Sentences with phrase «upstate county republican»
Flanagan's candidacy to succeed Skelos had been opposed by upstate county Republican chairmen as well gun - rights advocates, who had sought to mobilize around DeFrancisco.
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Turner, one of three Republicans who will face off in the June 26 primary for the right to run on Row B against Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand this fall, is making his first return upstate since last month's GOP convention in Rochester when he, attorney Wendy Long and Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos were all voted onto the ballot.
The Republican - controlled Senate on Wednesday hopes to put the controversy surrounding paid stipends behind them, backing legislation that would speed up ride hailing in upstate and the suburban New York City counties before departing the state Capitol for the weekend.
A state Elections Board enforcement counsel accused de Blasio and his aides of funneling large contributions from unions and other donors through county Democratic committees to three State Senate candidates upstate in 2014 in an unsuccessful party effort to retake control from Republicans.
But he believes the right Republican could do well upstate and in key population centers like Long Island's Suffolk County.
Long, a judicial activist from Manhattan, early on cultivated support from upstate Republican county chairman, including Onondaga GOP leader Tom Dadey.
The Assembly last month approved a bill that extended mayoral control for two years packaged with the extension of sales and other local taxes — many of which impact districts in upstate and suburban counties that are represented by Republicans in the Senate.
At the same time, Sen. Cathy Young of Olean insisted Republicans were united as a conference despite lingering concerns over Suffolk County Sen. John Flanagan ascending to the majority leader post over upstate lawmaker John DeFrancisco.
While predominantly Republican, the GOP conference isn't leaving anything to chance in the Southern Tier district, where its largest county, Broome, voted to re-elect Cuomo last year (one of only a handful of upstate counties that backed the incumbent Democrat over Republican Rob Astorino).
Donald Trump will be making his way back upstate next month, attending an event in East Syracuse hosted by the Onondaga County Republican Committee.
Among Republicans, they are looking at about a dozen senators, including Gregory R. Ball of Putnam County, Andrew J. Lanza of Staten Island, and Mark Grisanti, James S. Alesi and Roy J. McDonald, who represent upstate districts.
In deep - blue New York, Republicans took over House seats on Long Island, upstate near Syracuse and in the North County along the border with Vermont, and reelected Staten Island Rep. Michael Grimm in the face of a multi-count federal indictment.
The Republicans, meanwhile, declined to say exactly how much they were spending but said their advertisement would run for roughly two weeks on cable television stations on Long Island, in the lower Hudson Valley, central New York and several counties upstate.
Collins» plan, which would force New York to pick up the $ 2.3 billion tab that upstate and Long Island counties now contribute to the health care plan for lower - income state residents, was included late Monday in the last - minute package of amendments that House Speaker Paul Ryan put together to build support for the controversial Republican health care legislation.
Albany, NY — Host Alan Chartock is joined by Republican Assemblyman Peter Lopez, who represents parts of seven upstate counties.
Timothy Kennedy, a conservative upstate Democrat, ranked second at $ 208,550, followed by Bob Cohen, an unsuccessful 2012 Republican candidate for a Senate seat in Westchester County, at almost $ 200,000.
Republicans in the Senate wanted to tie mayoral control to strengthening charter schools, the Assembly wanted to link mayoral control to the routine exertions of sales tax authorization for most of New York's counties upstate and on Long Island.
The Republican - primary contenders — one - time gubernatorial candidate John Faso of upstate Kinderhook and Dutchess County businessman Andrew Heaney — have also said they are prepared to make BDS a major issue in a race against Teachout.
Three months later, eleven upstate county chairs contemplating a special election settled on Dede Scozzafava, a thoroughly moderate Republican who had previously been endorsed by the Working Families Party.
Other upstate New Yorkers on the committee include Erie County Republican Party Chair Nick Langworthy, Rep. Tom Reed (R - Corning), and Rep. Chris Collins (R - Clarence).
Years later in her 2006 race against Republican unknown John Spencer, the only upstate jurisdiction she lost was sparsely - populated Hamilton County in the Adirondacks.
But he did well enough in upstate New York's largest concentration of Democrats to excite Erie County Republican Chairman Nick Langworthy.
Cuomo's office in a joint statement with Senate leaders, including Republican Dean Skelos, touted the recent upstate jobs numbers that showed a 2 percentage - point drop in joblessness in upstate counties between December 2012 and December 2013.
Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino is scheduled to kick off a two - day upstate fundraising swing in Buffalo today, as the Republican continues to be mentioned as a potential gubernatorial challenger in 2014.
It also includes dairy farms and university cities, and in nonpresidential elections it leans Republican: 43 of 51 upstate counties voted for the Republican challenger to Gov. Andrew Cuomo two years ago, driven partly by opposition to tough new state gun restrictions he championed after the Sandy Hook school massacre in Newtown, Conn..
