Sentences with phrase «top appointee»

Some of Cuomo's top appointees began working even before they took office as they secretly filled dozens of top jobs last week in several state agencies.

Bill Cunningham, a former communications director under Mayor Bloomberg, said while it wasn't unusual to see top appointees shifted within government, maintaining a top salary isn't the norm.

Politicians and their top appointees: That's who created CCSS.

Lead presenters include Morgan Barth, one of Stefan Pryor's top appointees at the State Department of Education and State Board of Education member Stephen Wright.

This is evident in the rejection of the undeniable reality of climate change by many of Trump's top appointees, the promotion to power of individuals who reject the fact of evolution in favor of pseudoscience and religious fundamentalism, the spreading of bad medical science around the proven safety of vaccines, and the refusal to study the health risks of guns.

Not exact matches

The flap prompted scrutiny of other Cabinet members» travel, as the House Oversight and Government Reform committee launched a governmentwide investigation of top political appointees.

Clockwise from top left: Gary D. Cohn, President - elect Donald J. Trump's choice to lead the National Economic Council; Rex W. Tillerson, the Secretary of State pick; Wilbur Ross, the Commerce Secretary pick; and Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury Secretary appointee.

Among top - level appointees, Trump has now turned over a chief of staff, a chief strategist, two deputy chiefs of staff, a national security adviser, two deputy national security advisers, a staff secretary, a longtime personal aide and a deputy assistant to the president who was a foreign policy adviser.

A power struggle between a group of political appointees and Shulkin and his longtime aides at the agency has divided the top ranks of the VA for months.

The rubber will meet the road when discussions focus on political appointees and trimming the top - heavy bureaucracies (DOH, HRI, EFC, SUNY Research Foundation, the Authorities, anyone?)

Topping the list of one - time staffers, donors or appointees of the ex-governor is Pataki's former chief of staff — and current law partner — John Cahill, who not only penned a fund - raising appeal for Lhota, but also ponied up $ 4,950 on his own.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is set to tap Secretary of State Rossana Rosado and three others to join the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey as he looks to reshape the top of the agency amid the departures of several of his appointees.

These two appointees can not have been enrolled in the top two major political parties in the state.

Speaking to Curtis Sliwa (also not a Cuomo fan... recall his «King Cuomo» act during the campaign) on AM 970 The Apple, Paladino denigrated the governor's executive order mandating ethics training for top state appointees, saying:

And thus, on top of controlling the largest public transportation network in the country, the MTA chairman — a gubernatorial appointee — has become another powerful proxy in Mr. Cuomo's never - ending battle with the mayor.

Wildstein testified that he was told by two top Christie appointees that the governors coordinated on a false cover story to «put an end» to the lane - closing controversy.

An ally of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is expected to be confirmed this week as New York's top judge, with the governor's appointees now closing in on complete control of the state's highest court.

Fran Reiter, a former top aide to Cuomo, said the governor's appointees would not be voting.

The long delay in getting Trump's nominee for agriculture secretary, former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue (R), confirmed means that Sam Clovis, who was a Trump campaign adviser, and transition team leader Brian Klippenstein continue to serve as the agency's top political appointees.

Kyle Kimball, a Bloomberg appointee and one of the few top city officials to survive the changeover from a mayor focused on skyline - altering development projects to one more intent on building affordable housing outside Manhattan, is stepping down as head of the Economic Development Corp..

Mayor de Blasio's team raised conflict - of - interest questions about the state awarding two big contracts to a firm owned by a top campaign donor to Cuomo one a day after the state put on hold a Brooklyn construction project because Cuomo ESDC appointees expressed similar concerns about the developer who made donations to a fund supporting the mayor.

According to the widely reported narrative, Christie's top two appointees at the Port Authority, Bill Baroni and David Wildstein, had shut down access lanes to the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee as part of a half - cocked revenge scheme against Fort Lee's mayor for failing to endorse Christie for re-election.

Interestingly, President Mahama and top NDC appointees have unusually maintained tight - lip on the activities of Mugabe; and some critics are of the view that it was due to the fact that whatever he had said inured to the benefit of the president and his government.

The chamber's top staffers are all Silver's appointees and last week helped direct the show of support.

