Sentences with phrase «upstate districts where»

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The most important case mentioned in the article was an upstate New York Republican - leaning district where a Democrat won by attacking the Medicare cuts in the....

I must point out that the issue with a new 63rd district being added upstate versus downstate has nothing to do with where the state's population did or did not grow.

GOP lawmakers have run hard against the passage of the bill, especially in upstate and suburban battleground districts where support among voters for the proposal is thin.

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.

Part of the problem for some of the races is Cuomo's unpopularity in upstate districts, especially in the areas where Democrats Terry Gipson and Cecilia Tkaczyk are running for re-election against Sue Serino and George Amedore respectively.

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).

Historically, the Republican Party has been strongest in upstate New York where, until the 1970s, the state constitution apportioned voting districts «in such a manner that allowed more votes to be cast per voting district.»

The notable exception was quite frankly in the Capital district and Nanoscale where the state made a significant contribution and with some real talent from Dr. Alain Kaloyeros, literally generated an entire industry, but it shows what the state could do when the state invested but the state, besides the Capital district in many ways forgot the rest of upstate New York and we said we were going to change that and reverse it and we did and it is already paying dividends and we want to do it again and we want to start it with taxes.

High - volume hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, emerged as a huge issue in upstate New York, particularly in the Southern Tier where the 19th Congressional District stretches.

He also famously said, «An incarceration program is not an employment program,» something that deeply worried upstate legislators who represent districts where prisons had been the major employer.

In a statement to be issued Tuesday, the caucus questioned why districts downstate were drawn with higher populations than upstate ones, effectively diluting the representation of areas where racial minorities are concentrated.

She says it would also reinstitute the practice of using upstate prison populations to boost Senate districts, by counting the inmates where they are imprisoned rather than where they live.

One answer to Quinn's question: Progressives believe (with some cause) that Cuomo has abetted GOP control of the State Senate by coddling the turncoat Democrats of the IDC and approving gerrymandered district maps that aid upstate Republicans — and (with indisputable cause) that Albany is a bastion of corruption where well - heeled interests (most conspicuously, New York City developers) can purchase favors at bargain prices.

It took her ten years, during which she joined the DNC's Women's Leadership Forum, worked on Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign, served as special counsel to then — HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo, and took another law job, before Gillibrand found the upstate House district in which she wanted to run... against a four - term incumbent for a seat that hadn't been held by a Democrat in 30 years and where Republicans outnumbered Democrats almost two to one.

Their chances of retaining a majority are further harmed by the recent reversal of the statute that counted prisoners toward the populations of the districts where their residences are (largely downstate, where Democrats live), not where they're in prison (largely upstate, where Republicans live).

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.

Last year's opt out movement had the highest concentrations in suburban districts in Long Island and upstate New York where there was a collaboration of experienced educators with parents and students.