By name, Cuomo specifically called out Reps. John Faso and Chris Collins, upstate Republicans who had backed a provision in the Affordable Care Act that would shift the Medicaid burden from county governments to the state.
Onondaga County Republican Chairman Tom Dadey called the appointment of Syracuse Sen. John DeFrancisco to the number two post in the Senate a «smart move» by Majority Leader John Flanagan after upstate Republicans grumbled about their representation in the chamber.
Seward was among a contingent of upstate Republicans within the GOP conference who supported Flanagan to replace Dean Skelos, a Nassau County lawmaker now under indictment for allegedly aiding the business interests of his adult son, Adam.
DeFrancisco, a Syracuse Republican, has the backing of gun - rights advocates as well as large upstate county chairmen.
«We really need to see some concrete actions that upstate is being heard in the Republican conference,» said Jason McGuire, the Livingston County Conservative Party Chairman.
The agreement comes after Flanagan, a Long Island lawmaker, had pledged to upstate members and Republican county leaders, to enact SAFE Act in part to alleviate concerns he had supported the measure in 2013.
House Republican leaders, trying to lock down the votes of wavering upstate New York Republicans, inserted a last - minute special provision in their health care bill that would shift Medicaid costs from New York's counties to its state government.
The amendment, sponsored by Representatives Christopher C. Collins and John J. Faso, both upstate Republicans, would eliminate the burden for the counties — excluding New York City's five boroughs.
Assemblyman Bob Oaks, who represents a district between Syracuse and Rochester and is chairman of Wayne County Republicans, is optimistic Trump will succeed as president, though he feels he disrespected upstate New York when he called it a «wasteland.»
Sitting in the front seat of a Lincoln sedan as it sped through the Southern Tier on a sunny, frigid Friday, the 46 - year - old Republican county executive of Westchester said that Cuomo had simply «managed the decline» of New York, and is a «creature» of a broken government that has presided over an outmigration of people and jobs from upstate regions like this one.
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«I don't ask upstate Republican county executives to tell me what they'll spend the 1 % sales tax extender on before I agree to pass a bill,» Heastie said, contrasting the Senate GOP's demand for information on the school system from the city.
New York Republican State Committee Chairman Edward F. Cox claimed the unemployment rate is rising in upstate counties, something Republicans intend to remind voters about in the 2018 race for governor.
Local officials had cheered the measure by Reps. Chris Collins and John Faso, both upstate Republicans, to shift Medicaid payments from upstate counties to Albany, which they said would relieve them of a troublesome mandate.
Two days after becoming the first Republican to announce a campaign to run for governor, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino spent Friday crisscrossing upstate New York from Rochester and Syracuse to Albany, and his message was the same in each city.
Other potential GOP candidates to take on Cuomo are Sen. John DeFrancisco of Syracuse; Assembly Republican leader Brian Kolb of Canandaigua; former financier Harry Wilson of Weschester, who narrowly lost the 2010 race for state comptroller and served in roles for the Democratic Obama administration; Astorino; Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan of East Northport; and Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro of upstate Red Hook.
While Clinton won out over Trump in Onondaga County in the primary elections, upstate and central New York had a more mixed voting record, according to Politico, with the rural areas providing much of the Republican support.
WASHINGTON — A gargantuan tax cut for property taxpayers across upstate New York came one small step closer to reality Thursday as Senate Republicans revealed a health care reform bill that includes a provision that bars the state from charging upstate counties for a share of the cost of Medicaid.
Erie County Republican Chairman Nick Langworthy, who could assume a major role as leader of upstate's largest Republican organization, predicts the March 6 Super Tuesday contests will tell the story.
The program was the subject of an extraordinary showdown last week as Gov. Andrew Cuomo sparred with upstate House Republicans over an amendment to the now - dead American Health Care Act that would have stopped the state from charging county governments for Medicaid costs.
«The upstate Onondaga County executive, a Republican, is an influential confidante of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and is seen as a potential lieutenant governor candidate.
Teachout, who moved upstate to Dutchess County from Brooklyn, is challenging Will Yandik in a primary for the Democratic nomination in the 19th Congressional District race, which opened up in 2015 when Rep. Chris Gibson, a Republican, announced that he would not seek re-election.
Republican leaders in upstate's three most populous counties — which cover Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse — are holding off on supporting announced candidate Rob Astorino, the Westchester County Executive, to see what Trump will do.
The tour will swing through a dozen upstate counties and end on May 30 in Buffalo — two days before the Republicans are scheduled to hold their convention in Manhattan.
Four New York City Democrats in the Assembly won seats on the City Council last November, and four upstate Republicans took county or town government posts.