Sentences with phrase «salary as an assemblyman»

Hoyt left the Assembly when Cuomo hired him for a post at Empire State Development that paid $ 154,000 — almost double his $ 79,500 base salary as an assemblyman.

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During this year's negotiations over 421 - a renewal, the assemblyman introduced legislation that would have required recipients of the tax break to pay these contractors a prevailing wage, a proposal critics derided as unnecessary and counterproductive in an industry where workers are already paid substantially more than an average worker's salary.

He was, for the record, collecting more from his pension that he was in state salary, but I think the point here is that taking away his pension that dates back prior to his crime (recall that he was an assemblyman and also NYC comptroller prior to his election in 2002) strikes some people as unfair.