Sentences with phrase «black lawmakers from»

The City Council opened its stated meeting Thursday with parallel protests over recent police killings of African - Americans, protests that sharply illustrated the different styles of a pair of black lawmakers from Brooklyn, both of whom insiders say aspire to lead the body after next year.

Alan Van Capelle, the head of the Empire State Pride Agenda, says he was heartened by words uttered today Ruth Hassell - Thompson, a black lawmaker from the Bronx and Westchester who spoke movingly about the painful ordeals faced by her gay brother, and other minority members.

Adler is looking into allegations that City Council member Debi Rose, who was backed by the WFP, received improper support from the party's for - profit campaign arm, Data and Field Services, during the 2009 election that made her the council's first black lawmaker from Staten Island.

Not exact matches

By the time Barbara Lee, a black Democratic lawmaker from Oakland, had caught up on the news, it almost seemed too late.

State Education Commissioner David Steiner, who is under intense pressure to either grant or deny a waiver to Mayor Bloomberg's NYC schools chancellor pick, Cathie Black, is keeping a fairly low profile these days, but he did respond to a letter from minority lawmakers who hoped to meet with him prior to his decision.

Long a center of African - American political power, the district is now majority Latino, but the black Mr. Rangel held off two furious challenges from a Latino lawmaker and could sway the race in 2016 if he endorses Mr. Wright.

Mr. Loeb's comment also directly hit on the long - simmering racial tensions in Albany, where Mr. Klein's group has helped block Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the black lawmaker whom Mr. Loeb attacked in his Facebook post, from ascending to the post of majority leader.

But it's also possible that the regularity of indictments in New York's political system, which have disproportionately come against black and Latino lawmakers, has deterred some black and Latino members from holding second jobs.

Ever since Skelos and Klein announced their plans for a coalition a week ago, the Senate has been roiled by criticism from mainline Democrats — especially black and Hispanic lawmakers — who charge that they are being boxed out of power.

Long seen as a top rival to Mr. Wright, Mr. Heastie commands unity from his bloc of 10 Bronx lawmakers (11 including himself) and can credibly grow his support among the black and Latino members in the five boroughs since he is African - American.

The Gazette reported that «[w] ith major deals in Albany still pending, some remain unclear exactly how they feel, but black and Latino lawmakers from New York City increasingly believe that Cuomo misled them — or at least they didn't get what they were expecting.

Many here, particularly the quarter of the population that is black, view the ethics charges as an attempt by scandal - tainted lawmakers to shift attention away from themselves and toward Rangel.

All four lawmakers blacked out email addresses and phone numbers from these records.

But Benjamin cautioned that members of the black and Latino caucus are very much opposed to the idea of untethering SUNY from the Legislature's control, in part due to a concern that tuitions would rise out of the reach of low and middle - income students, but also simply because lawmakers don't like the idea of giving up control of anything.