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Senate Republicans are calling for the resignation of Lt. Governor Brian Benjamin following news of his arrest Tuesday morning, April 12. Senate Minority Leader Robert Ortt, Sen. Jim Tedisco and Assembly Republican leader Will Barclay called for Benjamin’s immediate resignation following news of his arrest this morning on possible campaign […]
State Republican Party Chairman Nick Langworthy blasted the Hochul administration Tuesday morning following news that Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin surrendered himself to authorities to answer charges he accepted illegal campaign contributions. According to multiple media reports, Benjamin turned himself in and was arrested Tuesday as the FBI and the U.S. […]
Sen. James Tedisco, R-Glenville, is calling for a moratorium on budget debates and budget bill voting after midnight as a way to increase transparency in the already murky budget process. “For weeks now, my Senate Republican conference and I have been standing ready to work on this budget while the […]
On April 6, 2022, Assembly members Latrice Walker, Harvey Epstein, Zohran K. Mamdani, and Marcela Mitaynes were joined by multiple criminal justice reform organizations in an eleventh hour protest of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposed changes to bail law. “We stand here to say we are against a dangerous proposal creeping […]
An intense debate around bail reform has thrown a wrench into the budget negotiation process as New York prepares to finalize its $216 billion state budget for fiscal year 2023. New York state passed a bail reform law in 2019 in an effort to ensure that race or access to […]
Speaker Carl Heastie, who leads the New York State Assembly, seems to have a definite view concerning “bail reform” that appears to differ from that of the governor, Kathy Hochul. A little background: the Democrats got their behinds kicked in the last election over the issue. You will recall that […]
Who’s on first? We all knew that Andrew Cuomo wanted to be president. I doubt that Kathy Hochul has those aspirations, although you never know. Right now, there’s a lot to consider. New York used to be a jumping off place for career politicians who were looking for higher ledges […]
Sen. James Tedisco announced a new bill (S.8285) with 12 of his Republican colleagues requiring an official investigation of the more than 15,000 nursing home-related deaths that occurred in New York during the COVID-19 pandemic. That bill calls for an independent investigation into the 15,286 reported nursing home-related deaths that occurred during the pandemic, while another bill (S.8217) […]