Sentences with phrase «supports wresting»

Mr. Fulop said he supports wresting control of city schools from the state eventually, but his initial plans include diverting a portion of local revenues collected from tax - abated properties to city - school recreational programs and finding space for more charter schools (the city has about 10 charters now, with one slated to close.)

Not exact matches

says, «While we applaud the good faith attempts of the loyal Dems and the progressive labor leader, Hector Figueroa, to unify their party, wrest control of the Senate from the joint control of the Party of Trump and the IDC / Trump Dems, all in order to advance the people's agenda, and while we would support an honest and fair deal for an immediate rapprochement, we must object to this cynical and calculated ploy which unnecessarily perpetuates the disgraceful status quo until effectively the end of the budget process and possibly even the end of session.

George Albro of New York Progressive Action Network (NYPAN) says, «While we applaud the good faith attempts of the loyal Dems and the progressive labor leader, Hector Figueroa, to unify their party, wrest control of the Senate from the joint control of the Party of Trump and the IDC / Trump Dems, all in order to advance the people's agenda, and while we would support an honest and fair deal for an immediate rapprochement, we must object to this cynical and calculated ploy which unnecessarily perpetuates the disgraceful status quo until effectively the end of the budget process and possibly even the end of session.

The GOP, which voted in a bloc against the marriage bill in spite of advocates» claims that there was support from four or more minority conference members for the legislation, is unlikely to engaged it fragile hold on the majority — if it manages to wrest it back from the Democrats — by taking up this controversial bill.

Many advocates have pinned their hopes on getting the IDC, whose four members all support GENDA, to use their influence as a junior partner in the governing coalition to wrest an agreement to bring the measure to the floor.

Cuomo was able to wrest the WFP line from Zephyr Teachout in 2014 by leveraging the support of the party's unions, whose members split power on the state committee with progressive activists.

Cuomo «supports a convention in theory, but wants to find a real way to wrest it out of the hands of insiders,» Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi said Thursday.

One of Ms. Argento's companies also gave $ 10,000 to the Putnam County Democratic Committee in October 2014, when the mayor was urging his donors to support Democratic efforts to wrest control of the State Senate.

Now, adding fuel to the fire, while investors expected OPEC to stabilize markets, as usual, the cartel announced after its November meeting that it would not cut supply to support prices and the Saudi oil minister stated there would be no intervention in oil markets even if prices dropped to $ 20 a barrel — at which point animal spirits and hedge funds betting on continued oil price increases wrested control from supply / demand fundamentals.