Sentences with phrase «leader of a breakaway»

A leader of a breakaway Amish community in rural eastern Ohio was sentenced to 15 years in prison Friday for forcibly cutting the beards and hair of community members, Court Clerk Robert Pitts said.

CNN: Amish leader gets 15 years for beard attacks A leader of a breakaway Amish community in rural eastern Ohio was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison for forcibly cutting the beards and hair of community members.

Samuel Mullet Sr., leader of a breakaway Amish sect, has been accused of operating a cult out of his family compound in Ohio.

She also attacked Cuomo for being part of «an old boys» club of one actual Republican and two wannabe Republicans,» referring to John Flanagan, the Republican Senate leader, and Jeff Klein, leader of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference, which collaborates with Flanagan to rule the Senate.

Klein, leader of the breakaway «Independent Democratic Conference» which controls the state senate in cooperation with the Republican minority, faces Oliver Koppell in a Democratic primary on Tuesday.

But on Tuesday Cuomo did just that, brokering a reconciliation between Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the leader of the Senate Democrats, and Jeff Klein, the leader of the breakaway faction, known as the Independent Democratic Caucus.

The talks have now become known as «four men in a mansion,» because the leader of the breakaway Democrats in the Senate, Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein, has been included.

Mr. de Blasio backed State Senator Jeffrey Klein, the leader of a breakaway faction of Democrats that govern the senate with the GOP, over challenger Oliver Koppell, who Mr. Rivera endorsed.

The leader of the Independent Democrats in the state Senate denies that he forcibly kissed a former staffer, and says he intends to remain as leader of the breakaway democratic faction.

The SAFE Act was sponsored by Sen. Jeff Klein (D - Bronx), leader of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference.

State Sen. Jeff Klein, the leader of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference, is one of the four men who will take part in the budget talks with the governor.

But Gianaris has a longstanding rivalry with Bronx state Sen. Jeffrey Klein, formerly the leader of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference and now the No. 2 Democrat in the state Senate.

State Senator Jeff Klein, a leader of the breakaway Democratic conference that governs the upper legislative chamber, was also cool today to Mr. de Blasio's minimum wage push.

According to the report, Cuomo told the mainstream Democrats to look to the leader of the breakaway Democratic faction, Sen. Jeff Klein of the Bronx, to learn how to be more effective gaining seats in the suburbs.

Bronx Sen. Jeff Klein, the leader of a breakaway faction of Democrats, edged away from an agreement made with the mainline conference of Democrats earlier this year, saying in an interview on Monday that «a lot has changed.»

Lewis Kaminski recently registered a campaign committee to raise money for a potential run next year against state Sen. Jeff Klein, the leader of the breakaway eight - member Independent Democratic Conference

As leader of the breakaway Senate Democrats, Klein will play a major role in the negotiations over how the state spends its $ 150 billion budget.

Also hanging over the Harlem event was a closed - door meeting last month in which Ms. Stewart - Cousins interrupted Mr. Cuomo when he suggested that she has a worse understanding of the suburbs that the white leader of the breakaway Democrats.

The final budget negotiations occur during secretive, closed - door meetings between the governor and legislative leaders — in this case, Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - Long Island) and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D - Bronx), and Klein, leader of the breakaway Democrats.

After Bronx State Senator Jeff Klein, the leader of a breakaway faction of Democrats that governs the senate with the Republican Party, received a Senate Democrat - backed challenge from ex-Councilman Oliver Koppell, Mr. Klein asked Mr. Cabrera to run against Mr. Rivera, a chief critic of the senate's power - sharing agreement, sources say.

Valesky, D - Oneida, is a leader of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference, an eight - member group that formed an alliance with Republicans to help the GOP maintain control of the Senate.

Warren Jeffs — leader of breakaway Mormon sect the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints — caught during a traffic stop just north of Vegas

Not exact matches

News that polygamist leader Warren Jeffs has landed in the hospital and is in critical condition raises the question of who will lead his breakaway Mormon sect when Jeffs dies or if he becomes incapacitated.

In the statement, King knocks Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins for the growing influence and clout of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference.

The chairman of the state Democratic party and a group of influential union leaders are calling on New York Senate Democrats to back the re-election of eight breakaway Dems who recently returned to the fold.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan expressed «shock» that IDC Leader Jeff Klein and his group of eight breakaway Democrats last week broke its leadership coalition with the GOP to go back to the Democrats, a source who spoke directly to him said.

«Whether they allow certain things to get done, it's up to them,» said Senate Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins in reference to the senate ruling coalition of Republicans and five breakaway Democrats.

Andrea Stewart - Cousins is the first woman to head a legislative conference in the state legislature and the first black female Senate minority leader (now that a group of breakaway Democrats has disbanded).

