Sentences with phrase «pol got»

Most pol got the Xbox BECAUSE of Halo.

Most pol got the Xbox BECAUSE of Halo.

The latest display of greed is especially galling: The council's just - passed budget boosts member - item spending — the cash pols get to pass around their districts like Christmas turkeys — a full 9 percent over last year, to $ 396 million.

How else can anyone explain how the pols get away with what they do [or don't do].

You need to look lower down the pyramid: at unions like the Hotel Trades Council, 32BJ and 1199 SEIU; at the political clubhouses and social - services nonprofits where many future pols get their start.

Yet while sin and corruption are not new, we have to take a look at where all of these corrupt pols got their start and then turn inward and ask how did these criminals get into office in the first place?

Now, University of Haifa researchers have found that if you're a politician, good looks will also make you seem more newsworthy — because better - looking pols get more media coverage, findings that appear in the International Journal of Press / Politics.

Not exact matches

On the alt - right / pol / 4chan site, a nickname thread for James Fields Jr., the Ohio man accused of running over counter-protesters and killing one woman, suggested «James «The Jews went too far so I got my car» Fields» and «James «Mow Down the Kikes, Even the Tykes» Fields.»

However, if any pandering pol tries to use this as an excuse to «regulate» my 2nd amendment rights, which is just a first baby step to ultimately confiscating all guns in the US, then I will do everything in my power to get him out of office.

However, if any pandering pol tries to use one act by lunatic as an excuse to «regulate» my 2nd amendment rights, which is just a first baby step to ultimately confiscating all guns in the US, then I will do everything in my power to get him out of office.

You're right that I didn't get the meaning of the pol, but I used it to jump in and talk about the inside linebackers.

A scandal - scarred Queens nonprofit is getting $ 69,000 in taxpayer cash from NYC Council pols doling out member items, budget records show.

An aspiring Queens pol, would - be NYC Councilwoman Celia Dosamantes, who was accused of faking donations in order to get matching taxpayer funds for her losing 2015 campaign, went on trial yesterday.

Paging Jerry Skurnik...) were present for the get - together of black and Caribbean pols that was organized by Rep. Yvette Clarke and Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson.

For - hire vehicles including app - based services such as Uber would also have to pay a surcharge — a proposal that got mixed reviews from Queens pols whose borough is home to the city's largest share of cabbies.

The Democratic pols who got campaign cash from crooked financier Hassan Nemazee — including President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton — are being asked to return the dirty money so it can be forfeited to the feds.

Old pols are like baseball players - so many of them stay beyond their best years and their reps get tarnished.....

There's one bank account that Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara can't get his asset - freezing fingers on as he plans a likely multimillion - dollar restitution order against Sheldon Silver: the pol's campaign war chest, which Silver can continue to use to pay legal fees.

The cocky pol is also open to the post of public advocate as a backup plan, said sources, who described the Queens Democrat as «desperate» to get back into politics.

Which is why it's laughable to hear the NAACP and local pols (both of whom have gotten money from the teachers union) blame its woes on a lack of resources.

Lazio is the quintessential empty suit; the go along to get along Albany pol that we all have come to love so much — corrupt, self - serving, and dysfunctional.

Louis is predicting Aubry gets re-elected because he's an «honest pol» who has «toiled for years on prison reform,» adding: «He works hard and has developed a base of knowledgeable, active supporters.»

For those of us who get lost in uffish thought of slithy pols and frumious government, Carroll is a beacon of better.

The year that Eliot Spitzer tried to scratch the ego itch that's had him squirming so visibly for years, once again dipping into daddy's dollars but this time falling to a feisty machine pol that nobody outside Manhattan ever heard of six weeks ago, but who got his own nasty up at the end and slew the ogre.

Pols in WNY often try to get away with things like that because they know the somnolent local media will give them a pass or not follow up.

President Trump is getting hammered for his «alternative facts» — a reference to adviser Kellyanne Conway's clumsy spin — but is he really so different from other pols on that score?

