Sentences with phrase «top elected state officials»

Many of our top elected state officials and congressional delegation support rescission of Common Core Standards and have added their names to a list of those opposed to CCS.

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The fire started when a spark from the unauthorized fireworks show ignited a separate batch of fireworks that were being stored at the Puttingal temple complex in Paravoor village, a few hours north of Kerala's state capital of Thiruvananthapuram, said Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, the state's top elected official.

The state Democratic Party teamed up today with LGBT leaders and openly gay elected officials to slam Republican AG candidate Dan Donovan for his opposition to same - sex marriage, saying his position calls into question his ability to serve as the state's top attorney.

In recent weeks, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has slowly built support among New York Republicans, rolling out endorsements from the party's top state - level official (Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos) along with a wide array of current and former electeds, operatives and county GOP leaders.

Kink said his group plans to continue to keep pressure on the state's top politicians to return the Loeb donations and will «bird - dog» Cuomo and other elected officials at public events this fall.

Schumer last week told The Daily News he was taking a wait - and - see approach on whether he'd recommend Bharara, who has led successful prosecution efforts against top state elected officials from both parties, for another term in the new presidential administration.

The governor's comments came at a press conference where elected officials were celebrating the state's success in landing federal «Race to the Top» funds.

«As both an elected official and candidate for attorney general, I am proud to support this long overdue effort to reform state government from top to bottom.»

ALBANY, Dec. 26 — Governor - elect Eliot Spitzer today named State Senator Michael L. Balboni, a Nassau County Republican, to be his top homeland security official.

While Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushes Democrats on the national stage to threaten a government shutdown over gun control, the state's top elected official in Congress disagrees such a tactic is needed.

All of the state's top elected Democratic officials will unite on Jan. 5 to host a breakfast at Gracie Mansion on Jan. 5.

He periodically visited cities around the state to give speeches about his agenda, but in between, days could pass without a single public appearance by the state's top elected official.

These barriers, and the subsequent victory of Donald Trump, a historically unpopular president, have spurred renewed interest from New York's top elected officials in modernizing the state's electoral system.

Mangano's inaction, widely expected in political circles, likely means that his eight - year tenure as Nassau's top elected official will end Dec. 31 and ensures that former state Sen. Jack Martins will be the GOP county executive nominee without facing a primary.

The announcement followed pledges by the state's two other top elected officials to divest themselves of political donations tied to Cuomo's graft - riddled «Buffalo Billion» revitalization project.

City Council Speaker Corey Johnson — the city's first openly HIV positive speaker and the only HIV positive elected official in New York State — was sworn in amid a host of top New York lawmakers on Sunday afternoon.

New York's top elected officials on Monday announced an agreement had been reached to expand rail safety efforts around the state.

«The property tax cap enacted in 2011, with support from the LIA and the statewide business community, is working,» wrote Kevin Law, the Long Island Association's president and member of the state's casino siting board, in a letter to the state's top elected officials on June 18.

Among the dozens of speeches delivered by some of the state's top elected officials throughout caucus weekend in Albany, it was difficult to find one in which the specter of Washington — and Trump, in particular — didn't loom large.

The result was the introduction of an alternative measure that still impacts top state officials, both elected and appointed, convicted of a corruption - related felony.

The state Democratic chairman, Jay Jacobs, predicted that Democrats running for local office would benefit from the widespread popularity of the party's top elected official, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

State Senator Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester) will host New York's first summit on synthetic cannabinoids and convene top elected officials, health experts and city and state agency officials to discuss the K2 epidemic and gain insight into the frontlines of the battle against this dangerous substState Senator Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester) will host New York's first summit on synthetic cannabinoids and convene top elected officials, health experts and city and state agency officials to discuss the K2 epidemic and gain insight into the frontlines of the battle against this dangerous subststate agency officials to discuss the K2 epidemic and gain insight into the frontlines of the battle against this dangerous substance.

That announcement followed pledges by the state's two other top elected officials — state AG Eric Schneiderman and Comptroller Tom DiNapoli — to divest themselves of political donations tied to Cuomo's allegedly graft - riddled «Buffalo Billion» revitalization project.

«The costs have become a top concern amongst families and individuals in need of medications, their elected officials, health plans, health providers and the state Medicaid Program.»