Labor was divided in that race, which ended up being carried by Espaillat's hand - picked successor, Marisol Alcantara, who was also backed by IDC Leader Jeff Klein, of the Bronx, and has indicated (though her spokeswoman, Lis Smith) that she will join the breakaway GOP - allied IDC conference after her all - but - certain general election win in November.

Around the table sat Mr. Cuomo; the leaders of New York's most powerful labor unions; Joseph Crowley, the top - ranked New York Democrat in the House of Representatives; and the two rival Democratic leaders of the State Senate — Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who leads the main group of Democrats, and Jeffrey D. Klein, who leads the breakaway group — among others.

Senator Jeff Klein is the leader of a group of breakaway Democrats in the Senate, and is close to Senator Skelos and the GOP.

Others see a sexist subplot to the partnership between Republicans and the breakaway Democrats, one that has denied Andrea Stewart - Cousins, leader of the mainstream Senate Democrats, the title of Senate majority leader, and a role in the behind - the - scenes deal making now conducted by the so - called four men in a room.

Instead, two «conference leaders» will jointly steer the operation of the Senate: Republican Dean Skelos of Long Island and Jeff Klein (D - Bronx) of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference.

As leader of the five - member breakaway faction that allied with Republicans to form the chamber's governing coalition (and keep Democrats from assuming the control that should have accompanied their mathematical majority), Klein has been justifying the partnership since it formed in 2012 as a win for progressives, rather than as a means of self - empowerment.

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.

The leader of the state Senate Republicans says his members will once again join forces with a group of breakaway Democrats to rule the Senate come January.

But it's clear that Gregorius, as Democratic majority leader, is not enamored with a county legislature that has more members of his own party seated (13 - 10), yet is controlled by Republicans in league with a small Democratic breakaway faction that, together elected Democrat John Parete as its chair.

In a joint statement, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Senate Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein say the breakaway Democratic faction that had ruled with the Republicans for the past two years has agreed to join in a coalition government with the rest of the Senate Democrats, giving them a potential majority after the November elections.

Klein, the leader of a group of eight breakaway Democrats and a key power broker in the state Senate, is accused by a former staffer of forcibly kissing her on March 31, 2015, outside an Albany bar.

Sen. Jeff Klein, the breakaway conference's leader and the co-president of the Senate who entered into a power - sharing agreement with Senate Republicans last year, said the measure is not meant to supplant Cuomo's proposal, but compliment it.

The thinking is that passage of GENDA could give a much needed progressive win to IDC Leader Jeff Klein & Co. at a time when the breakaway Democratic conference is under intense pressure from the left for (so far) failing to force a vote on some of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top agenda items, including the all - inclusive 10 - point Women's Equality Act and the campaign finance reform bill.

On Wednesday, the breakaway Democratic conference known as the IDC dissolved when its leader, Senator Jeff Klein of the Bronx, agreed to return with his seven members to the mainline Senate Democrats and end his alliance with Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flaleader, Senator Jeff Klein of the Bronx, agreed to return with his seven members to the mainline Senate Democrats and end his alliance with Republican Senate Majority Leader John FlaLeader John Flanagan.

An online medium had yesterday, reported that Biafra agitators have allegedly hijacked a merchant ship and threatened to blow it up with its foreign crew if government authorities do not release its detained leader agitating for a breakaway state of Biafra.

The head of a breakaway faction of state Senate Democrats, IDC Leader Jeff Klein, says his group is not ready to abandon its five - year alliance with the chamber's Republican majority just because former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was caught on tape trashing them.

ALBANY - The Democratic leader of New York's state Senate and the head of a breakaway faction of Democrats are criticizing each other over their continuing rift.

In his first year as mayor, Mr. de Blasio tangled with a senate that is governed by a coalition of breakaway Democrats and the Republican Party — even with an ally in State Senator Jeff Klein, the leader of the Independent Democratic Conference, a Republican majority still looms to potentially stifle a leftist, urban platform that polls poorly in many GOP strongholds throughout the state.

The pressure on the five breakaway Democrats is getting more politically intense, with a primary challenge to IDC leader Jeff Klein and talk of primaries against other members, including Valesky.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is looking to give the state's lobbying and ethics ombudsman additional funding to investigate sexual harassment complaints amid sexual misconduct allegations against the leader of a group of breakaway Democrats.

The mayor's remarks to the West Harlem Progressive Democratic Club came just days after de Blasio praised state Sen. Jeff Klein of the Bronx, the leader of the Senate's breakaway Independent Democratic Conference.

The traditional «three men in a room» — Mr. Cuomo; the Senate majority leader, John J. Flanagan of Long Island; and Carl E. Heastie, the Assembly speaker — has expanded to include Senator Jeffrey D. Klein, the leader of the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference, a breakaway cadre of Democrats who collaborate with Mr. Flanagan to help rule the Senate.