Sentences with phrase «democratic assembly speaker»

But the inability of Mr. Cuomo and Mr. de Blasio to push through several major initiatives underscored how both men failed to sway a Legislature that seemed ripe for change after the corruption convictions of Sheldon Silver, the former Democratic Assembly speaker, and Dean G. Skelos, the former Republican Senate majority leader.

Virtually all major decisions are made by consensus with Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, Republican Senate leader John Flanagan, and Democratic Assembly speaker Carl Heastie, with the Republican - aligned Senate Independent Democratic Conference leader Jeff Klein sometimes included.

Does Cuomo also unleash an investigation, or maybe try to oust Democratic Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, as the New York Post's Fred Dicker suggested recently?

Not exact matches

When I asked how, exactly, he intended to do that, noting that the Democratic conference, not the governor, selects the Assembly speaker, Paladino replied rather ominously: «We are going to make it very untenable for his caucus to keep him as their leader... Watch me.

«I think we're going to be here as long as the speaker feels we're having productive talks,» said Democratic Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle.

Sheldon Silver, the former powerful Democratic speaker of the state Assembly, was found guilty of federal corruption charges less than a year after his first conviction on the same charges was thrown out.

Four years ago there was another speaker race, and Crowley was also aligned with the Bronx, although at that time the Democratic chair in the borough was current Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.

He opened the broadcast with a blast at the culture of corruption in Albany that enabled Silver, the Democratic former Assembly speaker, and Skelos, the Republican ex-Senate majority leader.

That case involved campaign contributions and also led to the overturning of the corruption convictions of two former powers in New York State politics — Sheldon Silver, the longtime Democratic speaker of the State Assembly, and Dean Skelos, the former Republican majority leader of the State Senate.

He got agreement from the Republican leader of the Republican - majority state Senate and the Democratic speaker of the Democratic - majority assembly.

Still, despite the absence of the powerful Assembly speaker, both Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos and Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein reported headway in the budget talks.

Case in point: The downstaters and Democratic party leaders in the five boroughs recently used their clout to select a new speaker, Carl Heastie, who hails from the Bronx, over Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle, a Rochester Democrat.

The issue is a top priority to have resolved this week for the Democratic - led Assembly and its speaker, Bronx Democrat Carl Heastie.

We've added Speaker Miller — the Democratic speaker of the Assembly — he's with us.»

Pataki, a career politician, went on to tar Weprin repeatedly as a «career politician,» a phrase that's been bandied about quite a bit by the Turner campaign in its bid to contrast the a longtime cable TV executive with Weprin, an assemblyman and lifelong Queens Democratic Party apparatchik whose father was the Assembly speaker.

ALBANY — Yet another of the potential candidates for New York State Assembly speaker has dropped out and backed Carl Heastie, the Bronx Democratic chairman, who has quickly emerged as a front - runner for the post.

The proposals come two and a half weeks after the Democratic Assembly Speaker, Sheldon Silver was arrested on corruption charges, and one week after he resigned as speaker.

Mr. Jenkins is a veteran Democratic consultant and lobbyist, but his stock shot through the roof after his old college roommate, Carl Heastie, was elected speaker of the Assembly.

These are some of the Democrats already moving: Mr. Kaminsky, a former prosecutor who is rumored to be eyeing a run for Mr. Skelos» Senate seat; Mr. Kavanagh, the leader of the reform caucus that emerged during the speaker's race; Mr. Perry, the chairman of the powerful Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus; Mr. Mosley, who took on his seat from now - Congressman Hakeem Jeffries and almost got the Caucus nod Mr. Perry did; Marcos Crespo, new Bronx Democratic chairman and close friend of Mr. Heastie; Mr. Blake, a former Obama staffer from the resurgent Bronx; and Ms. Rozic, who at the time of her election was the youngest woman ever elected to the Assembly.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver will end his long reign as the head of the Assembly on Monday, say the Democratic members of the Assembly who announced they will hold a new election for speaker on Feb. 10.

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The proposals come two - and - a-half weeks after the Democratic Assembly Speaker, Sheldon Silver, was arrested on corruption charges, and one week after he resigned as speaker.

Shelly Silver, the powerful Democratic speaker of the state assembly, is the central character in a tale that seems as if it sprung from the imaginations of Kennedy, the great novelist of Albany corruption, and of Jon Stewart.

As CBS2's Jessica Schneider reported, Democratic leaders met for two days, and finally decided Tuesday night to force the powerful assembly speaker to step down.

Complimenting the disorder of the Senate the whole time was the unassailable lethargy of the Assembly, where Ent - like speaker Sheldon Silver controls a Democratic supermajority that is seemingly impervious to public opinion, editorial outrage and, as Eliot Spitzer can unhappily attest, governors with «popular mandates.»

