Sentences with phrase «from upstate districts»

The legislature, a body with many representatives from upstate districts that have few renters, has weakened rent regulation laws year after year.

Rank - and - file lawmakers and members of the conference leadership are blaming a Republican «wave» that contributed to their losses on Election Day, including the unseating of three freshman Democrats from upstate districts.

The SAFE Act's passage angered gun owners in New York and several Republicans from upstate districts elected in recent years have vowed to repeal the measure.

However, one state Senate Republican from an upstate district quickly shot down the proposal.

The only legislative leader from an upstate district is Brian Kolb, the Assembly minority leader.

Not exact matches

The measures are targeting two freshman upstate Republicans from districts that have been most recently represented by moderate lawmakers, Reps. Richard Hanna and Chris Gibson.

The hope for Senate Republicans in part is that a unified Senate Democratic conference could help pull the chamber toward the New York City center of power, diluting upstate lawmakers» influence (it's worth noting that Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the Democratic leader, is from a suburban district, not New York City.

A version of the Senate's anti-sanctuary city bill has already been approved last year, with votes from moderate mainline Democratic lawmakers, including Sens. Todd Kaminsky, George Latimer, Kevin Parker and Tim Kennedy (Democrats from upstate and suburban districts in the Assembly opposed the sanctuary state bill).

The downstate region, dominated by New York City, has been growing much faster than upstate (everything north of the metropolitan transportation district)-- and the slowest growing upstate metro areas are in Central New York and the Southern Tier, which would benefit most from the issuance of long - delayed state regulations allowing the use of hydraulic fracturing in shale gas production.

Niagara Falls Republican Angelo J. Morinello ousted him from his 145th District Assembly seat in the most expensive Assembly race in upstate history, with more than $ 2 million spent by the candidates, the parties and outside groups.

The notable exception was quite frankly in the Capital district and Nanoscale where the state made a significant contribution and with some real talent from Dr. Alain Kaloyeros, literally generated an entire industry, but it shows what the state could do when the state invested but the state, besides the Capital district in many ways forgot the rest of upstate New York and we said we were going to change that and reverse it and we did and it is already paying dividends and we want to do it again and we want to start it with taxes.

In upstate New York, Albany County District Attorney Paul Clyne (aka Mr. Machine) gets a nasty surprise from reform candidate David Soares.

Hinchey's 22nd Congressional District includes a large swath of upstate, from the Hudson Valley west to Binghamton and Ithaca.

The six Republicans being targeted by Mr. Cuomo are Lee Zeldin of Long Island and five from upstate: John J. Faso, from the Hudson Valley; Elise Stefanik, from an Adirondack district; Claudia Tenney, in Central New York; Tom Reed, who represents a swath of Western New York; and Chris Collins, an early Trump supporter from the Buffalo area and a frequent foil of Governor Cuomo's.

Many Democrats have expressed strong doubts that Ms. Gillibrand, a former congresswoman from a conservative district in upstate New York, could win the nomination of a party dominated by liberals.

Cuomo is proposing a $ 28 million bailout for the Yonkers school district in Westchester County, using money from a new $ 100 million fund to help failing schools in upstate.

Democrats who represent upstate New York congressional districts also blasted the proposal from the Trump administration as detrimental.

Cuomo told reporters during an event at Yonkers City Hall that the money wouldn't be tied to the passage of an education tax credit, which some Assembly Democrats — particularly members representing school districts that could greatly benefit from the upstate - only fund — have vehemently opposed.

In New York's 22nd congressional district, a GOP - leaning district that stretches from Binghamton to Lake Ontario, keep an eye on whether tech entrepreneur Martin Babinec, running on the largely self - funded «upstate jobs» line, splits enough votes from tea - party Republican Claudia Tenney to elect State legislator Kim Myers.

He was asked by Kemble about federal funding he'd secured for a project in his district and whether he might have a financial interest in it, as a crew from upstate Your News Now rolled tape.

She made the transition from representing an upstate district and their values to better representing the values of the entire state pretty quickly and seamlessly.

