Sentences with phrase «ultraconvservative machine politician»

«Albany machine politician and Cuomo ally Joe Morelle just announced his campaign for NY - 25 — and the skeletons are already jumping out of his closet.

Khan's opponents say this the sign of a «machine politician» who will do whatever it takes to acquire power.

Kagan grew up on the Upper West Side and worked on Liz Holtzman's 1980 US Senate campaign; she was upset when Holtzman lost to «ultraconvservative machine politician» Alfonse D'Amato.

Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn, an old - school machine politician, has looked vulnerable for years.

The nominations obsession encourages the sticks and carrots beloved of machine politicians — «nominate her and you'll never get a shadow job» — while squeezing daylight and air out of the process ever further.

«People are fed of machine politicians who never give an answer.

Regarded by political adversaries as a strongman of northern Manhattan, Mr. Espaillat is criticized for operating in the mold of bullheaded machine politicians.

The former Brooklyn party boss is the definition of a machine politician who used his own development of affordable housing to leverage different blocs of voters.

[79] He described himself as «no machine politician», [80] and called for a return to the «timeless Labour values of community, solidarity, fairness and justice».

In films from 1936, he was usually typecast as an abrasive, cigar - chomping detective, gangster or machine politician.

It called for imposing reform from the top down; a more open political process could be taken captive by unions and machine politicians.

Not exact matches

Urban politicians worked hard to win projects for their neighborhoods, and incorporated the BHA and the tenant selection process into the sometimes corrupt practices of the Irish machine politics that governed the city.

This translatability means that evangelicalism can function as effectual resistance to racism, as an ecumenical catalyst, a platform for women in ministry, or as an endorsement machine for American politicians.

«Killian's only record is that of a no - show failed politician who is part of the Westchester Republican machine,» Murphy said.

It exemplifies machine politics for politicians to promote their staffers as their successors.

Character does matter in this race... but it is not my character that is at issue in this election; it is Mr. Fidler's record of highly questionable, unethical behavior as a career politician, a City Councilman and a power broker whose the product of the corrupt Brooklyn Democrat political machine.

The report found that the financial and personal ties within and among political clubs, machines, and individual politicians were suspect and strong.

«Killian's only record is that of a no - show failed politician who is part of the Westchester Republican machine,» said Mike Murphy, spokesman for the Democratic State Senate Committee.

It is unacceptable to ask taxpayers to pick up an even bigger bill than they already do for politicians and their party machines.

«I don't blame the Whitehall machine,» he says cheerfully, «in the end the politicians must always take responsibility».

The Labour Right know that as every day goes by we on the Left are slowly getting to grips with the Labour Party machine and transforming it to reflect the members not the career politicians of the PLP.

«Jack Martins is once again showing his true colors as a hypocritical machine career politician — hurling baseless allegations about something he is doing himself.

But most politicians buckle when presented with the momentum of the war machine.

While New York politicians generally love to condemn anti-LGBTQ bigots out of the state and champion boycotts of states like North Carolina with anti-LGBTQ laws, some are clearly reluctant to oppose Diaz because of his base in his Pentecostal congregation and his backing by the Bronx County Democratic machine that also made his son, the more moderate Ruben Diaz, Jr., borough president.

Two years ago, the members of the Independent Democratic Conference bravely decided to break the mold of politicians who are beholden to the party machine.

Politicians, consulting firms and party machines all put their reputations — and bragging rights — on the line when they waded into the upper Manhattan and Bronx - based clash between Mr. Rangel and Mr. Espaillat.

«Killian's only record is that of a no - show failed politician who is part of the Westchester Republican machine,» said Senate Democratic spokesman Mike Murphy.

A situation that began with Peter Mandelson creating a communications machine to respond to Thatcher's political success in the eighties has ended with party representatives often behaving like robots (and many would say we now select robots)-- and voters pick up on it when politicians robotically simply tow a party line and so they distrust us.

It ought not to surprise us that nearly all the money for the No campaign is Tory money, even if they have tried to camouflage this by using as mouthpieces some machine Labour politicians such as Margaret Beckett and John Reid.

The duo debunks the theory of politicians and other alarmists that playing video games leads to teen violence by handing over a real semiautomatic weapon to a nine - year - old video game player to see if he becomes a human killing machine.

Craig Robinson (Hot Tub Time Machine, Zack and Miri Make a Porno) co-stars as Earl the Anti-Christ, a politician who changes his name to the «Beast» and becomes a tyrannical force on Earth.

I'm afraid I'll sound condescending here, but if you don't at least follow the news, you probably are going to find Syriana to be a tedious watch, and that's a shame in itself, as ignorance to world events is what greases the wheels of the grand machine that keeps corporations fat and happy, politicians in their pockets, foreign regimes in a constant state of perpetual flux, and the standard of living for millions of people near destitute in what should be the among the wealthiest nations on the face of the Earth.

On the subject of the new generation of «Dustbowl» victims and the loss of manufacturing in American jobs, Tucker notes, «Politicians have persuaded them that this is the result of unfair treaties, but the truth is that much of the work these people can do can now be done more cheaply and reliably by machines.

Actually I am a comp scientist and want to use machine learning to analyse if politicians tweet influence markets.

Try leading for a while, if folks would only think for themselves instead of letting «hollywood enamored scientists» «pandering politicians with hidden agendas» and «media driven marketing machines» do it for them.

If we really were «running out of time» then (unless the politicians actually wanted climate catastrophe to happen) every country would be building nuclear power stations as fast as possible, and machine - gunning any protesters who tried to stop them, wouldn't they?

The simmering controversy sheds light on the vast influence of the Koch political machine, which spans from the top conservative think tanks, Republican politicians, a small army of contracted lobbyists, and Tea Party front groups in nearly every state.

Despite the fact that Molina and Rowland's theory had wide support in the scientific community, a handful of skeptics, their voices greatly amplified by the public relations machines of powerful corporations and politicians sympathetic to them, succeeded in delaying imposition of controls on CFCs for many years.

For now, I'll avoid the conspiracy theories linking machine - maker Diebold to various groups and politicians.

They broke my heart a little with their eagerness for human interaction, so I smiled and nodded during their tales of Telstra woe, siblings being in hospital after a «fall», our cupcakes being too expensive and their desire to wipe out every politician with a machine gun...