Traditionally, Cuomo and majority party legislative leaders have scheduled three - men - in - a-room closed door leaders meetings,
where minority party leaders are excluded.
Not exact matches
What happens when you are elected
leader of the Labour
Party with a massive mandate but a small
minority where it most matters?
Scotland's first minister and
leader of the SNP told the Guardian: «With fixed term parliaments, it gives
parties in a
minority government situation --(
where) hopefully the SNP will be in a position of influence — huge ability to change the direction of a government without bringing a government down.....»
For the first time in Republican history, most of the
party's top legislative
leaders came from former Confederate states,
where resistance to
minority and worker rights was an established tradition.
Strange, though, that The Fix's sources mention Coleman, who's already lost that race once, while ignoring ostensible front - runner Marty Seifert, who's in the news today for vowing to not run for reelection to the Lege (
where he's currently
minority leader), whether he wins his
party's gubernatorial nomination or not.
Still, Long said anyone seeking his
party's nod should attend his annual Albany conference in January,
where he is anticipating appearances by other potential candidates: businessman Harry Wilson, Assembly
Minority Leader Brian M. Kolb, state Sen. John DeFrancisco and Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro.
The union's plan to forego donations to the Senate Republican Campaign Committee this year is part of a deliberate strategy by a united coalition of labor groups, Working Families
Party leaders and Governor Andrew Cuomo to help Democrats regain control of the State Senate,
where they have been in the
minority for 48 of the last 50 years.
The
party is effectively controlled by Mr. Cuomo and some liberals groused that Mr. Paterson seemed less interested in helping Democrats in the State Senate,
where he once served as
minority leader.