Sentences with phrase «speakership fight»
By 9 a.m. Wednesday morning, Mr. Seddio, haunted by memories of Brooklyn's loss of spoils in the last speakership fight in 2005, had agreed to a deal, effectively throwing Mr. Crowley and Mr. Heastie under the bus.
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In fact, several of these coalitions formed during the brief but intense fight for the speakership after Assemblyman Sheldon Silver's corruption scandal cost him the post, and Heastie even met with some of them.
He'll no doubt fight the charges and do everything possible to hold onto his speakership.
Now reeling from an arrest on corruption charges and fighting to retain his post, Mr. Silver appears less and less likely to survive to lead his 150 - member chamber, opening up the speakership to another Democrat for the first time in 21 years.