It is clear that the maps drawn by both the pols and the judge reflect a strong bias towards getting rid of conservative Republicans and protecting liberal Democrats, especially downstate reps, many of whom are in the Socialist Caucus of the House or the Democrat Party leadership.

Disgraced pols Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver will not get their corruption convictions overturned and should be sent straight to prison as they go through the appeal process, prosecutors with Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara said Monday.

Also unbelievable is the support they get — truly there is no intelligent life when it comes public support of pols.

It's tragic because there are millions of African - American voters in New York but they get little attention from Democratic pols because these self - appointed «leaders» are a bunch of lazy or corrupt suck - ups whose idea of gaining power for Black people is to ask Party bigshots to guarantee a winning spot on «the ticket» as if this were 1910 and Tammany Hall still ruled.

An aspiring Queens pol accused of faking donations in order to get matching taxpayer funds for her losing 2015 campaign went on trial Wednesday.

Pols go to ground when the going gets tough.

FDNY ambulances took more than 11 minutes to get to life - threatening medical emergencies last month — almost two minutes longer than the average response time last year — setting off an alarm for city pols.

Shame on the Congressional Clown pols that are fiddling for personal gain and posturing as the nation and the financial markets wobbled through another week, uncertain that in the end the folks that represent the people will get it at least partially right.

NYC Council members looking for their fellow pols» votes for speaker are getting behind an extension of term limit from two to three — an idea first proposed by Manhattan Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez.

A juror cut loose Friday from the corruption trial of ex-Councilman Dan Halloran said he would have found the accused pol guilty of brokering bribes to get Sen. Malcolm Smith...

Most of the pols who got calls from Weiner — including Reps. Eliot Engel (D - Bronx), Nydia Velázquez (D - Brooklyn), Yvette Clarke (D - Brooklyn) and freshman Hakeem Jeffries (D - Brooklyn)-- have not yet made an endorsement in the mayor's race.

A juror cut loose Friday from the corruption trial of ex-Councilman Dan Halloran said he would have found the accused pol guilty of brokering bribes to get Sen. Malcolm Smith on the Republican mayoral ballot last year.

The chairman of the commission that recommended City Council members get raises to $ 138,500 will testify at a public hearing next week on the pols» plans to overrule the panel...

As we focus on all the pol nonsense here in NYS, Washington burns with a system that is probably more broke than the one in Albany and the hope and change that O was to bring to Washington continues to get churned up and trampled upon by the operatives that know how to block any positive initiative or make those that get by a bad thing.

With Rep. Anthony Weiner saying he is going to run for re-election in spite of his bombshell admission today, and more Democrats subtly hinting that that is a bad idea, the talk could soon turn to re-drawing the Congressional lines to make it harder for the scandal - scarred Brooklyn / Queens pol to get re-elected.

Will Pols Kill Another Bronx Revival The Bronx is about to get another chance to lift the curse of the Kingsbridge Armory, with two new proposals to develop the site.

City Council members looking for their fellow pols» votes for speaker are getting behind an extension of term limits for the Council.

Rationalization No. 2: Getting pols to agree on certain high - concept reforms, such as switching to a full - time Legislature and strictly limiting outside income, is also futile.

Disgraced former Rep. Michael Grimm got eight months in prison and a dressing - down Friday from a Brooklyn judge short on sympathy for the tough - guy pol's plea to evade jail.

The flamboyant pol announced late last year he was getting out of politics, saying «the people have ignored my warning and my cry for help that the rent crisis was getting worse.»

QUEENS — A disgraced former pol is trying to get back into politics in the neighborhood's district leader race, touting his accomplishments without mentioning his 2009 conviction for assault.

Columbia University cancer doctor Robert Taub got $ 500,000 in taxpayer - funded research grants from Silver for steering dozens of asbestos patients to the pol's law firm, Weitz & Luxenberg.

Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky captured the fallen pol's State Senate seat, despite Cuomo again refusing to get involved on a fellow Democrat's behalf.

Given our record, it shouldn't surprise that pols here think they can get away with anything.