Sentences with phrase «pension smoothing proposal»

Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy, who has emerged as the leading defender of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's mandate relief proposals for struggling upstate cities, told Alan Chartock in an interview to air Friday that he would more than pleased with the pension smoothing proposal if he held his old job as the mayor of Rochester.

Cuomo has not endorsed in the race for Syracuse mayor where his hand - picked party co-chairwoman is running for re-election (the two have publicly differed on Cuomo's pension smoothing proposal), though he did endorse Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown for re-election.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushed back against the criticism of his pension smoothing proposal and took particular aim at Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's critique of the proposal in an interview with Fred Dicker on Talk - 1300 this morning.

Cuomo declined to endorse in Miner's primary race following a year of very public disagreement over the governor's pension smoothing proposal.

... That was lead of David Rubin's column in today's Syracuse Post-Standard, in which he sided with the city's mayor, Stephanie Miner, in her ongoing verbal battle with Gov. Andrew Cuomo over the governor's controversial pension smoothing proposal.

Mark Assini, supervisor of the Monroe County town of Gates and a financial analyst, has crunched the numbers of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's pension smoothing proposal and come to the conclusion that, as he put it during a telephone interview this afternoon: «Stephanie is right; she is absolutely right to question this.»

Since then, she has co-chaired his transtition committee, become a NYPA trustee and been a staunch advocate for a number of his policies, including his controversial pension smoothing proposal that has caused so much friction between Cuomo and his hand - picked state Democratic Party co-chair, Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner.

She and Cuomo have not spoken about the pension smoothing proposal, and she has not been approached about resigning the post.

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The new minimum wage proposal in the Assembly is backed by Labor Committee Chairman Carl Heastie and Assemblyman Keith Wright, the state Democratic Party co-chairman (his other party co-chair, Syracuse's Stephanie Miner, broke with Cuomo on his pension smoothing plan that is also in the budget).

The win for central New York comes after Miner, a former state Democratic Committee co-chairwoman, has publicly criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo's policies, including his proposal to smooth out pension costs as a way to alleviate local government costs.

Miner has been critical of a Cuomo proposal to allow pension smoothing.

It is not a surprising development, given that Richards has been a strong supporter of the Cuomo administration, including Cuomo's push for pension reform that included the controversial smoothing proposal this year as well as gun control.

Both have embraced the «pension smoothing» proposal that Miner called a gimmick.

The two have not talked to each other since October, but they have had a public exchange all spring over the governor's proposal to help cities like Syracuse with a plan to smooth pension costs over time.