Sentences with phrase «than any other state legislator»

Prosecutors in former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's public corruption case have asked for him to be sentenced to prison for longer than any other state legislator guilty of public corruption.

Not exact matches

Through the years, zealous legislators have, among other things, forced Catholics to fund Protestant public schools, Jews to conform to sectarian Sunday laws, non-Christians to recognize the national holiday of Christmas, and Mormons and Indians to observe laws of the state rather than the requirements of their faith.

Bill Hammond: «State legislators have taken their mania for insurance mandates to a new extreme: They've passed a bill that arguably accomplishes nothing other than covering unnecessary mammograms.»

[25] They currently have about 223 elected officials, more than any of the other minor parties, including 4 state legislators.

ALBANY — John DeFrancisco might have failed in his attempt to win the title of president pro tempore of the New York State Senate this year, but he did succeed in eliciting more laughs in floor debates than any other legislator in 2015.

The memo cited «the egregiousness of Silver's conduct and the need for deterrence» in suggesting a sentence «greater than any sentence imposed on other New York state legislators convicted of public corruption offenses.»

Bharara's office is recommending a sentence significantly longer than those imposed on other convicted state legislators, according to Politico.

But that disagreement morphed into open warfare yesterday as Commission Co-Chair Kathleen Rice lashed out at one of the dissenters, Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney, all but accusing her of lying when it comes to the commission's ability — and willingness — to include anyone other than state legislators in its public corruption probe.

They asked that he receive a sentence greater than the terms that had been «imposed on other New York State legislators convicted of public corruption offenses.»

No other state has more legislators forced out of office by ethical or criminal issues than New York, according to a study...

LOWER MANHATTAN — Prosecutors want disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to spend at least 14 years in prison — more than any jail term given to other convicted New York state legislators — for his conviction on corruption charges, according to papers filed in federal court Wednesday.

The cornerstone of that argument, and the way Cuomo sees himself as different and potentially more viable than more obvious 2020 prospects like Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Sherrod Brown or even home - state Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has always been that Cuomo gets done what other politicians — usually legislators — simply talk about.

The companies, their owners and other businesses they control have contributed more than $ 200,000 to Mangano and county legislators of both parties over the past decade, state records show.

In the court documents, prosecutors said that a range of 22 to 27 years in prison would not be «unreasonable» and asked the federal judge to impose prison time «greater than any sentence imposed on other New York state legislators convicted of public corruption offenses.»

But prosecutors did recommend a prison term «greater than any sentence imposed on other New York state legislators convicted of public corruption offenses.»

Go ahead and lobby your county legislator and / or state legislator to finance this and put into place all the necessary procedures to accomplish this if you must, along with all the other financing and procedures (you'll need extra computers at each polling location, people to transport same to each polling place, internet connections established at least for election night at each location, and additional procedures in place to ensure the process is both secure and honest, and likely buchu poll watchers (many more than commonly appear as of now).

More than a dozen state legislators, legislative officials and other insiders interviewed by the Daily News give credit to Preet Bharara for targeting Albany wrongdoing but are fuming over what they say is the powerful prosecutor's publicity seeking, tarring of the entire Legislature, and wading into governance issues far beyond the scope of his office.

They also urged the sentence be longer than any imposed on other New York State legislators convicted of corruption charges.

Pointing out state Assemblyman Dan Stec, R - Queensbury, who is much taller than several other legislators he walked in with, Ryan called him «the gigantic Dan Stec who represents Queensbury.»

Questions during the Q&A portion of the press conference included his plans during his scheduled visit to Albany on March 4th, why he expects to convince legislators who he has not convinced, whether he's concerned that the middle school program will be pushed aside if there is a pre-K funding mechanism other than his proposed tax, where the money to fund the middle school program will come from, how he counters the argument that his tax proposal is unfair to cities that do not have a high earner tax base, how he will measure the success of the program absent additional standardized testing, whether he expects to meet with Governor Cuomo or Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos during his March 4th trip, what he would say to a parent whose child planned on attending one of the charter schools that his administration refused to allow, whether he doubts Governor Cuomo's commitment or ability to deliver on the funding the governor has promised, what are the major hurdles in trying to convince the state senate to approve his tax proposal, whether there's an absolute deadline for getting his tax proposal approved, whether he can promise parents pre-K spots should Governor Cuomo's proposal gointo effect, and why he has not met with Congressman Michael Grimm since taking office.

The two state legislators face off against each other, and against more than a half - dozen other candidates, in voting booths across upper Manhattan and the Bronx today.

Twenty years ago state legislators began to approve charter schools in order to give families public school options other than their district or neighborhood schools.

Now, in a mailing that looks surprisingly similar to the glossy campaign pieces Luke Bronin has been sending out to Hartford voters comes a expensive lobbyist - funded brochure telling state legislators that they did a great job when they decided to fund privately owned charter schools... rather than doing what they should have done and provided Hartford and Connecticut's other cities and towns with the money needed to adequately fund local schools.

Perhaps there's some purpose to naming a state dog — other than as a favor to friends or supporters, other than providing a little fun for state legislators — but I don't immediately see it.

In all Pennsylvania cases other than the 1803 Addison case, state legislators have consistently agreed that simply allowing a «bad» act to serve as the basis for a judge's removal, with no evidence of malicious intent, would allow the legislature to remove any judges with whose decisions it disagreed.

Likewise, Chris Walsh (D - Framingham) commented in the Framingham Source that «recognizing that one - third of the residents in the Commonwealth currently do not have access to a Housing Court, working with the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute and other groups, we crafted legislation to expand the Housing Court across the entire state, that has been supported both by the entire Framingham legislative delegation and more than 50 legislators.»

Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and other Broward County schools spent the day meeting with legislators and other leaders in the state Capitol less than a week after a former student was accused of carrying out the deadly attack in Parkland.