa DeRosa; his campaign chairman, William J. Mulrow; and Christine Quinn, the vice chairwoman of the New York Democratic Party and the former New York City Council speaker.
«As the jury unanimously found, Daniel Halloran played a key role in two distinct political corruption schemes: first, for $ 20,000, Halloran was willing and able to serve as a go - between to deliver bribes to political party officials, and second he also took nearly $ 25,000 in cash and illegal campaign contributions to steer $ 80,000 in City Council money to other bribe payers,» Mr. Bharara said in a statement.
The endorsement will be a boost for De Blasio's campaign, which has been counting on his strong ties to labor to distinguish him from the other Democrats trailing Council Speaker Christine Quinn in the polls.
In his latest campaign filing, released Tuesday, Liu reported raising more than half a million dollars over the past six months — not far behind Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, among other contenders — leaving him with $ 1.6 million in cash.
Working Families Party officials have been subpoenaed by a grand jury investigating the party's ties to a company that provided campaign assistance to Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, Staten Island Council Member Debi Rose and other city candidates, court records show.
Mayor de Blasio, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and other «progressive» city politicians are helping Uber snub the disabled, a new ad campaign will charge Monday.
As promised, the Motion was listed on the Order Paper and debated on the floor of plenary and the following resolutions were reached amongst which are; Mandate its Joint Committee on Drugs and Narcotics and health to investigate the growing menace of cough and other prescriptive drugs abuse; Urge the FG to partner with stakeholders, traditional rulers, Pharmacists councils, NGOs to create framework in fighting this category of drug abuse and urge NAFDAC to embark on a vigorous sensitization campaign on the dangers of drug abuse and steps on achieving a successful rehabilitation for people with the addiction.
As Gotham Gazette has reported, several of the speaker candidates have donated heavily from their campaign accounts to those of other City Council members and candidates, in apparent effort to win favor ahead of the speaker vote, which will occur in January.
In a way, he pioneered the online political discussion in San Leandro with his blogs about City Council meetings, campaign finance records and other city issues.
A Private Members» Bill introduced in the House of Commons by Nick Hurd MP, it came about after an unprecedented five year campaign supported by dozens of voluntary organisations, trade unions and other representative groups, parish and town councils and tens of thousands of individuals.
Madel could make hay out of Greenfield's state - registered cash stash, which campaign finance experts say is a legal but hardly ethical way to collect contributions from real estate and other special interests barred from donating to his Council campaign coffers, thereby skirting the city's strong campaign finance laws.
Also at 11 a.m., the Adirondack Council, Citizen Campaign for the Environment, Environmental Advocates of New York, Riverkeeper and other groups urge Cuomo and state legislators to invest $ 800 million into communities as part of the state budget, LCA Press Room # 130, Legislative Office Building, Albany.
These developments appear to worry the Cuomo / Hochul campaign, producing a very public endorsement press conference today, featuring the mayor, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and 20 other members of the City Council.
In addition to Ms. Barron, there are five other open seats in the city following the election of ex-Senator Eric Adams to Brooklyn borough president, the expulsion of ex-Assemblyman Eric Stevenson after a corruption conviction and the successful campaigns of three Assembly lawmakers — Vanessa Gibson, Alan Maisel and Rafael Espinal — for the City Council.
Halloran is accused in a criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday of, among other things, accepting more than $ 24,000 in cash and campaign funds in exchange for agreeing to appropriate $ 80,000 in discretionary money from the council.
A number of City Council Members who are jockeying to replace Melissa Mark - Viverito as the next Speaker of the City Council seem to be stepping up efforts to curry favor with their colleagues and other elected officials through strategic campaign donations.
Other elements of the complaint are speculative, such as the charge that future public communications in the district made by New York Jobs Council could represent an in - kind contribution to the Heaney campaign, given its anti-Faso stance.
Other State Lawmakers looking to make the move to local office include Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin who is running for Rensselaer County Executive, State Senator Phil Boyle who seeks to become sheriff of Suffolk County, and several New York City lawmakers have launched campaigns for City Council, which is an increasingly popular destination for former state lawmakers.
Most of this money from 32BJ, which represents building workers, was spent on promoting de Blasio's candidacy in tandem with candidates for other offices, such as campaign literature featuring both the mayor and the particular candidate, often for City Council.
