Sentences with phrase «than the governor wants»

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«When thought of purely as a payment instrument, it seems more likely to be attractive to those who want to make transactions in the black or illegal economy, rather than everyday transactions,» Governor Philip Lowe said in a speech in Sydney Wednesday.

The speaker has been a lot clearer in his anti-Paterson sentiment of late than Sampson, who was insisting as recently as last night that the governor really truly wants a three - way deal — although that's becoming increasingly harder to believe.

The governor has yet to express what his 2012 focus will be, other than to say he wants to make government more efficient.

The governor himself has argued, though, that he wants the money to fund education, including a proposed plan that would provide free tuition at public colleges for families that earn less than $ 125,000.

Instead, sounding more like President Donald Trump than the Democrats Clinton and Sanders that Cuomo said he wanted to emulate, the governor took a swipe at the New York Times.

He said, for instance, that it's great that Cuomo wants to extend the extra tax on millionaires, but he'd like to see the governor go further and agree to a plan by Assembly Democrats to add higher tax brackets for those making more than $ 5 million and $ 10 million, topping out at $ 100 million.

«I want to be clear about what's happening: rather than go before the members of our State Committee this weekend and make an argument as to why he deserves our endorsement, Governor Cuomo has instead chosen to respond the only way he knows how: retaliating with bullying and threats,» Lipton wrote.»

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 measure contained the governor's earlier allocation of $ 143 million for a downsized Environmental Protection Fund — far less than the $ 168 million the Assembly is proposing, not to mention the $ 222 million the Senate wants.

«It kinds of reminds me of the party and Big Brother — when they want people to be confused, they tell them something totally other than what reality is; there is a crisis,» the governor said.

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.

Then Mr. Cuomo's Lieutenant Governor, Stan Lundine, said at the state Democratic convention that Mr. D'Amato's ethical problems made him «more suited for «America's Most Wanted» than for the United States Senate.»

DeFrancisco says Cuomo, a moderate Democrat, might have an easier time getting along with Republicans in the Senate, rather than with a chamber controlled by Democrats who might want to go further than the governor when it comes to raising the minimum wage, raising taxes on the wealthy, banning hydrofracking and other issues.

Governor Cuomo, wants to approach the topic differently than the gun control laws approved two years ago, which were hastily written and passed early in January.

More than 30 members of the state Assembly have signed a budget letter to their Speaker, Carl Heastie, outlining an alternative version of the free college tuition proposal being championed by Governor Andrew Cuomo that they want Heastie to adopt for the chamber.

«The budget should have one purpose and to go beyond the deadline when we're by law supposed to have a budget, that's more important than to have every policy issue that the governor or the Legislature wants.»

More than six in ten voters — 62 % — do not want former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer to run for mayor in 2013 while 24 % want him to throw his hat into the ring.

Voters also want to raise the minimum wage higher than the governor is proposing, and think he should not exclude minority party leaders, including the only female legislative leader Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins, from budget talks.

«We saw Empire Zones move to cater to where businesses wanted to be rather than have them come to economically disadvantaged areas,» Deutsch said of an economic development program that was a hallmark of Republican Governor George Pataki.

The budget includes a $ 1.5 billion increase in education funding, greater than the $ 961 million the governor proposed in January, but not as much as the $ 2.13 billion that the state Assembly wanted.

Meanwhile, Governor Cuomo, who wants to extend an existing income tax surcharge on New Yorkers making more than $ 1 million a year, in Binghamton defended his opposition to adding even more tax brackets.

I imagine that a governor can reward people who give him what he wants a lot more than the Chairman of a tiny political party.

«I think where the governor came from was he believed he wanted to push off many of the tax credits, more than $ 2 million, and many of those places saw a federal benefit,» he said.

He picked Dinapoli, who has proven to be a great sinecure, and giveaway McCall, and his buddy for Chief Judge and Lt Governor and he wants to borrow and raise taxes and he makes millions in Joe Bruno - like income, but other than that, he's a great guy!

Andrew Cuomo's speech is going to be quite a bit shorter than his father's, but it will no doubt be closely watched and dissected, since the current governor is widely believed to harbor his own White House ambitions, and did not run this year because he did not want to compete with his fellow New Yorker, Clinton.