John Berenger, the chairman of the Divide NYS Caucus, wrote in an email news release on Monday he wanted to see an end to the concentration of power by the state's top three elected officials — the governor, Assembly speaker and Senate majority leader — and hopes the convention is the best way to achieve that.

Democratic congressional members along with top New York state elected officials are blasting the Republican budget bill that narrowly passed the House Thursday.

More than a third of the state's money is spent on Medicaid, making it a necessary and obvious target for cuts, and yet each year the same ritual plays out: The governor proposes cuts to health care; the state's hospital lobby and the union representing health - care workers spend millions of dollars in maudlin TV ads decrying the cuts — on top of the millions they contribute to elected officials; the governor's poll numbers decline, and he agrees to an expensive truce that barely makes a dent in rising Medicaid costs.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew told a gathering of state and local elected officials that school funding remains one of the union's top legislative priorities this year.

With Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan heading to Congress sometime this month, the jockeying has already begun to replace him as the borough's top law enforcement official — with top Republican elected officials urging State Senator Andrew Lanza to run.

Silver was one of the state's top elected officials.

State GOP Chairman Chris Healy had requested the investigation by Kane's agency, and on Monday, another top Republican, Senate Minority Leader John P. McKinney of Fairfield, said: «The crimes Sen. Gaffey committed and will plead guilty to, as well as his prior violations of state elections law, undermine the public trust placed in elected officState GOP Chairman Chris Healy had requested the investigation by Kane's agency, and on Monday, another top Republican, Senate Minority Leader John P. McKinney of Fairfield, said: «The crimes Sen. Gaffey committed and will plead guilty to, as well as his prior violations of state elections law, undermine the public trust placed in elected officstate elections law, undermine the public trust placed in elected officials.

All of the state lawmakers listed in the Top 10 of gift recipients utilized the longstanding loophole that allows elected officials to circumvent the state's $ 440 gift limit.

The state's top elected officials largely will be absent.

To help the states» top education officers - all either elected or appointed officials - work through their many challenges.

The debate over a school choice bill in the Missouri legislature has opened a bitter rift among some of the state's top black elected officials.

Pressure from two of the state's top elected officials — remember, schools chief is an appointed position in Florida — could help Bennett make a decision.

Washington state's top elected school official, Randy Dorn, announced Thursday he will not run for a third term as Superintendent of Public Instruction in 2016.

But analysts and researchers caution that American elected officials and educators need to take a nuanced approach to interpreting test scores and lessons from abroad, one that considers the full basket of educational, societal, and cultural factors that shape school practices in top - performing nations, and in the United States.

Our 2010 «Race to the Top Campaign,» through which we engaged elected officials around Connecticut's application for competitive federal funds and shared our research - backed policy goals for improving the state's chances of winning.

Voters in 14 U.S. states elect their own top school official.

In California, North Dakota, Washington and Wisconsin, the state's top school official is a non-partisan elected position.

After a week of public fighting between two of Louisiana's top elected officials, Attorney General Jeff Landry has decided to join with Gov. John Bel Edwards in seeking the dismissal of the state's Common Core lawsuit against the federal government.

As many readers know, it seems that every day thousands of Connecticut activists receive emails from top Democratic elected officials and the leadership of the Democratic State Central Committee asking for donations to help bolster the Democrat's campaign fund.

Among his top priorities as an elected official is ensuring that Salt Lake County Animal Services - the largest animal services agency in the state - maintains its status as a no - kill shelter.

Among his top priorities as an elected official is ensuring that Salt Lake County Animal Services — the largest animal services agency in the state — maintains its status as a no - kill shelter.

A week later, Friday, June 9, Illinois Democrat constitutional officers — State Treasurer Mike Frerichs and other top elected officials — joined with radical environmentalists to demand that Governor Rauner join the California - led Climate Alliance.

The Heartland Institute is endorsed by some of the top scholars, thinkers, and politicians in the world — including many members of congress and state elected officials and the leaders of other conservative and libertarian think tanks such as Americans for Tax Reform's Grover Norquist, The Leadership Institute's Morton Blackwell, The Heritage Foundation's Jim DeMint, and many more.