Sentences with phrase «with ties to the governor»

A Democratic insider with ties to the governor told me that the dissolution of the IDC became an urgent issue because of upcoming special elections, which are crucial for Democrats to win if they want control of the state Senate.

The report charged that after appointing members to the panel, Cuomo's office interfered with its work when it veered too close to groups with ties to the governor or issues that could hurt him politically.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, making his first public comments since U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's bombshell yesterday charging nine men with ties to the governor with corruption in connection to upstate economic development projects, insisted he had «no idea» about anything untoward taking place in his administration.

The Daily News reported that Cuomo aides had sought to block the panel from sending subpoenas to entities with ties to the governor.

Despite outcry from community groups and some elected officials, the Battery Park City Authority today awarded a 10 - year license to operate the North Cove Marina to two companies with ties to Governor Andrew Cuomo, who controls the authority board.

Cuomo has been dogged by questions about his handling of the anti-corruption panel he created last year, and dismantled this spring, after the Times reported that a top aide pressured the commission not to investigate groups with ties to the governor.

Bharara — whose office rocked state government with cases against ex-top legislative leaders and people with ties to the governor — recounted his interactions with Trump in his inaugural «Stay Tuned with Preet» podcast, released yesterday.

«I don't get it,» said one prominent Dem with ties to the governor.

In late July, The New York Times reported that Cuomo's staff had all along meddled with the Moreland Commission's investigations, particularly involving an ad - buying business with ties to the governor.

A three - month New York Times investigation found that Cuomo's top aide, Larry Schwartz, repeatedly intervened to prevent the Moreland Commission panel from looking into groups with ties to the governor.

The Daily News reported in 2014 that the commission faced intense pressure from Cuomo's office after it began to eye entities with ties to the governor's office.

A Times investigation published in July 2014 showed that before disbanding the panel, known as the Moreland Commission, Mr. Cuomo had hobbled its work, intervening when it focused on groups with ties to the governor or on issues that might reflect poorly on him.

A former Gov. Cuomo staffer seeking to run for a key congressional seat has hired a powerhouse consulting firm with ties to the governor and Mayor de Blasio.

Not exact matches

A converted church in a corrupt civilization withdraws to its upper rooms, into monasteries and conventicles; it issues forth from these in the aggressive evangelism of apostles, monks and friars, circuit riders and missionaries; it relaxes its rigorism as it discerns signs of repentance and faith; it enters into inevitable alliance with converted emperors and governors, philosophers and artists, merchants and entrepreneurs, and begins to live at peace in the culture they produce under the stimulus of their faith; when faith loses its force, as generation follows generation, discipline is relaxed, repentance grows formal, corruption enters with idolatry, and the church, tied to the culture which it sponsored, suffers corruption with it.

Whereas Senator Sheldon Silver has refused to take up legislative action that would eliminate the «Pay for Play» culture that allows for our legislators to be used as bought and paid for commodities by outside business concerns, as your Governor I must fully investigate the Assembly and Senates ties to Business and the Lobbyists who curry favor with our legislators to gain undo advantage for those businesses at the peoples expense.

The main choice was between the incumbent Hugo Chávez, backed by a coalition of progressive and left - aligned parties and social movements, and Henrique Capriles Radonski, a state governor with strong ties to the country's elite, who had formed a right wing coalition known as the MUD.

His Moreland Commission was focused on Silver's ties to law firms when the governor abruptly shut it down in a deal with Silver and others.

Moreover, New Jersey aligns the salary of the superintendents of the largest school districts with the governor's salary, unlike the New York law, which ties the value to the 2003 - 04 salary of the state education commissioner.

He also supported mayoral control of schools and went along with the governor's measures tying teacher evaluations to tests.

Molinaro also highlighted lingering issues throughout Albany, focusing on issues with lawmakers that have ties back to Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Governor Cuomo's singular focus on budget cuts is tantamount to fighting with one arm tied behind his back — and that one arm is swinging only in the direction of those communities most in need.

An attorney and small business owner with Auburn ties is mounting a longshot bid to become New York's 57th governor.

Moreover, New Jersey aligns the salary of the superintendents of the largest school districts with the salary of the Governor of the State of New Jersey, unlike the New York law that ties the value to the 2003 - 04 salary of the Commissioner of Education.

A source with strong ties to Cuomo's inner circle outlined to The Post the game plan he said the governor already has under way.

DeFrancisco is considering a run for governor in 2018 and, like many Republicans next year, will have to contend with Democrats trying to tie him to Trump and his unpredictable comments.

