Sentences with phrase «senate majority leader»

The PAC's first target is Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., who has several primary challengers.

It's none other than Steve Pigeon, the controversial former Erie County Democratic chairman, advisor to coup - inducer / Rochester - Florida billionaire B. Thomas Golisano and counsel to the illustrious Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. (Both Pigeon and Espada are under investigation).

A Democratic reader pointed me to this vintage YouTube clip from last summer's Senate coup, recalling that while Republicans might be slamming Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. now, there was a time when they counted him as one of their own.

Golisano played a role in the Senate coup last year, saying his efforts were due in part to the fact that then - Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith has disrespected him by BlackBerrying during a meeting.

The vote for Senate Majority Leader happened behind closed doors but most Western New York Republicans told us they supported DeFrancisco, including Michael Ranzenhofer, Rich Funke, Robert Ortt and Joe Robach.

It's not clear if this is the very first legislative leaders meeting between Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan of the year.

A key labor union for the New York Police Department on Wednesday threw its support to Republican state Senate hopeful Chris McGrath in the race to replace disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

The campaign of Desiree Pilgrim - Hunter just fired off a press release responding to the news that AG Andrew Cuomo has charged her primary opponent, Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., and 19 others with ties to his Bronx nonprofit, Soundview.

Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan celebrates his one - year anniversary for assuming the leadership post following the indictment of Dean Skelos.

Cuomo's probe into Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. is further delaying his campaign announcement to right before the Democratic convention.

The NY delegation kicked off this morning by honoring Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Add Nasasu County DA Kathleen Rice to the list of elected officials calling on Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. to voluntarily abdicate his leadership post and the perks that come with it in light of his current legal troubles.

The announcement came the same day as Sen. Malcolm Smith, D - Queens, a former Senate majority leader under Democratic rule, announced he was joining the IDC, which features Sens. Jeff Klein, Diane Savino, David Valesky and David Carlucci.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan in a statement said he was «shocked» by her tragic and unexpected death.

Democratic Senate candidate and Clarkstown Town Clerk David Carlucci supports the effort to oust Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. from the Democratic Party.

Sen. David Valesky has joined his upstate Democratic colleague, Sen. Neil Breslin, in calling for embattled Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada, Jr. to voluntarily step down from his leadership position.

A range of business groups on Tuesday backed Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan's push to make the state's cap on annual property tax increases permanent.

The investigations into SUNY Polytechnic and economic development programs like the Buffalo Billion shouldn't stop state investment into growing private - sector jobs, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan on Tuesday said.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco signaled Monday he would opposed efforts backed by Assembly Democrats to preserve a tax on those who earn more than $ 1 million.

Back in April, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Speaker Silver penned dueling op - eds on the topic.

NYC real estate developer and mega-donor Leonard Litwin, who made an art of exploiting the so - called LLC loophole and whose company, Glenwood Management, played a big role in the corruption scandal involving former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, has died at the age of 102.

AG Andrew Cuomo said this morning it's completely «appropriate» for senators to be asked to publicly state whether they believe scandal - scarred Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. should retain his leadership post after he's been charged by the AG with allegedly looting his Bronx nonprofit of more than $ 14 million.

The stance echoes a broader push by Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan heading into the new legislative session for making the limit on how much levies can be hiked a permanent one.

«I think generally there will be an extension,» said Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco in a Capital Tonight interview.

He has given cash to Republicans, too, including former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, who is still fighting his conviction on federal corruption charges.

«We do not agree with that,» said Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan.

Malcolm Smith, the Democratic former Senate majority leader who was convicted of trying to bribe his way onto the New York City Republican mayoral ballot, was sentenced on Wednesday to seven years in federal prison.

She'll be pushing the farmworkers» rights bill that had allied her with an erstwhile target of her ex-husband, former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr..

A reader forwarded an e-mail sent this afternoon by the campaign of Gustavo Rivera, the most high - profile of Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr.'s primary challengers, accusing the Bronx lawmaker of mailing letters «using itimidating language» to voters who signed Rivera's petitions.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo met together with Klein, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan for more than an hour in his second floor office suite at the Capitol on Monday.

Second: Cuomo was AG when the Spitzer administration tried — and failed spectacularly — to use Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno's use of the state fleet against him.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican, as well as Democratic Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, have also raised concerns with ending the deduction provision.

Earlier this year, when the deduction proposal was first floated, Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan raised similar concerns over the plan.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, meanwhile, acknowledged to reporters he hadn't heard of the concern over DA pay.

An independent expenditure committee backed by the United Federation of Teachers is making a last - minute push for Democrat Todd Kaminsky in the special election to replace Republican former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

AG Andrew Cuomo is trying to determine if Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr.'s alleged misconduct reaches into the state Senate and if Espada aides were double - dipping.

«Candice Giove is a skilled communications professional who will strengthen and supplement efforts to communicate our message directly to the public,» Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan said in a statement.

Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, who (thankfully) belongs to the early - risers club of which I am a card - carrying member, told me this morning that he has not been informed of a reported move by state Democratic leaders to oust controversial Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. from the party.

IDC members chair committees in the Senate, while conference leader Jeff Klein is included in the closed - door budget negotiations with the governor, Assembly speaker and Senate majority leader.

The new Senate seat will be somewhere in New York, but definitely not on Long Island, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said following an interview with Susan Arbetter on The Capitol Pressroom.

John Sweeney, who, according to GOP sources, is whipping votes by phone for the comptroller, along with another veteran former politico, former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno.

Also set to appear at the event is John Cahill, a former top aide to Pataki and 2014 candidate for attorney general, state Republican Chairman Ed Cox, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, and Senate Republican Campaign Committee Chair Cathy Young.

Former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno has been keeping a low profile in advance of his sentencing this afternoon.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan on Tuesday endorsed his deputy in the Republican conference, John DeFrancisco, in his bid to become the next governor.

The measure has no Assembly sponsor, and a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has said there are no plans to move it out of committee for a floor vote.

«Everyone is trying to figure out how do we properly fund education and, by extension, how do we pay for everything,» said Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican from Suffolk County.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has called that proposal a job killer, but asked earlier this month if he was ruling out any increase of the minimum wage this session, the Long Island Republican only said he would not take up «Silver's bill.»

At 9:30 a.m., an hour before former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos is sentenced for corrupting his office, government watchdog groups will weigh in on the heightened need for ethics reform before the end of the legislative session, Foley Square, intersection of Lafayette, Worth, and Centre streets, Manhattan.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver emerged from the three - way meeting with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos to say he has seen a draft of the chapter amendment for religious exemptions on same - sex marriage and it's «acceptable.»

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, however, says the addition reflects an accurate interpretation of the state constitution.