The letter, asking all members of the Assembly's Democratic Conference to sign on, did not explicitly lay out the reforms sources say the caucus really wants — term - limits on speakers and committee chairs — but instead asked a wide array of questions that hinted at their motives.

Besides the Bronx, Assembly insiders say Mr. Heastie has the backing of the Kings County Democratic Party and of Mayor Bill de Blasio — though both have denied backing any one of the contenders, outside of saying the speaker should be from New York City.

For portions of his tenure as speaker, Mr. Silver maintained a viselike hold on the Assembly, withstanding the rare challenge from Democratic colleagues, and brushing off all criticism of his performance.

Democratic members of the Assembly have hashed out a deal to make one of Silver's allies, Majority Leader Joe Morelle of Rochester, interim speaker until the election of a new, permanent speaker on February 10.

When corruption charges were brought against then - Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver earlier this year, the Democratic conference initially stood squarely behind their leader, but support began to wane as members had more time to examine the charges.

California's Assembly speaker has played a classic legislative leadership role as the bridge between a Republican governor and a strongly liberal majority Democratic caucus, helping to forge and shepherd through a long list of impressive legislation over the past couple of years.

One important conversation had already been check off by the time Mr. Cuomo got up this morning, however: He spoke last night with Sheldon Silver, the Assembly speaker and his biggest rival for power and influence in the Capitol, at the Democratic victory party at the Sheraton Hotel, aides to both men said.

In a TU OpEd, Republican Assembly members Jane Corwin, Nicole Malliotakis, Annie Rabbitt and Claudia Tenney encouraged their Democratic colleagues to oust Silver from the speaker's chair.

ALBANY — Clusters of Democratic members of the Assembly met behind closed doors in the Legislative Office Building on Monday, debating whether Sheldon Silver could remain as speaker as he fights federal corruption charges.

Mr. de Blasio, the Democratic mayor, has repeatedly relied on the taciturn Assembly speaker to battle for his priorities in the state legislature, where New York City ambitions often crumble in a Republican - controlled Senate.

Bailey, 34, has spent the last decade in the orbit of Carl Heastie, the former Bronx Democratic leader and current speaker of the state Assembly.

The traditional «three men in a room» — Mr. Cuomo; the Senate majority leader, John J. Flanagan of Long Island; and Carl E. Heastie, the Assembly speaker — has expanded to include Senator Jeffrey D. Klein, the leader of the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference, a breakaway cadre of Democrats who collaborate with Mr. Flanagan to help rule the Senate.

Glenwood was also revealed in the recent complaint against former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver as one of the clients of a tax certiorari firm that paid the Democratic lawmaker undicslosed fees.

To accuse a member of the Democratic majority in the Assembly was tantamount to going up against the speaker, the members of the conference and the institution itself, said another former legislative staffer who tried to report sexual harassment by a former assemblymember.

Heastie is the sixth Democratic speaker during the tenure of Assemblyman Dick Gottfried, the longest - serving member, who was first elected when Republicans ran the Assembly in 1970.

Garcia previously acknowledged calling a former Assembly speaker a derogatory term for gays and making a disparaging comment about Asians, both of which drew swift rebuke from her Democratic colleagues.

«On Monday, there will be a vacancy in the office of speaker,» Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle said in Albany Tuesday while surrounded by most members of the Democratic conference.

He would not answer when asked whether Silver would resign, or whether the Democratic Assembly members would have to vote the speaker out of office.

Carl Heastie, the State Assembly speaker and until recently the chairman of the Bronx Democratic Committee, said, «She did mention that [Vermont] doesn't have gun laws, and she brought that up when she was contrasting her position on guns and votes in Senate with Senator Sanders.»

The 20 - year speaker has the power to decide unilaterally what initiatives make it into the Assembly's budget, what pieces of legislation come up for a floor vote, what resources each member receives for his office and even how much money representatives get from the Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee for their re-election bids.

At the same time, he worked for decades for the Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee, which is controlled by the speaker.

There is the Lower Manhattan race to replace Sheldon Silver, the former Assembly speaker, in which the Democrat, Alice Cancel, would be a lock for the solid - blue district were it not for an unexpectedly well - organized challenge from a third - party candidate, Yuh - Line Niou, who has accused Ms. Cancel of owing the Democratic nomination to Mr. Silver's hidden hand.

And because such a step would not require legislative approval, Mr. Cuomo could achieve it while bypassing the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, and the Democratic - controlled State Assembly, labor's most powerful allies in Albany.

Assemblyman Keith Wright of Manhattan, a former state Democratic committee co-chair, was the first of a growing number of Assembly members calling for Silver to resign his post, saying if the speaker remained, the chamber would be «mired in the swamp of dysfunction and chaos.»

Assembly Democrats struck a deal tonight to elevate Joseph Morelle, the Democratic majority leader, to temporarily replace the scandal - scarred Sheldon Silver, the longtime Assembly speaker.