Sentences with phrase «members of the breakaway»

Tomorrow will be a big day for the state Senate Democrats, as the eight members of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference will formally rejoin the mainline Democrats.

Monday will be a big day for Senate Democrats, as the eight members of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference will formally rejoin the mainline Democrats.

For starters, the eight former members of a breakaway group that rejoined the Democrats last month are facing primaries.

Stringer, at a rally held earlier this month in Harlem in support of Stewart - Cousins, said he's donating the $ 9,000 he received from Loeb in 2011 to a mainstream Democrat, Robert Jackson, who is challenging a member of the breakaway Democrats, Marisol Alcantara, in a primary next year.

The five members of a breakaway group of state Senate Democrats say they will support new legislation to help adults who were sexually abused as children seek legal recourse.

In addition, all four members of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference — Sens. David Carlucci of Rockland County, Jeff Klein of the Bronx, Diane Savino of Staten Island and David Valesky of Onondaga County — were endorsed

The member of the breakaway Independent Democratic Caucus sent out a Dec. 11 press release in which the «longtime champion of ethics reform» calls for «real solutions,» including the elimination of the LLC loophole.

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday joined Cynthia Nixon in condemning Gov. Andrew Cuomo for attending a Manhattan fundraiser that included members of a breakaway group of state Senate Democrats that he supposedly helped dissolve.

One of the members of the breakaway group is Syracuse - area Democrat Dave Valesky, who says that geographical balance was one reason the IDC decided to forge a power sharing plan with Republicans.

Three members of the breakaway Senate Independent Democratic Conference, including Peralta and Savino, and five Senate Republicans were the recipients of the dubious stipends.

Planned Parenthood is disavowing mailers claiming members of a breakaway group of state Senate Democrats are backed by the pro-choice organization.

(The fact that those all went to members of the breakaway IDC makes that a tough argument for Sampson to swallow).

State Senator Tony Avella, a member of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference representing Queens, sought to tie the property tax cap to the restoration of $ 209 million in Medicaid payments that the governor proposed cutting in his budget.

Dr. Ayeh who is now a leading member of breakaway party, National Democratic Party (NDP), criticized government for denying Ghanaians their political and economic rights by excluding certain individuals...

Payroll records revealed that eight senators — including three members of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference, who collaborate with Republicans to run the Senate — have received tens of thousands of dollars in stipend payments as vice chairmen of committees during the last three years, even though the money is earmarked for the committee chairmen.

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday joined Cynthia Nixon in condemning Gov. Andrew Cuomo for attending a Manhattan fundraiser that included members of a breakaway group of state Senate Democrats...

ALBANY — In the early spring of 2014, mainline Democrats in the state Senate and members of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference waged war against each other.

More recently, the party has endorsed candidates challenging members of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference in this year's elections.

Four of the Democrats re elected on November 6th are members of breakaway Independent Democratic Conference.

The op / ed, first posted today by Gannett's Politics on the Hudson, comes as Sen. Malcolm Smith of Queens becomes the fifth member of the breakaway coalition.

The Working Families Party is escalating its efforts to unseat members of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference of the New York State Senate.

Senator Malcolm Smith was a member of the breakaway Democrats until he was accused of the bribery scheme.

The state senator is a member of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference, which has enjoyed a power - sharing arrangement with the Republicans in the upper chamber of the State Legislature since 2012.

State Senator Tony Avella, who represents the neighborhood and is a member of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference, was invited to event — but he accused Mr. de Blasio of purposefully inviting him only at the last minute to ensure he wouldn't be able to attend.

The Putnam County lawmaker was joined at a news conference by Sens. David Carlucci and David Valesky, members of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference.

Members of a breakaway group of Democrats who voted with Republicans since 2011 but rejoined their conference in the state Senate this week have lost their committee - chair positions.

Barns - Graham became a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists and the St Ives Society of Artists but was to leave the latter when, in 1949, the St Ives art community suffered an acrimonious split, and she became a founder member of a breakaway group of abstract artists, the Penwith Society of Arts.

The case was brought by the British Columbia government, which wanted to test the constitutionality of the law before taking legal action against members of a breakaway Mormon sect that practises polygamy at their Bountiful settlement in the southeast of the province.

Not exact matches

In October, three former members of Sunday Assembly NYC announced the formation of a breakaway group called Godless Revival.

Troyer believes that he and his wife were lured into a cult made up of breakaway members of the larger Amish community near Bergholz in rural eastern Ohio.

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.

In May of this year, members of the 201 - year - old Ascension Church voted 59 to 44 to break with the Episcopal Church and join the Anglican Catholic Church, as the major national organization of breakaway Episcopalians currently calls itself.

Prosecutors have said the accused men and women, all members of Mullet's breakaway Amish sect, planned and carried out the attacks «on their perceived religious enemies» under Mullet's orders.

Cuomo has come under fire from the left wing of the Democratic Party and its allies in the Working Families Party who do not believe he has done enough to assist the so - called regular Democrats in reuniting with the breakaway, eight - member IDC faction to help them re-take the majority in the Senate.

Currently, Democrats and Republicans in the Senate have the same amount of members — 31 each — but the Democrats are divided, with eight members in a breakaway group that forms an informal ruling coalition with the GOP.

Earlier this month, the mainstream Senate Democrats and eight breakaway members of the Independent Democratic Conference announced that they were joining forces for the good of the party.

A faction of breakaway Democrats in the state Senate has been gaining members lately, but they are now facing a backlash, including raucous opposition at meetings in their districts.

The members of the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), a group of eight breakaway Democrats in...

He became the eighth Democratic member of what is known as the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), a breakaway faction that caucuses with Republicans in the New York Senate, effectively giving the GOP a majority in a chamber that voters have all but decided should be in Democratic control.

As for the Independent Democratic Conference, a five - member group of breakaway Democrats who partner with the GOP to control the Senate, a spokesman said they were still reviewing Regents candidates.

Mr. Avella, the chair of the Senate Ethics Committee and a part of the five - member breakaway Democratic bloc known as the Independent Democratic Conference, said his bill would apply to public relations, strategic communications and campaign consulting firms earning more than $ 5,000.

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.

For nearly eight years, a stretch spanning Andrew Cuomo's entire tenure as governor, New York Democrats have found themselves in a uniquely bizarre and frustrating position: They've controlled the state Senate numerically but not practically, because of breakaway members who caucus with the Republicans.

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 then, thrown into the lively mix, I can reveal, is the plan by a former founder member of the old breakaway Social Democratic Party, Professor Stephen Haseler, to stand an anti coalition Liberal Democrat candidate.

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.

Rather than any question of how much longer he can hang on — a question which, as recently as this April, Fred Dicker was raising in print — the test for Silver is how effectively he'll be able to advocate for the liberal priorities of his members with Cuomo campaigning as a centrist, and the State Senate in the hands of coalition of Republicans and breakaway Democrats.

ALBANY — Senator Jeff Klein and the other four members of a group of breakaway Democrats have reached an agreement to return to the Democratic conference this fall after the November elections, Klein and Governor Andrew Cuomo announced in a release.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, under pressure from left - leaning Democrats to be a peace broker, last month called on the eight breakaway members of the Independent Democratic Conference to rejoin with the rest of the Democrats.