Sentences with phrase «former coup leader»

Not exact matches

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.

He lived through 12 years as the loyal opposition to GOP Gov. George Pataki and Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, foiled a coup attempt by former Assemblyman Mike Bragman in 2000, weathered Gov. Eliot «the steamroller» Spitzer and now has managed to get along with hard - charging Gov. Andrew Cuomo, largely by giving him pretty much everything he wants from a policy perspective (even things the Dems were never expected to go along with, like Tier VI and the property tax cap).

It's none other than Steve Pigeon, the controversial former Erie County Democratic chairman, advisor to coup - inducer / Rochester - Florida billionaire B. Thomas Golisano and counsel to the illustrious Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. (Both Pigeon and Espada are under investigation).

After the Democrats lost control of the chamber, he founded the New Roosevelt Initiative and helped topple former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., whom Samuels says the Democrats should never have accepted back into the fold after the 2009 coup.

As you'll recall, the Democrats split the president and majority leader positions apart following the 2009 coup and let Espada keep the former title as part of the agreement that drew him back to the fold and ended the 31 - day stalemate.

A close ally of former Burkinabe President, Blaise Compaore has been named the country's new leader after a military coup.

Albany County Legislature Chairman Shawn Morse seized on the conviction of former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. on four counts of felony theft (so far) from his taxpayer - funded Soundview Health Clinic to tee off on his Democratic primary opponent, Sen. Neil Breslin, for voting to accept Espada back into the conference following the 2009 coup.

According to a WNY source, Swanick, a Democrat - turned - Republican - turned - Democrat, also has a connection to former Erie County Democratic Chairman Steve Pigeon, who played a key role in the 2009 Senate coup and also worked for former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr..

Hell, your cat probably doesn't like being compared to Espada, the disgraced former majority leader of the Senate who brought New York's government to a standstill during the leadership coup of 2009 and was later found guilty of bilking the federal government for the funding of his health clinics.

The former mayor for Kumasi, insisted that it won't take more than three weeks for a Nana Akufo - Addo led - government to be overthrown through a coup d'état, hence Ghanaians should not look to his direction for a new leader at next year's polls.

Paterson suggested that would have sparked a battle much like the one that ended up taking place several months later when now - former Sen. Hiram Monserrate and soon - to - be-former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. abandoned the Democrats and joined forces with the GOP in the infamous coup.

A Ghanaian man is leading a campaign to bring The Gambia's former leader Yahya Jammeh to justice over the murder of 55 migrants who were mistaken for coup plotters, writes the BBC's Alex Duval Smith.

Former Democratic Majority Leader Malcolm Smith of Queens, who lost power in the wake of the Senate coup of 2009 — a scheme organized in part by Skelos — was convicted last year of trying to bribe his way to the 2013 Republican nomination for New York City mayor.

Conversely, as former Assembly majority leader Michael Bragman discovered in 2000 when his coup attempt disintegrated, to challenge Silver is to invite career disaster.

Delayed from October due to the lawmaker's cancer treatment, the sentencing fell as former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's federal corruption case was being considered by a jury, and the trial of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos — who worked with Libous to plot the June 2009 coup that derailed the Senate for five weeks — continued.