Sentences with phrase «scandal over governor»

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The governor also wants to reform the state's contracting process to address a scandal in his office over economic development contracts.

The Spitzer administration stuck to this pledge, but was gone in just over a year, undone by the governor's prostitution scandal.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's opponents in the November election race are stepping up accusations over the ethics commission scandal and citing sections of state law that they say might have been broken by the governor's aides.

When I pointed out that if Levy had been governor at this moment, we might very well be facing yet another gubernatorial investigation that could have cost the state its top executive — something that might very well drive scandal - weary New Yorkers right over the edge, Cox said:

The last two governors also found themselves in ethical trouble - Eliot Spitzer resigned over a prostitution scandal and David Paterson was fined for ethical lapses.

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, said that the real scandal over the Buffalo Bills is not that Astorino prefers the Miami Dolphins but that the new owner made his fortune fracking for natural gas and contributing to climate change.

Albany has seen a parade of scandals over the past decade: Two sitting governors; three of the past four Senate Majority Leaders; the Speaker of the Assembly; a state Comptroller; -LSB-...]

Kaehny said the governor also should focus more on fixes to address a scandal in his own administration over economic development contracts.

Last spring, after Albany's long season of scandals, plus a battering from the state teachers union over evaluations and Common Core, the governor was on the defensive, his poll numbers falling.

Following the rightful public concern over the recent slate of scandals, the governor took action.»

Former New York State Lt. Gov. David Paterson, who took over as governor when Spitzer resigned amid scandal, weighed in on Spitzer's new bid for office on Monday afternoon but withheld any type of endorsement.

The governors of New York and New Jersey exert influence over the authority's operations, however, as indicated in emails published recently by the public radio station WNYC, which show intense interaction between the Cuomo administration and Foye in the wake of the George Washington Bridge scandal.

Nine former Cuomo associates, including the governor's former closest aide, also face trials within the next year over an economic development corruption scandal.

According to private eye Bo Deitel, who was also on hand, «the whole neighborhood turned out» for Paterson, who remains popular in his Harlem home despite the scandal cloud that continues to hang over his head (remember: Chief Judge Judith Kaye may have cleared the governor of criminal wrongdoing in the David Johnson mess, but hasn't yet issued a report on his Yankees tickets debacle).

The poll has not recorded approval numbers for a politician this low since former Governor Eliot Spitzer, resigned over a prostitution scandal in 2008.

Cox also bashed Cuomo over the ongoing scandal in New York that has threatened to swallow the Democrat's once - imperturbable administration: U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara «s criminal charges against nine of the governor's top aides and donors, which allege extensive corruption in Cuomo's economic development initiatives.

Everybody meant well, and the crowd was positive about what it did not want: Eliot Spitzer, who, despite entering the race late and resigning as governor over a prostitution scandal, leads Stringer slightly in the polls.

We are still mulling over what he wrote, but we are struck by how cynical it was for the governor to begin his statement with a long attack on CUNY and an attempt to create a false equivalence between CUNY's problems and the $ 800m bid rigging scandal centered around SUNY Polytechnic, SUNY Research Foundation, and state controlled non-profits controlled by his administration.

Spitzer, who quit as governor over a 2008 prostitution scandal, has denied Travis» allegations against him.

By Eric M. Johnson (Reuters)-- Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer and his wife, Silda Wall Spitzer, said they are ending their marriage, more than five years after she stood by his side as the embattled Democrat resigned from office over a prostitution scandal.

As for his short tenure as governor (just over 14 months, to be exact), there's not a peep about the prostitution scandal that drove Spitzer from office.

In a joint Christmas Eve statement, the former New York governor and the woman who very generously stood next to him as he resigned over a prostitution scandal confirmed what everyone already knew: «We regret that our marital relationship has come to an end and we have agreed not to make any other public statement on this subject.»

Video has emerged of the April 1 roast of former New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne attended by Chris Christie, in which many of the speakers uncomfortably rattled the governor over the Bridgegate Governor Brendan Byrne attended by Chris Christie, in which many of the speakers uncomfortably rattled the governor over the Bridgegate governor over the Bridgegate scandal.

ALBANY — Three weeks after Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration was engulfed in scandal over his office's handling of the Moreland Commission on Public Corruption, only a third of New Yorkers have heard of the now - defunct ethics panel.

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer won the September 10, 2013 Democratic primary with 52 % of the vote, defeating former New York State Governor, Eliot Spitzer, who had been forced to resign as governor over various sGovernor, Eliot Spitzer, who had been forced to resign as governor over various sgovernor over various scandals.

Paterson, who took over as governor after Spitzer resigned amid a hooker scandal, was heading toward a primary showdown this fall with Cuomo.

The two discuss the recent debate over distribution of Homeland Security funding, Governor George Pataki's presidential prospects and Sweeney's stance on the recent scandal involving Democratic Congressman William Jefferson.

Paterson took over as governor when Spitzer had to resign due to a scandal that shocked NY.

The Republican running against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo blasted Chris Christie on Tuesday for dismissing his race as a lost cause — and suggested the two Northeastern governors are in cahoots as they deal with the fallout over the Bridgegate scandal.

The second set of proceedings in less than a week come after Governor Andrew Cuomo, among others, called on the ethics panel to investigate a sexual harassment scandal that centered on Assemblyman Vito Lopez, who was censured by an assembly committee over alleged sexual harassment charges.

They look at the governor, saying Cuomo has failed to capitalize on major public outcry over scandal and not used his bully pulpit to push reform.

Despite the governor's strong reservations about the plan in place to take over Mr. Silver's duties — and his repeated urging that the scandal not get in the way of the functioning of government — Mr. Cuomo did not call for Mr. Silver to resign his post as speaker, as some, including speaker candidate Assembly Keith Wright, have begun to do this week.

The Trojan Horse scandal over the influence of extremist ideology in Birmingham schools has thrown the role of school governors into stark relief.