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Senate Votes to Expel Convicted Lawmaker
Associated Press WriterThe New York Senate voted Tuesday night to expel a senator convicted of a misdemeanor charge of assaulting his girlfriend, a resolution the lawmaker assailed as an injustice to the people who elected him. The Senate voted 53-8 to oust Sen. Hiram...Tags: David Paterson, Democratic Party, Laws, Trials, Republican Party
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Senate coup: Power, sex and money play roles
Spin CycleThere are more angles and issues in this war for State Senate control than lobbyists in the hallways. Depending on how you slice it, the outcome -- in doubt until next week at the earliest -- will hinge on......Tags: Jackson Heights, Democratic Party, Carl Kruger, Trials, Republican Party
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Senate split: Shape of partisan alliances awhirl
Spin CycleThe continuing power war has Senators Ruben Diaz Sr. and Carl Kruger reviving their "Gang of Four" hobbies. More on the dynamics of a Senate in which everyone has his own veto, here. Paterson's language is clearly the strongest to......Tags: Carl Kruger
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Senate split: More creaking along the fault lines
Spin CycleThe latest word from Mr. Madore out of the state Capitol: "Two senators have walked out on fellow Democrats minutes after a Republican-led faction claimed more Democrats will join them Thursday if the month long-standoff in the Senate isn't......Tags: Employees, Democratic Party, Laws, Republican Party, Upper House
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Working Families endorses Hooper's rival
Spin CycleAs partners in the Democrats??? drive to take the state Senate, the state Working Families Party has endorsed on Long Island Democrats Brian Foley, Kristen McElroy and Sen. Craig Johnson. In the Assembly, the party included five Republicans among its........Tags: Malcolm Smith, Sam Hoyt, Toby Ann Stavisky, Darryl C Towns, William T Stachowski
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Albany: Another wrinkle on the Senate battle
Spin CycleThe Democrats need one seat to tie and two seats to reverse the GOP's 32-30 margin in the Senate. Except that, now, the Albany Project reports that Bronx Democrat Ruben Diaz has decided to run on both the D......Tags: Parliament, Same-Sex Marriage, Government, Medical Specialization, Republican Party
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State Senate: The Gang of Four
Spin CycleDemocrats switched two seats in the State Senate yesterday, and now control the body by a 32-30 margin. Or, do they? Much watching today and over the coming days will be devoted to the Gang of Four -- four......Tags: Parliament, Carl Kruger, Government, Republican Party, National Government
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Gay marriage: Is this the way to get a majority?
Spin CycleSen. Ruben Diaz, one of the Democratic holdouts who won't pledge his vote to Malcolm Smith as majority leader, has made it clear that one of his problems is the prospect that a Democratic majority would move gay marriage......Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Same-Sex Marriage, Government, Minority Groups, National Government
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Paterson: Not happy with the gang
Spin CycleAlbany bureau chief Madore reports: Gov. David A. Paterson slammed the so-called ???Gang of Three??? Democratic state senators on Tuesday, accusing them of ???selfishness.??? The senators - incumbents Carl Kruger of Brooklyn and Ruben Diaz Sr. of the...Tags: Carl Kruger, David A. Paterson, Government, Executive Branch, Rockville (Montgomery, Maryland)
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Albany: How about a "Gang of Long Island"???
Spin CycleDemocratic Senators Ruben Diaz, Pedro Espada, Carl Kruger and -- until recently -- Hiram Monserrate have done a pretty good job since election day of getting attention with their threat of withholding their votes from the Dems when the......Tags: Craig Johnson, Same-Sex Marriage, Carl Kruger, Long Island, Government
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Skelos: No midyear school cuts
Spin CycleThe fabulous Melissa Mansfield of our Albany bureau reports that Republican Senate Majority (for now) Leader Dean Skelos has pretty much ruled out the midyear school aid cuts proposed by Paterson Wednesday in remarks following an evening GOP confab:......Tags: Joseph Bruno, Regional Authority, Budgets and Budgeting, Republican Party, Upper House
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Senate 'Gang of 3' have the courage of their acquittals
Spin CycleDespite past differences among them, the so-called "Gang of Three" Democrats who have withheld support for Sen. Malcolm Smith (D-Queens) as majority leader share at least one other thing - clean criminal records. And this hasn't always been for lack......Tags: Carl Kruger, FBI, Gang Activity
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