Sentences with phrase «espada became the majority leader»
And don't say the Democrats did the same thing, because Espada became the majority leader with them not through voting and nearly all powers of the majority leader title were stripped of him when the Dems took him back.
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It depicts Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr.'s primary challenger, Gustavo Rivera, as a «little boy» who «sold his Latino soul» to become the «handpicked little boy» candidate of «evil indivudals» (Sen. Liz Krueger, New Roosevelt Initiative founder Bill Samuels and WFP Executive Director Dan Cantor).
Fellow Democrat Craig Johnson said Espada's position as majority leader simply can not be allowed to become a distraction to the Senate's work.
Cuomo told aides over the weekend that due to the high - profile criminal and civil investigations of Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada (D - Bronx) that became public last week, he was shelving tentative plans to announce later this week right before a Waldorf - Astoria fund - raiser and a meeting of the Democratic Rural Conference.
-- CU backed Gustavo Rivera over Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., saying the Bronx lawmaker has «has become a symbol for hubris, corruption and wrongdoing in the state legislature due to ongoing investigations by the attorney general and federal authorities and his leadership in bringing Senate business to a month - long halt last summer.»
Rivera, a former community organizer and one - time aide to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, became the posted boy for good government groups, progressive labor unions and Albany reform advocates when he ousted former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. in the September primary.
Mr. Espada would briefly become majority leader before the legislative chaos, and his own legal troubles, ended his political career.
Liz Benjamin reports that State Senator Jeffrey Klein strongly backs Malcolm Smith to become majority leader (despite rumors that the knives were out after Smith's backed out of a deal to give leadership position to Pedro Espada and two other renegade Dems).