Sentences with phrase «coalition with republicans»

At the same time, the state Democratic Committee, for which Cuomo is the standard - bearer, has been compelled to condemn Democrats in the Senate who have formed a power - sharing coalition with Republicans, an arrangement that progressives have faulted Cuomo for not breaking up.

He broke away with four other independent Democrats in 2011 and formed a coalition with Republicans to have a majority vote.

Valesky has not responded to specific challengers, but has defended the IDC coalition with Republicans as a benefit for Democratic issues.

Klein's IDC has formed a ruling coalition with Republicans in the Senate for the past two sessions.

Senator Jeff Klein, the leader of a group of breakaway Democrats who lead the Senate in a governing coalition with the Republicans, is under intense pressure from the left over the campaign finance issue.

And Blake has also been critical of the IDC leadership coalition with the Republicans.

Mr. Loeb has also donated $ 50,000 to a group of breakaway Democrats, known as the Independent Democratic Conference, who have formed a coalition with the Republicans.

Klein is the leader of the Senate's breakaway Independent Democratic Conference, which runs the Senate in coalition with the Republicans.

Senator Savino is a member of the Independent Democratic Conference, a group of break away Democrats that rules the Senate in a coalition with the Republicans.

Currently, the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) forms a ruling coalition with Republicans, while a ninth nominal Democrat, Senator Simcha Felder, conferences with the Republicans.

Five other Democrats who make up the Independent Democratic Conference have a coalition with the Republicans.

That is why we are asking you to join the now - 23 members of the Democratic Conlèrence by pledging to only enter a coalition to lead the Senate with fellow Democrats and abandoning your coalition with Republicans,» wrote Stewart - Cousins.

In addition, the eight members of the Independent Democratic Conference have for years maintained a coalition with the Republicans.

Politically, the funding could helps the IDC, which has been criticized by liberals for entering into a leadership coalition with the Republicans.

Earlier this month, the I.D.C., in a deal announced by Mr. Cuomo, agreed to dissolve its coalition with the Republicans.

Instead, they were part of a five - member faction of Democrats, led by Klein and known as the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), that governed in coalition with the Republicans.

The letter, signed by 18 members of Congress, is the latest effort to persuade the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference, and a ninth rogue senator, Simcha Felder of Brooklyn, to abandon their coalition with the Republicans and help take control of Albany's upper chamber.

Independent Democratic Conference leader Jeffrey Klein, left, D - Yonkers, and Sen. Tony Avella, D - Queens, talk in the Senate Chamber at the Capitol on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. Avella will become the fifth member of the IDC, which has ruled the state Senate in a coalition with Republicans since 2011.

The independent Democrats, who split with their mainline colleagues in 2011, say that their coalition with the Republicans allows them to push for progressive policies, but the arrangement has been criticized by Democrats in New York and beyond, particularly after Mr. Trump's election.

The Senate Democrats are fractured with eight breakaway Dems who are in a leadership coalition with the Republicans and another, Sen. Simcha Felder (D - Brooklyn), who caucuses with the GOP.

Eight senators in 2012 broke off to form a bipartisan majority coalition with Republicans, but on Monday the Senate passed a measure to expand the rolls of the Senate Democratic Conference as the eight returned.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Sen. David Valesky, D - Oneida, is one of the five senators Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other New York City Democrats are loudly promising to knock off in a party primary this year because of their coalition with Republicans.

The big question is whether the Democratic minority will reunify with nine breakaway Democrats who are currently in a majority leadership coalition with the Republicans.

But the party does not control the chamber because of Klein's coalition with the Republicans and the fact a ninth Dem, Brooklyn Sen. Simcha Felder, caucuses with the GOP.

The personal animosity between Gianaris and Bronx Sen. Jeffrey Klein, who heads up a group of eight breakaway Senate Democrats aligned in a leadership coalition with the Republicans, is the single biggest roadblock for Dem control of the chamber, the Cuomo official said.

