Sentences with phrase «leadership fight»

Great response thank you for you wonderful leadership fighting these authoritarian testing mandates.

They'll talk about the ongoing leadership fight in the New York State Senate and how much the stalemate is costing the state.

A raucous leadership fight erupted on the floor of the Senate around 3 p.m., with two Democrats, Pedro Espada Jr. of the Bronx and Hiram Monserrate of Queens, joining the 30 Senate Republicans in a motion that would displace Democrats as the party in control.

The NY Times reports: «A raucous leadership fight erupted on the floor of the Senate around 3 p.m., with two Democrats, Pedro Espada Jr. of the Bronx and Hiram Monserrate of Queens, joining the 30 Senate Republicans in a motion that would displa... Read

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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.

Cuomo last week in Albany bowed out of the internal leadership fight, saying the relationships are far too complex to easily fix.

Denis Healey's chief of staff during his deputy leadership fight with Tony Benn offers his own take on a complex and flawed political figure

But the goodwill only goes so far - Baez was / is a close ally of former party boss Jose Rivera, whom Heastie defeated in what was a bitterly contested leadership fight late last year (and one that's still being played out in an appeals court).

Should she join the breakaway conference in the fall, Alcantara would bring diversity to the conference and give IDC Leader Jeff Klein more leverage in the coming leadership fight.

It failed, as many warned it would... Labour's leadership fought in 2020 with the albatross of extremism around their necks.

In a speech to senior business figures, the frontrunner in the Labour leadership fight will claim to be on the side of those who «put in the hours, the sweat and the hard graft».

Reporters, already frustrated by a lack of access to lawmakers and parts of the building during the leadership fight in the Assembly, were angered when Heastie left a long - awaited news conference after three questions — a total of 90 seconds.

During the leadership fight, access to normally public hallways at the Capitol like this one behind me has been restricted.

The conversation also explored his decision to step away from public office after he found himself on the wrong side of a leadership fight in the minority conference.

Mr Huhne, who narrowly lost the leadership fight for the party against Mr Clegg, was a robust defender of Lib Dem policies in government, not least during the AV referendum, when he led the attack against Tory campaign tactics.

That honour will fall instead to Labour's 2010 leadership fight.

New York's Lieutenant Governor weighed in on the leadership fight going on in the state Senate, saying the senators should put aside partisanship and try to work together.

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.

Skelos was said by several people tracking the leadership fight to favor Flanagan.

«I thank Assembly Member O'Donnell for his support, and for his leadership fighting for equality, tenants» rights and progressive causes,» Jackson said in a statement.

He backed Ed Miliband in the leadership fight — a gamble that paid off — and was made parliamentary private secretary for a few months before rising to shadow business secretary.

Also likely to return: Discussions about reforms to the SAFE Act, which Flanagan tried to push — unsuccessfully — during this past session as part of an olive branch to the conservative grassroots that preferred Sen. John DeFrancisco to him during the leadership fight — in part due to his «yes» vote on the controversial gun control legislation.

Skelos also reportedly threatend to resign his seat altogether if he didn't get his way in the leadership fight, which would have left his fellow Republicans in a significant lurch, due to their razor - thin 32 - seat majority, which is cushioned only slightly by the addition of Democratic Sen. Simcha Felder, of Brooklyn, who reportedly would have contemplated going back to the Democrats if the GOP no longer controlled the chamber outright.

DeFrancisco admitted that «maybe you're going to look at someone a little differently than you did before» if that person reneged on a promise to back him in the leadership fight.

Sen. John Thune is currently mulling a run for president but if he takes a pass on that contest, he will likely enter the leadership fight as well.

Tensions between upstate and downstate Republicans boiled over during a leadership fight last year after previous Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos gave up his leadership post following his arrested - and subsequent conviction on federal corruption charges.

A leadership fight erupted on the floor of the Senate with two Democrats, Pedro Espada Jr. and Hiram Monserrate, joining the 30 Senate Republicans in a motion that would displace Democrats as the party in control.

The leadership fight in the Flint water contamination cases has escalated, with co-lead counsel firing back against «false and misleading accusations» and at least one defendant in the case raising concerns about the communications that all the lead plaintiffs lawyers have had with prospective class members.