Sentences with phrase «majority leader dean»

The top two leadership posts in the State Senate has changed hands due former Majority Leader Dean Skelos being forced to step down after being indicted by federal prosecutors on bribery and extortion charges a few months ago.

In recent days, Astorino picked up support from Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long and from Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Glenwood Management, the real estate development firm at the center of the federal corruption cases against former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, is the state's most generous political donor and a robust utilizer of the LLC loophole.

«Earlier today, I met with Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos emerged hopeful from a closed door meeting with Republican Senators.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, after meeting solo with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, said: «We're making progress, and I'm still very optimistic that we can close down things today.»

Silver said he found Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos» sudden willingness to negotiate on the tax cap «very encouraging because I think that there are a few minor details that have to be changed in that tax cap.»

... That would be the part where he likens the budget process to ships passing in the night, with himself, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos as the captains of their respective vessels and the special interests dropping bombs out of an airplane.

In the wake of the arrest of Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on federal corruption charges this morning, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, the 2014 GOP gubernatorial candidate, issued a statement expressing «confidence» that the Long Island lawmaker «will do the right thing and promptly resign his leadership position.»

Mondello, along with most of the New York Republican establishment supported former Niagara County GOP Chairman Henry Wojtaszek, but Cox out - worked him (his most prominent supporter was Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos) and won the chairmanship.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said last October that he thinks the bill should come to the floor for an up - or - down vote, but he has so far shown no sign of moving the measure.

The basic message was: If it's not agreed to tomorrow morning, it's not likely to make the cut — and that includes the so - called millionaire's tax, which it appears all - but dead at this point thanks to staunch opposition by the governor and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone are the featured speakers, Crest Hollow Country Club, Woodbury, Long Island.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said he's «actively engaged» in talks with Gov. Andrew Cuomo to enact ethics reforms because «we need full transparency... to restore the public's trust.»

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has said he doesn't want to negotiate any changes to the 2 percent cap Cuomo proposed, saying anything less than the gubernatorial program bill passed by the Senate early on in the session would be too watered down to be effective.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos told business leaders in Manhattan this morning that the Republicans plan to take action next week on a property tax cap — a top priority for Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Here's Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos complaining to reporters after the NYSAC conference in Colonie today about the timing of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget, which the Long Island Republican said is at least a «month behind schedule.»

Forty - four percent of New Yorkers see the Legislature in a better light thanks to state lawmakers» passage of a budget prior to the April 1 deadline, but Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos continue to to be viewed unfavorably by nearly twice as many voters as view them favorably.

Chief among them is Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos of Nassau County.

Thanks to CapTon's Mike Whittemore and YNN's Solomon Syed, who's lending a hand down at the Capitol during the budget crunch, here's footage of the entire post-leaders meeting press gaggles held by Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos told reporters at a Log Cabin Republicans event last October that he would recommend to his members that they let the marriage bill come to the floor for a vote and then vote their respective consciences.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, R - Nassau County, has said he doesn't want the bill watered down to the point of being irrelevant.

Nearly three - quarters of New Yorkers said they most trusted Cuomo during the budget talks, compared to seven percent for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and five percent for Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos just issued a press release mandating that all senators and their staff to take ethics training before April 1.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos is reportedly «optimistic» there will be a new Latino majority congressional district in Northern Manhattan and the Bronx.

After meeting with Cuomo behind closed doors late this morning, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver both emerged — separately, with the senator coming out first — to say that they are moving toward an agreement tomorrow.

One strategy for Democrats to win back the majority in the chamber has been through Long Island where they are currently running Todd Kaminsky to fill the seat once occupied by former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Republican Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino criticized Senate GOP lawmakers on Tuesday for not moving to have Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos step down from his leadership post as he fights corruption charges.

Cuomo said he's waiting to hear the response from the other legislative leaders — particularly Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who only recently backed off his insistence that he would not accept the «watering down» of the 2 percent hard cap Cuomo proposals — and the Senate passed — earlier this year.

It is highly unlikely the 2 percent cap without exemptions (dubbed a «hard cap» by Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos) would pass in the Assembly, where Democratic lawmakers fear the effect the cap would have on school districts.

Attorney Christopher McGrath officially launched his state Senate campaign, telling several hundred supporters in Inwood that the April 19 special election to replace convicted former Majority Leader Dean Skelos is «the most important election in the history of New York State.»

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on Thursday said a minimum wage increase was out of the budget.

Appearing on WCNY's The Capitol Press Room with Susan Arbetter, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos continued his calls for the Assembly to vote on the hard 2 % property tax cap that the Governor proposed and the Senate has already passed — just like he did on the final week before the legislature adjourned back on April 13th.

Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos earlier in the day said he expected an ethics bill to be introduced as early as this evening.

You may recall Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos telling Nick Reisman last week there would be «uncoupling of some of the combinations where there are two Democrat senators in the same district» when the Republicans finished revising their redistricting map.

Cuomo said it became too complex to determine the criteria for a task force, so he and the leaders decided to «trust» one another — a point Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos reinforced.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos last week said he didn't think a legal challenge over Cuomo's linking of spending to ethics reform was «necessary.»

At the moment, only two legislators — Meng and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos — are reporting balances that surpass the half - million mark, but not all of the mid-summer financial filings are on - line yet.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos told me recently in a CapTon interview that he thinks the chances of all that occurring are pretty low.

While Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver came out of the meeting in the governor's Capitol office to continue their optimistic talk with reporters, Cuomo did not emerge and chose instead to issue the following statement through his spokesman, Josh Vlasto:

The filings show both ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and former Sen. George Maziarz have used the money to pay for attorneys as they face corruption trials in the new year.

The Senate picture could become more clear this month with a hotly contetested special election on Long Island to replaced disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

This strikes me as a bit of a Hail Mary (pardon the pun, please) pass when it comes to the millionaire's tax, since both Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Cuomo have refused to move off their opposition to extending it past its sunset date this year.

With Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos as the keynote speaker at this morning's New York delegation breakfast here in Tampa, talk naturally turned to whether Republicans can hang on to their last lever of power in New York.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos gave the IDC members committee chairmanships and lulus, but he didn't include them when the governor invited his conference to the mansion.

Today's ruling, handed down by the U.S. District Court, comes after lawyers representing Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos asked that the special master only oversee the process only oversee the lines for Congressional districts.

Percoco's trial is among several scheduled this year over alleged Albany corruption, including the re-trials of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Long Island), who had their unrelated convictions tossed due to a US Supreme Court ruling that acquitted former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.

Democrats say a Martins congressional candidacy could create concerns among GOP officials who are trying to hang onto a narrow State Senate majority, following the conviction of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre) on federal corruption charges.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan), who wants higher taxes and nearly $ 1 billion in extra spending, and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Nassau), who wants some $ 400 million more in spending, plan to pass their own alternatives to Cuomo's budget plan later this week.

The move came after former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, were indicted, in part for influencing the award of a $ 12 million Nassau contract.