Sentences with phrase «political hit»

(there is a strong chance it will never happen, but we are taking a big political hit on it).

His richly reported cover story, full of details about the brutal beating of Cuomo's father - in - law and the dirty business of political hit jobs — plus great names like «Joey Narrows» — carried enormously high stakes for Mario Cuomo's political future.

At the hearing, Democratic supporters of Planned Parenthood accused their Republican colleagues of being misogynistic and more interested in political hits than an actual investigation.

John McArdle, who served as spokesman for Joe Bruno when the then - Senate majority leader was the target of Spitzer's botched political hit job, made the connection during his appearance on the «Insiders» segment of last night's CapTon.

And we're gonna watch not because it's a pretty good political hit job (it is), not because it steals a good song («You Can't Always Get What You Want»), and not because it's always fun to watch politicos get blown up by their own words (particularly when it's Rove, Dobson, et al.).

The last time I recall a vampire - themed political hit was September 2008 when the New York Post put a photo - shopped shot of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver with blood - dripping fangs on its cover to illustrate a story about then - Gov.

While we occasionally cover a big political hit, I assume BookPage readers get plenty of hard - boiled, apocalyptic, coming - soon news from their social media, via screens of various sizes or even around the family table.

Will these sell outs try to put political hits on the pro-lifers in order to gain favor with Christine Quinn?

This isn't about cheap political hits.

He doesn't clean up corruption he aids and abets it and does political hits on a radio show for Paterson who should be in jail but like Steve Rattner Cuomo doesn't send rich and connected folk to jail and Dave's dad is too connected.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio said that the leak of a damning memo alleging he and his team violated campaign finance laws was nothing more than a dirty political hit job.

They and the public interest advocacy community are shocked and appalled by the depths to which the denialist and right - wing political hit squad will sink.

«It's a shame County Executive Dinolfo took over a month to apologize to her fellow citizens that were treated as collateral damage in a botched political hit job.

In a Sunday appearance on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Schiff slammed the Nunes memo as a «political hit job» on the FBI and said the president's decision to release the memo could potentially be part of an obstruction of justice case.

Enough that he is used in a political hit piece.

«However, we were surprised to find that President Obama was not included as a target of this political hit, as he and Dan share the same position of supporting civil unions while holding the personal belief that marriage should be between a man and a woman,» Lam continued.

But Cuomo said he had taken a political hit of his own in rural areas after passing the SAFE Act, a controversial gun control law.

Brandon West, a budget analyst for the NYC Council, was abruptly fired after he spoke out publicly in favor of the statewide constitutional convention on Capital Tonight — and friends say he was the victim of a political hit job.

Cuomo pushed through the measure in January 2013 and has since touted the political hit he took in the wake of the law's approval.

«Clearly, this was a political hit that was given to the New York Post and I guess that's the way politics works.»

«This is a pathetic attempt at another political hit job on the police department by the de Blasio administration and it clearly missed their mark.»

She had opposed the measure, which she called a «political hit job» aimed at keeping her and Councilman Bruce Blakeman from seeking re-election in two years due to their incomes as attorneys.

Quinn is using taxpayer dollars to fund her election with a political hit team in a separate office way from all of the other council members.

It appears to be a political hit.»

«He may look at this and say «We are going to pursue this case but we don't want to be selective, we don't want to get involved in a political hit, so we are going to open up investigations into everybody who uses this technique.»

Dick Dadey of Citizens Union, a pal and former colleague of West, called the firing a «political hit.»

A budget analyst for the City Council was abruptly fired after he spoke out publicly in favor of the statewide constitutional convention — and friends say he was the victim of a political hit job.

NEW YORK CITY — Two of the five board members who denied the city's matching funds for Comptroller John Liu's mayoral campaign Monday have been directly involved in the fundraising for one of his rivals, City Council Christine Quinn, prompting Liu campaign surrogates to declare the board's actions a «political hit.»

Laufer called it a political hit job, saying that Risa Sugarman, chief enforcement counsel for the state Board of Elections, misunderstood campaign finance law, WCBS 880's Marla Diamond reported.

An aviation attorney, Sweeney has termed Santino's proposed income limit as «a political hit job» to prevent her and other successful professionals from running for office.

King Sweeney has been calling for ethics reform and Santino's proposal, which passed by a 4 - 3 vote, includes a $ 125,000 outside income cap that King Sweeney has said is a «political hit job» to keep her, an aviation attorney, from running for re-election.

Mr. Ortt, defiant, said he was «saddened and sickened» by charges he described as a political hit job.

He remains convinced that he has been the victim of a political hit job by the police federation.

Her announcement comes just a week after Joseph Percoco, a longtime adviser and friend of Cuomo, was convicted in a major corruption case that landed a political hit on Cuomo and his administration.

If PISA and TIMSS confirm the stagnant trend in U.S. achievement, expect CCSS to take another political hit.

This feels like a political hit job carried out by the courts rather than the wheels of justice doing their thing.