Sentences with phrase «leadership coalition»

Greenberg urged the eight breakaway Democrats who are aligned in leadership coalition with the Republicans to go «back with the Dems... and throw Flanagan out as majority leader» «Stand with victims, not evil,» he said.

The governor, who has already vowed to replace the current Senate leadership coalition of Republicans and breakaway Democrats, says he does not expect any deals on big ticket issues before the legislature leaves for the summer.

Former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno advised his successor in the Republican conference to not form a new leadership coalition with Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein.

Cuomo formed the Moreland Commission after the 2013 session, when the Senate leadership coalition of Republicans and Independent Democrats failed to agree to public campaign financing and other reforms.

The letter was sent to members of the mainline Senate Democrats and a group of eight breakaway Dems currently aligned in a majority leadership coalition with the Republicans.

The Senate leadership coalition holds power by a narrow margin, and Governor Cuomo has already promised the minor party, the Working Families Party, that he would work to help Democrats regain control of the Senate, in exchange for the party's endorsement in the fall elections.

ICYMI: There was a little friendly competition on display last night on CapTon during two separate interviews regarding the upcoming Adirondack Challenge in Indian Lake this weekend, which will pit six - member rafts manned by Team Cuomo, Team Bloomberg, the Assembly Democrats and the Senate leadership coalition against one another in a white - water rafting race.

He also spoke out in favor of the Senate leadership coalition made up of Republicans and nine breakaway Democrats that left GOPer Flanagan as the majority leader.

ALBANY — While one part of the State Senate leadership coalition pushes to limit mayoral control over schools in New York City, the other part is proposing to give more control over schools to Yonkers mayor Mike Spano.

The original resolution Tuesday that was softened before the vote would have barred the party from providing any resources to the IDC if they didn't commit to a new leadership coalition with the mainline Dems.

The IDC has been under intense fire since Cuomo, during his successful attempt to secure the Working Families Party nomination, warned that all five IDC members will face primaries unless they break their relationship with the Republicans and form a new leadership coalition with the Democrats.

The big question is whether the Democratic minority will reunify with nine breakaway Democrats who are currently in a majority leadership coalition with the Republicans.

The pledge was a change for the Democratic governor, who had prided himself on working successfully with the Senate leadership coalition of Republicans and a group of break away Democrats for the previous two years.

The Senate leadership coalition holds power by a narrow margin, and Governor Cuomo has already promised the minor party the Working Families Party that he would work to help Democrats regain control of the Senate, in exchange for that party's endorsement in the fall elections.

The newly - created New York state Senate leadership coalition has further divided Democrats.

These same lobbyist are funneling campaign money into the Senate leadership coalition that Senator Avella has joined.»

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.

The Senate's leadership coalition, uneasy with the direction of the commission, fired a shot last week when Senator Andrew Lanza of Staten Island introduced a measure that would require increased disclosure for anyone contributing to an executive branch official if they were also bidding on state contracts.

After the vote, Karen Scharff, Executive Director of Citizen Action of New York, said that «Unfortunately, the leadership coalition that rules the State Senate is apparently comfortable with the atrocious pattern of corruption in state government, along with the dismal public approval ratings and the lack of public trust that accompanies this corruption.»

Republicans fell into a numerical minority in 2012, but formed a leadership coalition with Klein and his breakaway conference that allowed them retain power in the Senate.

Klein was recently relocated by state Senate Republicans to a smaller office on the sixth floor of the Legislative Office Building in Albany after he and his group of seven other breakaway Dems broke its leadership coalition with the GOP to return to the Democratic fold.

The GOP and the Independent Democrats also want to demonstrate that the Senate leadership coalition is indeed working.

Klein's eight - member Independent Democratic Conference was formed in 2011 and is currently aligned with the Republicans in a majority leadership coalition.

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.

Though they had pledged to be a separate faction, they did form a leadership coalition with the Republicans after the 2012 elections.

Senate Republicans knew they had to hand the eight breakaway Democrats some progressive victories if their leadership coalition is to continue.

Flanagan and his members also have to contend with the pressure by liberals who want to see a group of eight breakaway Democrats led by Bronx Sen. Jeffrey Klein quit their leadership coalition with the GOP and form a new one with the mainline Dems.

The group is aligned in a leadership coalition with Republicans plus Brooklyn Sen. Simcha Felder, a Democrat who actually caucuses with the GOP.

The latest spat between the two sides came as the IDC and the Senate Republican conference plan to move forward with an altered version of the leadership coalition that has been in place since late 2012.

He brokered a deal in June that ended the leadership coalition with the Independent Democratic Conference and Senate GOP.

The governor told reporters that while the state is «entering the political season now,» he would still work with the Republican - dominated Senate leadership coalition, which he denounced as a failure in a video message recorded, after tense negotiations, to win the Working Families Party endorsement last weekend.

Klein, who has talked positively about his relationship with the Republicans, said he remains open to creating a new leadership coalition with the mainline Democrats.

The personal animosity between Gianaris and Bronx Sen. Jeffrey Klein, who heads up a group of eight breakaway Senate Democrats aligned in a leadership coalition with the Republicans, is the single biggest roadblock for Dem control of the chamber, the Cuomo official said.

Flanagan — whose party has been sharing a leadership coalition with Klein's IDC — added that «we take every allegation of sexual harassment seriously and will continue to encourage everyone to come forward.

But the Democrats say they need only to pick up one or two to have a good chance of being in position to form a new leadership coalition with a group of five breakaway Dems who have been aligned with the Republicans.

The Senate Democrats are fractured with eight breakaway Dems who are in a leadership coalition with the Republicans and another, Sen. Simcha Felder (D - Brooklyn), who caucuses with the GOP.

Another eight make up the Independent Democratic Conference that's aligned with the GOP in a leadership coalition.

In addition, Sen. Jeffrey Klein, the Bronx Democrat who heads a group of eight breakaway Dems aligned with the GOP in a leadership coalition, has introduced his own mayoral control bill that would extend the law two years while also giving community parent boards more power.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who has been warring with de Blasio and is in a leadership coalition with Klein's group, recently introduced three bills to extend mayoral control, but with strings attached.

Politically, the funding could helps the IDC, which has been criticized by liberals for entering into a leadership coalition with the Republicans.

Jessica Post, executive director of the the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, or DLCC, said her group would prefer the eight - member state Senate Independent Democratic Conference break its leadership coalition with the Republican and form a new one with the mainline Dems.

The IDC has been aligned with the Senate GOP in a leadership coalition since its inception in 2011.

In New York, she served as a consultant to the state Senate Independent Democratic Conference, a group of breakaway Dems who until earlier this month were in a leadership coalition with the chamber's Republicans.

Another eight make up the Independent Democratic Conference that is aligned in a leadership coalition with the Senate GOP.

Since the election of President Trump, progressive groups have upped the pressure on the eight - member Senate Independent Democratic Conference, or IDC, to break its leadership coalition with the chamber's Republicans and form a new one with the Democrats.

Should he win, the Republicans going into 2018 would be one member short of the 32 needed for a majority, though they are currently in a leadership coalition with eight breakaway Democrats.

Eight other breakaway Democrats are in a leadership coalition with the GOP.