Sentences with phrase «elected as a democrat»

Meanwhile, one Senator exploits the situation and reaps benefits from sitting with the Republicans, although he has been repeatedly elected as a Democrat.»

«The IDC, they're elected as Democrats and they should caucus with the Democrats and create a Democratic majority,» Schumer said on Monday morning.

«Our conference has long called for all Senators elected as Democrats to work together and not empower the Republican minority,» she said.

Senators elected as Democrats who vote for a Republican Majority Leader are traitors to the party — pure and simple — and should be expelled from the party and never given the opportunity to run on a Democratic line again.

«Now is the time for all Senators elected as Democrats to work together and achieve the functional Democratic Majority that New York voters elected this past November, and again tonight.»

«Then lo and behold a couple months later when the Senate convenes, a number of people who are elected as Democrats enter an agreement that empowers Republicans who voters specifically said should be in the minority.»

The Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) is a group of eight members of the New York State Senate who were elected as Democrats, but who align with republicans.

Yet instead of uniting with us to resist this assault, our State Senator Marisol Alcantara — elected as a Democrat to represent much of Upper Manhattan and the Upper West Side — has turned on us by joining the IDC, a coalition that empowers Trump - supporting Albany Republicans and stymies efforts to pass truly progressive legislation.»

Not that it is easy to get elected as a Democrat in every part of the county, but when you have good candidates who do the basics and there is a strong committee behind the candidates, we do win.

«Our conference has long called for all senators elected as Democrats to work together and not empower the Republican minority,» Stewart - Cousins said.

«Those elected as Democrats should respect voters» clearly expressed intent and sit with the Democratic Conference to implement important progressive goals like standing up for women's health, passing real campaign finance reform, raising the minimum wage and enacting common sense gun laws,» said Senate Democratic spokesman Mike Murphy.

Since then, it has become increasingly difficult for anti-abortion Democrats to be elected as Democrats; whites who are «personally against abortion» have increasingly switched from the Democratic party to the Republican Party; and it has become increasingly difficult for pro-abortion Republicans to be elected as Republicans.

32 of 63 New York State Senators were elected as Democrats, enough to give Democrats control of the State Senate.

«The IDC is a breakaway conference of State Senators who were elected as Democrats but who have formed an alliance with Trump Republicans in the State Senate, preventing progress for all of us for years,» the WFP's Ava Benezra said in announcing the endorsements.

Elected as a Democrat who warned he might caucus with the Republicans, Felder is now the crucial vote that makes...

The Independent Democratic Conference, a group of eight state senators elected as Democrats who have lent their support to Senate Republicans, are fac

The Independent Democratic Conference, a group of eight state senators elected as Democrats who have lent their support to Senate Republicans, are facing escalating backlash from advocates around the state — some of whom are paying more attention to local politics in the face of a Donald Trump presidency.

«This has been an aberration the last few years to have people elected as Democrats, they were sent to Albany as Democrats by their voters, to them acting as Republicans,» she said earlier this month.

«These are not usual days» AS IF it is usual for a senator elected as a Democrat to caucus with Republicans.

«It's our hope and our expectation that we'll have enough seats together to have a Democratic majority, and that people elected as Democrats will cooperate with one another to enact a lot of these policies that Republicans are blocking,» Gianaris said.

Spota, first elected as a Democrat in 2001, received the backing of Democrats, Republicans, Conservatives and the Independence Party in all three of his re-elections, ensuring that his name was always the only one on the November ballot.

One additional senator, Simcha Felder of Brooklyn, was elected as a Democrat but caucuses with the Republicans.

The Independent Democratic Conference — a group of eight breakaway state senators elected as Democrats — has been a leading force of obstruction since 2011, partnering with Senate Republicans to shut out tenant voices

that is so politically bankrupt, that Malcolm Smith may find it comfortable to operate as a Republican in the Senate waiting to run as NYC Mayor as a Republican after getting elected as Democrat.

Ms. Alcantara was elected as a Democrat, but had already declared her allegiance to Mr. Klein's group before taking office.

