Sentences with phrase «women elected officials»

The nomination was seconded by women elected officials from Erie and Suffolk counties, who stressed Cuomo's commitment to creating jobs upstate and reducing property taxes.

4:00 PM — Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul holds news conference with Women Elected Officials to launch Women's History Month and new exhibit.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Democrat Marjorie Velázquez, candidate in the race for the Bronx 13th Council District, has earned the overwhelming support of city government's women elected officials with the endorsement Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and nine members of the City Council, including Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, and Council Women's Caucus co-chairs Elizabeth Crowley (D — Maspeth) and Helen Rosenthal (D — Upper West Side).

Gillibrand, a national leader in the push to elect more women, praised the efforts of 21 in» 21, making the point that in order for more women to get elected on the federal level it is imperative for there to be a pipeline of women elected officials at the local level.

At 10 a.m., women elected officials endorse Sen. Adriano Espaillat for Congress, City Hall Park Fountain, Manhattan.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A group of women elected officials on Monday called for immediate action on the New York City bill that would require sick days for all those employed in New York City.

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Funny how Toby et al consider a picture or sculpture of a naked woman an obscenity and their elected officials cover even «blind justice» statues, but they think that a PAID SALESMAN of a dead religion tormenting a dying nonbeliever deserves no rebuke or prohibition.

Top priority of the campaign is to call on elected officials to create legislation that supports economic justice, anti-racism and anti-white supremacy policies, women's rights, the ending of voter suppression, immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights, as well as affordable quality housing, healthcare and education.

The League of Women Voter's website can put you in touch with your federal and state elected officials.

I can only hope that our Constitution and the principles it stands for is still strong enough to reject blatant violations of human rights and threats to a woman's bodily integrity... take few minutes to remind your elected officials & representatives of their obligations to the people they serve!

«And Eliot Spitzer did more to protect women's health and our right to choose than almost any other elected official anywhere

The questioner (who happened to be a YNN videographer) then asked Gillibrand if she thought women should be offended by Eliot Spitzer's candidacy for New York City comptroller, as some of her fellow female elected officials have suggested — including NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn, but she had a political motive in seeking to link Spitzer and Weiner together in hopes of tarring the former congressman, who is one of her rivals in the mayor's race.

«As a woman, both Mr. Spitzer's and Mr. Weiner's re-entry into politics is, I think, problematic for me as an active feminist elected official,» she told Lovett.

«Spitzer is so clearly unfit for public office that I am offended, both as a woman and as an elected official that he would even deign to run.»

Levi, Sen. Tom Duane, (the chamber's first openly gay and HIV - positive member); NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn, (the first lesbian and woman to hold her leadership post); Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, (one of the first gay elected officials to represent Queens) and Marty Rouse of the Human Rights Campaign Fund will hold a pre-Columbus Day press conference to denounce Paladino's «homophobic comments» at 11 a.m. in Manhattan.

Also at 2 p.m., women leaders and activists will gather at City Hall to condemn Cuomo's «bullying of elected officials and community organizations» in response to his reported effort to get NYC Public Advocate Tish James not to accept the WFP endorsement to run for AG, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Hochul is only one of two women who serve as statewide elected officials, the other being Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

If elected, Nixon would be the state's first woman governor, and its first openly gay statewide elected official.

Some of the elected officials present at the Equality Day rally — Public Advocate Letitia James and State Senator Liz Krueger — have been vocal in their support of the Working Families Party, though neither chimed in when Brewer expressed her feelings on the Women's Equality Party.

Withholding information and suppressing engagement of the County Committee members did a disservice to the panel of accomplished female elected officials, as many of whom spoke to the importance of providing access, resources, and support to women seeking to enter politics.

«When we allow for the editorials in New York City to tell our story, when we allow for columnists and other individuals and elected officials who honestly are doing a disservice to their community by not understanding election law,... [to be] going out there and blasting the hardworking men and women at the Board of Elections, we think it's appalling,» he argued.

Some women serving in the Legislature have called for a new, uniform policy covering all elected officials and state employees, instead of the current patchwork of policies in the executive and legislative branches.

At a time when the struggles and hardships of women and children who have been sexually abused and harassed are becoming more apparent as victims find the courage to come forward, it is baffling these elected officials are acting as a roadblock.

A coalition of women's groups and elected officials pushed for public campaign financing saying it will mean more women are elected to public office.

At the women's rally for Ms. Illuzzi, three elected officials introduced her — two of them men — and focused their remarks largely on tearing into Mayor Bill de Blasio and Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, whose policies they argued made the city less safe, requiring Ms. Illuzzi's leadership.

