New York Senate Dems In the News
Jan 27, 2012
NY Daily News
Senate Democrats are already moving to score political points off the GOP’s much-criticized redistricting plan.
Jan 19, 2012
NY Daily News
Democrats are crying foul -- and censorship -- over what they charge is a GOP-led effort to keep abortion from being discussed on the state Senate floor.
Nov 3, 2011
Newsday
Democrats Thursday called for hearings on the Long Island Rail Road, saying it is now seen "in a light of mistrust and unreliability" after a wave of shutdowns, crime spikes and fraud scandals.
Nov 2, 2011
Fox News Latino
New York's Latino community will walk the walk next week to show its support for Occupy Wall Street – planning an 11-mile march from Washington Heights to lower Manhattan as a sign of solidarity.
Nov 1, 2011
Buffalo News
New attention is welcome help in fight against abuse of prescription painkillers.
Oct 26, 2011
NY Daily News
Nine Senate Democrats have written to the state's congressional delegation to urge them to protect funding for anti-hunger programs.
Oct 24, 2011
Eyewitness News
Prescription drugs getting into the wrong hands has become a major health problem. In 2009...prescription drug overdoses killed more people than heroin and cocaine overdoses. Two local legislators want the trend to end. The problem of prescription drug abuse has been mounting since the late 1990's.
Oct 16, 2011
Metro WNY
Senator Tim M. Kennedy, D-58th District, hosted a Senior Symposium recently at Lucarelli’s, helping to connect with local seniors and outline various services to them.
Oct 14, 2011
Capital Tonight
Oct 14, 2011
NY Daily News
State Senate Democrats are fundraising off a recent environmental report card that scored Senate Republicans low on green issues.
Oct 2, 2011
NY Daily News
Every time New Yorkers fill up a gas tank or register a vehicle, part of their taxes are siphoned into a $3.5 billion fund established to pay for repairs to state roads. Except that most of the money never goes there.
Jun 7, 2010
Capital Tonight
New York Senate Dems ED Josh Cherwin appeared on Capital Tonight with Liz Benjamin to discuss our efforts to retain and grow the Democratic majority in the state senate.
Apr 10, 2010
Star-Gazette.com
Feb 1, 2010
newwnypolitics.net
Nine months out from the next big battle over control of the Senate chamber, the Democrats' political arm in the NYS Senate has once again tapped WNY's own Senator Antoine Thompson to play a major role in its 2010 campaign efforts.
Dec 11, 2009
The New York Times
With a costly battle looming to retain their slim margin in the New York State Senate next year, Democrats have replaced the director of their campaign committee with a longtime aide and fund-raiser for former Vice President Al Gore.