Sentences with phrase «years as an assemblyman»

In his first years as an assemblyman, Mr. Espaillat would rack up a record the Village Voice called «impressive,» though one vote he took in 1999 still haunts him in his current clash with Mr. Rangel.

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«William F. Boyland Jr., the four - term assemblyman representing the 55th district in Brooklyn, went on what for him might be described as a bill - drafting binge during the legislative session earlier this year — introducing a total of three measures in Albany.»

Maurice Hinchey, who served the Hudson Valley for 38 years as a state assemblyman and congressman, has frontotemporal degeneration, a rare and terminal neurological disorder, his family announced.

But there has been political tension between the governor and Mr. Klein, who may face a primary challenge from Oliver Koppell, a former assemblyman and City Council member from the Bronx, who served as state attorney general for a year during the administration of Mr. Cuomo's father.

It has been a determined and successful road to the top for Schumer, who was elected as a 23 - year - old state assemblyman from Brooklyn in 1974 before going to Washington as a congressman.

Levy noted he has been in public service for «25 of my 51 years,» serving 15 years as a Suffolk County legislator, three as a state assemblyman and seven as county executive.

A Democratic assemblyman who spurned his own primary this year and will run on the GOP and Conservative lines, Kearns looms as a major Zellner target.

During this year's negotiations over 421 - a renewal, the assemblyman introduced legislation that would have required recipients of the tax break to pay these contractors a prevailing wage, a proposal critics derided as unnecessary and counterproductive in an industry where workers are already paid substantially more than an average worker's salary.

A former New York state assemblyman has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after he was caught in a sting operation accepting bribes from a carnival promoter and two undercover FBI agents posing as out - of - town real estate investors.

[Silver's] office held on to one claim of mistaken identity: The «Sheldon Silver Esq.» identified as counsel to United Jewish Council on the group's letterhead from all those years was not the assemblyman, but the other Mr. Silver.

The next chairman of the Bronx Democratic Party could be a 34 - year - old assemblyman long regarded as a rising star in the borough.

«I've been involved in New York state politics as an observer and a participant for 50 years,» said Tony Casale, a former assemblyman and current adviser to the state GOP.

Legislator Tom Barraga (R - East Islip), who spent over 20 years in Albany as an assemblyman, voted along with legislators Jay Schneiderman (I - Montauk) and Tom Cilmi (R - Bay Shore) against the county Legislature's budget — pointing to past bailouts in New York City and Nassau County as evidence the legislation would not be much of a risk at all.

In 1994, the «obscure» and «soft - spoken» assemblyman, as the Times Union described him at the time, took over as speaker from Saul Weprin, who suffered a stroke in January of that year and died weeks later.

Before becoming an assemblyman himself, Weprin served as a City Council member for eight years and led an unsuccessful run for city comptroller in 2009.

The candidacy of a 34 - year - old Bronx assemblyman — and veteran of President Barack Obama's presidential campaign and White House — to become a vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee has drawn more enthusiasm nationally than in his native borough, where party leadership perceives him as an overly ambitious interloper using his local office as stepping stone on his way to glory in Washington.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> Maurice Hinchey, who served the Mid-Hudson Valley for 38 years as a state assemblyman and congressman, has frontotemporal degeneration, a rare and terminal neurological disorder, his family announced Tuesday.

«With all the votes accounted for I have, with your support and faith, come out ahead.Thank you for your vote and belief in me; it has been the most difficult and most humbling experience of my life... As I've said since the first day of my campaign, I will be leaving my 25 - year career at Cobleskill Stone to be your full - time assemblyman.»

«I'm willing to put my pension on the line and go back to Albany and vote a second time to strip it if I do anything wrong,» said Ceretto, who has 21 years in the state pension system as a local officeholder, State Parks employee and assemblyman.

Molinaro was a state assemblyman, but has served for the last seven years as county executive in Dutchess.

«The fact that the witness interprets it as «to get what I want I have to pay» is not necessarily what Silver was intending,» said Quijano, who represented former assemblyman William Boyland last year in a bribery case.

A battle over the one - percent extension was waged between assemblyman Cahill and Hein in 2013, with Cahill insisting that as a condition of his support for state passage, the county assume the cost of safety - net expenses and election over a three - year phase - in.

One is a public - corruption squad that helped investigate Eliot Spitzer, the former governor, as well as two Queens assemblymen, Anthony S. Seminerio and Bryan McLaughlin, who were convicted on corruption charges in recent years.

The two are so entwined that the governor deployed the assemblyman as proxy to an endorsement meeting of the Village Independent Democrats club that year — only for the group to endorse Mr. Cuomo's long - shot primary opponent Zephyr Teachout, and cite the minimum wage bill as a reason.

The race's Democrats include Edward Braunstein, who works as a legislative assistant for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan); Bayside attorney Steve Behar, who ran in the race to replace former City Councilman Tony Avella last year; John Duane, a former assemblyman in the district and brother of state Sen. Tom Duane (D - Manhattan); and Whitestone attorney Elio Forcina.

Castro in the statement said he was «very proud» of his accomplishments as an assemblyman over the last four years and his work on behalf of new citizens.

McLaughlin said he would continue to be independent and work across the aisle, as he has as an assemblyman for the last seven years.

Other candidates who have looked at the race previously, and may do so again, include Joyce Johnson, whom the New York Times endorsed; Assemblyman Keith Wright, the chairman of the Manhattan Democratic organization, who is close to Rangel and could be a leading candidate to replace him should Rangel step down or not seek re-election, as is often rumored to be the case; Adriano Espaillat, a newly elected state senator who could appeal to the growing Hispanic population in the district, depending on what happens with redistricting; and Adam Clayton Powell IV, the former assemblyman and the son of the legendary congressman whom Rangel unseated 40 years ago, who has run and lost against Rangel twice in the past.

The change in the law, as well as an extension of the CPF from 2030 to 2050, was signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo after state Sen. Ken LaValle (R - Port Jefferson) and Assemblymen Fred Thiele (I — Sag Harbor) sponsored the legislation earlier this year.

In September, Forcina will face off against three Democrats in the primary election, including Edward Braunstein, who works as a legislative assistant for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan); Steve Behar, an attorney who ran last year in the race to replace then - City Councilman Tony Avella; and John Duane, a former assemblyman in the district and brother of state Sen. Tom Duane (D - Manhattan).

Democrats running for Carrozza's seat include Edward Braunstein, who works as a legislative assistant for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan); Steve Behar, an attorney who ran last year in the race to replace then - City Councilman Tony Avella; Elio Forcina, a Whitestone attorney; and John Duane, a former assemblyman in the district and brother of state Sen. Tom Duane (D - Manhattan).

The 69 - year - old served as assemblyman for the downtown Flushing area from 2005 - 06 and has remained an influential political force ever since.

«He spent 16 years in Albany as an assemblyman and he'd be in a perfect position to deliver for Westchester County and the Senate is a great job.»

After meeting with senators and assemblyman throughout the State over the course of two years and testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senate Budget Committee and the Assembly Judiciary Committee, the New Jersey Family Collaborative Law Act passed all Committees unanimously as well as unanimously passing on the floor of the Senate and the Assembly.