Governor Andrew Cuomo began the budget season with an ambitious agenda than included a wide array of items that he tied to the budget, including raising the minimum wage, the Dream Act, and reforming the state's grand jury process.

Less than a year later, Cuomo shut down the panel, and within months the New York Times reported that internal commission documents showed «the governor's office deeply compromised the panel's work, objecting whenever the commission focused on groups with ties to Cuomo or on issues that might reflect poorly on him.»

Cuomo has held few public appearances since his office was served with a bombshell subpoena by Bharara on April 29 seeking information on whether Percoco used his official position and ties to Cuomo to gain favors for two companies that had paid him as a «consultant» in 2014 while he was also being paid to run the governor's re-election campaign.

Even more recently, many have questioned the appropriateness of the governor's promoting a top aide with deep family ties to powerful lobbyists to the highest - ranking position in his administration.

Reports later showed that the Governor's office, including his top aides, interfered in the Commission's work, requesting that subpoenas served against groups with ties to Cuomo be pulled back.

Corruption cases involving individuals with ties to Cuomo hurts the governor, O'Reilly argues.

The report in question is an annual progress report on the governor's much - touted — or much - criticized, depending on who's talking — START - UP NY economic development program, established in 2013, that allows new or expanding companies with ties to participating institutions of higher education to operate without paying most state or local taxes for 10 years.

Those tied to Cuomo are also facing investigations, including his former top aide and confidant Joe Percoco, who received consulting fees from companies with state contracts while running the governor's re-election campaign.

Both proposals are more than Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan of a $ 1.1 billion spending hike for education aid, with much of that money tied to approving the governor's policy proposals, including bonus pay for high - performing teachers and a strengthening of charter schools.

The governor was endorsed by the NYLCV previously, but his appearance in the pro-Grisanti push is interesting, given his ties to Buffalo, alliance with Grisanti and stated support for a Democratic Senate.

In its filing with the state elections commission, nothing ties Connecticut Forward to the Democratic Governors Association.

That would mean she was being paid by a company tied to a firm doing business with the state while her husband was on the state payroll working for the governor.

The Republican Governors Association has gone up with TV ads portraying Askins as a liberal and tying her to President Obama.

That path isn't without risk for Cuomo, too: The ethics committee will no doubt do its job independently and responsibly, but jcope's close ties to the governor guarantee that its work will be interpreted as falling in line with the governor's desires.

«Poll: Patrick Murphy leads Democratic gubernatorial primary with GOP running mate David Jolly» via Marc Caputo of POLITICO Florida — Murphy would be tied for second if he jumped into Florida's Democratic primary for governor, according to a new poll that shows he could nudge into first with one unorthodox move: Picking a Republican running mate.

As I predicted earlier today, AG / Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo has announced yet another settlement in connection with his pay - to - play pension fund probe, this time with a lobbyist with long - standing ties to his father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo.

Bill Mahoney, a campaign finance analyst with the New York Public Interest Research Group, says the article illustrates the close ties between Governor Cuomo and the Committee to Save New York lobby group.

But as the party works to build momentum around Cuomo's nascent candidacy, it also must tie up several loose ends: a lieutenant governor must be selected, a crowded field of attorney general candidates must be winnowed and the party must reconcile the anti-establishment message of its standard - bearer with the fact that its incumbents control every facet of that establishment.

A former chair of the State Democratic Party and current chair of the Manhattan Democratic Party, Mr. Wright boasts a decent relationship with the governor and significant ties to the city's progressive base.

Silver, a liberal Democrat with powerful union ties who has repeatedly stymied efforts by the last three governors to restrain spending, said he was fully behind Cuomo's pledge to slash the budget to close a projected $ 8 billion deficit for the fiscal year beginning April 1.

The lieutenant governor of Georgia on Monday raised eyebrows when he announced on Twitter he would reject tax breaks for the Atlanta - based Delta Air Lines should the company bow to social media pressure urging the firm to cut ties with the National Rifle Association.

«Since New York's minimum wage is tied to the federal minimum wage, Senator Skelos agrees with the Governor that it should be set at the federal level.

Of current college education debt, the governor declared, «it's like starting like a race with an anchor tied to your leg,» WCBS 880's Rich Lamb reported.

The governor's rising star in the Democratic Party has been tied in part to passage of the bill, especially because in recent months it appeared that Maryland might be unable to keep pace with New York, where Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D) was able to secure passage of a gay marriage bill in a divided state legislature.

«I would like to see the governor in a bow tie, preferably with polka dots.