Sentences with phrase «breakaway conference»

While the IDC has some influence with Senate Republicans given that the breakaway conference helps bolster the GOP's razor thin majority, it is unlikely that influence will extend to significant ethics, voting, or campaign finance reform this year.

Senate Deputy Democratic Minority Leader Michael Gianaris referenced the Daily News in referring to the eight - member breakaway conference as «Trump's New York Democrats.»

But four Democrats are in their own breakaway conference, and have not said which side, if any, they will ultimately join.

All of which raises another question about the balance of power between Ms. Stewart's group and the breakaway conference, which now has a quarter of the Senate's elected Democrats.

In order for Smith, a Democrat who caucuses with the breakaway conference of «independent» Democrats in the State Senate, to run on the Republican line for mayor, he would have to have the approval of three of the city's five Republican chairmen.

With the IDC poised to grow to at least six members, the breakaway conference will likely play a crucial role in which party will control the upper chamber.

The Governor is going full gear in politics, hosting a rally for Democrats on Long Island this weekend, and next week he is scheduled to raise money for the former members of the IDC who recently dissolved their breakaway conference and agreed to join the mainline Democrats in the State Senate.

De Blasio was preaching to the choir with the IDC, which is aligning itself with de Blasio following a falling out for the breakaway conference with Cuomo (the governor referred to the IDC as the «co-conspirators» with the Senate Republicans following the failure of the abortion plank in his women's agenda).

Should she join the breakaway conference in the fall, Alcantara would bring diversity to the conference and give IDC Leader Jeff Klein more leverage in the coming leadership fight.

And Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who brought the parties together to arrange the unity deal, now has a primary opponent in Cynthia Nixon, who has repeatedly attacked him for his countenance of the breakaway conference.

«The IDC is a breakaway conference of State Senators who were elected as Democrats but who have formed an alliance with Trump Republicans in the State Senate, preventing progress for all of us for years,» the WFP's Ava Benezra said in announcing the endorsements.

During one heated moment, Sen. Marisol Alcantara, a Manhattan Democrat who sits with a breakaway conference that has a power alliance with Republicans, called Queens Sen. Mike Gianaris «a white man with a degree from Harvard» who has «white privilege.»

IDC Leader Jeff Klein this morning was adamant that the agreement he announced yesterday with Gov. Andrew Cuomo should not be interpreted as a return by his breakaway conference to the regular Democratic fold.

Under this new arrangement, mainline Democrats would have to either use their resources to primary the IDC (primary challenges to Klein and IDC Sen. Tony Avella of Queens both failed this year) or win enough seats to make the the breakaway conference irrelevant.

Still, Republicans are working to keep Klein and his breakaway conference close to the fold in the event their votes are needed.

Speculation grew earlier last month that Grisanti would join the IDC if he wins next week after it was reported he met with the breakaway conference's leader, Sen. Jeff Klein.

The blueprint is there for a coalition similar to what was created in 2011, when Klein and the IDC first formed their breakaway conference.

The Bronx Democrat who leads the five - member breakaway conference will no longer hold the title of Senate co-president.

Alcantara, who relied on six - figure expenditures from the IDC's campaign committee to win her primary, has been a useful weapon for the breakaway conference so far.

Before Trump, it was easier to ignore the breakaway conference entirely because few people really cared.

Anti-IDC groups like Rise and Resist and No IDC NY have organized protests against the breakaway conference's eight members and taken to social media to denounce them at every turn.

Sen. Jeff Klein, the breakaway conference's leader and the co-president of the Senate who entered into a power - sharing agreement with Senate Republicans last year, said the measure is not meant to supplant Cuomo's proposal, but compliment it.

The WFP is wasting no time is trying to capitalize on the news that Klein and breakaway conference have agreed to strike a power - sharing deal with the regular Democrats.

However, she also said the breakaway conference would be more than happy to sit down with the governor — if specifically asked to do so.

Mr. Liu and Ms. Meng — who like Mr. Avella, are Democrats hailing from northeast Queens — criticized Mr. Avella when asked about about his recent move to join the breakaway conference Democrats governing the State Senate with the Republican Party.

