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ALBANY — National progressives are jumping into the battle to help claim the state Senate for the Democrats in 2018.
New York is considered one of several statehouses nationally that the left believes can be turned completely Democratic in advance of the next round of congressional redistricting.
Toward that end, state Senate Deputy Democratic Minority Leader Michael Gianaris, who heads his conference’s campaign operation, recently met with former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to talk about the need to flip New York to total Democratic control, sources say.
Holder is heading up the National Democratic Redistricting Committee that will focus on trying to help the party win statehouses before the new congressional lines are drawn in 2021. Democrats in the New York Assembly easily control the chamber while Republicans in the Senate maintain a slim majority.
Meanwhile, Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, the newly named deputy chairman of the National Democratic Committee, will headline a June 9 New York City fund-raiser for the state Senate Dems.
“New York must serve as a beacon of progressive governance for the rest of the nation and the only way that will happen is if the Senate Democrats are in the majority, where they belong,” Ellison said.
Jessica Post, executive director of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, which works to win and defend state legislative majorities, added that “the fight for a Democratic state Senate majority is one that should be joined by anyone who claims to care about standing up to the backward policies coming from the Trump administration.”
She said the “DLCC is proud to support the Democratic Conference’s leadership."
LOVETT: National Dems aim to turn N.Y. state Senate to the left
ALBANY — National progressives are jumping into the battle to help claim the state Senate for the Democrats in 2018.
New York is considered one of several statehouses nationally that the left believes can be turned completely Democratic in advance of the next round of congressional redistricting.
Toward that end, state Senate Deputy Democratic Minority Leader Michael Gianaris, who heads his conference’s campaign operation, recently met with former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to talk about the need to flip New York to total Democratic control, sources say.
Holder is heading up the National Democratic Redistricting Committee that will focus on trying to help the party win statehouses before the new congressional lines are drawn in 2021. Democrats in the New York Assembly easily control the chamber while Republicans in the Senate maintain a slim majority.
Meanwhile, Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, the newly named deputy chairman of the National Democratic Committee, will headline a June 9 New York City fund-raiser for the state Senate Dems.
“New York must serve as a beacon of progressive governance for the rest of the nation and the only way that will happen is if the Senate Democrats are in the majority, where they belong,” Ellison said.
Jessica Post, executive director of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, which works to win and defend state legislative majorities, added that “the fight for a Democratic state Senate majority is one that should be joined by anyone who claims to care about standing up to the backward policies coming from the Trump administration.”
She said the “DLCC is proud to support the Democratic Conference’s leadership."
LOVETT: National Dems aim to turn N.Y. state Senate to the left