If Brooks prevails, the 63 - seat Senate in January would include a numerical majority of 32 lawmakers elected as Democrats — although that list includes Simcha Felder, who has conferenced with Republicans and has said he plans to continue doing do, and seven members of the Independent Democratic Conference, which has flirted with partnering with the Democratic mainline conference but could simply return to partnering with the GOP, as it has done for the past four years.

he was elected as a Democrat to the Forty - eighth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1883, until his death.

Originally elected as a Democrat, first - term incumbent Mike Reynolds was passed over for endorsement by the Gardiner Dems this year but was nominated by the Republicans for reelection to the Gardiner Town Board.

The Central Brooklyn State Senator, elected as a Democrat, announced this week he will continue to caucus with Republicans.

Klein indicated his support for the agreement, and Stewart - Cousins maintained that the Democratic Conference has been calling on all senators elected as Democrats to unite «and not empower the Republican minority.»

Lindsay was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty - eighth and to the five succeeding Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1923 to January 3, 1935.

«We all got elected as Democrats,» Gianaris said today.

Sen. Simcha Felder, who ran on the Democratic, Republican and Conservative lines, was first elected as a Democrat in 2012 but has conferenced and voted with Republicans as the two major parties slugged it out for control of the chamber.

My friends from upstate will tell you that that is not a winning strategy to get elected as a Democrat in upstate New York.»

Not exact matches

If she were to write the Democrats» autopsy for 2016 - and she'll have a hand in it as one of the newly elected co-chairs of the House Democrats» policy and messaging arm - she says her message would be to «not only talk about jobs and the economy, but do something about it.»

In the key swing state of Ohio, Ted Strickland was elected governor as a pro-gun Democrats in 2006, but largely reversed his views on guns before challenging incumbent Sen. Rob Portman this year.

He was elected mayor of New York City in 2001 as a Republican, but prior to that he had been a registered Democrat.

Perry, who also ran for president in the 2012, making much of his five years in the U.S. Air Force, was first elected to the Texas House of Representatives as a Democrat 1984, but he switched party affiliations in 1990.

«President Obama clearly has a bye on this because, simply as a Democrat, he was elected by people who would normally be outraged.»

Jones's win is particularly notable, as Alabama hadn't elected a Democrat senator since 1992 — and that man, Richard Shelby, went on to change party affiliation.

People of color have voted and will continue to vote for Barak Obama... The only thing he has done for people of color is be of color and be the elected POTUS... When Obama's eight years is at an end the person who runs against the next democrat will only have to campaign by stating repeatedly «I am a Republican»... Whatever doesn't go right in his administration will be blamed on Obama just as he blamed his failures on Bush... His signature health care program exempts Muslims, Scientologists, Amish etc..

a foreigners (Dutch) view; it would be seen as a big laugh but also a disgrace for America if Romney was elected; the Republicans never brought anything good for the USA and the rest of the world; look what Bush did; a huge deficit; a war with the wrong enemy and the Democrats had to clean up the mess again;

Every time a Democrat is elected president, gun and ammunition sales (and prices) go way up as owners fear some ban which never happens.

Perry had been elected a state representative as a Democrat from a rural West Texas district in 1985.

The Bronx Democrats are scheduled to elect Assemblyman Marcus Crespo as their new chairman, replacing Carl Heastie, who gave up the post when he became speaker.

The talk of tax cuts come as New York City Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio is seeking a tax increase on the wealthy from Albany in order to fund universal pre-kindergarten, a move that faces an uncertain future at the Capitol (Assembly Democrats and IDC Sen. Jeff Klein support it, the Senate Republicans not so much and Cuomo says he wants more information on the plan).

McCaskill was seen as perhaps the most endangered of the Senate Democrats running for re-election this year (Gillibrand has made a point of conducting her «Off the Sidelines» campaign to elect more women to public office, a narrative that her own GOP opponent, Wendy Long, has gleefully sought to turn on its ear).

We might as well have a Republican represent us if the Democrat that we elected doesn't have the fortitude to stand up to the TeaBaggers and the GOP.

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The wishes of the voters are flouted when they elect Democrats to the state senate that caucus with and function as Republicans.