Sentences with phrase «other elected officials before»
«I didn't want to use taxpayer dollars for this and so there was a precedent for other elected officials before me who used resources the same way that I did,» he said.
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In lower Manhattan on Tuesday, the day before Cuomo's scheduled State of the State address, Vance stood with other elected officials, advocates and survivors of child sex abuse in front of the «Fearless Girl» statue at Bowling Green, calling on the Governor to include the Child Victims Act (CVA) in his 2018 budget.
Well before a March 11 earthquake led to a partial meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, local antinuclear activists and elected officials were warning of the potential for disaster if a hurricane or other unusual weather...
Despite the pleas of some good government advocates, opinion writers, other elected officials, and constituents, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has stated he has no plans to call for special elections to fill the seats before November.
City Councilwoman Jessica Lappin, Assemblymen Dan Quart and Micah Kellner, and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, among other area elected officials, have asked the DOE to reconsider the plan before the Panel for Education Policy votes on the issue June 19.
Dear Neighbor, In an effort to ensure the Hudson Valley is fairly represented in all legislative matters before the Senate, I and eight other local Senators representing Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester Counties have formed the Hudson Valley Delegation — a bipartisan coalition to more effectively advocate for the needs and concerns of the residents, communities, organizations, and elected officials of the Hudson Valley.
Cuomo made the announcement mid-bridge before a number of local elected officials and others.
«I'm hopeful we can get something done for other statewide elected officials as well as the legislature before the end of the session.»
While other elected officials rushed to the scene of the murders over the weekend, it took the mayor more than 24 hours to issue a written statement on the killings, and a full two days before he addressed the community, during funeral prayers for the two men.
«I'm hopeful we can get something done for other statewide elected officials as well as the legislature, before the end of the session,» Klein said recently.
The bill passed by the Senate includes anti-nepotism provisions, today: · Prohibits gifts from lobbyists and their clients of more than nominal value, including travel, lodging and other expenses, and broaden the types of lobbying activities that lobbyists must disclose; · Prohibits elected government officials and candidates for elected local, state or federal office from appearing in taxpayer - funded advertisements; · Closes the «revolving door» loophole by prohibiting former legislative employees from directly lobbying the Legislature for two years, and expands the revolving door restrictions for Executive Chamber employees to preclude appearances before any state agency; · Prohibits non-legislative employees from using their authority or influence to «compel or induce» any other employee to make political contributions; · Prohibits state employees from participating in any personnel decision or contracting matter concerning a relative.
Mayo's resolution sat in committee for more than a year before it came to the legislature for a vote, where it was defeated shortly after the Times Union revealed through a two - month - long examination of municipal payrolls and other public records that at least 11 local elected officials in the Capital Region have at least three relatives each working in local government.
Cuomo's office said Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló made «an official governor to governor request through the Emergency Management Assistance Compact for mutual aid,» before Cuomo, other elected officials and members of his staff took a flight to the island Friday donated by JetBlue.
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