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Party state Director Bill Lipton Wednesday called on the GOP - controlled Senate to pass the bill, which would start the clock ticking on potential medical malpractice cases when an error is discovered, not when it occurred, as required under current law.
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«Governor Cuomo is wrong on this one,» the W.F.P.'s state director Bill Lipton said in a statement to Capital.
«It's great that Gov. Cuomo is finally stepping up to take on Trump Republicans in Washington,» Working Families Party State Director Bill Lipton said.
«It's before I was in charge, so I need to research it,» said WFP state director Bill Lipton, who helped found the left - leaning political party.
«The Working Families Party has recently picked up new affiliates and expanded to 10 other states,» said WFP state Director Bill Lipton.
«Many IDC members are hard - working legislators who claim to share progressive values,» said Working Families Party state director Bill Lipton in a press release on Monday.
«I think for careful observers, there's a big progressive movement formed by activists that's coming, and the Working Families Party is going to electoralize that at the polls,» WFP state director Bill Lipton told Gotham Gazette at Thursday's rally.
«If the Republican State Senate refuses to do what's necessary to lift workers out of poverty, Governor Cuomo should immediately convene a Wage Board and institute a statewide minimum wage of $ 15 an hour,» said W.F.P. state director Bill Lipton after the governor's wage announcement this weekend.
«It's no surprise that the state committee has been disappointed with the governor's priorities on economic issues,» said W.F.P. state director Bill Lipton.
The times demand candidates like Diana,» said WFP State Director Bill Lipton in a statement.
Without mentioning Teachout — whose short - lived WFP candidacy gave her prominence in New York political circles — the party's state director Bill Lipton urges support for Cuomo.
In a statement, WFP State Director Bill Lipton said the unions were in a «tight spot,» but he respects their decision.
«Governor Cuomo promised to take back the State Senate,» fumed WFP State Director Bill Lipton.
«The WFP is proud to have progressive women leaders from Gloria Steinem and Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez to Cynthia Nixon, Public Advocate Tish James, and Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito all urging women to join them in voting on the WFP line,» said the party State Director Bill Lipton.
«Richardson is the sole candidate to pledge not to accept a penny from landlords, so we know she'll stand strong for central Brooklyn's working families,» said WFP state director Bill Lipton.
Working Families Party state director Bill Lipton welcomed the latest development in the ongoing Democratic unity talks.
WFP State Director Bill Lipton told Lovett that the party has «huge respect for all of our over 30 affiliates as well as our allies,» and he also insisted that the WFP has «never been in a stronger position than it is now» — organizationally, politically and financially — despite suffering a spate of union defections.
«Our friends are in a tough spot and we respect their decision,» said WFP State Director Bill Lipton after the WFP's meeting at a hotel in downtown Albany, where tea and coffee were served alongside brownies and chocolate chip cookies.
(Sens. Bill Perkins and James Sanders, Jr., former Sen. Tom Duane, WFP State Director Bill Lipton and others are expected to attend).
WFP State Director Bill Lipton in a separate interview, however, disagreed, saying those issues bubbled to the surface at the Capitol thanks to a sustained effort from advocates.
«On the same day that Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton joined together in unity, Governor Cuomo couldn't bring himself to support his own party,» said WFP State Director Bill Lipton.
WFP State Director Bill Lipton in a statement accused Cuomo of «threatening people» and actively seeking to yank funding from the advocacy organizations.
«Trump and Republicans have already said their next priority will be giving massive tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires,» said WFP State Director Bill Lipton.
«The mayor, since the beginning of his career, has been a steadfast champion in the fight against inequality, and recently the governor has been using his executive power and his pulpit to win real victories,» Working Families Party New York State Director Bill Lipton told the Observer.
We know he will get things done in Albany,» said Working Families state director Bill Lipton.
«Wagner is a progressive champion who cares deeply about Hudson Valley's working families,» said WFP New York State Director Bill Lipton.
WFP State Director Bill Lipton crowed over the news that Klein et al would be forming a «new progressive majority coalition» that (theoretically) will enable passage of a host of blocked bills — from the Women's Equality Act to public campaign financing.
In an email to supporters, WFP State Director Bill Lipton points out there's a number of things the party is behind in the new budget, including a renters tax credit, funding for pre-Kindergarten programs and increased support for child care.
In an email to supporters sent out yesterday afternoon, WFP State Director Bill Lipton reiterated that the party has been playing a «long game» with its «Progressive Pipeline» program by nuturing candidates at the local level in hopes of seeing them either 1) start a trend that results in more like - minded candidates running for — and winning — elected office, or 2) rising to a higher post with more clout.
And, as the party's state director Bill Lipton writes in a fundraising email, the debate over increasing the state's minimum wage to $ 15 is now at the forefront of the national political dicussion.
«We are deeply disappointed in the decision by federal prosecutors not to pursue charges in the killing of Ramarley Graham,» said WFP State Director Bill Lipton.
WFP State Director Bill Lipton credited Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, whom the party backed over hometown favorite Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary, for energizing the progressive movement — an energy Lipton says continues and carried over into local races.
Working Families Party State Director Bill Lipton on Friday urged against linking an increase in the minimum wage to a tax cut — a proposition Gov. Andrew Cuomo floated to business leaders last week.
«Bernie Sanders is right when he says it will take a political revolution to make the real change working families need,» said State Director Bill Lipton.
«It's great that Governor Cuomo is finally stepping up to take on Trump Republicans in Washington,» said WFP State Director Bill Lipton.
«Many IDC members are hard - working legislators who claim to share progressive values,» said WFP state director Bill Lipton.
WFP state director Bill Lipton in a statement this afternoon urged liberals to vote for Cuomo in the primary.
«The attacks from Trump and his Republican allies have been nothing short of a catastrophe for our nation,» said State Director Bill Lipton.
«Republicans hold a minority of seats in the State Senate,» the petition email signed by State Director Bill Lipton states.
«In a meeting earlier this week, the governor was threatening people,» WFP State Director Bill Lipton said on Friday.
In a separate e-mail to party supporters, New York state director Bill Lipton noted that «on many issues, [Cuomo] has not governed as a progressive,» and after delineating the details of the governor's deal with the party, asked supporters to help «hold the Governor accountable to his commitment.»
WFP New York State Director Bill Lipton takes exception with any characterization of their efforts as somehow weak, telling us,
WFP State Director Bill Lipton, who says he attended a meeting at which Cuomo used that phrase, had a different take: «Make no mistake.
Real protections for immigrants,» said WFP State Director Bill Lipton.
With the election of Donald Trump, working families face multiple imminent threats,» said WFP state Director Bill Lipton.
«With Trump and Republican extremists days away from taking full power in Washington and setting fire to the Constitution and our social safety net, this is no time for Albany politics as usual,» said WFP state director Bill Lipton.
«It would keep us all safer by drawing a bright line between state and local law enforcement and out - of - control federal immigration enforcement,» WFP State Director Bill Lipton wrote.
«Monday night, two New York Congressional Democrats, Dan Maffei and Sean Patrick Maloney, showed solidarity — with John Boehner,» the email signed by WFP State Director Bill Lipton read.
In a statement released Thursday by WFP State Director Bill Lipton, the organization laid blame at Senate Republicans and their hesitance to approve a broad - based wage increase to $ 15.
Several labor leaders as well as the Cuomo campaign disputed the claims made by WFP State Director Bill Lipton that the governor threatened to work to end funding for the activist organizations as a result of the potential Nixon endorsement.