Sentences with phrase «return of the breakaway»

The return of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference to the mainstream state Senate Democratic fold will be welcome news for New Yorkers only if it means more than a shift of political power.

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It was not a wholly surprising development, but is the first tangible moment of fallout for the lawmakers who had comprised the breakaway conference returning to the minority fold.

The question of IDP returns highlights the fact that you can't really talk about Georgia - Russia relations without thinking about the other two major protagonists — the breakaway territories.

The chairman of the state Democratic party and a group of influential union leaders are calling on New York Senate Democrats to back the re-election of eight breakaway Dems who recently returned to the fold.

Speaker after speaker demanded the breakaway Dems return to the fold, arguing it's important that the party claim control of the state Senate in light of the Loeb statement, the violent hate rally this past weekend in Charlottesville, Va., and the Trump administration overall.

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.

This month, Cuomo negotiated a truce between the mainline conference of Democrats in the state Senate and the IDC, leading to the breakaway Democrats to return to the fold.

On Wednesday, the breakaway Democratic conference known as the IDC dissolved when its leader, Senator Jeff Klein of the Bronx, agreed to return with his seven members to the mainline Senate Democrats and end his alliance with Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan.

ALBANY — A breakaway group of state Senate Democrats is in talks to end their power - sharing arrangement with Republicans and return the body to Democratic control, The Post has learned.

It took the return of the Reform Movement and other breakaway factions for the NDC to again win an election in 2008.

ALBANY — The Democratic members of New York's congressional delegation on Friday joined a loose but growing campaign to pressure a group of breakaway Democrats in the State Senate to return to the fold.

The dynamics have prompted New York progressive leaders to call for breakaway Democrats to return to the fold, form a Democratic majority conference, and pass legislation that is reflective of the heavily Democratic state.

The intense scrutiny for a seemingly obscure seat is the result of a fragile deal that was recently brokered in which a group of breakaway Democrats who had long shared power with Senate Republicans agreed to return to the Democratic fold.