Sentences with phrase «democrats out of power»

Dromm is especially upset that Diane Savino of Staten Island — a member of the State Senate's breakaway Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) that caucuses with the minority Republican senators to keep mainstream Democrats out of power — gave Diaz a maximum $ 2,750 donation.

But Republicans won an outright majority in the 2014 general election, keeping Democrats out of power.

In an interview, Sen. Simcha Felder was non-committal about following suit but said he was sick of Sen. Jeff Klein blaming him for keeping Democrats out of power.

Washington (CNN)- A chief political strategist for President Obama sought Thursday to dispel the idea the upcoming midterms are similar to the 1994 elections when Republicans swept Democrats out of power in Congress.

Not exact matches

The withering of the labor movement will further kneecap Democrats, keeping them out of power for a generation.

What happened to Austin shows how Texas Democrats get screwed out of any shred of power — the state voted 43.72 % for Obama in 2008, and even in 2010 was only 60 % Republican, but its current Congressional delegation has a 23 - 9 Republican advantage.

And when the time for an In Out referendum comes, which under Liberal Democrat policy will happen next time there is a significant transfer of powers the EU, we will be united around a clear message as the Party of In.

The web is a natural haven for the out - of - power — part of its brilliance is that it can make mighty the small and small the mighty — and just as Democrats and progressives began working online in earnest after they lost Congress and the White House, Republicans will naturally use new media to create channels for organizing and message - distribution now that they've been pushed out of institutional authority.

Gerson Borrero got ahold of Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr.'s first TV ad in which the scandal - scarred Bronx Democrat casts his primary opponent, Gustavo Rivera, as controlled by outsiders who «want to take out power away from us.»

Flanagan, who took over the top Senate post from the indicted Dean Skelos in the spring and began worrying that an «open» Staten Island seat would be won by Democrats, convinced the popular Lanza to stay out of the DA's race with promises of added power and influence, undermining the GOP's chance of recapturing the seat that had been held by Republican Daniel Donovan Jr., elected to Congress in May, a GOP insider said.

Even before it was released, the proposed amendment was blasted by Democrats in the Senate for essentially helping the current Senate Republican majority keep clout in the process, even if it falls out of power.

With little power left in Washington, Democrats set out on Sunday to make a big statement against GOP efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act with rallies in dozens of cities.

With a current division of 245 Republicans and 188 Democrats (and 2 vacancies) Democrats are decidedly out - of - power in the House and Gentile would face significant challenges in accomplishing any of his legislative goals.

When the Democrats were in power of both Houses (Silver and Malcolm Smith) and Eliot Spitzer / David Paterson / Andrew Cuomo, Upstate New York was completely shut out of the Legislative process.

To the extent that the Senate Democrats are a more formidable and grown - up - looking team than the one that was repeatedly outsmarted by the geniuses known as The Four Amigos, doesn't it become that much harder to use «chaos» as an excuse for keeping them out of power?

Klein, facing a primary from a Working Families Party endorsed candidate, promised to reunite in a coalition with the Democrats after the November elections, leaving the Republicans out of power.

The veteran Nassau County legislator, a Democrat from Merrick, suddenly dropped out of one of the year's most closely watched races, one on which the Senate's balance of power might hinge, after his former law firm alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that he defrauded a client of $ 2 million by billing for legal services he never performed.

«Democrats, desperate after more than a decade out of power, are trying to nationalize this election,» Reynolds told the National Press Club yesterday.

Because Andrea Stewart - Cousins, leader of the mainline Democrats, had already agreed to the terms of the state party blueprint when it was rolled out Monday evening, Klein's statement seemed to clear the way for a shift in power in the last remaining bastion of Republican power in state government.

The collapse in Scotland made it impossible for us to be the biggest party and the Liberal Democrat collapse enabled the Tories to gain an overall majority and keep us out of power.

Ever since Skelos and Klein announced their plans for a coalition a week ago, the Senate has been roiled by criticism from mainline Democrats — especially black and Hispanic lawmakers — who charge that they are being boxed out of power.

Some cabinet ministers hope that Gordon Brown could defy the disaster of Labour coming third in the share of the vote by joining forces with the Liberal Democrats in a «progressive alliance» to keep the Tories out of power even though Mr Cameron might have won more seats and votes than Labour.

Gillibrand quickly endorsed Cuomo for reelection, despite the fact that she has spoken out against a group of breakaway Democrats in the state Senate in a power - sharing arrangement with the Senate GOP that some elected officials and left - wing activists believe has been encouraged by the governor.

He said that without the power of running from another office, he had to get his message out against entrenched Democrats who came through the New York political clubhouse system.

Holyrood rejected the UK government's EU withdrawal bill by 93 votes to 30 on Tuesday after Labour, the Liberal Democrats and Scottish Greens backed Nicola Sturgeon's decision to oppose proposals on post-Brexit power sharing set out in clause 11 of the bill.

n contrast, the Liberal Democrats consciously positioned themselves as the main party political advocates of radical constitutional reform, with successive manifestos setting out their commitment to the fundamental re-balancing of power within the British state.

Democrats, newly in control of Nassau's highest office, reflected on nearly a decade out of power.

Sumner said she raised the motion against naming Klein because of the IDC's decision in 2012 to align itself with Republicans, despite Democrats having the numerical majority in the 63 - seat upper chamber, which effectively kept the party out of power.

ALBANY >> New York's Senate Democrats have regrouped from the squabbling and disarray that left them out of power four years ago.

Pramilla Malick, an opponent of a $ 1 billion natural gas - fired power plant being constructed by Competitive Power Ventures in Wawayanda, Orange County, has reached out to local Democrats asking them to make the plant an issue in their campaign against Bonacic this power plant being constructed by Competitive Power Ventures in Wawayanda, Orange County, has reached out to local Democrats asking them to make the plant an issue in their campaign against Bonacic this Power Ventures in Wawayanda, Orange County, has reached out to local Democrats asking them to make the plant an issue in their campaign against Bonacic this year.

Both Democrats and Republicans say they expect that separation - of - powers considerations will deter judges from intervening in a testy parliamentary matter that they may feel is best sorted out by lawmakers themselves.

Nick Clegg says it is «most likely» that the Liberal Democrats will be part of a coalition government after the May election, but rules out sharing power with UKIP.

But because of the five - member Independent Democratic Conference's alliance with the GOP and Sen. Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who conferences with the Republicans, Democrats are currently kept out of power.

Ms. James, a Brooklyn Democrat, laid out an aggressive agenda to curtail the powers of landlords, including an end to vacancy decontrol for units in the rent control system, a ban on property owners from increasing rents on vacant units, and a repeal of the Urstadt Law that puts the city's rent laws in the hands of the State Legislature.

The Liberal Democrats are in power and therefore bound by their manifesto unlike Labour who are out of power and had their manifesto rejected (therefore rendered null and void).

It was a swift and stunning fall for a Democrat who held himself out as a champion of women and a liberal foil to President Donald Trump and who pledged to use his office to hold others accountable for abusing their power.

A power - sharing deal that doles out leadership positions among Republican Dean Skelos, Democrat Malcolm Smith, Democrat John Sampson, and whatever - you - consider - him Pedro Espada may have been tentatively agreed upon, though it still has to be presented to the rest of the Democratic caucus, which is hardly a sure bet on anything.

As in, maybe it's a fear that the Democrats can't stay in power without this massive flow of money that is taken out of teachers» pockets and eventually funneled to them?

ACCCCE and the Astroturf Power Army will be out in full force lobbying these and other key Democrats as various Senate committees begin to hash out their version of climate and energy legislation.