Sentences with phrase «facto head of the party»

Fossella became the de facto head of the party when he was elected to Congress in 1997, with his Uncle Frank and his father, Vito Sr., the power brokers behind the scenes.

The governor's absence has fueled suspicion among Democrats that Cuomo, the de facto head of their party, is siding more closely with Republicans in the State Senate as lawmakers negotiate the renewal of rent regulations in New York City.

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Acting as the de facto head of the state Democratic Party, Andrew Cuomo this weekend personally convened a meeting with representatives of all the statewide campaigns as well as the state Senate and Assembly committees in hopes of presenting a united front in the final weeks of the general election campaign.

State Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs confirmed the NYT report that he has tendered his resignation to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, clearing the way for the governor to select his own leader of an organization of which he became the de facto head when he was elected back in 2010.

Tim Idoni, who as Westchester County Clerk is the highest ranking Democratic elected official in the county and who was Mayor of New Rochelle at the time Davidson was promoted as a judicial candidate and thus de facto heads of the Democratic Party of New Rochelle.

The party, of which Cuomo is the de facto head, has been stepping up its involvement on behalf of the governor over the past week.

CUOMO ON THE STUMP: Gov. Andrew Cuomo is the de facto leader of New York's Democratic Party, but some simple Democratic campaigning this weekend still turned heads.

Cuomo, a freshman who previously served as attorney general, is de facto head of the state party.

All the state's leading Democrats have endorsed Clinton — but Gov. Andrew Cuomo, as the de facto head of the state party, has the most riding on the outcome, party insiders agree.

Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the speaker of the House, de facto ideological leader of the Republican Party, and third-most powerful man in all of America, held his head in his hands at the back of the House chamber and waited helplessly for members of his own conference to sabotage their own legislation.