Sentences with phrase «democratic leader of the state»
Around the table sat Mr. Cuomo; the leaders of New York's most powerful labor unions; Joseph Crowley, the top - ranked New York Democrat in the House of Representatives; and the two rival Democratic leaders of the State Senate — Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who leads the main group of Democrats, and Jeffrey D. Klein, who leads the breakaway group — among others.
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In December 2005, the Democratic leaders of the state legislature exulted across party lines with then - Gov.
The Democratic leader of the State Senate, Andrea Stewart - Cousins of Yonkers, said Mr. Sampson had been stripped of his committee assignments and would no longer caucus with his fellow Senate Democrats.
That is the job of the Democratic leader of the State.
The Democratic leader of the state's fifth largest city will be term - limited out of office by year's end, so she is trying to wrap up as much business as she can.
Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy met with the Republican and Democratic leaders of the State Senate this week in an effort to get his nominee for state chief justice confirmed.
But the Democratic leader of the state Assembly, Carl Heastie disagrees.
The proposal has support from the Democratic leader of the state Assembly and Republicans in the GOP - led Senate, a key to its chances of passage.
Democratic Senators Offer Alternative to Brown's Funding Formula Democratic leaders of the state Senate want to delay Gov. Brown's sweeping plan for changing how schools are funded by a year and will recommend significant changes to it in a bill that they will reveal on Thursday.
In synchronized statements, Democratic leaders of the State Assembly joined Republicans in the State Senate to propose that the tests, which are aligned with the new curriculum standards known as the Common Core, be excluded, for now, from the state's new teacher evaluation system, which Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed into law in 2012.
Not exact matches
We think the threat of losing delegate representation should incentivize red - state Democrats — and other Democratic leaders — to prioritize issues that directly affect black communities on the state and federal levels.
In a letter to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Democratic and Republican leaders of the state House and Senate Wednesday, Schneiderman asked state lawmakers to pass legislation that would allow for prosecuting people on the state level for the exact crimes they were convicted of — and pardoned for — on the federal level.
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From the very beginning, India's leaders faced the problem of instituting a secular and democratic state before the conditions for it - anadequately large secular and egalitarianminded citizenry, and impartial legal institutions - had been met.
Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.
And Gov. Andrew Cuomo pledged to business leaders jittery about his support from the union - aligned Working Families Party and endorsement of a full Democratic takeover of the state Senate that he has no intention of going backwards.
«Democrats in the state Senate have unified and now it's time for us all to come together to win a Democratic majority of 32 senators, making Andrea Stewart - Cousins our Senate Majority Leader.»
In Albany, one of the state's most powerful men, Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein, is now facing allegations of misconduct himself, accused of forcibly kissing a former legislative staffer.
«Once again we see the real world consequences of what happens when Republicans are allowed to run the State Senate,» Senate Democratic Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said.
The state Democratic Party responded to the Republicans» new «more of the same» ad campaign with this little Web video, which reminds GOP and Conservative leaders how they used to feel about Carl Paladino — «lo those many moons ago before they embraced him as their gubernatorial standard - bearer.
Meanwhile, Espada continues to be supported by Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson, who has noted there's no precedent for any state lawmaker facing civil, not criminal, charges to be stripped of his or her title and lulu.
Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, who (thankfully) belongs to the early - risers club of which I am a card - carrying member, told me this morning that he has not been informed of a reported move by state Democratic leaders to oust controversial Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. from the party.
Former Town of Greece Democratic Leader Dave Garretson replaced State Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle as county chairman last year, and has never seemed to be in a rush to find a county executive candidate.
The penalties for not agreeing would include the «infrastructure» of the state Democratic Committee uniting to primary IDC members or, for Stewart - Cousins, Democrats being pushed to replace her as leader.
The push for peace between the two factions of Democrats in the state Senate has led to a strained relationship between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein, a source familiar with the talks said Wednesday.
Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky, the Democratic candidate for the seat of former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, accused his GOP opponent, Chris McGrath, of «cozying up» to a pro-Common Core group that funded a $ 1.2 million ad buy in advance of the April 19 special election.
No wonder Assemblyman Jeff Dinowitz, chair of the party committee and a Rainbow Rebel himself, wasn't in any big rush to heed the call of state Democratic Party leaders» to start proceedings to dis - enroll Espada.
