The Buffalo Chronicle
John Flanagan
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With no strategy to retake the Senate chamber, Flanagan will not seek reelection
John Flanagan, the leader of the Republicans in the New York State Senate, has announced this afternoon that he will not seek reelection to his Senate seat. The announcement comes after filing…
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Trump doesn’t usually make mistakes — but when he does, he backs RINOs like Mitt Romney and Chris Jacobs
President Donald Trump‘s supporters are quick to explain that he doesn’t usually make mistakes — but when he does, it’s almost always in the vain attempt to earn the support of moderate…
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Flanagan calls new bail reform law a disaster
The Republican Minority Leader in the State Senate, John Flanagan is slamming Governor Andrew Cuomo‘s new bail reform law — which has allowed for egregiously unsafe releases of criminal offenders in dozens…
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Flanagan worries about ‘so-called’ criminal justice reforms
BY SENATOR JOHN FLANAGAN In two days, the Democrats give a get out of jail free card to 90 percent of criminals across this state and already we are seeing the devastating…
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Flanagan: Working Families Party says ‘taxpayer’ is ‘racially coded’
BY SENATOR JOHN FLANAGAN The radical left Working Families Party wants Democrats who get its endorsement to stop defending New York taxpayers and talking about taxes, though the far left will be…
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Flanagan speaks out against Cuomo campaign finance reform, & election commission
Democrats gave away law-making powers to create $100 million campaign welfare system & potentially nix choice through fusion voting Senate Republican Leader John J. Flanagan and Long Island Republicans spoke out against the…
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Flanagan: Democrat electioneering must be struck down by the Court
BY SENATOR JOHN FLANAGAN Democrats controlling this state violated the very responsibilities given to them by the people by putting their duties in the hands of nine unelected, and therefore unaccountable, Public…
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GOP activists want Gallivan to seek Senate leadership post
New York State’s Republican Party is facing an existential crisis, having lost control of the State Senate chamber last year, the party’s last bastion of power in Albany. If the party is…
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Local voters are irate with Senators who handed leadership post to NYC lawmaker
Ranzenhofer, Jacobs, Gallivan refuse to support WNY’s Cathy Young for Minority Leader Late last Friday afternoon, three local Republican State Senators sold out Western New York to New York City-area power brokers…
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Local Republican Senators betray WNY on leadership vote
A former Speaker of the California State Assembly once said of the relationship between lobbyists and politicians, “If you can’t eat their food, drink their booze, screw their women, take their money…
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Giambra calls on GOP leaders to vote on Child Victims Act this month
BY TONY FARINA Joel Giambra, independent candidate for Governor, is calling on Republican leaders – including gubernatorial contenders Marc Molinaro and John DeFrancisco – to back the Child Victims Act. Giambra wants…
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Will Jacobs keep promise of term limits?
Erie County Clerk Chris Jacobs made an ambitious promise to voters: that his election to the State Senate would bring term limits to Albany for all state legislators. He won the 60th State…
