Sentences with phrase «who spoke at the convention»

This was just as those who spoke at the convention mocked the government of the All Progressives Congress as they said life is more difficult in Nigeria today than the PDP handed it over to Nigerians in 2015.

Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu who spoke at the convention said «Boko Haram is all over Nigeria» now that despite the PDP government chasing the Boko Haram insurgents to the Sambisa Forest by this time last year.

The other lawmakers who spoke at the Convention Center were Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the Senate minority leader; Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan, who heads the Assembly education committee; and Sen. John Flanagan, the Senate majority leader.

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Its speakers were more prominent than those who spoke at the Republican convention a week earlier in Cleveland.

All of these items could show up in the White House, said Grant Bennett, an old Romney friend who spoke at the Republican National Convention and has known the Romney family since they met through church in 1978.

In the last few weeks Cuomo has signed the sex assault legislation, securing his support among women's group; established a special prosecutor for cases of civilians who die at the hands of police; and spoke at the NAACP National Convention in Philadelphia.

Speaking with reporters following the Regional Economic Development Council awards at the new downtown convention center, Cuomo was asked whether he thought it was a mistake to hire Sam Hoyt, a now - former economic development official who left his job in late October amid a sexual harassment investigation.

It's possible behind - the - scenes negotiations between conservative activists and Romney aides will be sufficient to keep a lid on things today... but the Paul people are angry — and goaded on by their leader, who was denied a speaking slot at the convention.

He also was one of the people who spoke for Cuomo at the Democratic convention in Rye this summer.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who also spoke at the 1984 convention, said Cuomo's supporters «literally begged him to run.»

Earlier we spoke to Republican House candidate Maggie Brooks, who outlined her reasons why she's at the Republican National Convention.

The candidates, who are in a close race, spoke at the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities convention on Tuesday.

Complicating things for New York Democratic supporters of Sanders has been the prominent role being played by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who will speak at the convention this week and is the delegation chairman.

But Long, who spoke to the New York delegation this morning at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, isn't worried.

Trump Jr. — who scored high marks for his stand - out appearance at the Republican National Convention last week — said he «had a good time up there» and found it «exciting to be able to have a platform like that to speak my voice.

Mr. Cuomo, who four years ago at the convention in Charlotte, N.C., shunned all but a minor address to New York delegates and declined to stay overnight, traveled to Philadelphia to participate more fully this time and has a speaking role later in the week.

Duffy, who spoke before 500 or so people at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center this morning, said the governor's absence didn't mean support for gay marriage was faltering.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has had an uneasy relationship with some public - sector labor groups during the early years of his administration, blasted the case in similar language this week when speaking at a convention for the Transport Workers Union in Las Vegas.

Governor Paterson, who will be speaking at the Democratic National Convention, led the state legislature to commit to $ 1 billion in budget cuts over the next year and a half.

The moves come as de Blasio, who's been on the outs with the White House after saying President Barack Obama showed up late to the income inequality conversation (and is in such bad shape with the Clintons that all the mayor got was a midafternoon speaking slot at last month's Democratic convention), is battling rocky poll numbers and a list of investigations that has grown almost by the week.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani will have a speaking role at the convention on Monday night, while it appears Buffalo area Congressman Chris Collins, who was one of the first to endorse Trump, will not.

Maloney departed the Paterson administration at the end of 2008 to join Kirkland & Ellis, the law firm that (ironically) hired Michael Garcia, the former US attorney who took down Spitzer and also spoke last week at the GOP convention.

Like many state and city elected officials who spoke at Saturday's labor luncheon, Heastie cited threats to progressive institutions posed by President Donald Trump's administration as he urged union leaders to oppose the convention.

July 31, 2016 • This past week at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, NPR's Rachel Martin spoke with retired Marine Corps General John Allen, who offered his passionate support of Hillary Clinton.

On Tuesday, Villaraigosa, who spoke before Wallace at the convention, talked about the importance of public schools in his upbringing in tough L.A. neighborhoods.

Rice, who served as secretary of state and national security adviser for President George W. Bush, has recently started speaking about education issues, including during a speech at the 2012 Republican National Convention.

For those who write in other genres there are conventions for them as well, but I write Sci - Fi / Fantasy so that's all I can speak about at the moment.

Given to an individual who would also be invited to speak at the Convention about their work.

Sir Ronald Wilson, who for many came to represent the non-Indigenous face of Bringing Them Home, spoke at the Reconciliation Convention about his own journey during the process of the Inquiry, and the personal effect it had on him.