The verbal attack last week on state Senate GOP Majority Leader John Flanagan by Cuomo's hand - picked state Democratic party executive director, reportedly sparked by the governor's anger over the conference's release of its priorities, raised eyebrows on both sides of the aisle.
Democratic leaders in the state Senate on Wednesday huddled with House Democrats to discuss control of the chamber in Albany as the party seeks a new unity pact.
This statewide tour involves state Democratic Party leaders — Jay Jacobs (chairman), Charlie King (executive director) and June O'Neill (ex-chair, executive committee chair)-- traveling to communities across New York to solicit ideas from residents and (ostensibly) forwarding the best of those on to the gubernatorial designee and his running mate, Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy.
The NY Post reports this morning that a group of African - American Democratic leaders, headed by state Party Co-Chair Keith Wright, are mobilizing to try to erode the support among black voters enjoyed by former Gov. Eliot Spitzer as he heads into the final weeks of his NYC comptroller battle with his primary opponent, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer.
Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. on the state Democratic Party's attempt to disenroll him: «Every aspect of this is Cuomo.
In an op / ed submitted to Capital Tonight's State of Politics, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan insisted Republicans will hold control of the chamber and even grow its narrow majority in the chamber in part by targeting seats held by members of the defunct Independent Democratic Conference.
Around the time of the September 13th Primary, numerous people asked what exactly went on between the Senate Democrats, The Independent Democratic Conference and State Senator Adriano Espaillat to make the likely next State Senator from Washington Heights, Marisol Alcantara, join forces with IDC Leader Jeff Klein.
A reader could not help but noting the irony of this statement from state Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs in response to former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno's conviction on federal corruption charges back in May 2010:
The leaders in the Republican - led Senate and Democratic - controlled Assembly on Monday indicated they would push to change Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to require local governments to develop ways of sharing services and scale back his efforts to expand his office's powers over the state budget.
John Sampson, the 51 - year - old former leader of the Democratic conference in the state Senate, was sentenced on Wednesday afternoon to five years in prison for his corruption conviction in 2015.
«These electoral wins are part of the «blue wave» sweeping our state and nation which will help even more Senate Democratic candidates win in the upcoming General Election,» said Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.
Bronx Democratic Sen. Jeff Klein, the leader of a powerful group of renegade Democrats in the state Senate, has been accused by a former staff member, Erica Vladimer, 30, of forcibly kissing her outside an Albany bar in 2015 — a charge he hotly denies.
In one of the stranger political statements I've seen of late (perhaps ever, actually), state GOP Chairman Ed Cox has heeded Democratic leaders» calls for him to condem anti-gay statements made by his standard - bearer, Carl Paladino, by lambasting whoever wrote them.
Bill Lipton, the state political director of the Working Families Party, told the AP that if Nixon should lose the September Democratic Party primary to Cuomo, his party leaders will meet with her and «make a decision that puts the interests of working families first.»
Also at 11 a.m., Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins and members of her conference issue a report and announce a series of bills aimed at fixing the state's Election Laws, Senate Democratic Conference Room (315), state Capitol, Albany.
The state Democratic and GOP parties traded barbs over the sentencing of former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno.
Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein is set to report more than $ 1.5 million in cash on hand — an amount of money in the bank that is larger than his fellow conference leaders in the state Senate.
State Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs confirmed the NYT report that he has tendered his resignation to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, clearing the way for the governor to select his own leader of an organization of which he became the de facto head when he was elected back in 2010.
The top official at the state Democratic committee on Thursday blasted Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan who had been critical of elements of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's State of the State address on Wednestate Democratic committee on Thursday blasted Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan who had been critical of elements of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's State of the State address on WedneState of the State address on WedneState address on Wednesday.
Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein in an interview on Wednesday took a shot at the political efforts of the mainline conference in the state Senate, suggesting he should be put in charge of electing new members.
«I am running to build a real Democratic State Senate majority that finally fully funds our public schools, protects tenants from being thrown out of their homes and strengthens our loophole ridden rent laws, passes badly needed ethics reforms, election reforms and real criminal justice reforms and makes Andrea Stewart - Cousins the first woman Senate Majority Leader, breaking up the so - called «three men in a room.»
The irony is particularly thick considering Democratic leaders have been predicting nothing but economic hardship and a meltdown of the state's economy from these tax cuts.
A top Long Island Democratic leader, Nassau party chair Jay Jacobs, fears Nixon could hurt the party's chances of capturing the state Senate if she gets the progressive Working Families Party line for governor.