Sentences with phrase «political backroom deal»

ERIE COUNTY, NY — Today, Michelle Schoeneman, candidate for the Erie County Legislature's 10th District, criticized her opponent, Joseph Lorigo, and his party - boss father, Ralph Lorigo, for cutting a political backroom deal that put the current West Seneca leadership in office.

If our top state leaders are working things out over a dinner at this iconic symbol of the old world, and more specifically no doubt the site of many a political backroom deal, how are we ever going to get past the climate of «the Machine»?

This uncertainty is leading to the sorts of behaviours more akin to political backroom deals than schools: heads promising their schools will go in with each other as long as everyone agrees to keep out a competitor school, over-generous financial offers to primaries with lovely intakes, a shunning of schools with buildings too expensive to maintain.

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Some of her remarks give fresh fuel to liberals» worst fears about Clinton, namely that she is a political moderate, happy to cut backroom deals with corporate interests and curry favor with Wall Street for campaign dollars.

As former cabinet secretary Lord O'Donnell has pointed out, the main impact of minority government is an increase in backroom political deal - making.

In 2013, NPR's Allan Greenblatt listed a few: It's effectively a one - party state, with the Democrats so dominant that there is no political competition and machine politics set the agenda; the elections are expensive, making candidates reliant on donors; many key decisions, such as the shape of the state budget, are made in backroom deals between a few power players; the local media is so focused on national events that it ignores what's happening in the state (especially upstate); and there's no anti-corruption movement to challenge the existing culture.

He and Silver once epitomized Albany's backroom political culture by hammering out deals on the state budget and legislation in closed - door negotiating sessions with Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The real issue of outrage in the community is that Linares and Rangel made a backroom political deal, with Linares endorsing Rangel and, in exchange, Rangel endorsing Linares and his daughter.

«Leave it to a professional political operative like Elise Stefanik to make a backroom deal to get her opponent nominated off the ballot,» said DCCC spokesman Marc Brumer.

The political culture of backroom deals is all the Lorigos know.

Morano yesterday said other candidates should follow Donovan's lead «and reject the endorsement of the Independence Party, which has become far more synonymous with backroom political deals than good government.»

The political conventions begin next week and several initial candidates applying for the vacant position removed their names soon after fearing the optics of a possible backroom deal.

Released: March 9 Cast: Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jason Isaacs, Michael Palin Director: Armando Iannucci (In the Loop) Why it's great: The verbose, scatological insult comedy of Iannucci, the creator of HBO's long - running political satire Veep, somehow fits the backroom dealing of 1950s Soviet Union like a snug fur hat.

An administration that has stumbled over concerns about backroom deals and that it has used stimulus funds for political ends might be well - advised to mount more than a «trust us» defense.

«Angela Merkel's nuclear deal is driving people into the streets because it is a stimulus program for political disaffection when the head of a government cuts a backroom deal with four energy bosses that's worth hundreds of billions of euros and safety issues for old nuclear plants are sorted out on the side,» Gabriel said.