Sentences with phrase «political favoritism»

«Carl's companies won every State lease he holds as the lowest bidder in an open bidding process without political favoritism in a completely transparent transaction.

Similar to state Sen. Adriano Espaillat, Williams also said that candidates» newfound MTS opposition deals with political favoritism toward the wealthy.

During his opening speech to the Cabinet, Tsipras said that the «national salvation» government must eliminate political favoritism and corruption, and implement the reforms that could not be implemented over the past 40 years.

It is likely that it will gradually become clear to the members of the Town Board that they should side with the people they represent and who appear before them on their own personal time month after month quietly asking for a government in conformance with the Open Meetings Lawand a government bereft of political favoritism and crony patronage.

The railroads were often giant corporations with lots of money to buy political favoritism, and not surprisingly they tended to bring corruption in their wake.

Greg, to your response, Franklin Graham is not really speaking the truth but he is displaying political favoritism and his comments make him no different than those Tea party loonies who refused to accept the facts that Obama's citizenship is legitimate.

MANHATTAN — Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer blasted the City Council's process for doling out public money to programs in members» districts as «arbitrary» Wednesday, and called for a complete abolition of the current system, which he said breeds political favoritism.

for the councilwoman called the fund allocation process «mostly political favoritism with no real rhyme or reason to it.»

WASHINGTON — A House subcommittee is investigating allegations that the former U.S. Attorney for Washington, Joseph diGenova, engaged in political favoritism by quashing a criminal case his office was pursuing against Madeleine C. Will, the Education Department's assistant secretary for special education and rehabilitative services.

SolarCity's complaint is rich in Alanis Morissettean irony, given that the company's business plan, like that of all solar power retailers, is based primarily on political favoritism.

Joel Klein, Controversial as Chancellor of NYC Department of Education, Offers Lessons on Fixing Education WNYC: Klein writes about his eight - year mission of improvement: demanding accountability, eliminating political favoritism, and battling a powerful teachers union that seemed determined to protect a status quo that didn't work for kids.

Many of these contracts, inked without competitive bidding, and with little or no outside oversight, were rife with political favoritism, inside dealing, and in at least one case, amid the stench of corruption.

To fault Osama bin Laden and to blindly follow Christian clergy advocating total submissiveness and loyalty to any political favoritism, is not only completely illogical but also self - defeating, as Bush - Cheney and the Republican / Tea Party has consistently proven.

Obviously, the Occupy Wall Street Movement has Governor Cuomo and his corporate allies worried and with good reason: Pressure is mounting because corporations evade paying their fair share of taxes through loopholes and political favoritism, while the super wealthy look forward to an indefensible $ 5 billion windfall at year's end.

KANE: As the political favoritism in hiring probation officers in Massachusetts recently showed us, due - process requirements are appropriate in public hiring.

This political favoritism raises the question of whether pension plans owe a responsibility to their members and taxpayers to seek out the best return on their investments, regardless of politics.

A hundred years ago, teachers could be fired for any reason: race, creed, political favoritism, marriage, pregnancy.

Originally enacted to protect against potential evils in state and local employment systems, such as nepotism, arbitrary dismissal, and political favoritism, tenure has become a common expectation of teacher employment.

Before they successfully organized in the 1950s and 1960s, teachers endured meager salaries, political favoritism, tyrannical principals and sex discrimination against a mostly female work force.

Open to Political Favoritism and Corruption It's not a co-incidence that the biggest promoter of cap - and - trade until its demise was the Enron Corporation.

by Willem Post The Energy Collective Like the corn - to - ethanol and solar industries, the Big Wind industry basks in political correctness and political favoritism.

A pardon «would surely trigger charges of unfairness and political favoritism, while seeming to some to be an admission of guilt,» the article states.