Sentences with phrase «state elected officials over»

The vast majority (88 %) of business leaders continue to say the ethical behavior of state elected officials over the past twenty years has been either a somewhat (40 %) or very serious (48 %) issue.

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Our elected officials on the Federal level are arguing over a «Millionaire's Tax» and now the elected officials on the State level want to do the same?

«If you're going to write 90 checks like he did, then the odds that at least one of those New York State elected officials hasn't been convicted of a crime over the past decade are about as good the odds you pick a NCAA tournament bracket perfectly.»

Several Sanders surrogates and campaign aides — including state Sen. Bill Perkins, of Harlem, who is one of the few New York Democratic elected officials to break ranks and endorse Sanders over Clinton — held a conference call with reporters today, calling Clinton out for waffling on the license issue, while also attacking Sanders» own record on immigration reform.

Paterson's a little late to react to this issue, elected officials from all over the state rushed to condemn the new law last week, and the Rev. Al Sharpton has pledged to challenge it.

He's worked with dozens of Democratic elected officials and campaigns including for Rep. Alan Grayson (D - FL), Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D - NY), Congressman Charlie Rangel (D - NY), New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, the Anybody But Quinn campaign that helped elect New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and over a dozen city council and state legislative races.

Elected officials joined in Manhattan Sunday with advocacy group Riders Alliance and Metropolitan Transportation Authority board member Allen Cappelli over the weekend with their eyes on the new state dollars made possible through -LSB-...]

Former state Sen. Hiram Monserrate showed up to two community events honoring the Ecuadorian community over the weekend as tension and arguments erupted between himself and elected officials and his Assembly primary opponent, Francisco Moya.

Council Member Eric Ulrich, the only city or state Republican elected official representing Queens County continues to support Bo Dietl over Malliotakis.

While Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushes Democrats on the national stage to threaten a government shutdown over gun control, the state's top elected official in Congress disagrees such a tactic is needed.

Their release corresponds with the first joint budget hearing, which was held today and drew local elected officials from all over the state to testify.

Elected officials joined in Manhattan Sunday with advocacy group Riders Alliance and Metropolitan Transportation Authority board member Allen Cappelli over the weekend with their eyes on the new state dollars made possible through the 2013 - 14 budget passed last month, which included an increase of more than $ 358 million for transit.

Over 100 HIV / AIDS activists, community leaders, and elected officials gathered outside City Hall this past Thurs., Jun. 18th to call for New York City to allocate $ 10 million for local HIV prevention and treatment programs that will advance New York State's Blueprint to End the AIDS Epidemic by 2020.

Yegeri also explained the DA's desire for state officials also enact legislation stripping pension, retirement benefits and control over campaign funds from elected officials convicted of a crime, expelled from office, or resign due to a crime committed during their service.

Several of his ethics reform proposals were approved in the most recent state budget, including forcing legislators to reveal all outside sources of income over $ 1,000 and the loss of pension benefits for elected officials convicted of corruption.

(announced Oct. 26, 2015) over 100 elected officials, community, coalition and grassroots leaders including... Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel U.S. Rep. Brian Higgins U.S. Rep. Steve Israel U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks U.S. Rep. Grace Meng U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler U.S. Rep. Charles B. Rangel U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice U.S. Rep. Jose Serrano U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter U.S. Rep. Paul Tonko U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez State Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, Democratic Leader State Sen. Michael Gianaris, Deputy Democratic Leader State Assemblyman Carl Heastie, Speaker State Assemblywoman Earlene Hooper, Deputy Speaker State Assemblyman Joseph Morelle, Majority Leader... 2 of 2 Democratic U.S. Sens. and 18 of 18 Democratic U.S. Reps.

For the first time in my life, I witnessed New York elected officials pound their chest proudly while cutting nearly $ 7 billion in funding for the people they serve, tripping over themselves to cut taxes for millionaires while simultaneously cutting healthcare services for seniors, women, and the disabled and killing jobs across the state.»

Elected officials from all over the state will be descending on Albany for this event, including New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who will be holding a media availability after the speech in Meeting Room 1.

Also at 11:30 a.m., Rebuild NY Now, a broad - based coalition seeking to raise public awareness about the state's infrastructure needs, hosted by Sen. Sue Serino, County Executive Marcus Molinaro and other local elected officials, members of organized labor, Chambers of Commerce and local businesses, will hold a press conference, County Bridge PV - 15, North Ave over Swallow Stream, Pleasant Valley.

The names are mostly unknown to the almost 20 million residents in New York who will have no say over who one of the most powerful elected officials in the state will be.

