Senate
Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco says the local chapter of the NAACP misunderstood his comments defending Trump's reaction over the weekend to race - fueled violence in Charlottesville.
Kolb's exit from the race comes a little over a week after Sen. John DeFrancisco,
the deputy majority leader and a Syracuse Republican, joined the race.
Molinaro's main competition at this point for the nomination is state Sen. John DeFrancisco,
the deputy majority leader.
Senate
Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco has hired a campaign consulting firm based in Washington, D.C., as he explores the possibility of making a bid for New York governor in 2018.
[A relative unknown outside Southern Tier political circles — Broome County Undersheriff Fred Akshar, the Broome County GOP s secretary — is running for the state Senate seat vacated by former
Deputy Majority Leader Tom Libous.]
While others — like Senate
Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco — have said they won't engage in a primary battle for the party's gubernatorial nod, Kolb has not ruled out the idea.
Currently, there are three active candidates who have formally declared: state Senate
Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, former Erie County Executive Joel Giambra, and former State Housing Commissioner Joe Holland.
DeFrancisco, a Syracuse Republican and
the deputy majority leader, will make his intentions known on Tuesday, but is leaning toward the race.
«I would hope that we don't do simply an extension of mayoral control,» said state Senate
Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco (R - Syracuse) on the «Capitol Pressroom» radio show.
Flanagan of East Northport earlier backed state Sen. John DeFrancisco,
the deputy majority leader and Finance Committee chairman.
Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - East Northport), Senate
Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco (R - Syracuse) and ex-hedge fund manager Harry Wilson are among those who have told others they are considering a campaign.
In addition to Wilson, the potential gubernatorial candidates are Senate
Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco (R - Syracuse), Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro and Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb (R - Canandaigua).
Senate
Deputy Majority Leader and Republican candidate for governor, John DeFrancisco stood outside the federal courthouse in lower Manhattan on a windy winter day.
Bill sponsor, Senate
Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco says the measure would reinstate the power of the state comptroller to have oversight authority over the economic development projects.
The No. 2 Senate Republican,
Deputy Majority Leader Tom Libous, sees it as «fairness» — a word practically copyrighted by Democrats.
The Senate
Deputy Majority Leader says the bill is the «last thing» the governor wants because someone else would be looking over his shoulder on the contracts.
To help make the coalition work, the governor regularly spoke (by phone and in person) with GOP
deputy majority leader Tom Libous, who was effectively Cuomo's go - to person in the Republican Senate conference.
Recently, it was leaked that the commission was investigating a complaint about the second most powerful Senator in the Majority Republican conference,
Deputy Majority Leader Tom Libous, over allegations that surfaced in an unrelated corruption trial.
Party chairs are meeting Monday morning at the Fort Orange Club, just up the hill from the Capitol, to hear out the three remaining gubernatorial prospects: Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, Senate
Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco and Joel Giambra, a lobbyist and former Erie County executive.
State Senate
Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development efforts, tax increases and MTA woes at the state Conservative Party's annual conference on Sunday.
ALBANY — State Senate
Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco says the GOP's nominee to challenge Gov. Andrew Cuomo next year — which could be him — ought to be aggressive.
The threat was issued, after senate
Deputy Majority Leader, Senator Bala Ibn Na'Allah, raised a point of order, saying none of the agencies had submitted their budget reports.
Senator DeFrancisco, who is currently
the Deputy Majority Leader, says eight years of Andrew Cuomo is a long time, and someone new needs to take over.
Senate
Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, a Republican from Syracuse, said lawmakers planned to enter the chamber and start voting on bills that, various lawmakers said, have been finished but held in abeyance for days by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Senate
Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, a Republican from Syracuse, has argued for a more aggressive legislative approach and has been pushing Flanagan within the GOP conference.
The first big sign of trouble came in the late afternoon, when Senate
Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco ended a brief session by saying senators were going to return to their districts, possibly until Sunday, «as the final touches are being made on the bills.»
I deal with him when I deal with him and his position knowing full well that the only consideration that he has on any issue is which way that issue is going to be assisting him politically at that moment,» Senate
deputy majority leader John DeFrancisco, a Republican from Syracuse, said.
State Senator John DeFrancisco,
the deputy majority leader and recognized head of the party's conservative wing, dug into the contract and raises Mr. de Blasio approved with the United Federation of Teachers in 2014.
Deputy Majority Leader Sen. John DeFrancisco, left, speaks with reporters outside the LCA at the Capitol Tuesday April 4, 2017 in Albany, NY.
AMHERST, NY - With election day nearly nine months away State Republicans have three declared candidates for Governor: Lawyer and businessman Joe Holland, Senate
Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, and former Erie County Executive Joel Giambra.
«There was a decision in conference not to take it on, not to put it out,» said Senate
Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, the sponsor of DiNapoli's bill.
In his visits to Oswego, Lewis, Yates, Livingston, Fulton, Saratoga and Erie counties, the Senate's
deputy majority leader said he has focused his pitch on the New York economy and what he views as Cuomo's failure to ignite growth across the state.
Senate
Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco (R - Syracuse) said he agreed with Trump's statement on Saturday that blamed «many sides» for the violence and hatred.
State Senate
Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, a Syracuse Republican, said he's meeting with Republican groups around the state as he mulls a run for governor.
Senate
Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco called the payroll tax option an «administrative nightmare.»
At 7:11 a.m. Friday, Sen. John DeFrancisco,
the deputy majority leader from Syracuse, was the last senator to stand up on the Senate floor to discuss the bill that provides $ 24.8 billion in funding for schools and also raises the minimum wage.
DeFrancisco,
the deputy majority leader in the state Senate, was not available for comment Tuesday afternoon.
«It's just smaller items that keep popping back and forth — always another issue that comes up,» Senate
Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco (R - Syracuse) told reporters.
He was named
deputy majority leader in 2015, the second most powerful position in the chamber.
DeFrancisco, the Senate's
deputy majority leader, has worked closely with Flanagan since 2015 as the second - ranking member of the Senate.
«When I share something he doesn't like, he gets very quiet,» says Tom Libous, the Binghamton Republican who is State Senate
deputy majority leader.
He was
deputy majority leader when lawmakers approved another set of income tax cuts in the 2016 state budget.
Other Republicans considering a run for governor are Senate
Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, of Syracuse, Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, and Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro.
President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with the family of
the Deputy Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Umar Jibril who passed on...
State Senate
Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco (R - Syracuse) has said he is considering a run against Cuomo.
Libous,
the deputy majority leader, was found guilty after less than a day of deliberation.
A former
Deputy Majority Chief Whip in Ghana's Parliament, Sampson Ahi, had accused the Minority of sabotaging government business.
Jibril, 58, who was
a Deputy Majority Leader and an APC member representing Lokoja / Kogi Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, died in the early hours of Friday in Abuja.
Neither, he said, do state Senate
Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco (R - Syracuse), who has said he is considering a run, or Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino, a flame - thrower in the mold of President Trump who was creamed by Cuomo in 2010.
But Flanagan and
Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, R - Syracuse, have voiced strong opposition to Cuomo's other proposals.