Sentences with phrase «coalition with breakaway»

Republicans are technically in a numerical minority in the Senate, but in 2012 formed a governing coalition with the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference that allowed them to retain some control in the chamber.

Of course, Mr. Cuomo is not the sole arbiter of the state budget — there's also the Democrat - led Assembly and the State Senate, now controlled by Republicans who are less than pleased with Mr. de Blasio, who campaigned hard for Democrats to take the majority and sought to end the GOP's ruling coalition with breakaway Democrats in the Independent Democratic Conference.

Not exact matches

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.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan expressed «shock» that IDC Leader Jeff Klein and his group of eight breakaway Democrats last week broke its leadership coalition with the GOP to go back to the Democrats, a source who spoke directly to him said.

A growing group of eight breakaway Democrats, who rule the Senate in an informal coalition with 31 Republicans, have left regular Democrats smarting for some time now.

Currently, Democrats and Republicans in the Senate have the same amount of members — 31 each — but the Democrats are divided, with eight members in a breakaway group that forms an informal ruling coalition with the GOP.

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.»

The GOP's 30 state senators share control of the 63 - seat chamber with a coalition of five breakaway Democrats and Simcha Felder, a conservative Brooklyn Democrat who caucuses with the Republicans.

This is due to a breakaway group of eight Democrats which have formed their own majority coalition with the Republicans.

Greenberg urged the eight breakaway Democrats who are aligned in leadership coalition with the Republicans to go «back with the Dems... and throw Flanagan out as majority leader» «Stand with victims, not evil,» he said.

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.

Cuomo has faced opposition from Republicans in the State Senate, who rule in a coalition with a group of breakaway Democrats.

As leader of the five - member breakaway faction that allied with Republicans to form the chamber's governing coalition (and keep Democrats from assuming the control that should have accompanied their mathematical majority), Klein has been justifying the partnership since it formed in 2012 as a win for progressives, rather than as a means of self - empowerment.

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.

Stringer made the comment at a Harlem rally calling for fractured state Senate Democrats to unify and make Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins majority leader of a house where the Dems come November are expected to again have the majority but not control the chamber because nine breakaway Dems are aligned with the Republicans in a leadership coalition.

In a joint statement, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Senate Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein say the breakaway Democratic faction that had ruled with the Republicans for the past two years has agreed to join in a coalition government with the rest of the Senate Democrats, giving them a potential majority after the November elections.

Rather than any question of how much longer he can hang on — a question which, as recently as this April, Fred Dicker was raising in print — the test for Silver is how effectively he'll be able to advocate for the liberal priorities of his members with Cuomo campaigning as a centrist, and the State Senate in the hands of coalition of Republicans and breakaway Democrats.

Flanagan and his members also have to contend with the pressure by liberals who want to see a group of eight breakaway Democrats led by Bronx Sen. Jeffrey Klein quit their leadership coalition with the GOP and form a new one with the mainline Dems.

The breakaway Democrats have in the past formed a coalition government with the Republicans, and they have not ruled out doing that again in 2017.

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.»

Democrats outnumber Republicans in the Senate, but the GOP maintains control with a coalition of six breakaway Democrats.

Counteracting President Trump; bolstering the Affordable Care Act; and publicly funding campaigns 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.

Liberal detractors of the governor have accused him of helping Republicans keep power in the Senate by tacitly backing a power - sharing coalition with five breakaway Democrats, which last from 2013 through the end of last year, when the GOP gained full control.

He noted that despite winning an «outright majority,» the Senate GOP is continuing its «historic coalition» with the IDC, though he did not mention that the terms of that relationship have been modified to provide the breakaway Democrats with less power than they used to have.

Squadron, meanwhile, also is holding some hope for reuniting the mainline conference with the five - member breakaway Independent Democratic Conference — a prospect that seems unlikely given signals from both IDC Leader Jeff Klein and Senate GOP leader Dean Skelos that the coalition should continue in some form.

Despite pressures from the left, the breakaway Democratic conference known as the IDC has decided to continue in a bipartisan coalition with the chamber's Republican majority.

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

In his first year as mayor, Mr. de Blasio tangled with a senate that is governed by a coalition of breakaway Democrats and the Republican Party — even with an ally in State Senator Jeff Klein, the leader of the Independent Democratic Conference, a Republican majority still looms to potentially stifle a leftist, urban platform that polls poorly in many GOP strongholds throughout the state.

Senate Republicans control the chamber in a coalition with eight breakaway Democrats known as the Independent Democratic Conference.

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.

Republicans hold 31 of the 63 Senate seats but control the chamber thanks to a governing coalition with six breakaway Democrats, including Simcha Felder of Brooklyn, who sits with the GOP conference.

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.

Oh, and according to one senator, six or seven Democrats «are willing to form a breakaway coalition — perhaps even with some Republicans — in an effort to hijack the already hijacked conference.»

Democrats took a 32 - 30 majority last November, but a five - member breakaway Democratic coalition teamed with Republicans to keep the GOP in power.

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.

The raises coincided with his decision to join the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference as it allied with Republicans to form a ruling coalition.

Crouse, however, said the Republican power - sharing deal in the state Senate with a handful of breakaway Democrats known as the Independent Democratic Conference shows just how unwieldy the logistics of coalitions can be.

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.

ALBANY — A group of breakaway Democrats will stick with Republicans who control the state Senate, continuing a coalition that has helped to keep the GOP in charge of the 63 - member chamber despite their showing in the November elections.

Senate Republicans rule in a coalition government with a hand full of breakaway Democrats, known as the Independent Democratic Conference.

Senate Republicans have been able to cobble together a coalition with five breakaway Democrats in the Independent Democratic Conference, plus Sen. - elect Simcha Felder, a Democrat from Brooklyn who has pledged to sit with the GOP come January.

In addition, Sen. Jeffrey Klein, the Bronx Democrat who heads a group of eight breakaway Dems aligned with the GOP in a leadership coalition, has introduced his own mayoral control bill that would extend the law two years while also giving community parent boards more power.

He has joined the Independent Democratic Conference, a breakaway coalition that has collaborated with Republicans.

They previously controlled the upper chamber with a coalition of five breakaway Democrats and the aid of Senator Simcha Felder, a Democrat who conferenced with the Republicans.

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

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.

Currently, Democrats and Republicans in the Senate have the same amount of members: 31 each, but the Democrats are divided, with eight members forming a breakaway group that forms an informal ruling coalition with the GOP.

In New York, she served as a consultant to the state Senate Independent Democratic Conference, a group of breakaway Dems who until earlier this month were in a leadership coalition with the chamber's Republicans.

Both the Democrat - dominated State Assembly and the State Senate, which is controlled by Republicans in a coalition with five breakaway Democrats, eliminated funding for the Cuomo - convened Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption.