Sentences with phrase «leader john»

Secondly, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan has made a real push to court the unions.

After the show, a few members in the crowd were heard comparing Lazio's performance to the rebuttal by then - Assembly Minority Leader John Faso, who also had trouble with his lines.

FBI officals confim that former Senate Minority Leader John Sampson is un custody after turning himself into federal officials earlier this morning on public corruption charges.

To give you an idea of just how unhappy lawmakers are with the governor's habit — like other governors before him — of stuffing non-budget policy items into the budget, Deputy Senate Minority Leader John DeFrancisco has suggested the Legislature move a constitutional amendment that would go before voters to outlaw anything other than spending from being put into the annual spending plan.

He did not seem terribly keen on the idea that has been voiced by Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco and others that the Senate and Assembly should do a two - way deal before the session ends, and then attempt an override should the governor respond with a veto.

De Blasio said that he has talked to Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan only once in recent weeks — last Thursday or Friday — a sign of his rocky relationship with the Republican who year after year has seemed to relish tormenting the mayor over the issue of school control.

Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson and the IG are at odds over the confidentiality of a memo the Brooklyn Democrat «leaked» to AEG.

The comments by Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie during a joint appearance at the Times Union's media center in Albany come as voters this November will consider a referendum whether to hold a constitutional convention.

But City & State has reported while Felder would likely caucus with his fellow Democrats, he would also probably cast a tie - breaking vote — if necessary — for Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos over Minority Leader John Sampson.

Morse again would not commit to supporting Senate Minority Leader John Sampson for majority leader if he's elected and the Democrats re-take control of the chamber.

Queens City Councilman Eric Ulrich said he's «seriously considering» a bid for lieutenant governor against Cuomo's running mate, Democratic incumbent Kathy Hochul, after being approached by Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, who's running for governor.

After attending a closed - door meeting where Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, of Long Isand, was re-elected as head of the GOP conference, (Felder said he did not cast a vote), the Brooklyn lawmaker suggested he might even wait until the IDC announced which conference it would be aligning with in 2017.

«Our Senate Republican conference benefits greatly from the experience and the perspectives of these outstanding female legislators and leaders for New York, and I am confident the entire state will as well,» said Majority Leader John Flanagan.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan earlier in the day said in a statement the Senate Ethics Committee did not have the jurisdiction to the review the case.

One day after the release of a Siena College poll showing Cuomo with sizable leads over his potential Republican challengers, Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco's campaign critiqued past public polls and insisted that the incumbent Democratic governor can be defeated this year.

Rep. Brian Higgins is in Kennedy's corner, while Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson is lobbying on behalf of Stachowski and recently placed a call to the local WFP chapter chair to implore him to stick with the incumbent.

Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson said he gave Sen. Kevin Parker a talking - to following his verbal attacks on his Republican colleagues, but that's the extent of the disciplinary action the controversial Brooklyn lawmaker will face.

There are several bills floating around out there, including one sponsored by Senate Minority Leader John Sampson and Assembly Speaker Sheldon SIlver that establishes a public campaign finance system.

Klein is one of the four men in the room negotiating the budget agreement alongside Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Klein, at a news conference on Monday, said he had not spoken with Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan about the legislation.

Also at 6 p.m., state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, state Sen. Catharine Young, state Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox and former Gov. George Pataki attend a fundraiser for state Senate candidate Julie Killian, Empire Steak House, 151 E. 50th St., Manhattan.

Richard Azzopardi, a spokesman for the governor, later clarified that Cuomo had proposed the idea during closed - door budget negotiations, which Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan denied, but that the idea was shot down; no bill was ever advanced.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan on Thursday named Sen. Jim Seward to join a legislative panel on Lyme disease and tick - borne illnesses.

I don't know what the senate plan is, I have not yet spoken to (Senate Democratic Conference Leader John) Sampson since last night.»

After telling reporters in no uncertain terms that his conference would be leaving Albany, not to return until next week, Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson and his fellow majority members did not go home.

«The only conclusion one can reach from these irresponsible and dangerous actions is that New York's parole system under Governor Cuomo is broken,» Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan said in a statement.

«Mayoral control hearings are necessary to provide transparency, accountability, and a better understanding of the long - term vision for educating all of New York City's students,» said Majority Leader John Flanagan.

I have come to the conclusion that my own senator, Majority Leader John J. Flanagan needs to go.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco says his 40 - year political career will likely come to an end if he doesn't win the Republican nomination for governor in May.

Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan indicated he was open to a conversation about making it easier to vote in New York, but questioned the cost of early voting days in advance of Election Day.

Also from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., New Yorkers Against Hidden Predators, an organization of advocates and sex abuse survivors from across New York, will be at the state Capitol, urging Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Senate Republicans to include the Child Victims Act in the state's budget.

Sources have said that at least two leaders meetings between Majority Leader John Flanagan, Cuomo and Heastie have been held, but not publicly disclosed.

Last January, Breslin was tapped by Democratic Leader John Sampson to serve as deputy minority leader, a position that carries a $ 20,500 stipend (lulu).

But Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan says the measure is out of the talks.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan said there were «productive discussions, but no resolution» in the sales tax talks.

Senate Democratic Leader John Sampson is under fire from LGBT advocates who are increasingly disillusioned and unhappy with his stance on same - sex marriage.

Spitzer staved off a primary challenge from then - Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi was then turned to beating the daylights out of the far lesser known and underfunded GOP candidate, former Assembly Minority Leader John Faso.

But Diaz Sr. has the support of Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson, who is scheduled to headline a fundraiser for the Bronx lawmaker on Thursday.

They were passing the budget that Leader John Flanagan had negotiated for them which included a robust paid family leave program and a path to a $ 15 minimum wage.

Republican Chairman Ed Cox on Wednesday in a Capital Tonight interview dismissed reports Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan is contemplating a run for governor in 2018.

The issue is a close one for Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who has pushed policy and legislation that is aimed at encouraging organ donation.

At 11 a.m., Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco and Assemblyman Nick Perry launch a renewed statewide campaign for a state Commission on Prosecutorial Conduct, Legislative Office Building, Room 130, Albany.

Batra, a controversial appointee of Senate Minority Leader John Sampson, D - Brooklyn, at one point asked if there was a problem with political campaigns that «launder» money through 501 (c) 4 groups, a line of questioning that was cut off by JCOPE Chairwoman Janet DiFiore, an appointee of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan decided last last night to call an audible and declare the 2017 legislative session over, without a deal in place to extend mayoral control of the NYC school system.

So when Governor Cuomo's appointed members of the commission began openly suggesting in the media this past summer that they are not likely to vote for a pay raise, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan probably didn't take it all that seriously.

In the letter to Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, Charlene Nimmons, the chief executive officer of Public Housing Communities writes that project labor agreements, or PLAs, «have failed the public housing community by denying its residents opportunities to gain meaningful construction work in and around their homes.»

It contained all the information, public information, that was constantly going back and forth,» said Conference Leader John Sampson.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who made the committee appointments, insisted «the law is on our side and so is case law,» adding: «I believe that all the members, Democrat and Republican, Assembly or Senate are worthy of the compensation that they receive... All of this is transparent, all of this is disclosed.»

In the statement, Democratic Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan knocked Gov. Andrew Cuomo's appointees on the commission for calling for ethics measures be linked to the first pay hike in 18 years.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan expects a version of procurement reform to be considered by the full Senate before the end of the year.