Espaillat also said his cadre of multicultural endorsements represents the right mix of support for a successful campaign, listing endorsements including Schneiderman, State Sen. Bill Perkins, Assemblyman Denny Farrell, and Council Members Melissa Mark - Viverito and Ydanis Rodriguez, among others.
Some of the proposals and the timing of their likely passage have raised concerns, though, that the Council is weakening the city's model campaign finance system, pushing some reforms through after too long a wait and rushing other, newer bills through just in time for the next
On Monday, the Clinton campaign released the names on her New York State «leadership council,» a team of more than 100 Democrats that included Cuomo, every other state - and city - wide Democrat, every Democratic congressperson, and both U.S. senators.
Both the mayor and the council rushed to finish the deal to attend to other priorities: de Blasio is flying out to California Wednesday night for his daughter's college graduation and several members of the City Council, including the speaker, are eager to campaign on behalf of Hillary Ccouncil rushed to finish the deal to attend to other priorities: de Blasio is flying out to California Wednesday night for his daughter's college graduation and several members of the City Council, including the speaker, are eager to campaign on behalf of Hillary CCouncil, including the speaker, are eager to campaign on behalf of Hillary Clinton.
Jay Kriegel, a senior advisor at the Related Companies, has raised $ 50,000 in donations for City Council Speaker Christine Quinn's mayoral campaign in the last two months, acting as an «intermediary» for other donors, the Village Voice reported.
Indeed, the other six campaign committees that received contributions from the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California on Sept. 15 reported the funds within 10 days.
The de Blasio administration has also adopted other pro-labor policies, like going after illegal Airbnb rentals, an action supported by the Hotel Trades Council, and supporting the campaign for a $ 15 minimum wage.
In a statement released by Katz's campaign, Executive Secretary Treasurer of the NYC District Council of Carpenters Michael J. Forde said the Councilwoman's job creation and urban planning credentials separate her from the other candidates:
NGA now joins the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and other lead campaign partners that represent state education leaders — the Education Commission of the States (ECS), the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE), and the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL).
The fact that many of the other signatories are longtime vassals of the NEA and AFT — including the Schott Foundation for Public Education and its Opportunity to Learn campaign (which collected $ 180,000 from the AFT in 2013 - 2014), and Barnett Berry's Center for Teaching Quality (a rival of the reform - oriented National Council on Teacher Quality which collected $ 310,000 from the NEA last year)-- also makes the proposals suspect.
The campaign tackles the tale of one Ivan Griffin, Duke of Griffin Duchy, as he seeks council from the other factions within the game regarding a decision he has to make.
For an in - depth discussion of the local government campaign, initially in the Darebin Council area but spreading to other areas, see the Community Action in the Climate Emergency (CACE) website.
Tactics to deploy this strategy included created an industry group to be a «one - stop resource on climate science for members of Congress, the media, industry and all others concerned» and a public relations campaign coordinated through groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council
Worse, the so - called smoking gun core evidence for the accusation, leaked memos attributed to the obscure Western Fuels Association's 1991 «Information Council for the Environment» (ICE) public relations campaign are not what Naomi Oreskes, Al Gore, Ross Gelbspan and others say they are.
Far and above all the other so - called evidence used in attempts to show that a sinister industry plot exists is what I term the core evidence: the set of leaked memos from way back in 1991 — supposedly from the Western Fuels Association's «Information Council for the Environment» (ICE) public relations campaign — containing the alleged strategy to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» where the targeted audience was «older, less educated males» and «younger, lower income women.»
Other councils, councillors and community groups are now pushing this campaign nationally, first to councils, then to the states and then to the national government.
The memorandum, obtained by NRDC from the White House Council on Environmental Quality under the Freedom of Information Act, shows that ExxonMobil began a secret campaign for Dr. Watson's removal in the first weeks of the Bush administration, and reveals ExxonMobil's intention to replace Watson and other key scientists with contrarians known for disagreeing with the prevailing consensus that man - made pollution is causing global warming.
«EPA has identified significant flaws in the state's fracking proposals, particularly inadequate plans to treat hazardous wastewater, questions about unsafe levels of radiation in fracking waste, and the absence of any consideration of the environmental impacts of the infrastructure associated with fracking, such as pipelines and compressor stations,» said a statement issued by a coalition of hydrofracking opponents including Catskill Mountainkeeper, Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Environmental Advocates of New York, Natural Resources Defense Council and others.