Sentences with phrase «democratic conference leadership»

A Brooks win would solidify the claim the mainline Democratic conference leadership has been making for the last several weeks: A numerical 32 - lawmaker majority in the Senate should be enough to hand them control of the chamber.

Not exact matches

Queens Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan, the lone remaining challenger to Assemblyman Carl Heastie to succeed Assemblyman Sheldon Silver as speaker, issued a statement this afternoon congratulating her Bronx colleague on securring sufficient support to lay claim to the leadership post, but also said she would have «preferred» a vote on Feb. 10, as the Democratic conference originally agreed.

Also, even though this alliance forces Smith to let bygones be bygones with a guy who once reportedly tried to oust him from his majority leader post (that would be Sen. Jeff Klein back in 2008 when the leadership struggle No. 1 took place), it could hardly be any worse than being the deposed former majority leader of the Democratic conference where he's pretty much just a back bencher since losing his power in the 2009 coup.

After Assemblyman Mickey Kearns quit the conference in protest over Silver's ongoing leadership, a spokesman for the speaker said: «Two members left the Democratic conference today, Vito Lopez and Mickey Kearns.

Democratic leadership placed the new assemblyman on the Republican side of the chamber, but the GOP moved a desk to a space by itself with no one on his right or left, so it didn't appear he was a member of its conference either.

«This legislative session is filled with difficult decisions and with Assemblyman Heastie's vision and leadership the Democratic conference will benefit exponentially.

The labor - aligned Working Families Party in a statement Friday called on Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein to step aside from his leadership post as an investigation is conducted into an allegation that he forcibly kissed a former legislative staffer.

Sen. Jose Peralta, the Queens Democrat who moved at the start of the year to the Independent Democratic Conference, was given a leadership title on Tuesday.

Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein in an interview late Monday afternoon slammed the political and policy strategy of the mainline Democrats in the chamber, saying the leadership of Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins has failed to effectively advocate on key issues.

Sen. Jesse Hamilton, a Brooklyn Democrat first elected in 2014, will be joining the Independent Democratic Conference, bolstering the clout of its leader, Bronx lawmaker Jeff Klein, in the coming leadership battle in the state Senate.

The leadership of mainline Democratic conference has turned over entirely since that time, however.

Klein agreed with Peralta's criticism of the mainline Democratic leadership in the Senate, adding the conference is yet to fully address why it has failed to win key legislative races in order to gain a working majority.

The Times - Union column revealed that Empire Merchants and its leadership have donated $ 53,000 to Senator Klein since 2009, and $ 31,000 to his Independent Democratic Conference, which co-leads the Senate in a coalition with the Republicans.

If Mr. Klein's relationship with the Senate leadership of the mainstream Democrats is seemingly irreconcilable, the Independent Democratic Conference has usually worked well with the governor, a bulwark to more liberal ideas that pass the Democratic - dominated Assembly.

For example, we are supporting three challengers to New York State Senate Independent Democratic Conference members, who have historically organized with the Republican leadership to block progress on voting rights, reproductive rights, and government reform.

And some of our elected «democratic» lawmakers, otherwise known as the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), repeatedly caucus with republicans in exchange for leadership roles (which gets them a bigger paychecks, staff, and offices) and more funding for their democratic» lawmakers, otherwise known as the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), repeatedly caucus with republicans in exchange for leadership roles (which gets them a bigger paychecks, staff, and offices) and more funding for their Democratic Conference (IDC), repeatedly caucus with republicans in exchange for leadership roles (which gets them a bigger paychecks, staff, and offices) and more funding for their districts.

In the wake of state Sen. Malcolm Smith's (D - Hollis) bribery scandal, Independent Democratic Conference leader Sen. Jeffrey Klein (D - Bronx) stripped the embattled lawmaker of his committee assignments and leadership position within the state's coalition government and in a final blow suggested Smith step down from the perch from which he had long coveted positions of -LSB-...]

(In the case of the Independent Democratic Conference, those eight Democrats actually voted for the Republican leadership).

Five Senate democrats, called the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), broke away from the Senate's democratic caucus because of concerns about lDemocratic Conference (IDC), broke away from the Senate's democratic caucus because of concerns about ldemocratic caucus because of concerns about leadership.

I look forward to serving with my colleagues in the Senate Democratic Conference under the leadership of Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins.»

Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein backed the leadership of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, but says his office «failed miserably» in its handling of the Vito Lopez sexual harassment case.

So, if there were to be a change in leadership in the Assembly — which, as Nick and the NYT pointed out earlier today is highly unlikely — Silver's replacement would almost certainly have to come from New York City, given the downstate dominance of the Democratic conference.

Do you think that you could be independent and break with the leadership of the Democratic Conference in the House?

