Sentences with phrase «running against the state government»

Mr. Cuomo is running against the state government, though it is controlled by his fellow Democrats, and he has laid out policies that put him on a collision course with some labor unions that have been reliable Democratic allies.

Not exact matches

There's Cyber Shangri - La (all the hackers unplug, pack up their laptops, and head home), Leviathan (governments lock down digital borders and impose state regulations), Clockwork Orange (ransacking runs rampant), and Independent (companies and other entities police the Internet and fight back against their tormentors).

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver insists Democratic gubernatorial designee Andrew Cuomo isn't running against the Legislature, but rather against Albany, writ large, and a general feeling of frustration with state government as a whole.

The Bradley effect (less commonly the Wilder effect) is a theory concerning observed discrepancies between voter opinion polls and election outcomes in some United States government elections where a white candidate and a non-white candidate run against each other.

Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, who is considering a run for governor against Cuomo, says the governor spent too much time making the federal government «the whipping boy» for the state's problems, and he called the payroll tax proposal a «gimmick.»

The Populist Party ran candidates in the United States from 1984 through 1994, on a platform that suggested that whites are discriminated against by many government policies.

«Astorino needs to run against facts, statistics and math: it's an empirical fact that state government is working better than it was four years ago.

Railing against mandated state spending on the local level — often seen as a top driver of high property taxes for municipal governments — is part and parcel with running for office in New York.

Finally, I think that the Sununu would win over Shaheen but the bigger chance is that the governor will run against Sununu and unless the N.H. state government collapses into crisis that should be a disaster for the GOP.

Cuomo, who is positioning himself for a potential 2020 presidential run, wants to prohibit taxpayer funds being used to settle harassment allegations against individuals, bar secrecy of such settlements, create a uniform sexual harassment policy for all parts of state and local government and create an anonymous whistleblower tip line for individuals to report misconduct.

Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, who is considering a run for governor against Cuomo, said the governor spent too much time making the federal government «the whipping boy» for the state's problems, and he called the payroll tax proposal a «gimmick.»

The government reform group noted that Lanza since his first run for state Senate in 2006 has accepted at least $ 113,000 in LLC money coming from real estate, lobbying and other interests — including $ 34,000 from Glenwood Management, which were players in the recent legal cases against now former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

Now 42, Dutton contested his first election as a 19 year - old, running against state Labor Deputy Leader Tom Burns in his safe seat of Lytton at the 1989 election that brought the Goss government to office.

After announcing his intentions to run for the attorney general's position, Humbach said New York state residents suffered another blow against their confidence in government.

Individual members of the GOP have to feel the hypocrisy of supporting state takeover in education while running on platforms against government encroachment in health care and taxes.

The state government has authorized a number of charter schools against the wishes of local communities in recent years, some of which have run into financial and legal trouble, like Tri-Valley and Celerity.

He writes that arbitrary arrests, which are permitted under the official state of emergency that's existed for decades, are among the longest - running complaints that Egyptians have against their government.

While this looks like a good deal for governments in the short run, in the long run it has led governments to exercise less oversight of what these secretariats do, and arguably gives secretariats an incentive to be more entrepreneurial, which tends to help generate more cases against states in the long run.