Sentences with phrase «fractured state senate»

ALBANY — Fractured state Senate Democrats on Wednesday ended their longstanding hostilities by reunifying ahead of a high - stakes election season.

With Cynthia Nixon attacking him from the left, Gov. Cuomo on Wednesday announced a deal to bring a group of rogue Democrats back into the fold in the fractured state Senate.

The progressive grassroots activist group Rise & Resist has started a post-card campaign calling on Cuomo to reunify the fractured state Senate Democrats, focusing on the «destructive relationship» between the governor and the IDC.

Republicans appear set to remain in charge of the fractured state Senate no matter what happens in the April 19 special election to replace convicted crook Dean Skelos.

While Democrats may grumble in New York over the status of the fractured state Senate, Cuomo has still been able to court national Democrats — all of whom represent different factions of the party.

ALBANY - Warring factions of Democrats in the notoriously fractured state Senate pledged to unify Wednesday, ending a seven - year split that was one of the party's biggest impediments to regaining control of the chamber.

A progressive grassroots activist group has started a postcard campaign calling on Cuomo to reunite the fractured state Senate Democrats.

Stringer made the comment at a Harlem rally calling for fractured state Senate Democrats to unify and make Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins majority leader of a house where the Dems come November are expected to again have the majority but not control the chamber because nine breakaway Dems are aligned with the Republicans in a leadership coalition.

If a reunification of the fractured state Senate Democrats is to happen, the mainline Dems must manage expectations of a progressive free - for - all, according to IDC member and Staten Island senator, Diane Savino.

Not exact matches

«Whether he was leading the charge on the Child Safe Products Act, or making sure regulations are in place that will safeguard our drinking water from hydraulic fracturing, Tony has kept the environment a top issue in the Senate,» the email states.

State Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco said there should be an investigation into the sexual misconduct claim made against Klein, though he cautioned that the allegation could become a political vehicle in the fractured chamber.

A Washington, D.C. - based group dedicated to producing Democratic - run state capitals has become the latest advocate to lean on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to help his party take control of the fractured, fractious State Senate — and to thus make New York only the seventh state in the nation with a solid - blue governstate capitals has become the latest advocate to lean on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to help his party take control of the fractured, fractious State Senate — and to thus make New York only the seventh state in the nation with a solid - blue governState Senate — and to thus make New York only the seventh state in the nation with a solid - blue governstate in the nation with a solid - blue government.

He ripped Cuomo for the MTA mass transit crisis, accused him of «emboldening a Republican state Senate majority» by not doing enough to reunify fractured Senate Democrats, and knocked his support for charter schools and big - money hedge fund donors.

ALBANY — Four top state Democrats on Monday put out a plan for reunification of the fractured Senate Democrats.

Who's ready and who really wants this fractured party to lead the state senate?

Earlier this week, Marc Panepinto's campaign made a big to - do about the so - called «united front» of normally fractured Western New York Democrats coalescing behind his state Senate campaign since Sen. Mark Grisanti's upset loss in the GOP primary.

The state's Democratic Rural Conference has passed a resolution calling on the state Senate's fractured Democrats to come together «for the common good as they enter the 2017 budget process,» and asking Cuomo «to do everything possible to ensure this outcome.»

The State Senate chamber in Albany, where Democrats are fractured (Jefferson Siegel / New York Daily News)

Because the landscape has shifted so favorably since December 2009, when a weak David Paterson led the charge, the gay groups were fractured, and a marriage bill failed in the State Senate 24 - 38.

State Democratic leaders earlier this week laid out parameters of a plan designed to reunify the fractured Senate Dems after next year's budget process that the mainline Democrats and eight - member IDC agreed to.

While Democrats technically reclaimed a majority of state Senate seats through a special election Tuesday, a deeply fractured party picture remains.

Those on the left say he should focus on repairing fractured relationships among Democrats in the state Senate first and foremost so that Democrats can control that chamber (and all of Albany).

It would mark the third consecutive one - year extension for de Blasio, whose fractured relationship with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republicans in the state Senate has prevented him from securing a permanent extension of the system, which was created under former mayor Michael Bloomberg.

He made a surprising move last year in the state Legislature to join forces with Republicans to form a first - of - its - kind coalition to run the fractured Senate.

The two feuding factions of Democrats within the State Senate announced Wednesday they have agreed to reconcile ahead of November's election, reuniting a party that has been fractured for years.

ALBANY — As the war between the fractured Democrats in the state Senate rages on, the mainline Dems could lose another member this week — though not to a rival faction.

The French parliament voted on June 30 to ban the controversial technique for extracting natural gas from shale rock deposits known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the web sites of Le Monde and other French media reported.The bill had already passed the National Assembly, the country's lower chamber, on June 21, and on June 30 a Senate vote of 176 to 151 made France the first country to enact such a ban, just as New York State is preparing to lift a moratorium on the same method.The vote was divided along party lines, with the majority conservative party voting in favor and the opposition voting against the bill, according to Le Monde.

Ohio is in the final stages of making an Exxon trojan horse on hydrofracking into state law, and it appears that the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) connected Exxon's lawyers with co-sponsors of Ohio Senate Bill 315: at least 33 of the 45 Ohio legislators who co-sponsored SB 315 are ALEC members, and language from portions of the state Senate bill is similar to ALEC's «Disclosure of Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Composition Act.»