Sentences with phrase «pols from»

A gaggle of high - powered pols from New York and New Jersey are pushing for approval of $ 1.2 billion in loans to build Silverstein Properties» 3 World Trade Center.

Cops were encouraged to sign and submit the «Don't Insult My Sacrifice» waiver to ban the cop - bashing pols from their funerals.

Bharara was an equal - opportunity prosecutor, going after corrupt pols from either party, and was unanimously confirmed by a divided Senate in 2009.

The pols from Corona, Elmhurst and Jackson Heights are more like icing on the cake.

It draws Buffalo pols from all parties but is long on Conservatives.

«I've kept my promise to fight for Long Island by voting over 175 times against raising taxes, delivering a $ 20 million increase in aid for South Shore schools, and passed a plan to prevent corrupt pols from receiving taxpayer funded pensions.

The 23 - term Democratic veteran said Wright has support from several top pols from The Bronx, which includes half the district, and predicted he would continue Harlem's «political success» in Washington.

What is clear is that the IDC, which for most of its existence has consisted of white pols from bucolic sections of the outer boroughs and the suburbs, is desperate for a minority member — so it can deflect claims it has disempowered the blacks and Latinos who make up much of the mainstream Democratic conference's constituency.

GOP pols from states slammed by Superstorm Sandy say they'll back a massive federal aid package for victims of Hurricane Harvey — even though Republican lawmakers from Texas fought against...

The National Political Do Not Contact Registry is a non-partisan, non-profit org that is working to stop pols from calling voters at dinner.

Though it boggles the mind why any pol from Camden County would have enough cred to be cloutful.

Nydia Velazquez is by no means a perfect pol from The Times standpoint — too slavishly devoted to organized labor and a little wobbly on Israel, but far far better than Erik Dilan, who is closely allied with Brooklyn Democratic Party boss Vito Lopez — a no - no from the paper's standpoint.

Limiting how long members may serve in top leadership posts would help prevent any single pol from becoming another Silver, who reigned for 20.

The disgraced pol from Albany, Sheldon Silver, asked Friday if the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to let the Supreme Court weigh in before the Manhattan U.S. Attorney retries his case.

Not exact matches

Access for Non-U.S. Citizens — Most P2RE sites exclude non-U.S. citizens, but PoL is happy to allow investors from around the world as long as they have a U.S. bank account and are accredited by the definition of their country of origin.

Since last fall, chamber pols have raised a litany of objections, from the protections afforded to driver data collected by cars to the effects they might have on the trucking industry.

The LAC representatives, most of them older women, emerge from Venkatesh's account as hard - pressed, skilled, semi-corrupt infighters, who wielded influence, brokered deals and accepted payoffs in a manner that any seasoned pol could respect.

Furthermore, he defends Whitehead's understanding of the free or self - creative character of the individual actual entity against Edward Pols's objection that it is determined from the outside either through the initial aim of God or through the intrinsic interrelatedness of the eternal objects which it prehends (TVF 36 - 40).

Some of the same arguments — efficiency and cost - savings — were used in 1968 to wrest control of Monroe Harbor from private management and turn it over to the pols.

The best lesson for both British parties to draw from Mr. Obama is the one Brooks noted when Obama abandoned his pledge to take public election financing: that as well as being an inspiring speechmaker he's also «a tough - minded Chicago pol (person of Polish descent) who would throw you under the truck for votes».

A scandal - scarred Queens nonprofit is getting $ 69,000 in taxpayer cash from NYC Council pols doling out member items, budget records show.

Moreover, several of those pols (from both parties) who received funds from the real estate mogul are either in jail, facing charges, or forced out politics because of a scandal.

Wwithdrawing support from Arcuri and causing him to lose his seat would serve as a warning to other pols that they cross the WFP at their own risk, which just serves to make the WFP all the more powerful.

Usually, the death of a political figure of the stature Lopez once enjoyed sparks an avalanche of statements from fellow pols, all expressing condolences to the family and singing the praises of the deceased.

For - hire vehicles including app - based services such as Uber would also have to pay a surcharge — a proposal that got mixed reviews from Queens pols whose borough is home to the city's largest share of cabbies.

