Sentences with phrase «worse than the governor»

On Tuesday Hizzoner said the cuts to New York City are a whole lot worse than the governor's numbers would indicate, reports CBS 2's Marcia Kramer.

Not exact matches

The resulting death is far worse than any brutal earthly governor could inflict.

The former governor lamented the fact that the governor's race has devolved — literally — into little more than a pushing match, saying: «I think it's too bad that we're not using this moment to have a real conversation about what the policies should be to bring New York State back to what it used to be, the empire state.»

The governor's budget director, Robert Megna, told the Senator that the provision may seem worse than it actually is.

In the other four categories, job creation, fighting corruption, public education and government efficiency, the governor received more bad marks than good marks.

Disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son were caught on wiretaps bad - mouthing Gov. Andrew Cuomo's family, plotting to use his gal pal, Sandra Lee, against him and even musing how Skelos and other Republican lawmakers were «smarter» than the governor, new court papers state.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has the worst approval rating for any governor in states surveyed by the Q poll in more than 20 years.

Unlike his father, Andrew Cuomo is about to become the worst Governor in New York State, even lower than Elliot Spitzer!

The armed group Boko Haram is better equipped than the Nigerian military fighting it, the governor of the region worst hit by the attacks said after more than 100 people died in a village raid.

The governor is scheduled to give a hard - hitting address to the state tomorrow regarding a budget crisis that is «worse than anyone realizes,» and to urge state agencies to «slash spending» to avoid a $ 4 billion, two - year budget gap.

Citing a recent paper by Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, and Peter Orszag of the Brookings Institution, the groups reminded Governor Pataki that cutting state and local services during a recession will make the situation worse rather than better.

Cuomo's opponent in the Democratic primary, Fordham law school professor Zephyr Teachout, says the governor should resign immediately, and says Cuomo's public indiscretions are far worse than the private indiscretions that led one of his predecessors Eliot Spitzer to resign.

A Quinnipiac University poll yesterday showed little enthusiasm from voters, who said they trusted the unions more than the governor and gave Mr. Cuomo such bad marks on education that it dragged down his approval rating to 50 percent.

And Cuomo's opponent in the Democratic primary, Fordham law school professor Zephyr Teachout, says the governor should resign immediately, and says Cuomo's public indiscretions are far worse than the private indiscretions that led one of his predecessors Eliot Spitzer to resign.

But rather than pointing to state issues — like abortion rights or campaign finance — that Democrats typically highlight when arguing why Republican control of the chamber is bad, the governor kept his focus on the GOP in Washington.

I'd rather listen to Governor Cuomo deliver a speech any day over the daily shifting sand presentations given by the former Governor, or worse yet the attempts by Paturkey to get out more than a 10 word sentence from his crooked lips.....

«The Governor's Executive Budget proposal took welcome steps to remedy the state's longstanding bad habit of spending more money than it takes in,» DiNapoli said.

And you should remember that Governor Cuomo not only publicly supported Senator Stephen Saland, a Republican against Terry Gipson, the official Democratic candidate and ultimate winner in the 41 st Senate District, but worse than that, Governor Cuomo kept a distance from President Barack Obama's re-election campaign especially during the time when it appeared that Obama's chances were uncertain.

I had to go to court because he feels he is governor and he has the powers, he has the security agencies at his beck and call, and he could do what he did and even went ahead to do more, even worse damage than what he had done.

New York State's budget gap through fiscal 2018 - 19 could be a whopping $ 4.6 billion worse than indicated by Governor Cuomo's latest Division of the Budget (DOB) projections, according to new estimates from State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

Espada said Cuomo is worse than former governor Eliot Spitzer, who once called himself «the steamroller.»

«Nigeria is passing through the most difficult period of our history, even worse than the civil war going by the kind of anxiety enveloping the country presently as a result of the Boko Haram insurgency, but that should not be used as a licence by any governor or anybody to go out of our constitutional provisions in coming up with a policy to tackle the problem.

What's worse than being an appointed senator, selected by an unelected governor?

Well, here we are two months later and it's worse than we thought in December, as the governor is clearly trying to weaken all the other independently electeds around him, the state comptroller notably, but also the attorney general, and even the Legislature.

New Yorkers, burned twice with bad governors, need to thoroughly check out more than the Times.

Having governed through the worst state fiscal crisis in six decades, the governors attending this weekend's meeting of the National Governor's Association were more than willing to talk about it.

Worse, a former state disaster official says the new trucks are no better suited to wade through flood waters than the suburban vehicles the governor often uses.

The top - ranking declared candidate was former Louisiana governor Buddy Roemer, who had a bit more than 6,000 clicks of support across the entire United States — about one - eighth as many nods as Jon Huntsman, the worst - performing mainstream Republican candidate, received in the New Hampshire primary.

It's not that Perry was a worse «education governor» than Bush (or, for that matter, Ann Richards) before him, but that he presided over an accountability strategy that was running out of steam.

Rather than intervene on behalf of students and parents who are being abused, Governor Malloy's administration, the State Department of Education and the State Board of Education have remained silent, or worse, have allowed the environment of bullying to continue.

On Tuesday's broadcast of CNN's «The Lead,» California Governor Jerry Brown (D) stated that claiming the US got a bad deal in the Paris climate agreement is «more fake than any fake news assertion by President Trump.»

And worse than that, our governor has decided that he wants to fast - track all of it and get it up and built as soon as possible.

«Even as more than one - quarter of Texas women are uninsured, and women in Texas have the third highest rate of cervical cancer in the country, Governor Perry is determined to make a bad situation worse for women in the state of Texas,» Richards said.