Sentences with phrase «special interests running»
Cuomo not only avoided the multimillion - dollar waves of TV ads by public employee unions and hospitals that sunk the last three governors, but he had special interests running ads praising him, after he promised concessions including a «living wage» guarantee for health care union workers and a cap on medical malpractice awards.
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The only countervailing power is that within the Republican Party a fringe of tea partiers threatens to run against more established candidates safely sold to special interests.
It is extremely hard for our President to run a country of such diversity and yet play the violin for each and every special interest group that steps upon his welcome mat.
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Of course, advertisers can target by interest as well as by demographics, running ads only on special - interest sites or on special - interest sections of mass - audience and news sites.
Some say I am crazy to run on such a specific platform; you'll alienate every special interest they say.
«When Republicans ran Albany the people were shut out, and special interests ruled the roost.
Manhattan Democratic Party Chair Keith Wright, who abdicated his Assembly seat last year to unsuccessfully pursue retired Rep. Charles Rangel's post, confirmed he's interested in running to replace Sen. Bill Perkins, who is expected to win a special election to fill the NYC Council vacancy created when Assemblywoman Inez Dickens was elected to Wright's old seat.
In the U.S., our radios and televisions run back - to - back ads from candidates and special interests in the months leading up to Election Day.
Holtzman added, «I began public service running against corruption and the control of special interests and it's an interesting twist of fate that the independent and no nonsense approach that I brought to politics over 30 years ago is now more relevant than ever.
It is well known that those candidates who collude with special interest groups are better placed to run extravagant electoral campaigns — often devoid of any real content — and that the same interest groups that donate to candidates will later on demand privileges and benefits from them.
«Some say I am crazy to run on such a specific platform; you'll alienate every special interest they say,» Levy says in the ad (the full transcript appears after the jump).
As for Cuomo's campaign for governor, Lazio said it's «paid for an run by the special interest groups because he's a creature of Albany; he always will be.»
The New York State Rifle and Pistol Association calls for gun owners to vote against the Convention because it «will be run by New York City special interest groups.»
Another conservative House lawmaker — Rep. Trent Franks of Arkansas — is calling for special counsel Robert Mueller to resign, arguing that he has a conflict of interest that should disqualify him from running the Department of Justice's probe of potential connections between Trump's surrogates and the Kremlin.
«New York State government is now a government run by the lobbyists and special interests when it should be working for the people.
Doug Biviano, running for Assembly in the 52nd District in Brooklyn, said that he hoped that Teachout, «as an expert in corruption,» would be looking into the «special interest relationships, the power grabs behind all this.»
Kallos emphasized thatpublic campaign financing allows «idealist candidates who are reformers to get elected without being in debt to the very special interest we are running against.»
A new study from the Campaign Finance Institute by Professor Michael Malbin concludes that the cost of running a public financing system in New York State would be roughly $ 40 million, which works out to $ 2 per New Yorker — not a bad trade considering the millions more the state government wastes in handouts to special interests.
In the wake of Trump's shocking primary victory, Heaney is also running as «a businessman and political outsider not beholden to special interests.»
The 30 - second spot, which runs through Sept. 17, blasts Ayotte for «helping the Washington special interests, not you,» charging the freshman Republican with supporting tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas.
A spokesman for Schneiderman, whom the Post slammed for accepting support from the special interests he would have to investigate as AG and running a liberal campaign that has George Soros» seal of approval, declined to comment but did confirm the senator did not interview prior to today's endorsement editorial.
He and announced his intent to run again in 2017 with a strategy of seeking small donations to avoid the influence of special interests and focusing on the issues.
At least five potential GOP nominees — including four from Southold — have expressed interest in running in the special election to replace former Assemblyman Dan Losquadro, local party leaders said.
But as Andrew Cuomo runs a campaign blasting those ethereal and un-named special interests so effectively mucking things up in Albany, he has dealt gingerly with 1199, which represents thousands of employees at hospitals and nursing homes and screams bloody murder when state officials mention tweaks to the state's health care budget.
«Andrew Heaney is running for Congress to break the grip of the «special interests, big corporations and insiders like John Faso on Washington,» Catalfamo said.
Unless the situation is satisfactorily resolved in the public interests, the government runs the risk of being viewed as beholden to special interests and out of touch with the public good.»
Yet eight months later, according to the February 13, 2017 New York Post article «Low voter turnout expected for special election to fill Harlem city council seat» it stated that «Construction and development executive Brian Benjamin, chairman of Community Board 10 and finance chair of the Manhattan Democratic Party, has expressed interest in running» for State Senate.
A man at the front asked Faso if he'd be interested in running in a special election for what will soon be Alan Hevesi's old job.
But it made it possible for some candidates to run for state office, in some races, without constantly dealing with lobbyist and special - interest money.
«I am running because the people of Pasco and Pinellas counties need someone who will put them first, someone who knows what it means to get up every morning, go to work and earn a living, someone who is not beholden to Tallahassee politicians and their special interest handlers,» Murphy said in a news release.
Karen Scharff of Citizen Action New York says public campaign financing would save the government money in the long run by driving out special interest spending.
«In the end, we would save more money than we would spend by having a public financing system that allows people to run based on contributions from ordinary citizens rather than from special interest looking for something in return from the federal or state budget,» she said.
In the long run, however, New Yorkers pay a much higher bill for the favors that legislators routinely — if honestly — are willing to do for powerful special interests.
«We keep electing the same people to run who are only focused on the special interests.»
New Yorkers Against Corruption believes the convention will be run by the same politicians, lobbyists and special interest groups who have led to Albany's dysfunction.
He would attack the mayor's corruption allegations, ties to special interest, and how he is «spending the city into oblivion» if he were to run, Garodnick allies say, but they concede it would be difficult to unseat de Blasio because crime rates remain low.
He said Wednesday that he's interested, but he can't commit to running in a special election just yet.
The matching funds program is meant to encourage New Yorkers to run for office or help candidates rely on donations from city residents as opposed to special interests with large pockets.
``... I ran for Governor against Eliot Spitzer, a Democratic Attorney General with a reputation for high - profile investigations and flush with special interest cash, who was viewed as inevitable,» Faso wrote.
«The politicians and pundits... they want to know how you are doing in antiseptic polls before a campaign has even been run and they want to know how much money you've collected from the special interests and the Albany insiders,» Paterson continued.
To run ads of your own to compete with the special interests — to stand up and fight with me,» he said.
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He ran on a standard - issue bad - times platform: he wanted to «rein in wasteful state spending» and «reform state government so it starts working for the people and not the special interests.»
I run for Congress and ask for your support to vote because I know I can shape the future to our needs and not special interests.»
As a member of the State Senate, I'll hold special interests accountable, and stand up to the Legislature's Trump - style agenda,» said Pilon, a former prosecutor who now runs an injury law firm.
If I should run for such an office, I am requesting the honor and privilege of being among those who can say they came to office free of special interest money.»
The candidates would either opt in to running entirely with an equal state grant of Clean Money or opt out to run on private donations from special interests or self - financed (e.g., Bloomberg, Spitzer).
«For her part Kirsten will be focused on running a positive campaign based on her core values like rewarding work again in our country, getting the special interest money out of politics by rejecting corporate PAC donations and fighting on behalf of all New Yorkers who need a voice as she successfully did for the 9/11 first responders,» Caplin said.
«My special interest is in the fact that the civil service is the engine room that runs the government and everything that is achieved by the government takes its root from the civil service.