Sentences with phrase «other local pols»

The candidate quickly picked up the support of virtually all other local pols — a level of institutional support alien to Sanders and most of his acolytes.

But other local pols — including Bronx Councilmen Ruben Diaz Sr. and Rafael Salamanca — are already pushing back against the plan to bring more inmates to their boroughs.

Not exact matches

While national Republicans and even some local ones desert Mr. Grimm, others like Mr. Ignizio are closing ranks around the controversial pol.

Now we know what it takes for Gov. Cuomo to sacrifice from his campaign war chest: a parade of other top local pols letting go of gifts from a donor suddenly in the news for decades of alleged sexual harassment.

In the county where Dee lives, the district attorney, a slimy pol named Calvin Beckett (Michael O'Keefe), has long made local African Americans the target of indiscriminate drug sweeps, assuming that poor black people in the projects will plead out even if they're innocent just to get out of jail, not realizing that the guilty plea brands them as felons and opens up a host of other troubles in getting housing, jobs, etc..

A good federal tax credit, on the other hand, impacts everyone and doesn't require state approval, shielding it from teachers unions and state and local pols who would otherwise try to muck it up.