Word: assemblyman
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...mayor's belated conversion did not end all opposition to the plan, especially from liberal Democrats. Said Seymour Posner, a state assemblyman from The Bronx: "I got a call at 3:30 today telling me what the party line is. By 4 o'clock, I was already being threatened." Democratic liberals in the assembly, particularly blacks and Puerto Ricans, harbored populist fears that the bankers, who advise Carey and demand austerities, were about to take over the city. "They have no feeling for the poor," said Buffalo Assemblyman Arthur Eve. City Councilman Theodore Weiss echoed a familiar hyperbole...
...more baffling problem has been how to sustain the squirrels that frisk and frolic on the capitol lawn in Sacramento. For years, Assemblyman Eu gene Chappie has been feeding the squirrels with samples provided by the Northern California Walnut Growers Association. Daunted by Proposition Nine, Chappie thought at first that he would have to find some walnuts grown on state land to keep the squirrels from becoming a vanishing breed. But then Assemblyman Edwin L. Z'berg won 50 Ibs. of walnuts in a raffle, which he promptly gave to Chappie. Now other assemblymen are anteing up a buck...
...York investigation centers around Bernard Bergman, 63, a Hungarian-born Manhattan rabbi (without congregation) who is involved in the operation of a disputed number of nursing homes in the area. A series of recent probes made headlines when Andrew Stein, a state assemblyman whose commission on living costs has been studying the nursing-home industry, charged widespread padding of Medicare and Medicaid bills submitted from a number of homes, including Bergman's. According to New York's secretary of state Mario Cuomo, Bergman's homes not only mistreated their patients but defrauded the state of Medicaid funds...
Arthur O. Eve, a black New York assemblyman who had urged the impeachment of Rockefeller for his role in Attica, testified that the former Governor was responsible for "engineering the massacre. There is no question in my mind that the Governor was aware of every decision and step taking place." Asked repeatedly about Attica, Rockefeller said that he made an initial error by not permitting the guards to retake the prison before negotiations began. At that time, the guards were unarmed. In previous testimony, Rockefeller agreed that he should not have allowed armed state troopers to attack the rebels when...
Boycott Harvard Provision! Boycott Gallo! Boycott Grapes! Art Torres Fellow, Institute of Politics Assemblyman Elect...