Sentences with phrase «political hit job»

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.

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.).

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.

«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.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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