Last week's victory by Marisol Alcantara in the four - way Democratic primary to succeed outgoing Sen. Adriando Espaillat was a win for IDC Leader Jeff Klein, as Alcantara confirmed that she plans to join his breakaway conference and not the so - called «regular» Democrats in Albany come January.

It was not a wholly surprising development, but is the first tangible moment of fallout for the lawmakers who had comprised the breakaway conference returning to the minority fold.

Not exact matches

He went on to tell a news conference Georgia's army was guilty of ethnic cleansing in the breakaway province, whose situation he compared to Kosovo.

In the statement, King knocks Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins for the growing influence and clout of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference.

Those are the issues at stake for the Independent Democratic Conference in a video released Monday as the lawmakers in the breakaway bloc seek to re-affirm their support for liberal causes they believe has been lost in the pitched battle being waged by progressive advocacy groups to pressure them into forming a coalition with mainline Democrats.

Benjamin is well aware of this designation, and explained by phone earlier today that his number one priority will be reuniting mainline Senate Democrats and the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference or IDC.

The IDC will have at least seven members when the Legislature reconvenes in January — the largest the conference has ever been since it was formed as a breakaway group in 2011.

She also attacked Cuomo for being part of «an old boys» club of one actual Republican and two wannabe Republicans,» referring to John Flanagan, the Republican Senate leader, and Jeff Klein, leader of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference, which collaborates with Flanagan to rule the Senate.

Tomorrow will be a big day for the state Senate Democrats, as the eight members of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference will formally rejoin the mainline Democrats.

Monday will be a big day for Senate Democrats, as the eight members of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference will formally rejoin the mainline Democrats.

When Sen. Jose Peralta announced on his Facebook page that he was joining the Independent Democratic Conference, a growing group of breakaway Democrats in the Senate who form a governing coalition with the Republicans, he said he wanted to «deliver a progressive agenda.»

ALBANY — The Senate's Independent Democratic Conference has made raising the age of criminal responsibility a priority for this session, but some Democrats of color in the state Assembly are wary that the breakaway group will «water down» the issue and question its motives for pushing the measure.

Then, when Democrats still won a majority, he cut a backroom deal that allowed Republicans to take over the State Senate through the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC)-- a group of breakaway Democrats who voted with the Republicans to hand them control, and with it, the power to block almost all of our key Democratic legislative priorities.

Klein, leader of the breakaway «Independent Democratic Conference» which controls the state senate in cooperation with the Republican minority, faces Oliver Koppell in a Democratic primary on Tuesday.

«New York City straphangers have suffered enough delays and we can not delay funding this project anymore,» said Klein, a Democrat who leads the breakaway group of lawmakers known as the Independent Democratic Conference, in a statement.

The talks have now become known as «four men in a mansion,» because the leader of the breakaway Democrats in the Senate, Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein, has been included.

Earlier this month, the mainstream Senate Democrats and eight breakaway members of the Independent Democratic Conference announced that they were joining forces for the good of the party.

In addition, all four members of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference — Sens. David Carlucci of Rockland County, Jeff Klein of the Bronx, Diane Savino of Staten Island and David Valesky of Onondaga County — were endorsed

The members of the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), a group of eight breakaway Democrats in...

As Clio Chang wrote at Splinter, Cuomo «has also worked to prop up the Independent Democratic Conference, a group of eight breakaway state Senate Democrats who caucus with Republicans, effectively giving them the majority.

«Whether they allow certain things to get done, it's up to them,» said Senate Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins in reference to the senate ruling coalition of Republicans and five breakaway Democrats.

He became the eighth Democratic member of what is known as the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), a breakaway faction that caucuses with Republicans in the New York Senate, effectively giving the GOP a majority in a chamber that voters have all but decided should be in Democratic control.

Alcantara, an organizer with the New York State Nurses Association, has the backing of Espaillat and the breakaway Independent Democrat Conference, which has partnered with Senate Republicans.

The governor also told the Democrats that if they win and keep enough seats in November, they'll likely have to learn to work with a breakaway faction of Democrats, the Independent Democratic Conference, in order to form a governing coalition.

Andrea Stewart - Cousins is the first woman to head a legislative conference in the state legislature and the first black female Senate minority leader (now that a group of breakaway Democrats has disbanded).