Sentences with phrase «redistricting plan into»

This is not the first governor named Cuomo to struggle with whether to sign a flawed legislative redistricting plan into law.

The main obstacle that could divert this plan from being enacted is the Legislature suddenly coming together to pass their own map before the court's process is finished, possibly with a signature on the plan from Governor Andrew Cuomo that effects their alternative redistricting plan into law.

I found that particularly interesting, since Gov. Andrew Cuomo has so far studiously avoided taking sides in the re-match between the Democrats and Republican for control of the majority (although it could be, and has been, argued that he showed his preference by signing the GOP's redistricting plan into law).

Also, this has to sting for the Senate Democrats, to whom Cuomo has not only refused to commit to supporting in their quest to win back the majority this fall, but arguably has actively screwed by working closely with the Senate Republicans and signing their gerrymandered redistricting plan into law.

Not exact matches

On April 11, 2012, the state legislature approved a congressional redistricting plan, which was signed into law by the governor on April 23, 2012.

Even more troubling is the fact that the new county redistricting plans, which don't go into effect until 2014, have already been finalized, so any hope that the district could be redrawn to better serve the North Fork is lost.

In addition to lumping Shelter Island with the South Fork, the proposed redistricting plan aims to move the Brookhaven Town side of Calverton into Mr. Schneiderman's district and the Brookhaven Town portion of Wading River into the 6th Legislative District, which is represented by Sarah Anker (D - Mount Sinai).

The governor gave up on a plan to immediately reform the drawing of legislative districts known as redistricting, instead waiting until ten years into the future to make some changes.

Next, Gov. Andrew Cuomo — a fellow Democrat — declined to keep his pledge to veto any redistricting plan drawn up in the traditional (read: politically controlled) manner, signing the gerrymandered maps proposed by the GOP into law.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos just issued a statement insisting he and his 31 felllow Republicans will honor their redistricting reform pledge to former NYC Mayor Ed Koch, but declined to go into detail on how, exactly, he plans to do that.

The majority leader also questioned whether it's constitutional for the governor to insert himself into the redistricting process other than to sign or veto the plan drawn up by the Legislature.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- The New York Senate's Republican majority proposed a legislative redistricting plan Thursday that contorted what are supposed to be compact election districts into some odd shapes to connect dwindling Republican pockets in the blue state.

In addition to 2012 - 13 being the final school year before the largest piece of the comprehensive elementary redistricting plan is put into action, there's also a new state - mandated teacher evaluation system in place.

How, as a result of the 2000 census, he and his protege, fellow GOP Congresswoman Melissa Hart (R - PA), became the «Bullies - in - Chief» in Pennsylvania, and bullied the Pennsylvania Legislature into a statewide redistricting plan that gave Republicans a 5 seat majority in the Congressional delegation.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about a federal investigation into payments made to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver by a small law firm and Albany County legislature rejecting a proposed settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit about the county under representing minorities in the redistricting plan.

She says «what happened more recently was that the redistricting plan which he was supportive of was actually thrown out by a federal judge because it didn't take into account the needs of minority constituents, and it violates the voting rights act.

The governor signed into law a state legislative redistricting plan on August 29, 2011.

The state NAACP and other Rangel supporters want a redistricting plan that preserves a «black» district in Harlem by reaching a long tentacle through The Bronx and into Mount Vernon in Westchester.