ALBANY
— It had not even been a week since the Democratic Party scored wins
across New York on Election Day, and already pressure was building.
What
was Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo going to do about the eight rogue Democrats
who collaborate with Republicans to help give that party control of the
State Senate?
It’s
an alliance that has threatened Mr. Cuomo’s own popularity with New
York liberals and national progressives, which are demanding that he
broker an accord between the warring Democratic factions to give the
party full control over one of the nation’s biggest and bluest states.
And
it is clear that efforts to dismantle the so-called Independent
Democratic Conference — either forcing its eight members to rejoin the
mainline Democrats, or attempting to defeat them in primaries next year —
are building, and with them pressure on the governor.
On
Sunday, the leader of the mainstream Democrats, Senator Andrea
Stewart-Cousins, helped headline an event in the Bronx district of the
leader of the I.D.C., Senator Jeffrey D. Klein.
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Source: The New York Times (via The Empire Report)
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