Sentences with phrase «provided swing votes»

So far, Cuomo's remained relatively neutral, offering to back one Republican Senator, Roy McDonald and one Democratic Senator, Joe Addabbo, of Queens, who had provided the swing votes.

Three of the four GOP Senators who provided swing votes are no longer in office.

As he did last week, Commissioner David Hays provided the swing vote at a jammed meeting at the courthouse in Georgetown, the county seat.

Not exact matches

While it will now be more likely that the justices will divide evenly on difficult cases, Justice Kennedy will remain the swing vote, providing a fifth vote for a majority of progressive justices (Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan), and remaining with the conservatives (Thomas, Roberts and Alito) in tie votes, which will leave the lower court's judgment in place and will not operate as binding precedent on lower courts.

And he has endorsed one GOP senator so far, Stephen Saland of the Hudson Valley, who barely beat back a primary challenge after Saland provided one of several swing votes to enact same sex marriage.

Both provided key swing votes for same sex marriage.

Grisanti, a Republican, provided one of several swing votes for Cuomo on the gay marriage bill.

The governor did late Thursday signal that he'll endorse Republican Senator Stephen Saland of the Hudson Valley, who provided one of several swing votes for Cuomo's gay marriage bill in 2011.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito took a swing Tuesday at Manhattan Democratic Party boss Keith Wright for failing to provide notice for his re-election vote.

The governor did endorse Republican Senator Stephen Saland of the Hudson Valley, who provided one of several swing votes for Cuomo's gay marriage bill in 2011.