Sentences with phrase «conference leadership posts»

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Queens Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan, the lone remaining challenger to Assemblyman Carl Heastie to succeed Assemblyman Sheldon Silver as speaker, issued a statement this afternoon congratulating her Bronx colleague on securring sufficient support to lay claim to the leadership post, but also said she would have «preferred» a vote on Feb. 10, as the Democratic conference originally agreed.

Also, even though this alliance forces Smith to let bygones be bygones with a guy who once reportedly tried to oust him from his majority leader post (that would be Sen. Jeff Klein back in 2008 when the leadership struggle No. 1 took place), it could hardly be any worse than being the deposed former majority leader of the Democratic conference where he's pretty much just a back bencher since losing his power in the 2009 coup.

Levi, Sen. Tom Duane, (the chamber's first openly gay and HIV - positive member); NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn, (the first lesbian and woman to hold her leadership post); Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, (one of the first gay elected officials to represent Queens) and Marty Rouse of the Human Rights Campaign Fund will hold a pre-Columbus Day press conference to denounce Paladino's «homophobic comments» at 11 a.m. in Manhattan.

The four senators in the IDC who chaired committees were stripped of those leadership posts, just two days after their conference decided to dissolve and rejoin the Senate's mainline Democrats.

Sen. John Bonacic, the lone member of the Republican conference to call for then - Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno to give up his leadership post after learning of the FBI's probe into his outside business interests, released a statement this evening calling Bruno's two - year sentence «appropriate.»

The labor - aligned Working Families Party in a statement Friday called on Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein to step aside from his leadership post as an investigation is conducted into an allegation that he forcibly kissed a former legislative staffer.

In addition to Senate Republicans that have benefited from the practice, three members of the Independent Democratic Conference, which has a power - sharing arrangement with the GOP, receive stipends despite not serving as committee chairs or having leadership posts.

According to my source, they're very concerned about losing the leadership post, which has gone to a black senator since November 2002 when David Paterson ousted then - Senate Minority Leader Marty Connor (a white Brooklynite) became the first non-white elected to lead a legislative conference in New York history and the highest - ranking black elected official in New York.

Independent Democratic Conference Leader and Senate Co-President Jeff Klein announced this afternoon in a statement he has stripped Sen. Malcolm Smith of his various leadership posts and committee assignments as the result of his arrest on bribery charges this morning.

A GOP source in Wednesday's meeting told CNN that despite anger towards Murkowski, the conference decided not to even take up the question of the Senate Energy Committee post because «there was a sense that she's resigned her leadership post, she lost her primary, she will probably lose her race, and she'll be gone.

Other lawmakers who have been officially accused of corruption in recent years have been quickly ostracized by their colleagues: Sen. John Sampson was kicked out of the mainline Democratic conference; Sen. Malcolm Smith was stripped of his leadership posts and conference position by IDC Leader Jeff Klein.

IDC Leader Jeff Klein, whose breakaway Democratic conference has a relationship — though no longer a power - sharing deal — with the Senate Republicans, issued a statement calling the corruption charges outlined today by the US attorney against Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos «serious and distburing,» but did not join fellow Democrats in calling for the senator to give up his leadership post.

Smith, a Democrat, who had chaired the Independent Democratic Conference, has been stripped of the committee assignments and coalition leadership post he held in Albany, and state Sen. Daniel Squadron has called on him to resign.

And Silver hasn't formally named the chairs of a score of legislative committees and leadership posts, which gives him instant leverage over the conference, as the titles each carry cash stipends worth thousands of dollars.

ALBANY — State Senator John Bonacic, a Republican from the Hudson Valley, became the first member of his conference to call on Majority Leader Dean Skelos to resign from his leadership post, following Skelos» arrest on federal corruption charges on Monday.

The actual chair of the Transportation Committee, Sen. Joe Robach, instead accepts a higher stipend for holding a leadership post as the secretary of the Senate Majority Conference.

The actual Chair of the Transportation Committee, Senator Joe Robach, instead accepts a higher stipend for holding a leadership post as the Secretary of the Senate Majority Conference.

I headed to a women's leadership conference the first weekend in March and I shared some outfits I took along on the trip in this What I'm Wearing Lately post.

He's also a contributor on education for the Huffington Post Co, co-created the Edscape conference, sits on the F.E.A. Board of Directors and was named to the N.S.B.A. Twenty to Watch list in 2010 for technology leadership.

The House will definitely get a new speaker, its top officer; in addition, the majority leadership, other posts in the gop conference, and several key chairmanships could also change hands.

Sanée has presented at local, state, national and international conferences, and has written publications and several guest blog posts focused on leadership and its impact on students and teachers.

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