Sentences with phrase «while governor»

While the governor achieved two items on this agenda, another significant issue has been left off altogether.

While Governor Cuomo did not attend the emergency meeting in Hoosick Falls, he did release a statement that later that same day announcing the state would allocate $ 10 - million to install water filtration systems for roughly 15 - hundred homes in the town of Hoosick.

Bush urged reformers to pursue bold policies like those he backed while governor of Florida.

A close analysis of unofficial results from the NYC Board of Elections by DailyKos blogger «brooklynbadboy» finds that Zephyr Teachout won some of the city's wealthiest state assembly districts while Governor Andrew Cuomo won some of its poorest.

While Governor Malloy tours that state to talk about his reform proposals and the battle rages about charter schools and insufficient funding and doing away with tenure, deep inside Malloy's «education reform bill» is a change to the state's requirement to help train board of education members before the state can take over a local school system.

Bartoletti says while the governor began his term with some symbolic acts, like reopening the historic hall of governors on the second floor of the Capitol, long closed off to the public, he still has some work to do.

BY ANDY HUMM While governors in North Carolina and Mississippi struggle to defend their anti-gay laws, Pope Francis has found a way to hold on to Catholic teachings that condemn LGBT people, exclude women from power, and forbid divorce by taking a softer tone that has won him plaudits from the mainstream media and kept -LSB-...]

Greatly strengthening his stance is the fact that lawmakers face re-election next year, while the governor doesn't have to face the voters again until 2014.

While Governor Paterson has warned lawmakers that the state may not be able to pay its bills by the end of the year, the Legislature has spurned his attempts to slash education and health care.

It's not unthinkable that Ward's dismissal, or resignation, will be pushed back while the governor finds a suitable replacement for Walder.

He's never given a speech in Texas while governor like that... he's just done very stupid things instead

He turned Massachusetts» budget from red to black while governor by turning a three Billion dollar deficit into a 2.16 billion dollar surplus.

While the governor proposed cutting $ 1 million to school - based health clinics, Democrats and Republicans proposed restoring $ 645,135.

The Assembly traditionally has come out high in its projection, while the governor usually under - estimates revenue and the Senate ends up somewhere in the middle.

While the governor got the Senate GOP to put the gay marriage bill on the floor, it was mostly Democrats and members of the Independent Democratic Conference, who provided the actual yes votes.

He recalled that despite the economic challenges in the country in 2016, Lagos State, under Governor Ambode, raked in N287billion as internally generated revenue, a figure ranked among the best the State ever generated, while the Governor also fulfilled his major electioneering campaign by implementing the N25billion Employment Trust Fund (ETF), which he said had immensely scaled up entrepreneurship and reduced unemployment.

«For eight years, Kim Guadagno has stood by in silence while Governor Christie cut funding for desperately needed women's health services,» said Christine Sadovy, political and legislative director with Planned Parenthood Action Fund of New Jersey.

While the governor often contends that «all the arrows» — meaning economic indicators — are «pointing up,» Nixon described «our broken subway,» upstate poverty and a distinction as the most economically «unequal state in the entire nation.»

At the heart of the charges are payments Percoco and his wife received while the governor's aide was on sabbatical from the state to manage Cuomo's 2014 re-election campaign, though the complaint purports that the alleged kickback schemes date back as far as 2010 — the year then - Attorney General Cuomo successfully sought the state's top office.

While the governor repeatedly said in public that the commission was free to investigate even him, in a 13 - page response to the Times, the governor's office said that action would have been inappropriate.

Cuomo allies and legislators bickered for days, and while the governor made a similar point about a working relationship, he did so one breath after threatening to campaign against non-compliant senators.

He recalled how former Governor Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu laid the foundation for a greater Lagos and Babatunde Raji Fashola built on it, while Governor Ambode is presently giving Lagos a balloon push to intellectual and modern age.

Lawmakers are lobbying for their first salary increase in 17 years, while the Governor wants more ethics reforms after another year of top level lawmakers & aids being arrested, or tried or convicted on a variety of corruption charges.

The Real School Funding Story While the governor tours the state promoting his «education support,» our public schools and educators know the real story.

While governor Haruhiko Kuroda defended the decision amid criticism, experts do not think negative rates are sustainable in the long term.

One example is Huntsman, who while governor of Utah signed a law introducing civil unions for gay couples.

His dad, also Mormon, was very popular while governor of Michigan, and remains so to this day; despite that, Michigan citizens aren't all wearing magic underpants.

The Republican Party is most vulnerable because the Religious Right, a substantial voting bloc, is adamantly against gambling, This was evident recently in an Alabama gubernatorial primary race, when the challenger said that he «would not rule out new gambling rules» and lost, while Governor Fob James agreed to almost all of the right's social agenda, and won renomination.

Several times the Puritan service was prolonged while the governor was forced to wait outside before the church was ready for his use.

At the same time, he has spoken directly about the dangers of climate change and the need to take action to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions while Governor Romney has staked out contradictory positions over the years on the causes and appropriate response to climate change and other environmental challenges.

When he got pulled over for speeding by a Texas state highway patrol officer while governor of Texas and asked the Trooper: «Don't you know who I am?»

The savaging of Clinton reached an early low in 1993, when David Brock's «Troopergate» article appeared in the America Spectator detailing Clinton's alleged infidelities while governor of Arkansas.

On June 20, while Governor Peter Shumlin was out of state on vacation, Scott, 54, beat a field of 29 to up his victory total to 28.

Thus, while Governor Patrick has a much larger following, it appears as if social media tactics, as opposed to pure content or «celeb power» explain at least some of that difference.

«My question is to ask if the Governor is indirectly and perhaps surreptitiously involved in local politics by getting at least one of his Commissioners to actively support a candidate of his choice while the Governor remains silent,» Rivera Sr. continued.

Hoyt said, «I won't stand idly by while the Governor engages in political gamesmanship with the lives of ordinary New Yorkers.

«Once again while the governor wastes billions of dollars on consultants, he threatens the state work force with layoffs.

Something about Christie's kids attending private school while the Governor was viciously attacks public school teachers.

While the governor piled 13 ethics and voting reform initiatives into last year's State of the State Book, not one became a reality, at least as not as envisioned, and many subsequently re-appeared on this year's agenda in an updated list of 14.

When Eliot Spitzer appeared on «The Tonight Show,» Jay Leno asked him how a man so smart could do something so stupid as hiring hookers while governor.

While the Governor pledged his renewed support for a state Dream Act and for protecting New York's DACA recipients, he neglected to call for increased protections against federal immigration agents in courthouses, hospitals, and our communities,» said Choi in a statement.

While the governor committed to an extra $ 1.5 billion in funding for pre-kindergarten, the 2014 - 15 state budget contains the first $ 100 million.

But while the Governor acquires more power over economic policy Osborne more than compensates by ranging across government, intervening decisively in every area - from how the Tory wing of the Coalition should deal with Miliband's energy market policies to the overall direction of policy in welfare, NHS and the rest.

While the governor placed the proposals in his State of the State message, he's not actively pushed them since.

Ayala is seen as the more progressive candidate and earned an endorsement from Mayor de Blasio while Governor Andrew Cuomo backed Rodriguez, who had been seen as the frontrunner.

Perhaps even for Governor Paterson's press office, the challenge of trying to justify raises for its own staff while the governor is ordering furloughs and calling on the rest of the state work force to share the pain of a fiscal crisis was just too much of a stretch.

While the Governor General will respect the wishes of the people expressed in the election, it is up to him to appoint a minister who will then form a government.

No other sound is heard in the ad beside Cuomo's speech, but full screen text flashes while the governor talks.