Sentences with phrase «backed leadership coup»
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Also, even though this alliance forces Smith to let bygones be bygones with a guy who once reportedly tried to oust him from his majority leader post (that would be Sen. Jeff Klein back in 2008 when the leadership struggle No. 1 took place), it could hardly be any worse than being the deposed former majority leader of the Democratic conference where he's pretty much just a back bencher since losing his power in the 2009 coup.
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His failure either to swiftly back Brown or join the coup has earned him the soubriquet of «serial bottler» and seriously damaged his future leadership ambitions, writes John Kampfner in the Daily Mail: