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Senate split: Missing state link in Nassau budget
Spin CycleHeavy rains may have dampened the turnout and the mood, but the state Senate was the real bummer in the room Thursday at a meeting of the Budget Review Committee of the Nassau County Legislature. The deputy county executive who......Tags: Retirement, Parliament, Career and Workplace, Politics
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Senate split: Long Island lawmakers' clash
Spin CycleFrom opposite sides of the aisle, within the Long Island delegation: Sen. Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre), for now back in the saddle as majority leader, has on his to-do list for the Senate session a bill from Sen. Charles......Tags: National Government, Laws, Veterans Affairs, Government, Craig Johnson
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Senate split: No settlement, but GOP issues a list
Spin CycleOne of the more seasoned lobbyists was pointing out how the mostly-Republican side of the Senate fight put out a list of priorities and the Democrats had not. But the GOP list highlights at the top such items as "Thurgood......Tags: Laws, Thurgood Marshall, Assault, Demonstration, Veterans Affairs
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Attorney general candidate reaches into foe???s backyard and plucks an endorsement
Palm Beach Politics - Sun-Sentinel BlogsState Sen. Dan Gelber reached into the home turf of state Sen. Dave Aronberg and picked up an endorsement for the Democratic nomination for attorney general ??? a job both Senate colleagues are seeking. Gelber, of Miami Beach, represents a......Tags: Greenacres, Miami Beach, Florida, Dan Gelber, Parliament
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Senate split: Deadlock Dean did that district deed
Spin CycleCall him Deadlock Dean, since he helped to take us to this point. Long before the savvy and influential Rockville Centre senator and lawyer engineered last week's surprise parliamentary coup, he happened to make an unprecedented 31-31 standoff possible......Tags: Population, National Government, St. Albans, Hiram Monserrate, Regional Authority
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Senate split: Suozzi due at Capitol on county issues
Spin CycleNassau Executive Thomas Suozzi, who vowed to "fix Albany" when he ran for governor in 2006, may be getting a fix on how things are going with regard to tax and fiscal legislation sought by his administration when he visits......Tags: National Government, Republican Party, Executive Branch, Regional Authority, David Paterson
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Senate split: Foley fundraiser as Dems avoid chamber
Spin CycleOn Monday, when the Senate was in full breakdown mode, Sen Brian Foley (D-Blue Point) held a fundraiser in Jack's Oyster House on State Street in Albany. It would have started later if an actual rather than a quorum-less......Tags: Caesar Trunzo, Brian Foley, Parliament, Long Island, Politics
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Senate split: Time for the steel cage?
Spin CyclePlayers in this State Senate standoff might wish to take a cue from New Mexico, where the law says that if an election is tied, the winner is chosen by a game of chance. Five-card stud, a simple high-card......Tags: National Government, Sports, Republican Party, Joseph Bruno, David A. Paterson
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GOP 'umpire' blows call on Sotomayor
The SwampOne of the more curious - and flawed - lines of attack by Republicans against the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court is to raise doubts about whether she would be a fair "umpire" of legal disputes. Jurist-as-umpire is an attractive...Tags: National Government, Laws, Sports, Lifestyle and Leisure, Defendants
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Senate coup: GOP boss out of the loop?
Spin CycleLast week???s stunning Republican move to take back control of the state Senate, engineered by Long Island???s own Sen. Dean Skelos, took place without the knowledge or participation of Joseph Mondello, the state and Nassau GOP chairman, according to........Tags: Dean G Skelos, Republican Party, Rockville (Montgomery, Maryland), Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Parliament
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Senate coup: The weekend in brief
Spin CycleEven if it has no practical impact on the frenzied politics leading up to today's court showdown and scheduled session, the symbolic message of "Gang of Two" members Espada and Monserrate hitting the Mets-Yanks showdown together Saturday made for......Tags: New York Mets, Republican Party, Kemp Hannon, David Paterson, Parliament
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Senate split: Will prosecutors create the majority?
Spin CycleWe elect district attorneys to enforce laws, not to decide who writes them. But prosecutions in Queens and the Bronx -- and perhaps Albany -- could end up shaping the outcome of the Great Senate War, if not the......Tags: National Government, Hiram Monserrate, Jackson Heights, Lawyers, Government
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