Sentences with phrase «sweetheart contracts»

Mr. Jeffries argued to the Observer today that the governor's policy successes had «absolutely» earned him billing at the Philadelphia conclave, despite the probe into whether the state handed handed sweetheart contracts to Mr. Cuomo's campaign donors through the Buffalo Billion program in Western New York.

After falling heavily last year on the two most powerful legislators in the state, ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, it seemed to pass over Gov. Andrew Cuomo — though the prosecutor is still reportedly peering into potential sweetheart contracts for donors in Buffalo.

Most important, where is the real mandate relief from Albany's sweetheart contracts with public employees?»

Not surprisingly, the teachers» union has endorsed a slate of union - friendly candidates, hoping to defeat Doreen and Bartola and their questioning of a proposed sweetheart contract granting teachers a 5 percent retroactive pay increase and 8 percent pay increases for the next several years.

The market is of course never quite as free as ideologues like to think; cheating, fraud, misrepresentaion, sweetheart contracts, bribes, extortion, etc. are as old as the marketplace itself.

It's $ 4.36 million haul included $ 350,000 from the teachers union just before de Blasio gave the union a sweetheart contract.

ACORN staffer Peter Nagy worked on the Rose campaign for three months under a «sweetheart contract (that) was below market value,» the complaint said.

And if they're right — if teachers get the right to choose whether or not to pay dues to a union — then AFT would presumably have a harder time making a $ 350,000 contribution to Bill de Blasio's campaign chest moments before he handed UFT a sweetheart contract worth an additional $ 9 million.