Sentences with phrase «with working families»

A source with knowledge of Cuomo's private conversations with the Working Families Party said party leaders want him to campaign in close Senate races to help tip the balance of power back to the Democrats, regardless of whether campaign finance passes or not.

Left - leaning groups associated with the Working Families Party this week began a push to tie any pay hike for state legislators to an increase in the minimum wage.

Cuomo also shrugged off philosophical disagreements he has had with the Working Families Party.

A spokesman for Rick A. Lazio, the leading Republican candidate for governor, assailed Mr. Cuomo for the discussion with Working Families leaders.

Mr. Cuomo made his demand at a meeting with Working Families officials on Tuesday and suggested that he would not even consider accepting the party's endorsement unless they agreed to using placeholders, who under the state's arcane election laws could be swapped for new candidates after the primary.

Business groups and right - leaning editorial pages have mounted a sustained assault on the party, including urging Mr. Cuomo, who has positioned himself as a reformer, to forswear an alliance with Working Families.

A spokeswoman for Governor Cuomo's campaign denies that the governor has anything to do with the Working Families intra-party split.

A resident of Shirley and a native of Northern Ireland, Ms. Browning, 58, was elected to the Legislature with Democratic backing but was registered with the Working Families party until she recently changed her enrollment to Democrat.

Mr. Perini also criticized the Conservative party for backing «a liberal Democrat who is sitting with the Working Families party.»

The human tragedy, of course, is who will pay the price for Cuomo's alliance with the Working Families Party & Co.: i.e., the children of actual working families, who have no avenues of escape from rotten public schools where they aren't learning.

Ms. Browning has been registered with the Working Families party for most of her years in the Legislature and ran with Democratic backing.

Better huddle with the working families party communist leaders to come up with some new talking points.

Mr. Cuomo also struck a deal last summer with the Working Families Party, long a potent attack force for unions on fiscal issues, to appear on their ballot line in exchange for their pledge to support his agenda, including his promise not to raise or impose new taxes.

The Women's Equality Act was one of half a dozen policy priorities Cuomo agreed to push as part of his endorsement deal with the Working Families Party — a forced compromise from which the governor is apparently still smarting.

For example, there are 50,000 voters registered with the Working Families Party across New York according to Skurnik, and while unaffiliated New York voters are more numerous than «third party» voters, their political tendencies are more difficult to determine.

These latest cuts to welfare show the disdain with which this government views ordinary people and underlines just how out of touch they are with working families struggling to make ends meet.

But this year its members weighed Cuomo's past achievements, and the access he has given the group's members through regional economic development councils, against the governor's promise to work with the Working Families Party to flip the State Senate into Democratic hands.

Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins declared Gov. Andrew Cuomo's deal with the Working Families Party a «quid pro Cuomo» that will help the state's wealthiest residents at the expense of the middle class and poor.

Green Party candidate for governor Howie Hawkins was decidedly not impressed with the Working Families Party's decision to endorse Gov. Andrew Cuomo over the weekend.

Niou has not officially said yet if she will stick with the Working Families Party or try for a Democratic bid.

The division among labor over Cuomo has blunted some of the criticism he has gotten from other unions that have remained aligned with the Working Families Party.

She's been active with the county Democratic Committee for five years, coordinating activities to get Democrats familiar with the Working Families Party and progressive efforts.

Karen Scharff, with the Working Families Party, which is led by reform activists and union leaders, says a request that the unions refrain from spending money on campaigns when there are no restrictions on big business, would not work.

The United Federation of Teachers is also uncertain of its relationship with the Working Families Party, given the party's endorsement of Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential primary.

One union that has long been at odds with the Working Families Party will announce its departure from the political entity on Monday, while another is mulling its relationship with the left - leaning organization over its presidential endorsement.

«Governor Cuomo has stood shoulder to shoulder with the working families of this state — including delivering a $ 15 minimum wage, 12 weeks paid leave and today a $ 19 wage for airport workers.

The early skirmishing between Nixon and Cuomo is getting serious with the Working Families Party in the crossfire.

«He said he'd stand with working families,» the narrator opens in the online ad.

I think that's the word, that the mayor chose to support someone who is politically aligned with him in a different fashion, with the Working Families Party for a number of years,» Ms. Simon told the Observer, charging Mr. Sikora lacked her extensive background in activism.

I was brand new with the Working Families Party.

Yet another union is cutting ties with the Working Families Party, saying the organization has strayed from its founding mission to support «all New Yorkers,» and instead is routinely backing legislation and policies that could cost workers their jobs.

I am sure this is big news to Senator Skelos who has partnered in government with Andrew, but then again maybe someone's had his fingers crossed when he made all those deals with the Working families Party & will do Radical Bill what Brutus did to Julius Caesar..

The WEP was formed last year by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who was promoting a package of legislation aimed at impacting, but has been assailed by liberals for potentially competing for votes with the Working Families Party, a liberal, labor - backed organization.

ALBANY — With the Working Families Party convention starting this weekend and no clear consensus on a nominee among committee members, it's possible the party will nominate a «placeholder» candidate for the gubernatorial race.

Councilman Gentile endorsed Brannan to succeed him, along with the Working Families Party, and New York City musicians union, Local 802 AFM.

Take his relationship with the Working Families Party, New York's progressive third - party alternative.

This is a felony and Cuomo along with the Working Families Party should be prosecuted to the fullest extent under the law.

Mr. Cuomo's team said Ms. James is projecting onto the governor the frustrations that some other Democrats, such as county leaders, have with the Working Families Party.

It is hardly a secret that Mr. Cuomo has been at war with the Working Families Party, which aims to pull Democrats to the left politically, ever since it endorsed Mr. Cuomo's primary opponent, Cynthia Nixon, last month.

Other candidates filing by July 13 were Democrat Rich Larkin, who is also registered with the Working Families Party.

He is registered with the Working Families Party.

«As president, I will proudly stand with working families all across our country and fight for Congress to raise the federal minimum wage to $ 15 an hour and provide paid family leave to every worker in America,» he said.

«We even disagreed with the Working Families Party.

The major concern is I don't agree with the Working Families Party, but you know where they stand.

«I know it smells, I know it stinks and it seems to me that by making this deal with the Working Families Party and public embracing the Bill de Blasio agenda, Andrew Cuomo just signed the death warrant for New York state,» Astorino said.

«We have a major concern with the governor's agenda for the next four years with the Working Families Party, talking about minimum wage, talking about a progressive Senate.»

Cuomo, who had a tussle with the Working Families Party in 2014, created the Women's Equality Party line.

Consider his interactions with the Working Families Party, a homegrown New York third party of unions and liberal groups that, because of the state's unique fusion voting system, has become an electoral powerhouse over the past decade.

Today he won endorsements from State Senator Eric Schneiderman and Assemblyman Adriano Espaillat, has the nod from Manhattan BP Scott Stringer, and is in talks with the Working Families Party to gain their important support in labor - rich District 10.

And now with the Working Families Party on board, this movement is getting stronger by the day.»