Sentences with phrase «patronage hires»

An ad from the state Democratic Committee that began to air this week accuses Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino of making patronage hires in Westchester County.

During her campaign, Curran complained about patronage hiring at NUMC and its lack of transparency in dealing with the public.

Former governor takes the current one to task for patronage hiring at Empire State Development Corp., and a taxpayer funded advertising campaign.

This is about as blatant — and shameless — as patronage hiring gets.

We've got 37,900 unemployed residents and this obvious patronage hire is the best Byron Brown can do to help them?

Kallos said he wants to rein in patronage hiring at the city Board of Elections — where officials have long resisted calls to publicly post all their jobs.

Further, there is another patronage hire here in the person of Keith Cornell.

Doing away with tenure, moreover, would arguably hurt schoolchildren more than it helps them, by opening the door to patronage hiring and making it more difficult to attract strong candidates.

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His plan to hire more nurses and other health care professionals is evidence that health care is once again the first goal at NUMC, not patronage and waste.»

Curran, a Democratic county legislator who often railed against patronage during her campaign, has pledged to base hiring on «what you know, not who you know.»

Kallos believes the city should stop funding these «patronage positions» and hire qualified people through publicly advertised jobs.

An investigation by The New York Times into hiring by the Empire State Development Corporation, shows Cuomo's administration has engaged in some of the same patronage practices that have often prevailed here, despite the governor's pledges to the contrary.

His hiring of a $ 163,000 - a-year Mangano operative without providing the town board with a resume or job description beforehand, or following a competitive hiring process, is straight out of the patronage playbook, and Saladino seems incapable of understanding why it would bother anyone.

Mahoney's critics gripe behind the scenes about her hires, but they are reluctant to be openly critical of a political patronage process that sometimes benefits them, too.

«Taxpayers just can't trust Jack Martins, who carried water» for the Republican «machine and stifled ethics reform in Albany at every turn,» said Curran, who has introduced plans to term limit county officials, reform contracting practices and end patronage and nepotism hires.

The Mayor tells WBFO News he is not concerned some might perceive the hire as political patronage.

Savino was the Bronx GOP Chairman when he was hired by Supervisor Gromack into a part - time patronage job for $ 87,000 as Clarkstown's Tax Certiorari attorney.

Normally, the parties pick someone loyal, so that commissioner can hire other party loyalists for patronage positions, according to numerous sources.

Now that both Jay Savino and Frank Sparaco, two patronage employees of the Town of Clarkstown hired under Supervisor Gromack's watch, have now been been proven to have been deeply involved in criminal activity one wonders who will be the next to fall?