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At the time, Mr. Pataki was a State Assemblyman who was preparing to challenge the only Republican woman in the State Senate, Mary Goodhue, who was also an advocate for abortion rights.

It's so extreme that even anti-abortion, Republican women in his state legislature opposed it.

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Republican Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who is president of the state Senate, listed what he called a «Women's Privacy Act» as one of his top 10 priorities when the legislature reconvenes in January.

Democratic state Senate candidate Ross Barkan in a fundraising email blasted Republican incumbent Marty Golden after The Daily News reported the lawmaker in 2005 was the driver in a crash the led to a woman in a coma that resulted in a large settlement to her family.

«He has said nothing against gay men and women in this state and, quite the contrary, has expressed an openness to dialogue with gay Republicans.

Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer, a Yonkers Democrat, said during a CapTon interview that Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has been outspoken in his support of abortion rights, should pressure the Senate Republicans to codify Roe v. Wade in state law by including the tenth plank of his erstwhile Women's Equality Act — the only plank the GOP - controlled Senate has refused to pass — in this year's budget.

Staying in Westchester, Republican county clerk candidate Mary Beth Murphy (perhaps best known to state politics junkies as the woman who lost a 2010 state Senate GOP primary to a fellow named Greg Ball) is knocking Democrat Tim Idoni for not seeking Silver's resignation.

In addition to preserving parts of the Affordable Care Act (which Republicans are moving to repeal), New York State will now mandate health insurers to cover a woman's initial three - month supply of contraception and then a supply for up to 12 months, according to the New York Times.

She said candidates will be obligated to promise to back the Women's Equality Agenda to get the line, and that it could make up the margin of error in close races for the State Senate, where the Republicans cling to power by a single seat.

The coalition that supports a full Democratic takeover of the state Senate on Thursday launched a «day of action» aimed at promoting Republican opposition to the abortion provision in the Women's Equality Act.

Roy S. Moore, the Republican Senate candidate in the state of Alabama, was accused of sexual misconduct by five women.

The Senate, which is currently controlled by Republicans and a group of breakaway Democrats, was responsible last year for blocking the final plank in the Women's Equality Act proposed by Mr. Cuomo, which would have codified in state law the right to abortion as established by Roe v. Wade.

Several Republican senators said they couldn't support a proposal to codify into New York state law the abortion rights afforded to women in the federal Roe v. Wade decision.

Her election makes for 14 women in the state Senate and cuts the Republican advantage in the chamber to 23 - 16 — the SD 16 seat resigned by Clearwater Republican Jack Latvala will remain vacant until November.

Several Republican congressmen and women in New York have already said they are against getting rid of the state and local property tax deductions, including John Faso of the Hudson Valley and Peter King of Staten Island.

Cuomo is a moderate to liberal Democrat, but many Republicans in the state are also against the federal tax plan, including five of the state's nine Republican Congressmen and women.

In the 3rd District, State Sen. Thomas Croci, 44, a Republican from Sayville, was far ahead of challengers Democrat John DeVito Jr., 25, of Mastic Beach and Joseph Fritz, 71, of Brentwood, who is running on the Women's Equality line.

But with a month to go before the elections, state Senate Democrats, who if they win will make Andrea Stewart - Cousins the first woman leader of the chamber, said they are set to use Trump's latest controversy against every Republican candidate in a series of mailings and television ads.

Following a heated debate in which Staten Island Republican Assemblyman Ron Castorina Jr. referred to abortion as «African American genocide,» the Assembly passed a bill that would protect under state law the same rights a woman has to an abortion under federal law.

Pennsylvania Republicans picked a tough - talking state senator and a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump to be their party's nominees for governor and U.S. Senate, as a big splash in U.S. House primaries made it more likely that women will break the all - male hold on Pennsylvania's congressional delegation.

The latest TV ad from Republican state Sen. Terrence Murphy gives his daughter a starring role, touting the passage of the equal pay provision in the Women's Equality Act.

Issues over women's rights and reproductive health are at the forefront of this political campaign season in state legislative races as Gov. Andrew Cuomo makes a statewide call for the passage of the 10 - point women's agenda and with it Republican opposition to a plank aimed at strengthening abortion rights.

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«Siding with the Republicans in the State Senate would be equivalent of me, Joe or Kathy siding with Tea Party Republicans in Congress and saying we did it under the guise of helping women, children and families,» Meng said according to The Observer.

Mr. Dietl, who is not a registered member of a political party, appeared to have harmed his candidacy during a Republican candidate screening last week when, in the final minutes, he compared a state judge to Mr. de Blasio's wife; both women are black.

