Tag Archives: John L. Sampson

Harlem Rally Protests Coalition in NY State Senate

Al Sharpton’s National Action Network

Civil rights leaders and black lawmakers, worried that minority communities would be robbed of influence in Albany, on Saturday denounced a plan by Republicans and a group of dissident Democrats to join together to preside over the State Senate. Continue reading

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Election Opportunities For NY Democrats Who Are Black?

Even as Democrats gathered in the ballroom of a Manhattan hotel last week to celebrate their party’s sweep of statewide offices in New York, a sober realization began to dawn among some in the crowd: Continue reading

NY Legislature 1-Day Furloughs

Politics

The Legislature approved an emergency budget bill on Monday that would authorize Gov. David A. Paterson to furlough about 100,000 state employees, roughly half the state’s work force, without pay for one day.

Public employee unions contended that the furloughs, which officials said would be the first for state workers in New York, would be illegal, and they said they would seek a temporary restraining order in Federal District Court in Albany to block Mr. Paterson’s plan.

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