The fight over Cuomo's education agenda will resume Thursday morning with a rally attended by Mulgrew, other union advocates and elected officials who will call on the state to fulfill its Campaign for Fiscal Equity obligations.

On the one - year anniversary of Gov. Cuomo's 2016 State of the State Address, where he'd pledged 20,000 units of supportive housing over 15 years, faith leaders, elected officials, housing providers and advocates delivered 25,000 messages calling on the Governor to release the promised funds without further delay.

This could likely be due to anger among activists and elected officials on the left over their belief that he is not doing enough to bring breakaway Democrats back into the Democratic fold in the state Senate.

While several of his fellow southern Brooklyn elected officials were criticizing Mayor Bill de Blasio over Hizzoner's decision to allow plans for two charter schools to share space with traditional public schools in Bensonhurst to move forward, state Sen.

Dear Senator Schumer, As an elected official for over 20 years, I am sure you were around when UN Agenda 21 was adopted and began implementation in the United States.

Nearly seven years after a state oversight board took over Nassau's finances because of a multimillion - dollar budget deficit and a credit downgrade, county executive candidates Jack Martins and Laura Curran say it's time for elected officials to take control of Nassau's fiscal future.

«How any elected official in New York state, the governor and others, could've allowed this to continue over the years, is criminal in and of itself,» he said.

UPDATE: Johnson released a lengthy statement in response to the AFL - CIO attack, noting he has been a «strong supporter» of a property tax cap and charter schools, was «proud» to support Tier V — «a move that will save Long Island taxpayers $ 8.5 billion and save this state $ 35 billion over the next three decades» — and has been urging teacher and public sector unions to sit down with elected officials to «hammer out revised wage agreements that reflect the current economic reality.»

COR Development partners and family members have contributed nearly $ 500,000 to Cuomo, state legislators, Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney, judges, the district attorney and other local elected officials over the last 10 years, records show.

JCOPE — set up by Gov. Cuomo in 2011 to «restore public trust» by making sure officials follow state ethics rules — has broad jurisdiction over New York legislators, elected officials, candidates and employees.

We applaud Governor Cuomo for acting on the evidence that has accumulated over the last few months that indicate that Secure Communities is not fulfilling its stated mission as well as evidence that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have misled elected officials in New York and throughout the country.

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — When other elected officials around the city were giving their state of the district speeches back in the summer, City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez decided to postpone his — citing a flurry of staff changes, zoning battles over the controversial Sherman Plaza project and plans to increase bike lanes in the area.

He is one of the principal members of the Unity Team, a group formed by the elected officials of Jackson Heights and Corona, to share ideas and rid the political culture of the infighting left over from former state Sen. Hiram Monserrate, who was convicted of misdemeanor assault in an incident that left his girlfriend's face slashed before being ousted by the Senate.

Mangano backed Cuomo for re-election in 2014 over Republican Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, and even got a cute cameo in a montage of elected officials praising the governor ahead of his State of the State speech this past January.

Were both Term Limits and the Two - hat Rule in place for all elected officials in the County of Rockland and in the Town of Clarkstown, including the elected County and Town positions of Highways Superintendent, the disgraceful state of affairs in which a County Legislator is being paid over $ 100,000 of taxpayers» money to perform the duties of a «Confidential Secretary» in the Town of Clarkstown would not be occurring.

The Executive Ethics Board enforces the Ethics In Public Service Act, RCW The Board has jurisdiction over dating former supervisor elected officials and state.

The angst is palpable among state officials — especially the elected kind — over the threat of soaring failure rates, and not just among the poor and dispossessed.

The debate over a school choice bill in the Missouri legislature has opened a bitter rift among some of the state's top black elected officials.

He sued Louisiana's elected state board of education for ceding the state's authority over curriculum and tests to Common Core's constellation of unelected private and federal officials.

«Utah's elected officials have deliberately and consciously adopted policy decisions that have eroded funding of our public schools over the past 20 years,» stated Josh Kanter, founder of the Alliance for a Better Utah.

Don Anthony, spokesman for the Fort Lauderdale - based nonprofit group Animal Rights Foundation of Florida, has accompanied Lazarow to dozens of commission meetings over the years to help pitch the ban to elected officials throughout the state.

all the way up to the state and national level by calling on our elected officials to hold irresponsible pet guardians and pet breeders accountable and to put measures into place that would phase in the choice of shelter and rescue adoption over pet purchase, like Pheonix, Ariz. recently did by banning the sale of dogs and cats in pet stores.

Over 750 leading national, state, tribal, and local organizations and elected officials wrote to Congress to urge a funding extension of the bipartisan Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV program).