Sentences with phrase «rural upstate district»

One reason was that he played such an instrumental role in anointing Ms. Clinton's successor, an unknown congresswoman from a rural upstate district named Kirsten Gillibrand.

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That shift benefits downstate, largely Democratic districts, at the expense of upstate senate seats held by GOP members, where the inmates were used to bolster population numbers in the primarily rural districts.

Her strategy of logging hundreds of miles in her Ford pickup through the largely rural district in upstate New York has also won over many who viewed her as an outsider during her first campaign — even some of her biggest detractors.

Part of the tricky situation is that Cuomo is not popular in some of these upstate and rural Senate districts Democrats won two years ago and are now defending.

About one - third of children in rural districts and about 37 percent in New York City were considered proficient in the skills they need in English and math, while just an average of 16 percent of students in upstate city schools performed well on the tests.

If Flanagan is so intent on keeping this seat he had better start realizing that our upstate rural school districts need a fair distribution of school aid.

State lawmakers — particularly in the Senate GOP — have argued rural districts upstate would be disproportionately impacted by the governor's proposed funding cuts and are seeking to restore some of that funding.

So there willl continue to be cuts... but especially upstate, they were disproportionately hit in terms of rural districts and small city school districts.»

There was little political rationale for legalizing it, the numbers suggested: statewide support did not extend deeply into the rural, upstate districts that are crucial to the state's Republican Party.

But in the radio interview, Tenney argued that her commitment to the Second Amendment will be a benefit to her run in a rural, upstate New York district.

In the radio interview, Tenney argued that her commitment to the Second Amendment will be a benefit to her run in a rural, upstate New York district.

That hurts rural districts, particularly upstate.»

Eventually Cuomo gave up his pledge to veto any district lines that were gerrymandered and agreed to new lines that drastically favored Senate Republicans, even creating a 63rd district upstate that suspiciously carved its way around major population centers and incorporated rural towns populated by more voters who were more likely Republican.

In her turn at the microphone Sunday, Gillibrand made no reference to Kennedy, trying instead to fend off criticism of her selection as a little - known congresswoman from a mostly rural district in upstate New York.

A new law counts them in their home districts, and not in the communities where they're incarcerated — a change that the GOP says benefits Democrat - leaning downstate regions at the expense of more rural Republican - held upstate districts.

About one - third of children in rural districts and about 37 percent in New York City were considered proficient in the skills they need in English and math, while just an average of 16 percent of students in upstate city schools performed well on the tests.