Sentences with phrase «politically powerful members»

It is long past time that the era of backroom deals that delivered new funding to schools represented by politically powerful members of the legislature has ended.

Not exact matches

The mayor still lacks the official support of two of the city's most powerful players — SEIU 1199, which counts 200,000 members, and the smaller, but politically powerful, Hotel Trades Council.

There's speculation that at least two CB3 members, Marlow and Carlina Rivera (an affordable housing activist with the politically powerful GOLES organization), will run for the seat.

Hank Sheinkopf, a Democratic consultant, said the possibility that some of those jobs would go to members of that politically powerful union offered another incentive for the mayor to support the bill, beyond the appeal to religious communities.

By allowing kids to leave regular public schools for alternatives and by forcing unionized schools to compete with nonunion schools, choice ensures that the unions will lose members and resources - and thus become smaller and less politically powerful.