Sentences with phrase «top staffer»

He's the second top staffer to depart in as many weeks.

A 2010 New York Times examination of top staffers in the gubernatorial election teams of Cuomo and then - opponent Carl Paladino found that «women are suddenly popping up everywhere» in the race — «everywhere, that is, except inside the campaigns» inner circles.»

Headed by Marc Short, a former top staffer in the House and Senate, Freedom Partners dispenses funds and expertise to myriad affiliate groups in the network.

That's when Silver and top Assembly staffers, along with reviews by top staffers for Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, authorized a secret $ 103,000 settlement for Lopez's first accusers.

The U.S. attorney is investigating a close associate and former top staffer of Governor Cuomo, as well as the New York City mayor's office.

«The walls are closing in,» a senior Republican with close ties to top staffers said in The Post.

The investigation, which was first reported Friday by The Albany Times - Union, centers on the administration's use of top staffers who were hired to work for the governor, but who on paper were listed as working for other state agencies.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo doled out at least $ 225,000 worth of bonuses to top staffers on his campaign team after he won the 2010 governor's race, his most recent financial report shows.

9) The arcs of top staffers like Cohn and Sessions and Reince Priebus and Rex Tillerson, who joined early on in the hopes that the Trump administration would be normal, or could be made normal, have shown everyone else that to work in the Trump administration is to court reputational ruin, legal risk, and public humiliation.

It is those days that make his aides most nervous, because even top staffers are often clueless as to what Paterson is doing.

Two senior officials told The Washington Post that Kelly held a meeting in which he instructed top staffers to describe the lead - up to Porter's resignation from the White House in a contradictory way to the administration's previous accounts.

Porter is someone who «really gave everything to work,» as a current top staffer for a Republican senator told Business Insider.

It wasn't until December, when top staffers began to leave, that Kalanick spent significant time with the whole ATG team in Pittsburgh.

The leaders and Gov. David Paterson are nowhere to be seen, but their respective top staffers are in the room, and so things should kick off any moment now.

A reader suggested it might be constructive to compare the post-campaign bonuses handed out by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to a select few top staffers to those awarded by the state's last duly elected governor, Eliot Spitzer, back in 2006.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who has been retooling his staff headed into a make - or - break election year and in the wake of a spate of departures / firings, announced a new lineup of top staffers late this afternoon.

But Schneiderman is in a bit of a bind, having deputized the Moreland members to give them investigatory powers outside the executive branch and providing top staffers to assist the commission.

She tried to convince top staffers at the state comptroller's office to approve investments proposed by her lobbying clients, and althoguh she was given preferred access to these staffers, her efforts were eventually rebuffed.

Leaking the emails would be unusual, given the taboo over disclosing personal communications between top staffers.

The state Assembly was reeling on Wednesday after news of the departure of one of its longest - serving top staffers amid a new case of sexual improprieties on Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's watch.

The Buffalo News says Erie County Executive Chris Collins» top staffer needs to swipe in and out of work like everyone else.

And Hein, whom one departing top staffer called «not as thin - skinned as he used to be,» does not suffer criticism gladly.

Video of the third Moreland session — a real doozy in which top staffers from the state Board of Elections get grilled like flank steaks — appears to be in the wind altogether: Previously working links now show the video to be «unavailable.»

There had been some speculation that Mallick, a former GOP Senate Finance secretary, was in DiNapoli's crosshairs when he asked for resignation letters from 15 top staffers following his close election to the statewide post he inherited from ex-Comptroller Alan Hevesi in February 2007.

One of Mayor Bloomberg's top staffers owns stock in a company whose subsidiary is getting city funding and tax breaks to build a Brooklyn arena for the NBA's Nets — a revelation that's raising eyebrows among opponents of the controversial project.

Board members appointed by legislative leaders will now have an opportunity for input in choosing JCOPE's next top staffer.

Klein also reports that a «top staffer overseeing implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act at the U.S. Department of Education has a message for states and districts as they embrace the law's new school quality measures: Don't forget about reading and math.»

The address listed for the committee belongs to Beth Rougeux, who was one of Miner's top staffers at City Hall.

She served as one of Miner's top staffers for the first 18 months of the administration before parting ways on rocky terms.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's biggest campaign boosters over the past six months include Hollywood celebs promoting his progressive agenda and former top staffers who left him for the private sector.

The pay hikes for Minkel and other top staffers were never authorized by the authority's board of commissioners or publicly disclosed.

De Blasio's biggest campaign boosters over the past six months include Hollywood celebs promoting his progressive agenda and former top staffers who left him for the private sector.

Flanagan didn't name a replacement for Garvey, but said Friday «I am confident that we have a number of top staffers with the experience and institutional knowledge to ably lead us forward, starting with Shawn MacKinnon, Secretary of Senate Finance and a two - decades - plus veteran of the Senate.»

Gustavo Martinez, CEO of J. Walter Thompson, denies charges of racism and misogyny brought in a lawsuit by a top staffer.

Sanders has vowed to run an «unprecedented grassroots campaign» in the Golden State and has already sent dozens of his top staffers to California to set up the campaign infrastructure.

Tuesday, Dinolfo broke her silence, addressing the situation which led to the resignation of one of her top staffers, as well as four of the seven members of the County of Monroe Industrial Development Agency.

But knowing the hands - on approach of the Cuomo administration, it's hard to believe the governor and / or his top staffers weren't aware of the decisions that generated a nice windfall for some prominent campaign contributors.

Just a weeks after some of his top staffers faced ridicule from the City Council over their apparent cluelessness about key details about his plan to regulate the horse - carriage industry, Mayor Bill de Blasio said he believed the body would surely pass the proposal.

«I can't recall that number of top staffers being women,» said Gerald Benjamin, a professor of political science at the State University of New York at New Paltz.

Or the one that Borough President James Molinaro was able to build with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and some of his top staffers.

Not so, countered John Lapp, top staffer at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Just hours before Grimm said that, NY1 learned that a volunteer for Michael Grimm's campaign filed a complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics against Donovan's top staffer.

PEF Vice President Wayne Spence says he lost faith in President Susan Kent shortly after she took power in the summer of 2012, and promptly fired many of the union's top staffers.

ALBANY — As he tries to mend fences with New York progressives, some of Gov. Cuomo's top staffers for the first time are regularly reaching out to the minor Green Party.

«Chris Christie fired a top staffer citing his «callous» tone.

When Republicans were the minority party in the Erie County Legislature, their top staffer had a county - issued cell phone.

Three top staffers were paid for part - time teaching gigs.

Interesting that his top staffer has followed up on last week's about - face with this.