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New York State Democrats Reach
Sunday, April 1, 2018
Track Code Track Name Entry Scratch 1st Post
ET 1st Post
Local Time
Zone Stakes Race(s) Stakes Grade T.V.
Indicator EQ EQUIBASE 48 0 9:05 PM 9:05 PM EDT GG GOLDEN GATE FIELDS 72 0 3:15 PM 12:15 PM PDT GP GULFSTREAM PARK 72 0 12:00 PM 12:00 PM EDT SA SANTA ANITA PARK 72 0 2:30 PM 11:30 AM PDT SUN SUNLAND PARK 168 24 2:30 PM
Sunday, April 1, 2018
| Track Code | Track Name | Entry | Scratch | 1st Post ET | 1st Post Local | Time Zone | Stakes Race(s) | Stakes Grade | T.V. Indicator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EQ | EQUIBASE | 48 | 0 | 9:05 PM | 9:05 PM | EDT | |||
| GG | GOLDEN GATE FIELDS | 72 | 0 | 3:15 PM | 12:15 PM | PDT | |||
| GP | GULFSTREAM PARK | 72 | 0 | 12:00 PM | 12:00 PM | EDT | |||
| SA | SANTA ANITA PARK | 72 | 0 | 2:30 PM | 11:30 AM | PDT | |||
| SUN | SUNLAND PARK | 168 | 24 | 2:30 PM |
Deal to Unify
Agreement has potential to shift control of Senate
Jeffrey Klein, who led the Senate’s Independent Democratic Conference, listening to bills being debated at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y., in March. PHOTO: HANS PENNINK/ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York state’s fractured Democratic senators announced Wednesday an agreement to unify, reshaping dynamics in Albany and paving the way for an expansion of Democrats’ power in state government.
A group of breakaway Democrats called the Independent Democratic Conference previously had formed a coalition with Senate Republicans, giving the GOP de facto control of the chamber. Under the new agreement, the dissident group, founded in 2011, will dissolve and join the mainline Democrats. If Democrats win two vacant seats in an election later this month, the party could gain control of the Senate.
“We really are stronger and more productive for everyone when we work together,” Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins, a Yonkers Democrat who leads the mainline Democrats, said at a news conference Wednesday. Under the agreement, she would continue in her leadership role. Sen. Jeffrey Klein, who led the rogue Democrats, would become Ms. Stewart-Cousins’s deputy. “My grandfather always said, ‘Sometimes you have to take a step back before you can take two steps forward,’ ” said Mr. Klein, who represents parts of Westchester County and the Bronx.
The announcement comes on the heels of a reunification push by Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who on Tuesday night called for the end of “intramural games” in the state’s Democratic Party.
“The Democratic agenda comes first,” Mr. Cuomo said at a campaign fundraiser for Shelley Mayer, a Democratic Assembly member running for an open Senate seat in Westchester County. “If they’re not willing to unify as 32 Democrats, then let them get the hell out of the Democratic Party.”
Also on Tuesday, during a meeting at the Capital Grille steakhousein Manhattan with political and labor chiefs, Mr. Cuomo asked leaders of the mainline and rogue Democratic factions to unify, according to two people familiar with the gathering.
The Democrats had agreed to unite in November, but with different terms. At Wednesday’s news conference, Mr. Cuomo said last year’s deal would have reunited the group after a special election on April 24. “The imminent cause was we need to work together for the special election, and we need to win that special election,” he said. The governor said Democrats only had controlled the state Senate twice, for very brief periods, since World War II.
Mr. Cuomo previously has claimed publicly that he was powerless to persuade Democrats in the Senate to reunify.
The rogue conference has said on multiple occasions that it would reunite with mainline Democrats, only to have those talks crumble. One of the conference’s prior pledges to reunify came in 2014, as members of the conference were facing primary challenges, as they are this year.
New York state’s Senate has 63 seats, 31 of which are held by Republicans. With the addition of the eight breakaway members, Democrats now hold 29 seats.
A ninth Democrat, Sen. Simcha Felder of Brooklyn, said Wednesday that while he caucuses with Republicans, he has never been loyal to either party, and this continues to be the case. “I’m loyal to God, my wife and my constituents, in that order,” he said.
Two seats are vacant.
The reunification was embraced by some left-leaning groups, who have accused Senate Republicans of blocking liberal policies. “A unified progressive Senate under the leadership of Andrea Stewart-Cousins is real progress,” said Bill Lipton, director of New York’s Working Families Party.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon, a liberal activist and former star of the HBO series “Sex and the City,” has said Mr. Cuomo enabled the rogue Democrats, undermining his own party.
“If you’ve set your own house on fire and watched it burn for eight years, finally turning on a hose doesn’t make you a hero,” Ms. Nixon said in a statement Wednesday, responding to Mr. Cuomo’s calls for party unity.
A spokeswoman for Mr. Cuomo declined to comment on Ms. Nixon’s remarks.
Scott Reif, a spokesman for the Senate Republicans, said in a statement: “Let’s be honest—the only reason that any of this is happening now is because Andrew Cuomo is scared to death of Cynthia Nixon.”
—Erica Orden
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Write to Corinne Ramey at Corinne.Ramey@wsj.com
