Sentences with phrase «than the governor does»

«With a tax plan where the ultra-rich continue to get tax breaks, I pay a higher percentage of my salary in income taxes than the governor does and I don't make anywhere near what he does,» Newell said.

«So he made his statement in terms of universal pre-kindergarten and how it all eventually comes out is another question once we in the legislature get our hands on the budget because we have different ways of wanting to spend money let's say than the governor does and that's what the budget process is all about, negotiation, compromise and having an on time budget by April 1.»

Not exact matches

As governor of the nation, Trump would need to surround himself with politically experienced people and be willing to work with both Democrats and Republicans who hold different opinions and values than he does in order to get things done.

Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Philip Lowe said this month that the fascination with cryptocurrencies «feels more like speculative mania than it has to do with their use» as a form of payment.

The governor did not specify how he intended to enforce his order other than by directing state and local agencies to refuse emergency assistance and other services to anyone who remained at the site.

«When you do outdoor events,» says Russell, who went to high school across the river on 98th Street and played sports on Governors Island's athletic fields as a kid, «you are expected, both contractually and on a personal level, to return the park in the same condition, if not better than, it was in when you first took it over.

«This is one of those things that's really difficult to test on the ground,» said Musk, looking much more energetic than he did at a National Governor's Association meeting last Saturday.

Here's a notion: A governor who was interested in keeping jobs in Wisconsin might have responded immediately and aggressively in early October rather than simply expecting that there was plenty of time for setting up meetings and then, when the meetings did not come together, letting things slide.

Canada wasn't the focus of the panel discussion the governor was participating in, but Carney did hint, in passing, that the BoC is willing to put up with higher than two per cent inflation in order to avoid hurting highly indebted Canadian households by raising interest rates too quickly.

Not you in particular snowboarder, but so very many people on here believe that Romney is going bring his faith into his position so much more as president than he did as governor.

While there are plenty of legitimate policy reasons that evangelicals might support Governor Romney, their willingness to overlook their desire for a coreligionist candidate may also have at least something to do with the fact that 24 % of them — higher than any other religious group — believe Obama is a Muslim, and even more are unaware (or unconvinced?)

Years later, when Gov. Perry actively supported the death penalty and cuts in government programs for the poor - positions that clashed with the more progressive stances of the United Methodist Church - some fellow Methodists speculated that Paint Creek's cultural conservatism shaped the governor more than his church did.

They did so, however, in a ruling that did more than merely remind the Governor and other state officials that they had «no power to nullify a federal court order.»

In other words, it sometimes seems like the governor would prefer a negotiated settlement on redistricting than an all - out war with the Legislature, which, particularly if the DOJ doesn't grant the state a waiver and requires the 2012 primaries to be moved from September into the summer (the Assembly Democrats are angling for June, the Senate Republicans for August), could come smack in the middle of budget negotiations.

Even during joint legislative budget hearings, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle were unable to get much in the way of detail out of members of the Cuomo administration, though they did — in some cases — get more than what the governor included in his budget documents.

«We have a governor who is richer than the state, a governor who has over N4 billion in his account he is the only one who can explain what he has done with all the funds he had received from federal authorities.

«Unfortunately, the Governor and the Assembly Speaker care more about keeping teenage drug gang members, murderers and rapists out of jail than they do about funding our public schools, providing tax relief for our families and rebuilding our infrastructure,» said Sen. Tom Croci, a Long Island Republican.

«Obviously, the vision is there, the plan is there but again it is not driven by anything than the citizens themselves and the area that we need improvement is for citizens to have trust or confidence that the taxes they are paying will be returned back in terms of infrastructure but I can tell you that I am also concerned; I see a lot of things I don't like but I am inhibited by the amount of money I have,» Governor Ambode said.

Rather, the Governor's changes are doing nothing more than confusing and possibly excluding individuals who benefit from these programs.»

«I do believe the notion of Trump running for governor is still more of a fantasy than a reality, but it's something he's strongly considering.

The fact that politics in New York is largely dominated by Democrats these days, more so than it has been in 20 years when you had Republican governors and mayors, does not mean all is well.

This state law could be changed, but you would need more than the bare legislative majority you propose - you'd need enough votes to override the inevitable veto (the governor isn't on your side, since you don't have half the state's population.)

