Sentences with phrase «for upstate members»

«So it was hard for upstate members to get the kind of attention upstate needed, and we changed that,» Cuomo said on Thursday.

If Flanagan is going to keep that post, he needed to bring something home for the upstate members who didn't want him to lead the chamber in the first place.

Not exact matches

A number of members of the upstate GOP establishment also cut checks for Lhota, including former Senate Finance Secretary Abe Lackman ($ 1,000), Election Law attorney Jeff Buley ($ 400), and ex-state GOP, SRCC Executive Director Ed Lurie ($ 150).

«She has long served her constituents with strength and passion and as a senior member in Congress is responsible for many initiatives and has secured both funding and support for many critical issues,» said Reed, who represents a neighboring upstate district.

Mr. Brindisi, a well - regarded member of a younger, progressive bloc of Democrats in Albany, noted that he had publicly criticized the Cuomo administration's economic development plans, and had voted against the SAFE Act, a 2013 gun control bill that has been a galvanizing issue for the governor's opponents upstate.

The Manhattan senator, who is the only openly - gay and HIV - positive member of the Senate, slammed his upstate colleague for comments he made during an interview on the Capitol Pressroom with Susan Arbetter yesterday morning.

------ John Flanagan, who replaced Skelos as Senate majority leader last week, has assured upstate members he will push for changes to Gov. Cuomo's controversial 2013 SAFE Act gun control law.

He told Senate and Assembly members that the governor's $ 65 million initiative for battling HABs includes studying 12 upstate lakes and using the information gathered to treat those lakes as well as other bodies of water across the state.

Manufacturing isn't coming back to upstate New York, according to Alice Rivlin, a budget director for former President Bill Clinton and a former member of the Federal Reserve Bank's board of governors, and it's time for politicians to focus their attention elsewhere.

«The comptroller was in the New York State legislature and sat in that Assembly, as did members of the western delegation for many, many years, where New York and upstate and Buffalo hemorrhaged jobs,» he said.

The union, which was instrumental in leading the push for measures such as a minimum wage increase to $ 15 in the downstate region and $ 12.50 upstate as well as a paid family leave program, has spread its endorsements around to members of both parties as control of the state Senate remains up for grabs a week before Election Day.

Restive upstate advocates who supported Syracuse Sen. John DeFrancisco's bid for majority leader where disappointed to see another downstate member ascend to the majority leader post in a chamber that is the last lever of power controlled statewide by Republicans.

«When we learned about struggling upstate power generators at a time when downstate was starving for electricity, we were astonished to find that NY was considering a 350 mile extension cord from Quebec to NY City that denies any NYS power generator an opportunity to compete,» said Ted Skerpon, President of IBEW Local 97 and Chair of the 15,000 member NYS IBEW Utility Labor Council.

Senator Daniel Squadron also took the opportunity to point the finger at Senate Republicans on rent reform, saying the conference of mostly upstate and suburban members shouldn't be calling the shots for an issue centered around residents in New York City.

Also at noon, low - wage workers, faith leaders and upstate community members launch a 24 - hour vigil at the Capitol to call on the Legislature to include a $ 15 minimum wage, paid family leave, and $ 51 million for the Hunger Prevention and Nutrition Assistance Program in the state budget, War Room, state Capitol, Albany.

(Flanagan advanced three bills that extended mayoral control and helped charter schools; Heastie yoked a straight extension of mayoral control to renewing local taxes that are critical for upstate and suburban members.)

His elevation last May following the arrest of Senate GOP leader Dean Skelos came with the support of upstate members and others who will be watching him in the post for the first time — and hoping that his resiliency helps them as they come into a key election season.

No clear candidate has emerged, but the likeliest scenario for a coup, insiders say, is that the 31 - member Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian caucus would join with an outer - borough delegation and a few upstate Democrats to plot an ouster.

Portelli, 62, is a former Albany City School Board member who ran for mayor of the upstate city last year, also on the Green Party line.

He and six other upstate members of Congress, including Dan Maffei, Bill Owens and Tom Reed, signed a letter to the assistant secretary of labor for OSHA asking for consideration.

Slaughter, a Democratic House member from upstate New York, has the backing of government data for this depressing statistic, though we also noted that the United States has at least seen improvements in these scores across all races since the early 1990s.

Downstate legislators see nothing in the plan for their area, he explained, while even upstate members feel left out by the attention paid to Western New York.

Mindful of their need for a legislative ally, real estate interests have been investing heavily to assist the Senate Republicans, whose conference is dominated by upstate members without a horse in the rent control race.

The conference faced a challenging year as divisions between upstate and downstate members appeared to boil over during budget negotiations, a rarity for the generally lockstep conference.

Skelos ceded power over the Senate's majority conference a week after his arrest to fellow Long Island Republican Sen. John Flanagan As was the case with Silver and his Democrats, GOP support for Skelos eroded quickly as a schism between upstate and downstate conference members began to show.

The fund - raiser, held at the home of Kate Linker, a board member for the liberal activist group Greater NYC For Change, brought in an undisclosed amount of cash for State Senator Cecilia Tkaczyk, an upstate Democrat facing a stiff challenge from Republican George Amedofor the liberal activist group Greater NYC For Change, brought in an undisclosed amount of cash for State Senator Cecilia Tkaczyk, an upstate Democrat facing a stiff challenge from Republican George AmedoFor Change, brought in an undisclosed amount of cash for State Senator Cecilia Tkaczyk, an upstate Democrat facing a stiff challenge from Republican George Amedofor State Senator Cecilia Tkaczyk, an upstate Democrat facing a stiff challenge from Republican George Amedore.

Canale is a board member with Upstate Energy Jobs, a coalition of local businesses, agencies and community leaders advocating for New York lawmakers to support upstate nuclear plants.

All of the Senate's GOP members voted for the minimum age phase in, which will lead to a $ 15 wage in New York City and Long Island, and $ 12.50 upstate.

While only 23 members have publicly declared that they plan to vote for Heastie, these supporters are male and female, white, African - American and Hispanic, and they come from New York City, its suburbs and upstate.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Anyone who wonders whether Congressmember Sean Patrick Maloney regrets having given up his days and evenings as a Manhattan attorney in exchange for the life of a minority party House member sitting through long DC committee hearings and weekending in his upstate district to attend pancake breakfasts and ribbon - cuttings should consider just -LSB-...]

For example, AFT Local 4053 represents more than 51,000 members covering upstate New York and is based in the state capital of Albany.