A group of eight breakaway Democrats, known as the Independent Democratic Conference, has in the past formed a coalition with Republicans to jointly hold the chamber, leaving the rest of the Democrats in the minority.

The IDC is retaining a coalition with Republicans in the state Senate, whose conference retains a majority with the inclusion of Sen. Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who sits with the GOP in the chamber.

Klein indicated last month in Puerto Rico that he was quite content to spend his time pushing Democratic policies by working in a coalition with Republicans, and his spokeswoman responded to Stewart - Cousins by tartly declaring that she hadn't even called in «nearly a month... so we have no idea what her grand plan is for Democratic unity.»

The Senate's Independent Democratic Conference, which had operated in a coalition with Republicans, is now dissolving and rejoining with mainline Democrats.

There are also five members of the Independent Democratic Conference who have in the past formed a majority ruling coalition with the Republicans.

The Independent Democratic Conference, a group of eight Democratic state senators who operate in a coalition with Republicans in the state Senate, has come under increasing criticism by Democrats in the Senate, and across the state.

Now the IDC's only path to influence may be to form a coalition with the Republicans.

«The Senate Democratic Conference and the Independent Democratic Conference must not let this opportunity pass us by, and that is why we ask that you pledge by June 16th to no longer be in a coalition with Republicans and only enter a coalition with fellow Democrats to lead the Senate.»

Preferable is a reunification of regular Democrats with the Independent Democratic Conference, four breakaway Senators who joined a coalition with the Republicans.

Valesky and four other Democrats split from the traditional Democratic conference in 2011 and formed a majority coalition with Republicans.

Valesky and four other Democrats left the traditional Senate Democratic conference in 2011 and formed a coalition with Republicans that put them in the majority.

The IDC in the wake of the 2012 elections formed a majority coalition with Republicans in the state Senate, with the GOP conference retaining the trappings of the majority in the process, despite falling into a numerical minority.

In an exclusive interview with Time Warner Cable News, Thursday, IDC Leader Jeff Klein said he's hoping to continue the faction's coalition with Republicans in the state senate, despite the outcome of Tuesday's election.

The blame game over who killed public campaign finance talks is well underway at the Capitol, with Klein blaming the WFP, which blames his coalition with the Republicans.

The Independent Democratic Conference (IDC)-- led by Bronx Sen. Jeff Klein — is a group of 8 NY State Senators who were elected to office as Democrats but who formed a coalition with Republicans, thereby blocking most progressive legislation in NY for the last 7 years.

They have formed a coalition with Republicans in the past, and have not promised that they'd necessarily rejoin with the other Democrats after elections.

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.»

When the New York State Senate's Independent Democratic Conference joined in a majority coalition with Republicans in 2012, it claimed that the arrangement would provide more up - or - down floor votes on progressive legislation.

The group is aligned in a leadership coalition with Republicans plus Brooklyn Sen. Simcha Felder, a Democrat who actually caucuses with the GOP.

Senate Independent Democrat Conference Leader Jeff Klein, who rules the Senate in a coalition with the Republicans, spoke as the final agreement was being reached.

When Democrats last won an electoral majority in 2012, the IDC entered into a coalition with Republicans and blocked them from exercising it.

Last month, Klein and Governor Andrew Cuomo announced an agreement under which the I.D.C., which currently runs the Senate in coalition with the Republicans, will join with the regular Democrat conference after the November elections.

Though they had pledged to be a separate faction, they did form a leadership coalition with the Republicans after the 2012 elections.

And charter - school supporters, led by Mr. Loeb, have poured millions of dollars into ensuring that the State Senate remains in Republican hands — even as Democrats have won a majority of seats — backing Mr. Klein's renegade group, which first broke away from the party in 2011 and eventually formed a coalition with the Republicans.

«I'm glad the delegates of the state Democratic Party join our conference in recognizing the need for the IDC to abandon its coalition with the Republicans and work to ensure a Democratic majority,» she said.