Sentences with phrase «republican upstate regions»

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As he undertakes a tour of different upstate New York regions, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie in an interview on Tuesday said Gov. Andrew Cuomo assured him a component of the SAFE Act would ultimately be put in place despite a two - way agreement with Senate Republicans.

Demographically the state overall has shifted more Democratic, but the upstate region remains heavily Republican, save for pockets of Democratic strongholds in urban areas and college towns.

An upstate Republican state senator, Hugh Farley, said the newly created 63rd senate seat near Albany «helps the capital region.»

Those seats include two seats on Long Island, one open and one held by a Republican incumbent, and three upstate seats in the Hudson Valley, Capital Region, and Rochester area held by first term Democrats.

Libous, a Republican from Binghamton, said having some sort of economic development for upstate New York — especially in the jobs - starved Southern Tier region, is paramount.

The business - backed group's endorsements are entirely Republican (the group did endorse one Democrat, Assemblyman Robin Schimminger) after a year in which business interests decried a legislative session that included the approval a minimum wage increase that will reach $ 15 in the New York City region and $ 12.50 in upstate New York in the coming years.

Conservative advocates and upstate Republican chairmen have raised concerns over Flanagan's backing of the SAFE Act and whether he understands the needs of the upstate region.

The New York Times notes that upstate figured heavily in Clinton's first U.S. Senate win in 2000 — particularly white, working - class voters who had previously voted Republican — and that she feels personally connected to the region.

The bill has picked up Republican supporters in the state Senate from across different regions of upstate New York as well as several GOP sponsors.

Tkaczyk is one of three Senate Democrats from different upstate regions facing stiff re-election challenges from Republicans today.

Last time the districts were redrawn, Republicans led the governing body and managed to skew the process in their own favor — leaving most of the underpopulated districts upstate, while the growing populations in the New York City region went unrecognized by a matching increase in proportional representation.

The leader of the Assembly Republicans, Brian Kolb, said in a statement that «a grant program that pits upstate regions against each other is not a catalyst for sustained revitalization».

Sitting in the front seat of a Lincoln sedan as it sped through the Southern Tier on a sunny, frigid Friday, the 46 - year - old Republican county executive of Westchester said that Cuomo had simply «managed the decline» of New York, and is a «creature» of a broken government that has presided over an outmigration of people and jobs from upstate regions like this one.

Senate Republicans have also rejected Cuomo's plan to hold an economic development competition for the troubled upstate region.

We've been following the congressional race in the Twentieth District, between Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand (of the self - aware ironic ads) and Republican John Sweeney (of the folksy, authentic ads), partly for entertainment value and partly because it's turned into one of the more exciting contests in the emerging battleground region that is upstate New York.

Among the top reasons for this split included the more conservative upstate region holding more clout in the State Senate, as well as Long Island, where voters were increasingly trending towards the Democrats on the state and local levels (Long Island was once overwhelmingly Republican) but continued to re-elect their incumbent Republican state senators (some of whom served for many years, such as 30 + year veteran Caesar Trunzo, and most of whom raised considerable amounts of money to deter challengers).

Republican state Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb says taking these food containers out of New York City takes jobs out of his Finger Lakes region in upstate New York.

A new law counts them in their home districts, and not in the communities where they're incarcerated — a change that the GOP says benefits Democrat - leaning downstate regions at the expense of more rural Republican - held upstate districts.