Sentences with phrase «upstate than any governor»
«But in any event, New York State is one of the great, most beautiful states in the union and had I won the governorship I would have done more for upstate than any governor who in fact was elected.
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Too many governors have let Sheldon Silver be the boss of all NYS and have let Speaker Silver make upstate NY taxpayers pay more than their fair share to so he can keep his position of power.
The circuit - breaker unavoidably delivers bigger average savings to downstate suburbanites than to upstate homeowners, as reflected in the governor's estimate that the average savings will reach $ 1,200 on Long Island, compared to $ 781 upstate.
Assembly Democrats grilled Governor Andrew Cuomo's energy officials for more than four hours on a plan executed by the Public Service Commission and a major energy company that will keep three upstate nuclear power plants alive for the next twelve years.
I've done more for upstate economic development than any governor in the history of the state of New York and I am so proud of that.»
Percoco, who served as the governor's executive secretary, is accused of taking more than $ 600,000 in bribes from an energy company that needed state approval to build a power plant in the Hudson Valley and an upstate developer that received several state contracts.
Though far drier than the governor's State of the State addresses last week, the budget plan made clear that Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, remained intent on casting his 2017 agenda as an answer to the concerns of the middle class and the economic struggles of upstate New York, a formula that some observers have taken as the prelude to a possible presidential run in 2020.
Two polls in upstate Congressional Districts conducted just before the primary showed Hawkins at 12 % — higher than third party candidate Jessie Ventura was when he was allowed to debate and ended up being elected Governor of Minnesota.
Governor Cuomo and legislators in Albany are considering a plan that would raise the state's minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, but do so faster in New York City than upstate.
Governor Cuomo won the Democratic primary, but more than one third of Democrats who participated voted against him, and he lost more than half of the counties upstate, where fracking is a controversial issue.
And nothing underscores the latter more dramatically than last week's news from the US Census Bureau: Out - migration from New York, virtually all of it from upstate, outpaced immigration, virtually all of it to New York City, for the first time since Cuomo became governor.
«I was born and raised in upstate New York and the chance to work for a Governor I respect and to be part of his ambitious agenda to create upward economic mobility for the middle class and give voice to those who need it most matters more to me than partisan politics,» Comella said.
«I'm proud to be the governor that has invested more in upstate New York than any other governor in the history of the state of New York,» Cuomo said.
Downstate, where most of the pre-storm preparations took place, pretty much dodged a bullet, while upstate took a beating in the form of heavier - than - expected rain that caused rivers, streams and creeks to flood and cause what the governor deemed «devastating» amounts of damage.
The hope for Governor Andrew Cuomo is to draw tourists further upstate, rather than New York City.
Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat who frequently claims to have «invested more in upstate New York than any governor in history,» was perhaps Dr. Kaloyeros's most ambitious partner yet, with plans to sprinkle Kaloyeros dust on Buffalo, Syracuse, Rochester and other areas in desperate need of new jobs.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- Democratic candidate for governor, Cynthia Nixon, explained that the perception of her caring more about downstate issues than upstate ones is entirely untrue.
«When half the children in our major upstate cities are living in poverty, how can the Governor possibly justify giving more than half of his projected $ 2 billion surplus to the state's millionaire and billionaires through dramatic reductions in the estate tax and tax breaks for big Wall Street banks,» said Ron Deutsch, Executive Director for Fiscal Fairness.
The governor declared last month that he had steered more investment to the northern and western reaches of the state than any governor since DeWitt Clinton built the Erie Canal, and that in closed - door negotiating sessions he is the one going to the mat for upstate.
«I've invested more in upstate and northern New York than any governor in the history of the state of New York, and I am proud of it — period,» says Cuomo more
«I've invested more in upstate and northern New York than any governor in the history of the state of New York, and I am proud of it — period,» says Cuomo
Koch recently told me those comments were «stupid» and insisted he would have been a better governor for upstate than anyone who has held the job since the 80s.
Once heralded by the governor as a transformative way to bring down energy costs for consumers while increasing jobs at upstate power producers, the plan announced more than three years ago has produced little progress on a core initiative: a nearly $ 1 billion project to run AC transmission lines around Utica or the Catskills and down the Hudson Valley to meet downstate's growing power needs.
Sampson says he does not think Governor Cuomo wants the perception that «the people in Westchester and Rockland Counties are more important than the people in upstate New York.»
Cuomo, a Democrat, is fond of boasting that he's done more to boost upstate areas than any governor since DeWitt Clinton dug the Erie Canal, and on a per capita basis, state subsidies have rained down more heavily on Buffalo and the North Country than Brooklyn or Staten Island's North Shore.
«I was born and raised in upstate New York and the chance to work for a governor I respect and to be part of his ambitious agenda to create upward economic mobility for the middle class and give voice to those who need it most matters more to me than partisan politics.
Percoco served as the governor's executive secretary, he is accused of taking more than $ 600,000 in bribes from an energy company that needed state approval to build a power plant in the Hudson Valley and an upstate developer that received several state contracts, as well as getting a job at the energy company for his wife.