Sentences with phrase «political hit jobs»

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.

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.).

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.

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.

«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.

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.

«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.»

Cox was commenting on state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's Exxon probe, which he slammed as 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.

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.

Not exact matches

The report released today by the Albany County District Attorney's Office confirms what I have been saying all along, that former Governor Eliot Spitzer lied to the people of this State about his direct knowledge and involvement in the Troopergate scandal; that he was obsessed with conducting a political «hit job» to damage me personally and politically; and that the administration enlisted favored members of the news media, principally The Albany Times - Union to carry out their plot.

What you have here is Senators from states that have lost a lot of manufacturing jobs — that have been sent abroad or that have been very hard hit by the state of the economy — or they're coal - producing states, or states that burn a lot of coal — so they have these domestic economic and political concerns that they have to answer to their voters on.