Johnson stripped jurisdiction of taxis and car services from the Transportation Committee, which since 2014 has been chaired by Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez (D - Manhattan), another pol with many industry workers in his district.

And they are both widely seen as top contenders for their respective parties» nominations in 2016, and so consequently need to differentiate themselves not just from each other but from every other like - minded pol in America.

The Democratic pols who got campaign cash from crooked financier Hassan Nemazee — including President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton — are being asked to return the dirty money so it can be forfeited to the feds.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller isn't the only government prober who's job is in jeopardy from a resentful pol, according to a Bronx lawmaker who wants to protect the city's chief investigator from being fired by Mayor de Blasio.

HARLEM — A day after a key fundraiser for City Comptroller John Liu was indicted for fraud, the embattled pol tried to pivot away from his own bad news and hitch himself to a feel - good story — the meteoric rise of Knicks phenom Jeremy Lin.

Which is why it's laughable to hear the NAACP and local pols (both of whom have gotten money from the teachers union) blame its woes on a lack of resources.

But the pol appeared to back away from that claim when another member pressed him to explain his decision.

The blustery pol has kept a low profile since resigning from Congress in June 2011, after he tweeted a picture of his bulging crotch to a 21 - year - old college student and then falsely claimed his account had been hacked.

The pols still wanted to rant and rave about Indian Point, though, to chalk up brownie points from the voters.

Or how he plans to spin his overwhelming support from the very same pols who helped make Jersey The Shackle Shack.

Federal investigations have swept 125 pols and players from the Jersey stage but the scams keep on coming.

President Trump is getting hammered for his «alternative facts» — a reference to adviser Kellyanne Conway's clumsy spin — but is he really so different from other pols on that score?

Just beyond belief the pure brazeness of pols today — no shame, no remorse, no accountability, nothing but sucking from the public teat — anything else might be work.

The judge denied a request by Smith to exclude from the trialsecretly taped discussions that mention prior investigations of the pol.

It's tragic because there are millions of African - American voters in New York but they get little attention from Democratic pols because these self - appointed «leaders» are a bunch of lazy or corrupt suck - ups whose idea of gaining power for Black people is to ask Party bigshots to guarantee a winning spot on «the ticket» as if this were 1910 and Tammany Hall still ruled.

Rep. Nydia Velazquez, riding endorsements from a host of high - profile Democratic pols, will vie for an 11th term in Congress against City Councilman Erik Martin Dilan in the 7th Congressional district, which covers parts of Brooklyn, Queens and lower Manhattan.

The East 91st Street project — which residents fear will bring bringing vermin, noise and a host of health and traffic - safety problems to the area — was recently propelled from being a primarily neighborhood controversy to a top talking point both for mayoral contenders and pols across the city.

• Mayoral hopefuls Bill Thompson, Controller John Liu among those pols paying their props from the podium, along with former Gov. David Paterson, state Controller Tom DiNapoli.

This time around, a bunch of veteran pols who have seen de Blasio take beatings from Cuomo, Hillary Clinton, Trump, etc., will not be cowed into supporting his candidate for Speaker.

TWO pols (one retired... or something like that) from NYC telling Upstaters that we should be happy to drink toxic water — as long as SOMEBODY (mostly people from out - of - state) make some money off of fracking.

Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel helped win a prison transfer for former NYC Councilman Larry Seabrook, a convicted pol famously accused of billing taxpayers $ 177 for a bagel and a soda, from a squalid Brooklyn jail to a «Club Fed» - style lockup.

NYC Council members looking for their fellow pols» votes for speaker are getting behind an extension of term limit from two to three — an idea first proposed by Manhattan Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez.

A juror cut loose Friday from the corruption trial of ex-Councilman Dan Halloran said he would have found the accused pol guilty of brokering bribes to get Sen. Malcolm Smith...

Most of the pols who got calls from Weiner — including Reps. Eliot Engel (D - Bronx), Nydia Velázquez (D - Brooklyn), Yvette Clarke (D - Brooklyn) and freshman Hakeem Jeffries (D - Brooklyn)-- have not yet made an endorsement in the mayor's race.

A juror cut loose Friday from the corruption trial of ex-Councilman Dan Halloran said he would have found the accused pol guilty of brokering bribes to get Sen. Malcolm Smith on the Republican mayoral ballot last year.