It's been a longstanding tradition to leave
the minority party leaders out of the private budget sessions.
Cuomo is not alone in leaving
minority party leaders out of the budget talks.
Not exact matches
Trudeau became
party leader in 2013 and immediately began the Obamanization of the Liberals: reaching
out to the young and
minorities, and utilizing social media.
So far this week, endorsements and fundraising appeals have been sent
out on behalf of GOP US Senate candidate Wendy Long from surrogates who hold sway with certain elements of the primary electorate — Grover Norquist, Steve Forbes, state Conservative
Party Chairman Mike Long, and the latest: Former Assembly
Minority Leader / 2006 GOP gubernatorial candidate John Faso.
Key endorsements: Sen. Bernie Sanders; Sen. Elizabeth Warren; Senate
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer; Rep. John Lewis; New Hampshire Democratic
Party Chairman Raymond Buckley, who dropped
out of the DNC race over the weekend
DeFrancisco's path to the GOP designation seemed to clear when his chief rival, state Assembly
Minority Leader Brian Kolb, abruptly dropped
out of the race on Feb. 9 and key
party leaders quickly endorsed the senator.
In 2006, DiNapoli was a candidate for lieutenant governor, but dropped
out of the race after Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, the
party's frontrunner for governor, chose Senate
Minority Leader David Paterson as his running mate.
Traditionally, the council's
minority leader makes their own speech to the council laying
out legislative priorities and usually outlining an opposition viewpoint to the
party in power.
Party chairs are meeting Monday morning at the Fort Orange Club, just up the hill from the Capitol, to hear
out the three remaining gubernatorial prospects: Assembly
Minority Leader Brian Kolb, Senate Deputy Majority
Leader John DeFrancisco and Joel Giambra, a lobbyist and former Erie County executive.
Lawmakers in the
minority parties — the Republicans in the Assembly, Democrats in the Senate — are largely shut
out of the budget - making process, leaving it up to the governor, the Senate majority
leader and Assembly speaker.
State Senate
Minority Leader John McKinney, R - Fairfield, who is seeking his
party's nomination for governor, pointed
out the state's declining revenue prospects a few days before Malloy announced the tax refund was dead.
There will be no black and
minority ethnic candidates in the contest to be
leader or deputy
leader of the Labour
party after the MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, Rushanara Ali, pulled
out at the last minute.
He held a rally with House
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and the
party sent
out a fundraising email urging small donors to get involved.
The
Minority Leader of Ghana's Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu has described as a «hoax» the governing New Patriotic
Party's (NPP) much touted free Senior High School policy which is to be fully rolled
out on Tuesday, September 12, 2017.
Nick Bourne AM,
Leader of the Welsh Tories, says that the other Assembly
parties should hesitate before propping up a «decaying, damaging and disastrous»
minority Labour administration and appeared very open to working with the Liberal Democrats, Plaid and independents in keeping Labour
out of office and fulfilling the constitutional duty to govern.