Sentences with phrase «leadership coalition with»

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

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.

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.

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

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.

And Blake has also been critical of the IDC leadership coalition with the Republicans.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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It will be a choice between strong and stable leadership in the national interest, with me as your Prime Minister, or weak and unstable coalition government led by Jeremy Corbyn, propped up by the Liberal Democrats, who want to re-open the divisions of the referendum, and Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP.

«The problem they have got is the leadership of their own party is stuck in with the Conservatives and it's very difficult to extricate yourself when you are in a coalition like this,» he told the Today programme.

In the Senate, even he is tainted by the formation of an IDC Coalition, which usurped the voter's wishes as indicated through the ballot box count, to have a Democratic Majority in the house, when Sen. Jeff Klein went rogue and aligned himself with the Republicans in a leadership sharing arrangement that failed to deliver for the Governor this session.

The Times - Union column revealed that Empire Merchants and its leadership have donated $ 53,000 to Senator Klein since 2009, and $ 31,000 to his Independent Democratic Conference, which co-leads the Senate in a coalition with the Republicans.

Since 2010, when the Liberal Democrat leadership decided to enter into coalition with the Conservatives, the party has been in a state of internal turmoil.

Our answer is that this year with a weakened leadership after five years of coalition with the Conservatives the social liberal nature of their MPs and members will matter much more.

Tom Quinn's research interests include British party politics, the UK coalition agreement, leadership elections, and the Labour Party's relationship with the trade unions.

Perhaps it might be worth remembering that parties are coalitions also, and if there is no leadership, no way of focussing efforts, the Labour party will start to go its own way and do its own thing, with various factions effectively operating independently.

His account of his experiences in Iraq began by pointing out the major obstacle in the way towards brokering talks with Iraqi insurgents: obtaining permission from the Coalition's military leadership.

Child Victims Act Since 2006 Safe Horizon has taken an increased leadership role in advocating for passage of the Child Victims Act by organizing an energetic, statewide coalition of survivors and advocates, leading press conferences with key government officials, advocating directly with lawmakers in Albany, and more.

Since 2006 Safe Horizon has taken an increased leadership role in advocating for passage of the Child Victims Act by organizing an energetic, statewide coalition of survivors and advocates, leading press conferences with key government officials, advocating directly with lawmakers in Albany, and more.

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.

«Governor Cuomo is demonstrating real leadership on tax fairness and standing up for regular New Yorkers,» said Michael Kink with the Strong Economy For All Coalition.

This was to be a strength for the leadership of the coalition, especially the «Quad» and its close advisers, but also a weakness in the eyes of those parliamentary colleagues who felt uneasy with a coalition and were politically excluded.

The agenda for the party's annual conference in Liverpool reveals growing tensions between activists and the party leadership over the decision to form a coalition with the Conservatives.

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

Those MPs with a self - professed independent streak will find themselves under huge pressure to fall into line — with no overall majority and perhaps a fragile coalition with the Liberal Democrats, the Tory leadership will demand total loyalty.

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 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.

For the Labour leadership, the choice is simple - take a principled view that they support an elected House of Lords and so ask their MPs to vote with the Government, saving it from possible defeat; or take a more pragmatic view that their job is to break up the Coalition and so ask their MPs to vote against the Bill.

Governor Andrew Cuomo, who has maintained that he has stayed out of the New York state Senate leadership fight, is now endorsing a newly formed coalition of Senate Republicans and five Democrats, but with some conditions.

The leadership fight in the New York state Senate has been resolved, with a break - away Democratic faction joining with Republicans to form a new governing coalition that involves sharing the title of Temporary President of the Senate.

John Whitley, with the New York State Property Tax Reform Coalition, admits the circuit breaker tax relief may be a victim of a session preoccupied with arrests and leadership changes.

And under a barrage of blows from the media, the Tory coalition and a bitter faction of his own party, he has rolled with the punches and tightened his grip on a leadership that was his only by a whisker.

The former GP ran against David Cameron for the leadership of the party and some analysts believe he could become a figurehead for right - wing backbenchers» disillusion with the coalition.

For Labour to turn things around soon they would need to be able to come up with answers on the key issues, a view voiced by Nick Clegg, who says: «The Labour leadership continue to complain about the coalition's approach, but without providing any credible alternative.

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.

Having firmly established its position at arms» length from the coalition government, the Lib Dem conference has realised it can indulge in its favourite pastime, defeating the leadership with impunity.