Sentences with phrase «type of elected official»

They are the core of who makes the best type of elected official out there.

Not exact matches

Regardless of which recommendations are adopted, this is the type of issue that will never really go away (someone will always be displeased with how much or how little our elected officials are paid).

But the Observer did open up this year's list to elected officials, a departure from 2014, to take stock of some of the rising and falling stars whose names you might know, sizing them up against the strategists, lobbyists and industry types shaping the city in the shadows.

«I believe that if we ban outside income from active employment for elected officials and pay them a livable wage to raise their families, it will go a long way to cure the temptation of a few to engage in this type of bad behavior,» said Bonacic, a veteran in the Senate's Republican majority.

There were three types of pledged Democratic delegates: congressional district delegates, at - large delegates, and party leaders and elected officials (PLEOs).

«Unfortunately, it's all too common for elected officials who find themselves in these types of situations to spend campaign dollars on criminal defense attorneys, but it's appropriate,» Goldfeder said.

The bill passed by the Senate includes anti-nepotism provisions, today: · Prohibits gifts from lobbyists and their clients of more than nominal value, including travel, lodging and other expenses, and broaden the types of lobbying activities that lobbyists must disclose; · Prohibits elected government officials and candidates for elected local, state or federal office from appearing in taxpayer - funded advertisements; · Closes the «revolving door» loophole by prohibiting former legislative employees from directly lobbying the Legislature for two years, and expands the revolving door restrictions for Executive Chamber employees to preclude appearances before any state agency; · Prohibits non-legislative employees from using their authority or influence to «compel or induce» any other employee to make political contributions; · Prohibits state employees from participating in any personnel decision or contracting matter concerning a relative.

Oneida County Legislator Jeffery Daniels, District 18 said: «I think any elected official who has a closed mind to a project of this magnitude, with this type of investment and job creation in our city, is doing a disservice to the people they are elected to serve.

LHG: Will you support having candidates go through some type of investigatory process regarding their commitment to transparency, outside income and other ethics issues as elected officials prior to being endorsed by BDCC?

The City Council last December pressured de Blasio to sign into law a bill prohibiting anyone with city contracts or who does other types of city business from donating more than $ 400 a year to nonprofits tied to elected officials or their staffers.

It's fair to guess he was alluding to efforts by various elected officials to limit further investment in climate change studies, renewable energy technologies and proposals for outside - the - box basic research — the type of high - risk but also potentially high - payoff investigations from which transformative developments most often emerge.

This is the type of student growth that every educator, parent and elected official should expect of schools, traditional or charter, charged with educating youth.

On the issue of assessments, federal regulations should support the authority granted, through ESSA, to local school board members, as locally elected officials, to participate in the process of determining the type of assessments that are administered at the local level.

I thought there were supposed to be checks and balances integrated into the political system in order to prevent the type of racketeering that is being perpetrated on the state of Connecticut by political appointees and elected officials all the way up to the govorner.

«And if we're going to do our job as elected officials, we're going to need to think about how to redesign, or as we go forward, make the modifications necessary so we don't incur this type of damage.

Looking ahead: As elected officials we must learn from the shooting incident at Marjory Stoneman Douglas and do our best to make sure this type of tragedy does not happen again.