Krueger's comment came in response to my question about whether Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson will retain his leadership role in light of the fact that he backed a number of incumbents — notably Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. — against whom rank - and - file members like Krueger campaigned.

Kearns, who announced was splitting from the Democratic conference over the Lopez affair, was never supported by the Assembly leadership to begin with, having run on an anti-Silver platform.

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The governor is now attempting to turn the public's attention back to the leadership in the State Senate, which is controlled by Republicans in an alliance with the four - member Independent Democratic Conference (in an arrangement that Cuomo had tacitly blessed even as other Democrats cried foul).

In addition to Senate Republicans that have benefited from the practice, three members of the Independent Democratic Conference, which has a power - sharing arrangement with the GOP, receive stipends despite not serving as committee chairs or having leadership posts.

If both Gipson and Tkaczyk win, they will have a numerical 32 - member majority in the Senate and make the four - member Independent Democratic Conference more important in leadership negotiations.

Earlier in the day, Gov. Cuomo said he strongly supports the reunification plan that threatens to have the state party back primaries against the Independent Democratic Conference if they don't accept the terms or call for a change in leadership in the mainline Democratic conference if they don't Conference if they don't accept the terms or call for a change in leadership in the mainline Democratic conference if they don't conference if they don't go for it.

Cruddas will take the leadership contenders up on their offer, saying: «I want to see a more democratic party with an actively involved membership, a conference that is strengthened and its agenda setting opened up.

Senate Democratic Conference leader John Sampson is shaking up his leadership team with a new communications director.

But Republicans are trying to woo four Senate Democrats who, unhappy with the leadership of their caucus, formed an Independent Democratic Conference in 2011.

Klein's eight - member Independent Democratic Conference was formed in 2011 and is currently aligned with the Republicans in a majority leadership coalition.

Not shy about bringing a little elbow into the game, Rivera is taking on the incumbent Democratic senator in the adjoining district, Jeff Klein, over his defection from the rest of the conference and leadership of a five - member rump faction that caucused and shared power with the Republicans in the past two years.

The deal has not been solidified and its likelihood of success was far from certain Monday as members met separately in committees ahead of a single scheduled Democratic conference committee to approve or modify the leadership arrangement.

So they fail at leadership for the Democratic Conference, leave the Conference, and then blame the cConference, leave the Conference, and then blame the cConference, and then blame the conferenceconference.

Two years prior, in the midst of the investigations, corruption charges, late budgets and general disorder in the Senate leadership structure, Bronx Senator Jeffrey Klein had led three of his colleagues to split off from the larger caucus and form the Independent Democratic Conference, and cut a deal with Republican leader Dean Skelos of Long Island to allow the IDC and the GOP to control the body together.

Independent Democratic Conference Leader and Senate Co-President Jeff Klein announced this afternoon in a statement he has stripped Sen. Malcolm Smith of his various leadership posts and committee assignments as the result of his arrest on bribery charges this morning.

Those nine Democrats (eight members of the Independent Democratic Conference or the IDC and Brooklyn Sen. Simcha Felder) got leadership positions as the chairs or vice-chairs of committees.

But Mr. Flanagan's remarks seemed to do little to quell the questions around the stipend deal, which Senate Democrats have seized on as a powerful cudgel to attack the Republicans and their partners in the Independent Democratic Conference, an eight - member breakaway group that helps the G.O.P. maintain leadership in the Senate.

Senate Republicans on Monday criticized the Democratic leadership in the conference for voting against legislation that would recall an elected official who is indicted for a felony.

But either way, when he ascends to the top of the Democratic conference in the chamber, he'll be the first senator from New York to hold a top party leadership position since senators started designating them in the early 1920s.

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The Democratic conference held meetings the following week and concluded that it had lost confidence in his leadership.

A Democratic source confirmed that generally when there is a change in leadership for any party in Albany, a conference meets as a matter of form and a new leader emerges.

She receives the stipend for serving as Minority Leader — also — she does not go around handing out «raises» for (1) upstate Senators who turned their back on an upstate candidate for the Republican leadership position, or (2) Democratic Senators who align with the Republican conference.

Under Skelos, the GOP conference sought to engineer a leadership coup with the aid of two breakaway Democratic lawmakers, Pedro Espada and Hiram Monserrate.

There seems to be little appetite to upend the leadership structure within the Senate Democratic conference after Republicans gained an outright majority in last month's elections.

Other lawmakers who have been officially accused of corruption in recent years have been quickly ostracized by their colleagues: Sen. John Sampson was kicked out of the mainline Democratic conference; Sen. Malcolm Smith was stripped of his leadership posts and conference position by IDC Leader Jeff Klein.