Sentences with phrase «maintains control of the legislature»

Curran has touted her vote with legislative Republicans last year to approve borrowing for capital projects as a sign she'll work in a bipartisan way, even if the GOP maintains control of the legislature.

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Some critics have argued that Mr. Cuomo — who reportedly facilitated the arrangement between the GOP and the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference to maintain control of the upper house of the legislature — created the Women's Equality Party as a means to siphon support away from the Working Families Party, in order to deny them the 50,000 votes needed to remain on the ballot.

In the early years of chartering, many state legislatures placed caps on growth as a way to maintain control over the quality of the schools.