While the balance of the New York State senate remains unclear, as votes continue to be counted in a pair of close Senate races, activists are
calling on a breakaway political coalition to stick with the Democrats.
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The chairman of the state Democratic party and a group of influential union leaders are
calling on New York Senate Democrats to back the re-election of eight
breakaway Dems who recently returned to the fold.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, under pressure from left - leaning Democrats to be a peace broker, last month
called on the eight
breakaway members of the Independent Democratic Conference to rejoin with the rest of the Democrats.
Progressive activist groups angered over the IDC's siding with Senate Republicans are
calling on Klein to resign, a move that could weaken the
breakaway faction's cohesion and improve the chances of mainline Democrats gaining the majority in the chamber.
When Senator Jose Peralta announced
on his Facebook page that he was joining a growing group of
breakaway Democrats in the Senate
called the Independent Democratic Conference, who form a governing coalition with the Republicans, he said he wanted to «deliver a progressive agenda.»
A group of state Senate Democratic candidates challenging
breakaway Democrats say the state Senate's revised sexual harassment policy targets victims — and they
called on state government to stop using taxpayer dollars to settle sexual harassment claims.
The apparent ouster of Republican Sen. Michael Venditto by John Brooks
on Long Island prompted the leader of the chamber's Democrats, Andrea Stewart - Cousins, to
call for eight
breakaway colleagues to coalesce with them into a single bloc.
The
breakaway group's growth in size and power have only intensified the
calls for unity, as did the election to the Senate
on Tuesday of Brian Benjamin, a housing developer from Harlem, whose victory gave Democrats a numeric majority.
Cuomo has repeatedly laid the blame for the failure of his proposals
on the Republicans, who for seven years were allied with a
breakaway group of eight Democratic Senators
called the Independent Democratic Conference.
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