«The Governor is most interested in having the people's business attended to and believes if there is to be a special session the legislators should do more than merely reauthorize a committee to consider their pay raise,» said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi in a statement.

It took more than a month for actress - activist Cynthia Nixon to bring her Democratic primary campaign for governor to New York's second largest city — Buffalo — but once she got there, she did not waste time in lambasting Cuomo.

Zephyr Teachout primaried the governor of New York and did very well, she is reams more qualified than her opponent.

As with Dinapoli, the governor did his best to foul up the attorney general's election, informally backing a primary opponent and then declining to endorse his ticket - mate in the general election until more than a week after the primary.

The governor and Mulgrew may have a better relationship now even than de Blasio does with the UFT — the union has put increasing distance between its leaders and City Hall in recent years.

The new regulations, agreed upon last month as part of a much bigger budget compromise between legislative leaders and the governor, will do little to halt the erosion of middle - income housing in New York City, and are more dangerous to landlords in principle than in practice.

The governor's plan was «encouraging,» he continued, but it was still «different than what we intend to do.»

But fewer than half think the governor is doing a good job in office, and, if the state's Working Families Party follows through on threats to run a progressive leaning candidate on a third party line, Siena's Steve Greenberg says the race becomes much closer, to just a 15 point lead for Cuomo.

More than eight in ten voters don't want to hear about a potential Cuomo presidential candidacy, preferring that he prove he can succeed as governor first.

The battle between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio rages on, with the governor delivering a shot at City Hall by claiming he and state lawmakers have done more to aid Big Apple schools than the mayor and the NYC Council.

Following an interview with Talk 1300 WGDJ - AM, Skelos slammed the governor, accusing him of being «being hysterical rather than being constructive in trying to get a budget done.»

Cuomo this year is breaking with tradition by taking his State of the State on the road, rather than in the Capitol complex as he and previous recent governors have done.

Governor Ambode said experience over the years has shown that societies with equal and unhindered access to justice have a better environment for economic growth and poverty alleviation than those that do not.

Rather than stand up to the governor, my state senator — like most politicians in this city, in both parties — has taken the coward's way out, doing nothing for straphangers who pay escalating fares for service that is nothing short of catastrophic.

«No governor in recent history has done more to restore the credibility of Albany and the Capital Region than Andrew Cuomo has, by delivering results and making Albany an attractive city to work and visit,» said Vlasto, who had been at the game.

Perhaps Mr. Pataki's attempting to improve his standing in the history books by helping to ensure there's at least one governor capable of doing even more lasting damage to New York than he managed to inflict himself.

Kaehny says the governor needs to do more than that.

A lot of angry lawmakers say Governor Cuomo is more focused on White House aspirations than getting anything done in the state Capitol lately.

Democrats say it doesn't go far enough, but say in some aspects it is better than a proposal by Governor Cuomo, who has asked that anti-sexual harassment measures be considered as part of the state budget.

«It is not a surprise to anyone that New York's tax climate hinders business growth, but no one has done more to change that than Governor Andrew Cuomo.

I don't know how to appreciate the good work of the governor than to join his party to move the state forward.»

«Most voters continue to view Cuomo as an ideological moderate, and by a four - to - one margin, they continue to trust the governor more than the Legislature to do the right thing for New York.»

I've done more for upstate economic development than any governor in the history of the state of New York and I am so proud of that.»

we are saying that consolidation should occur in order to save the taxpayers real money rather than as a political vendetta against a few politicians that didn't vote the way our illustrious Governor wanted them to.

If Cuomo doesn't have more important things to do than meet with brawling bimbos, we should find a governor who does.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, by the Governor's Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, he described Lai Mohammed as «an embodiment of contradictions, who speaks from several sides of his mouth, turning himself to a vegetable while struggling to defend a government that has done more evil than good to Nigeria and its people.»

However, she also said the breakaway conference would be more than happy to sit down with the governor — if specifically asked to do so.

Responding to a question about whether Vice President Kwesi Amissah - Arthur, an economist and former Governor of the Bank of Ghana, really had intended responding to the former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana's several claims on the economy, as had circulated on social media days after the lecture, Mrs Bawa Mogtari said: «I'm sure you heard the vice president say clearly that any individual, genuine economist could have done a much better job than the flag bearer or the acting flag bearer of the NPP».