The man who brought Nigel to Pride Park in January as Paul Jewell's replacement certainly could not praise that appointee enough as he bade his farewells last week.
He wants to know whether Edison, a for-profit company, and the state's education secretary, Charles Zogby, a Republican appointee, conspired to influence the bidding.
Once Kinder Morgan began considering a bid, Goldman's two director appointees on the Kinder Morgan board recused themselves immediately from discussions about this potential purchase.
As more people become victims of the "hands off" policies of our elected officials and their appointees, the populism former Senator John Edwards is advocating in his presidential bid will gain greater appeal.
Republicans were given fresh ammunition on Oct. 21, when the state inspector general, a Democratic appointee, released a report accusing the Senate leadership of manipulating the bidding process for the right to build a casino at the Aqueduct racetrack in Queens.
The latest came on Oct. 21, when the state inspector general, a Democratic appointee, released a scathing report accusing the Senate leadership of manipulating the bidding process for the right to build a casino at the Aqueduct racetrack in Queens and referred a potential criminal case to federal and local prosecutors.
Gov. Craig Benson, a Republican, is having a tough go of it in his first re-election bid against John Lynch, a business executive, in part because of scandals involving appointees and the former state attorney general.
Gresham had a long career as a political appointee in the latter part of the 19th century; though he lost his only two bids for elective office, he served in three Cabinet positions and was twice a dark horse candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.
A bid would require him to resign his current post, depriving Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of his best-known appointee and instantly shaking up the 2013 mayoral campaign.
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