One reason was that he played such an instrumental role in anointing Ms. Clinton's successor, an unknown congresswoman from a rural upstate district named Kirsten Gillibrand.

An upstate New York district attorney was arraigned Friday on perjury and official misconduct charges stemming from his handling of an investigation that cleared a police officer who killed a man during a traffic stop.

As a moderate Democrat in the House representing an upstate district, Gillibrand was more centrist on gun control and at one point had an «A» rating from the NRA.

The measure was approved in the Assembly by a thin margin with Democrats from suburban and upstate districts voting against the bill.

The cap keeps taxes from rising as municipalities and school districts struggle with soaring pension costs, but the law doesn't cut property taxes, which Cuomo said Tuesday are «a crusher,» especially for homeowners in New York City's northern suburbs and upstate.

Last year, Faso resurrected his political career by capturing the upstate 19th Congressional District seat — representing all or portions of 10 counties from the Catskills north and east toward Albany — being vacated by Chris Gibson.

When the final numbers were reported from all 610 precincts in the 20th Congressional District in upstate New York, Democrat Scott Murphy led his rival, Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, a Republican, with just 65 votes.

NEW YORK (AP)-- Two - term Republican U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson has turned back a well - financed challenge from Democrat Sean Eldridge to keep his House seat in a sprawling upstate New York district.

He's from upstate, which is much less populated than New York City and its surrounding suburbs, and he's a Republican in a blue state with little name recognition outside his district.

That proposal met stiff resistance from upstate lawmakers who represent districts near the Canadian border and from Canadian officials themselves who feared that it would harm cross-border economic traffic.

Teachout, who moved upstate to Dutchess County from Brooklyn, is challenging Will Yandik in a primary for the Democratic nomination in the 19th Congressional District race, which opened up in 2015 when Rep. Chris Gibson, a Republican, announced that he would not seek re-election.

As CBS2 Political Reporter Marcia Kramer reported, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance has subpoenaed records from the Monroe County Democratic Committee in upstate Rochester.

Many high - profile elections this fall feature female candidates, including here in upstate New York; from Democratic challenger Colleen Deacon in central New York's 24th Congressional District to former gubernatorial candidate Zephyr Teachout, a Democrat running in the 19th Congressional District.

If we had an 85 percent graduation rate and we were inching up toward 90 percent, if we didn't have the worst SAT scores among 50 upstate school districts, if we didn't have a Syracuse Teachers Union survey — the results of which revealed that 300 teachers reported being assaulted on the job and more than half feel threatened on the job, and 21 percent of their new teachers teaching from zero to five years leave in addition to more seasoned veteran teachers — we wouldn't need such bold decisive action, but we're not in that category.

In her turn at the microphone Sunday, Gillibrand made no reference to Kennedy, trying instead to fend off criticism of her selection as a little - known congresswoman from a mostly rural district in upstate New York.

For instance, the source said, if someone like George Phillips, the underfunded Republican who's running a surprisingly strong challenge against Maurice Hinchey in upstate New York's 22nd District, were to end up in a recount, he would likely be a recipient of help from the national teams.

News reports earlier this week indicated that some upstate Republicans may reconsider their stance to end the tax, given vast support for extending the tax from their constituents and the dramatic lack of millionaires in their districts and now Governor Cuomo seems to be opening to progressive taxation options.

In his recent State of the State Address, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called for a zero percent corporate income tax for manufacturers tax that locate in upstate New York, but one state Senator from the Hudson Valley says part of his district is being left out.

She called out Republican lawmakers who she said have been «hiding from the women in their districts,» naming Long Island Congressmen Lee Zeldin and Peter King, upstate Congressman John Faso and Western New York Congressman Chris Collins.

In New York, Ms. Gillibrand, a former House member from a conservative upstate district who had just been appointed to the Senate seat vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton, was moving to the left on several issues in anticipation of a primary this year.

A region of upstate New York came to be known as the «burned - over district» because so many movements, cults, evangelists, and enthusiasts had worked the area or emerged from it.