The housing agency that delivered the bond work to Cuomo's donors was until recently headed by Cuomo appointee Bill Mulrow — a Blackstone Group LP lobbyist who was subsequently appointed to serve as the governor's top aide.

The session marked the first time the governor met with commissioners and other top - level appointees since Jan. 1.

Mr Amissah - Arthur, accompanied by some top government appointees from the area and party executives has held series of strategic meetings with Parliamentary candidates, Constituency Chairmen, Municipal and District Chief Executives and the Northern Regional Campaign Task Force.

By comparison, it cited published figures showing that in 2010, 64 percent of Bloomberg's top 80 appointees were men and 79 percent were white.

According to testimony at the trial, a top Administration official vetted campaign contributions made to the governor from political appointees and others seeking government contracts.

Among the bigwigs in attendance were Dr. Ekow Spio - Gargrah, Prof. Joshua Alabi, former Accra Mayor, Okoe Vanderpuye, some past ministers and appointees in the erstwhile Mahama administration, the Central Regional Chairman of the party, Bernard Allotey Jacobs, as well as top figures of the party in the Central Region.

Too few cabinet ministers and other top public sector appointees are held to account, either at appointment or recall, by Select Committees.

The governor's office says Foye told Cuomo's office about the email only after it was sent — he forwarded the email to a top Cuomo aide several hours later — informing them that something strange had happened that he was trying to get to the bottom of, but did not point the finger at Christie or his appointees.

Flanagan said that in contrast, state Senate Republicans, who have had an icy relationship with Gov. Cuomo in recent months, nonetheless unanimously approved his recent «highly qualified» appointee to the state's top court.

Including Godsil and Rose, the de Blasio administration has now already lost at least nine of its handpicked appointees to top inner - circle posts — or three more than predecessor Mike Bloomberg lost his first four - year term.

The protest departures of two top U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) officials put a spotlight on how the Interior Department employs scientific data and on the sometimes strained relations between political appointees and professional staff.

Alan Ladwig, a top NASA political appointee under Democrats, said this was a case of both party politics and a divisive nominee who doesn't accept science.

Like so many of Malloy's «initiatives» once the cameras are turned off and the media walk away, the Governor and his top political appointees move on to the next media opportunity without following through with the actual task of governing.

While I think that this tendency goes all the way to the top, I think the worst offenders have been ham - handed political appointees, who have made things much worse than they had to be.

At the very same time, another top Brown political aide - turned appointee, Richard Maullin, chairman of the California Energy Commission (CEC) began pressuring the state's utilities to burn more oil rather than shift to nuclear energy.

In January, NASA's top climate scientist, Dr. James Hansen, complained that political appointees were trying to limit his interaction with reporters after he gave a speech warning that greenhouse gases were bringing the planet's climate system to a «tipping point.»

Additional urgency to separate DOJ's investigation comes from the fact that CPUC will likely vote this week to approve another settlement for the closure of yet another nuclear plant, Diablo Canyon, after years of private negotiations involving Pacific Gas & Electric, top advisors to Gov. Brown, including the former head of the California Energy Commission, and Brown appointee, John Geesman, and Lt. Gov. Newsom.

Once his own appointees are at the top, he will have a suitable filter, the way Tenet and Rice were for Bush / Cheney, who will only tell him what he wants to hear, and not any contrary information.

James E. Hansen, the top climate scientist at NASA, was quoted in The New York Times in January as saying he had been threatened with «dire consequences» by some NASA political appointees if he continued to call for limits on emissions of gases linked to global warming.

Our president - elect and top level appointees must keep eyes forward, tapping those breaks... yes... and occasionally hitting the accelerator when there's an opening for a lane change.

I recognize that this remark does not apply to the appointment of in - house government counsel, and those of the federal appointees I know are definitely the top of their class.

The court was not always compliant with his wishes, despite being top - heavy with his appointees.

He made a big point of playing down the effect of Bartz's abrupt departure last week, calling the executive team — all essentially Bartz appointees, including Levinsohn himself — «self - sufficient,» and therefore more immune to the changes it's seeing at the very top.

Members of the SES serve in the key positions just below the top Presidential appointees.

SES leaders are also a vital link between the top Presidential appointees, such as the Secretary of Education, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State and the respective federal workforce.

These positions, which occur just below the Presidential appointee level, require top - notch skills and are, therefore, well compensated.