The governor in late May set a benchmark for his support of the alliance between Republicans and the five - member Independent Democratic Conference, saying he wanted action on the Dream Act (which failed in April), a broader system of public campaign finance (beyond the pilot program passed in the state budget) and his Women's Equality Act, which has been controversial because of a plank changing the state's abortion laws.

Former one - term state Senator Terry Gipson, a Democrat, penned a letter to the woman who defeated him in November, Republican Sue Serino, asking that she make ethics reform a top priority.

«The Democratic Party is a leader on democratic issues, and on women's issues, but if you came from the Congressional district that I represented — the most Republican in the state — there are a lot of women who are registered Republicans who do believe in women's right to choose,» Ms. Hochul told the Observer after the press conference.

The sponsor of the bill in the State Senate, Elaine Phillips, a Republican from Long Island, says she's «confident» the new law «will protect women, men and children from their abusers and prevent further tragedies.»

After all, most of the people crying for Silver's ouster are Republicans, from state GOP leader Ed Cox to the representatives from Staten Island to a group of GOP women in the Assembly.

«Serious candidates running for state - wide office respect New Yorker's beliefs in ensuring women's access to comprehensive reproductive health care services — including abortion,» M. Tracey Brooks, the president of Planned Parenthood Advocates, said then in a statement comparing Astorino to «radical statements of the national Republican Party» and saying his «position reflects his inability to represent the people of the state of New York.»

For eight years he broke his promises and kept the Republicans in the State Senate, blocking critical legislation for affordable housing, women's equality and criminal justice reform.»

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP)- Pennsylvania Republicans picked a tough - talking state senator and a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump to be their party's nominees for governor and U.S. Senate, as a big splash in U.S. House primaries made it more likely that women will break the all - male hold on Pennsylvania's congressional delegation.

«With Republican domination in Washington, New York state must again be at the forefront of defending women's rights,» Stewart - Cousins said in a statement.

As the only female Republican elected official in New York City, it is painful for me to hear the constant political mudslinging that takes place regarding which party stands up for women in our state.

For example, VIEW PAC didn't endorse state Rep. Christina Hagan, another woman with House Freedom Fund backing, whose fundraising has lagged behind a former NFL player's in the open primary for Ohio's 16th District, a safe Republican seat.

In an effort to make doing so more palatable to Republicans who control the State Senate, they yoked the measure with additional legislation related to women's issues.

(CNN)- In a new ad, New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino accused Democratic candidate and state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo of excluding «the only African - American candidate, the only woman candidate and the Green Party candidate,» from the gubernatorial race and challenged Cuomo to «come out and debate like a man.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's response to a woman reporter when asked about sexual harassment in state government and his subsequent effort to clarify those remarks turned into a fight between the Democratic and Republican committees by late Wednesday.

Outgoing Republican Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin was sanctioned on Tuesday by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, accused of asking a legislative staffer to see nude photos of her, leaking the name of the woman and then lying about it, making him the latest in a line of state lawmakers to be accused of inappropriate behavior in Albany.

The race is considered unusually close due to accusations by multiple women that Moore sexually pursued them while they were teenagers, tightening polls in what should have been an easy Republican victory in the deep red state.

Palumbo: Says his opponent is running television ads «distorting my record» on the Women's Equality Act, which Mr. Palumbo voted against in the Assembly, and which did not have the support of the Republican - controlled state Senate.»

The pledge indicates the signer's support for all ten points of the failed Women's Equality Act, which Cuomo's erstwhile Senate Republican allies opposed because of a provision that would bring state law on abortion in line with federal law.

For the past two years, Cuomo has tried and failed to get a 10 - point Women's Equality Act approved in the state legislature, due to opposition from Republicans, who co-lead the Senate, over an abortion rights provision.

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For years, Republicans in the State Senate, Democrats in the State Assembly, and Governor Cuomo have bickered over a package of bills known as the Women's Equality Act.

Cuomo initially wanted to include the reproductive rights bill as part of a package that he named the Women's Equality Act, but it was opposed by Republicans in the State Senate.

The hedge fund manager Daniel S. Loeb, a prominent supporter of charter schools and a major financial backer of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and congressional Republicans, accused the African - American woman who leads the Democrats in the New York State Senate of having done «more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood.»

He should have got the nine adopted to help women now and then campaigned against the Senate Republicans who held up the the tenth measure to codify the provisions of Roe v. Wade in state law,» Hawkins added.

But the women's agenda and public campaign financing stalled in the State Senate, which is ruled by a coalition of Republicans and break away Democrats.