Sentences with phrase «powerful state senator»

The film also stars Joel Edgerton («The Great Gatsby,» «Zero Dark Thirty») as FBI Agent John Connolly; Oscar nominee Benedict Cumberbatch («The Imitation Game») as Whitey's brother, powerful State Senator Billy Bulger; Rory Cochrane («Argo») as Steve Flemmi, Whitey's closest partner in crime; Jesse Plemons (TV's «Fargo») as Whitey's main henchman, Kevin Weeks; and Kevin Bacon («Crazy, Stupid, Love.»

Sen. John DeFrancisco, the second most powerful state senator, departed from his colleagues» optimism about the Trump effect.

He dropped from the third-most powerful state senator to a back - row lawmaker in a small, breakaway political conference.

Thomas Libous will return to Albany next month as the second most powerful state senator, and he will do so battling cancer and federal prosecutors.

ALBANY — For the two dozen activists who rallied in the rain at New York's City Hall on Friday, the case against Jeffrey D. Klein — the powerful state senator accused of forcibly kissing a staff member outside an Albany bar in 2015 — was seemingly straightforward.

At the center of the scandal is a powerful state senator Malcolm Smith, a Democrat, who bribed Republican GOP county leaders to grant him a waiver to run as Republican in GOP mayoral primaries.

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Despite Marsh's sanctimoniousness, Ars Technica points out that earlier this year a Tennessee senator described AT&T as «the most powerful lobbying organization in this state by far» as it battled to stop Google from using utility poles in Nashville.

Schumer, who is now the state's senior senator and one of the most powerful and influential Democrats in the country, showed up to his old stomping grounds to support the Assembly's passage of the Iran Divestment Act to bar companies that invest in Iran's energy industry from doing business with the state.

«Abuse of addictive painkillers has increased drastically in the last decade, but our state's regulation and monitoring of these powerful drugs has not kept up,» said U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.

«I'm proud to join Senators Schumer and Gillibrand in supporting George Latimer for County Executive, who is facing a difficult race against an opponent being funded by some of Donald Trump's most powerful allies,» said Clinton, the former secretary of state and 2016 presidential candidate.

The once powerful «Long Island Nine» Republican state senators» power has weakened to become the «not - so - solid seven,» with the reuniting of mainline Democrats and the Independent Democratic Conference just the latest setback.

Other Republicans say they fear that an expected multimillion - dollar media blitz from the state's powerful public - employee unions might panic some upstate senators into backing higher taxes, undermining Skelos» position.

And while most of the state senators and many Assembly members have signed on, powerful Democratic leaders have resisted.

A former New York State Senator who was once one of the most powerful people in Niagara County politics will no longer face trial for five election law violations.

The Alliance for Quality Education, a school advocacy group that helped unseat some incumbent senators in November, is joining with the powerful New York State United Teachers union to protect school funding.

«Four House members and one state senator can decide to take their ball and go home and be very, very powerful, and we can be here for a very long time,» Ritter said.

In their opening statement in the corruption trial of state Senator Dean Skelos on Tuesday, federal prosecutors painted a picture of a powerful politician who abused his office to benefit his son and co-defendant, Adam.

«As the next State Senator for the 58th District, Leslie will be a powerful ally in the fight to hold perpetrators of sexual abuse accountable, regardless of when the crime occurred.»

Upset with a state Senate Republican budget plan to boost charter schools, the powerful city and state teachers union bombarded GOP senators last week with nearly 20,000 faxes and 1,500 phone calls warning the plan would damage neighborhood public schools.

California: Former State Senator Sheila Kuehl (pictured) is in a tight race against Bobby Shriver, a nephew of the late President Kennedy, for the District 3 seat on the powerful Los Angeles County Board.

At the other was the cellphone of State Senator Carl Kruger, a powerful Brooklyn Democrat who was the central target of the investigation.

State Senator Pedro Espada, Jr., who has spent the past year boasting of the «millions» of dollars he has brought into his Bronx district as one of the state's most powerful lawmakers, appears to have left the vast majority of that money on the tState Senator Pedro Espada, Jr., who has spent the past year boasting of the «millions» of dollars he has brought into his Bronx district as one of the state's most powerful lawmakers, appears to have left the vast majority of that money on the tstate's most powerful lawmakers, appears to have left the vast majority of that money on the table.

Congressman Charlie Rangel may have trounced State Senator Adriano Espaillat in East Harlem, but the neighborhood's most powerful pol said today her backing still mattered.

Meaningful job creation programs, increasing the minimum wage, strong support for affordable housing, and an overhaul of the way elections are run in New York State are desperately needed, but Governor Cuomo and Senator Skelos, two of the three most powerful politicians in Albany, have refused to respond to the needs of low - income New Yorkers and their communities.

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW: Rudolph Giuliani - vs - Preet Bharara By Senator Rev. Rubén Díaz You should know that both Rudy Giuliani and Preet Bharara became famous and powerful during the times they served as United States Attorneys.

If the Senate wants to hold up a confirmation because they want the President to reduce the US's involvement in Syria, or because a powerful Senator wants to put a new NASA facility in her state, or other political things like that, that's perfectly allowed.

Central New York's most powerful Republican senator defended Miner, a Democrat, against statements made by Mahoney, a Republican who is closely aligned with the state's most powerful Democrat, Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Senator, he was: Pedro Espada Jr., once the third-most powerful man in New York State.

NEW YORK, NY (08/18/2012)(readMedia)-- Meaningful job creation programs, increasing the minimum wage, strong support for affordable housing, and an overhaul of the way elections are run in New York State are desperately needed, but Governor Cuomo and Senator Skelos, two of the three most powerful politicians in Albany, have refused to respond to the needs of low - income New Yorkers and their communities.

The United Federation of Teachers, one of the most powerful unions in the city, has voted to recommend backing State Senator Adriano Espaillat in his bid to unseat Charlie Rangel, the dean of New York's congressional delegation.

Upset with a state Senate Republican budget plan to boost charter schools, the powerful city and state teachers union bombarded GOP senators last week with nearly 20,000 faxes and 1,500 phone calls warning the plan would damage neighborhood public schools, a city United Federation of Teachers spokeswoman said.

Carl Kruger, the once - powerful New York State senator from Brooklyn who resigned his office in disgrace and pleaded guilty to corruption charges in December, was sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday by a federal judge in Manhattan.

The left - leaning Working Families Party, which has evolved into arguably the most powerful third party in the state, has decided to focus its considerable organizational resources on ousting Mr. Espada and electing a little - known candidate who is running his first race — Jose Gustavo Rivera, 34, a former aide to Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand.

«We hope to demonstrate the powerful benefits to the U.S. agriculture and timber industry of protecting tropical rainforests,» Glenn Hurowitz, Washington director for Avoided Deforestation Partners and director of the Tropical Forest and Climate Coalition, said of the motivation behind the report, which comes just as senators will be heading to their home states for the Memorial Day weekend.

Joaquin Phoenix stars as Joe, a PTSD - suffering veteran working as a hired gun, tasked with rescuing the teenage daughter of a New York state senator from a powerful sex - trafficking ring.

But attempts to remove coal from the fuel mix entirely have been blocked by powerful coal - state Senators Robert C. Byrd (D - W.