Sentences with phrase «veto new district lines»

Governor Cuomo has threatened in the past to veto new district lines that are gerrymandered, and not done by an independent commission, but Cuomo has remained silent on the subject in recent weeks.

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Further complicating matters - because of court action, no date for next year's primaries has been set yet, and Governor Cuomo is threatening to veto the legislature's new district lines.

The Senate and Assembly must complete newly drawn district lines in the first few weeks of the year, and Cuomo has threatened to veto new lines that are not drawn in a non partisan manner by an independent commission.

State Legislators say they are revising the lines for new Senate and Assembly districts, after Governor Andrew Cuomo called previous maps «hyper partisan» and threatened to veto them.

First, they were permitted to draw the new Senate district lines in a manner widely viewed as favorable to the GOP, after Governor Andrew Cuomo backed off on a threat to veto what he said were «hyper political, hyper partisan lines».

ALBANY — Even as Gov. Andrew Cuomo leveled a threat to veto new legislative district lines that legislators have drawn for themselves, he left himself open to a negotiated solution that would preserve their control over maps that will be in place for the next ten years.

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.

The governor has admitted, though that a veto would be «chaotic», because then the new districts would be designed by the courts, so the only alternative is to win rapid agreement with lawmakers on new lines early in the New Yenew districts would be designed by the courts, so the only alternative is to win rapid agreement with lawmakers on new lines early in the New Yenew lines early in the New YeNew Year.