So just to get this straight, Ms. Woerner is all for paying elected officials off instead of prosecuting them for the way they treat women on the job.

«I want to know: why does Rob Astorino think that I am and all the women up here less than he is,» Ms. Quinn said at press conference in Grand Central Station, where she was joined by women's rights groups and several elected officials.

The party's leadership was assumed by Zimet, a former elected official from the Hudson Valley and prominent advocate, who has been complimentary of Cuomo's record on women's issues.

In the video, elected officials such as Public Advocate Letitia James and U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez, says a vote for the WFP is a vote for women's equality, as well as campaign finance reform and the Dream Act.

In a time when so many elected officials have forgotten the bread and butter issues that matter to building the middle class — Andrew Cuomo has stood tall for trades men and women throughout New York.»

Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins will hosted the rally in partnership with other elected officials and community groups throughout Westchester County including the Immigration Justice Clinic at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, the Lower Hudson Valley Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, Cabrini Immigrant Services, Community Voices Heard, the Yonkers Islamic Center, the Muslim American Society of Upper New York, St. Catherine AME Zion Church, Calvary Baptist Church, the Minister's Fellowship Council of White Plains and Vicinity, the Westchester Black Women's Political Caucus, and Temple Beth Shalom in Hastings - on - Hudson.

But the key passage of the resolution is this: «Be it resolved that any elected official or potential candidate who does not support marriage as defined between one man and one woman, shall not have their name appear on Row C, the New York State Conservative Party position on election ballots, in any election.»

A woman very dear to me was a local elected official.

The only woman in the mayoral race made her comments about the two disgraced former elected officials after receiving the endorsements of six members of the City Council.

«Women deserve elected officials who've dedicated — whatever their gender is — their lives to serving them, making their lives better, have conducted themselves in honest, selfless ways,» said Quinn.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and other female elected officials gathered at City Hall Thursday evening for a women - for - Reynoso rally.

Governor Cuomo, his democratic running mate Kathy Hochul and other women's rights advocates spoke to a cheering crowd of union members and local elected officials, as part of a three city upstate bus tour to promote a 10 point women's rights plan.

Madeline Provenzano was a strong women, a paragon of public service and a role model for other elected officials, and her spirit and conviction will be sorely missed.

After November's General Election, Adriano Espaillat will be a Member of the United States Congress and two women Espaillat supported in the Primary will serve as elected officials in the New York State Legislature.

INWOOD — Several elected officials and uptown leaders came together Thursday to call for more domestic violence education and outreach programs after an Inwood woman was killed by her ex-boyfriend on New Year's Eve.

Schriock also called Kaplan, a town official elected in 2011, «a dedicated public servant focused on expanding economic opportunities for women and families, and protecting women's access to health care.»

At 10:30 a.m., LG Kathy Hochul, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Cuomo advisor Christine Quinn and other female elected officials mark Women's Equality Day by calling for passage of an Equal Rights Amendment, 49 E. 92nd St., Manhattan.

For the first time in my life, I witnessed New York elected officials pound their chest proudly while cutting nearly $ 7 billion in funding for the people they serve, tripping over themselves to cut taxes for millionaires while simultaneously cutting healthcare services for seniors, women, and the disabled and killing jobs across the state.»

«any elected official or potential candidate who does not support marriage as defined between one man and one woman» won't get Row C «in any election».

The state Conservative Party has now codified its threat that any lawmaker who votes «yes» on gay marriage will be politically punished, passing a resolution that states «any elected official or potential candidate who does not support marriage as defined between one man and one woman» won't get Row C «in any election».

«The women of New York deserve a vote on the entire Women's Equality Act and have a right to know where their elected officials stand on these important issues,» Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said in a statewomen of New York deserve a vote on the entire Women's Equality Act and have a right to know where their elected officials stand on these important issues,» Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said in a stateWomen's Equality Act and have a right to know where their elected officials stand on these important issues,» Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said in a statement.

At 4 p.m., New York City Public Advocate Tish James, numerous women's organizations and elected officials will host «an emergency rally and call to action» following GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump's most recent attack on women, Columbus Circle (60th and Broadway), Manhattan.

Prior to joining Menchaca's office, Ellicott worked at #VoteProChoice, a group working to elect officials who support women's reproductive freedom.

«I know I'll only be one elected official up there, but I want to do what I can to change the culture — a culture that can take women for granted and oftentimes enables and tolerates sexual harassment.»

As former Congresswoman Kathy Hochul gathered with a cadre of elected officials at City Hall to tout more than 100,000 petition signatures for a new Women's Equality Party, her long - shot primary challenger for lieutenant governor, Tim Wu, blasted the party as a «sham.»