«When the governor made this announcement (about shared services) at his regional «State of the State» addresses, he wanted people to believe that the prime reason for high property taxes is the existence of local government without acknowledging school taxes and without acknowledging that [New York] imposes more state spending on local property taxpayers than any state in America,» said Molinaro, a former state assemblyman.

«I believe also that this particular special edition is going to go down as a historic edition and I don't want to miss that point because it's something that we must be able to put in all our institutions so like I said we are going to get many copies to be able to give to embassies, our hotels, our schools, our libraries, all our institutions, in the secondary schools and also to be able to keep for those yet unborn to be able to see in pictorial form of the things we have tried to do in the last 50 years and maybe inspire some other people to do greater things than what has been recorded here,» the Governor said.

Voters also want to raise the minimum wage higher than the governor is proposing, and think he should not exclude minority party leaders from budget talks, including the only female legislative leader Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

Instead, sounding more like President Trump than the Democrats Clinton and Sanders that Cuomo said he wanted emulate, the governor took a swipe at the New York Times.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo wants free college tuition for students in families making less than $ 125,000 a year.

«By the same token, too, if the governor wants to work with us, we'll be more than willing to stand with him.

He says, for instance it's great that Cuomo wants to extend the extra tax on millionaires, but he'd like to see the governor go further and agree to a plan by Assembly Democrats to add more higher tax brackets for those making more than $ 5 million, and $ 10 million, topping out at $ 100 million.

The governor on Monday said he didn't want to set up «another expensive prosecutor's office» when the state is already well - served, and that the legal changes agreed to after the commission disbanded justified its shorter - than - expected lifespan.

«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.»

«We worked very very hard to have a more comprehensive bill as part of this budget,» Klein said this morning after Governor Andrew Cuomo's budget announcement, putting it on record, again, that he wanted more progress than he got.

Sampson says he does not think Governor Cuomo wants the perception that «the people in Westchester and Rockland Counties are more important than the people in upstate New York.»

The governor told reporters in November he believed Syracuse residents elected Walsh based on his qualifications rather than his party label, and he wanted to work with the mayor to make improvements in the city.

The former lieutenant governor argued that Hillary Clinton is no better than Donald Trump — and his deplorable «locker room talk» — for worshipping and wanting to «imitate» Beyoncé.

«I'll be happy to stand with the teachers, the students and the parents if the governor wants to have a war,» Ms. Magee continued, adding, «I'm more than confident that we will win.»

Paterson aspired to high public office — although, he has said, he wanted to be U.S. senator from New York, an easier job than being governor — so you may think that he was pretty lucky to be in the right place when Eliot Spitzer got caught in that prostitution scandal.

«If I were the governor, I would look and question whether this is the appointment I would want to make: whether her first obligation might be to the mayor of the City of New York, rather than to the governor who would be appointing her,» Silver told an Albany radio station then.

But the governor's overall vote tally would be closer to 50 % rather than the 60 % or higher total those close to him say he wants.

Cash wants the state to provide an additional $ 40 million, or about $ 27 million more than what the governor has proposed.

Further complicating things is the animosity between Paterson and the Senate Democrats, who don't want to give the governor a win on this issue - even if they might want to deliver for their LGBT allies, who spent more than $ 1 million in 2008 to help them take the majority.

Assembly Democrats and Senate Republicans will want a significant increase, likely more than what Cuomo has proposed, and the governor is using that to his advantage.

That may be enough time to make something happen, but if it hangs for more than a year and the next governor doesn't want to continue this lawsuit, it's finished.

We started off with LESS funding than traditional public schools and now you're complaining because Governor Malloy wants to make ECS funding for charter schools more equitable.

«Free schools are better placed to drive up standards and give parents what they want because they give more control to heads, teachers and governors, rather than politicians and bureaucrats.»

«I'll be happy to stand with the teachers, the students and the parents if the governor wants to have a war,» Ms. Magee continued, adding, «I'm more than confident that we will win.»

«The governor has proposed excellent options to help students succeed at every level; removing barriers for those don't want to settle for anything less than a top - notch education,» Vos said in the statement.